Re: Root guix dereferencing

["Clément Lassieur" <clement@lassieur.org>]

Hi Thorsten,

This is because the result of running guix pull is a profile available
under ~/.config/guix/current containing the latest Guix[1].

So you may need to make sure it is at the beginning of your search path.

[1]: https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-pull.html

Thorsten Wilms <t_w_@freenet.de> writes:

> On 19/11/2018 00.06, Leo Famulari wrote:
>> Can you help us by clarifying exactly what is wrong?
>>
>> In general, using sudo without either the --preserve-env or --login
>> options is not recommended, because it won't do what you want in any
>> case where environment variables are involved.
>
> /usr/local/bin/guix and /root/.guix-profile/bin/guix keep pointing to the
> original guix installation.
>
> I tried all of these, each time with
> --commit=0a41123f01d5d2466d6f533be3644ac8c9a2bdf9:
>
> sudo guix pull
> sudo -i guix pull
> sudo -E
>   guix pull
>
> None of these changed what /usr/local/bin/guix and/or
> /root/.guix-profile/bin/guix are pointing to.