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Mike Gerwitz <mtg@gnu.org> skribis:

> On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 22:57:17 -0800, Chris Marusich wrote:
>> Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) writes:
>>>
>>>> Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com> skribis:
>>>>
>>>>> When two users run "guix pull" using the same commit, two different
>>>>> versions of "guix-latest" get built.  This surprised me, and in any c=
ase
>>>>> it seems inefficient to build the same version of Guix two times.  Why
>>>>> do two different derivations get built?
>>>>
>>>> That=E2=80=99s a bug!  :-)
>>>
>>> I see!  Nice to know my suspicions were correct.
>>
>> Ludo, did you fix this recently?  Anecdotally, I noticed that the
>> problem no longer occurs using a recent version of Guix.
>
> I still seem to have this issue.
>
> My workaround is to just manually symlink ~/.config/guix/latest to the
> same derivation as root's.  Since Ludo said this behavior seems to be a
> bug, can I assume that it is safe to do so?

Yes, it=E2=80=99s a safe workaround.

I do hope to finish and merge =E2=80=98wip-pull-reload=E2=80=99 ASAP, which=
 fixes this
among other things=E2=80=A6

Ludo=E2=80=99.