From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>
Cc: 36785@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36785: Impossible to pull on foreign distro
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 01:03:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874l39ra37.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6733C9AB-E5C1-4B63-8F0E-04CD1BB32338@lepiller.eu> (Julien Lepiller's message of "Wed, 24 Jul 2019 16:40:42 +0200")
Hi Julien,
Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> skribis:
> I gave a small tutorial to someone today, where we installed guix on top of a foreign distro. We used the script and everything went smoothly, and after finding out that we were going to build php (we were trying to define a VM that would serve one of their services), we tried to run guix pull:
>
> sudo guix pull —commit=…
>
> However the command failed immediately with:
>
> Migrating profile generations to '/var/guix/profiles/per-user/root'...
> Guix pull: error: symlink: File exists: "/var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/current-guix"
>
> Indeed, the file exists and everything looks good. Why does guix try to migrate a profile that's already good?
>
> I was able to work around that situation, but it's not great for our users.
I’m guessing the machine had remnants of a previous Guix installation,
no? See:
;; In 0.15.0+ we'd create ~/.config/guix/current-[0-9]*-link symlinks. Move
;; them to %PROFILE-DIRECTORY.
(unless (string=? %profile-directory
(dirname (canonicalize-profile %user-profile-directory)))
(migrate-generations %user-profile-directory %profile-directory))
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-25 23:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-24 14:40 bug#36785: Impossible to pull on foreign distro Julien Lepiller
2019-07-25 23:03 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2019-07-26 6:22 ` Julien Lepiller
2019-07-26 8:09 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-09-17 22:03 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-09-17 23:33 ` Gábor Boskovits
2019-09-18 8:48 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-09-20 8:47 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2019-09-20 15:44 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-09-21 12:31 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2019-09-23 8:29 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-09-23 9:00 ` Gábor Boskovits
2019-09-23 12:48 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-09-23 14:09 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2019-09-24 12:37 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-09-27 15:23 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2019-09-28 17:49 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-09-29 1:36 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2019-09-21 12:32 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2019-09-18 18:35 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-09-19 8:24 ` Ludovic Courtès
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