Guix on a foreign distro (Mint) - List of packages is outdated and not updatable

Guix on a foreign distro (Mint) - List of packages is outdated and not updatable

[MutoShack]

I've been using Guix for a while on my Mint 19.1 machine. When Nano 4.0
came out as a Guix package I was excited, so I ran:
'guix pull && guix package -u'
on my machine. It pulled Nano 2.9.3 from mirror.hydra.gnu.org (I
recently had Nano 3.4 installed, which means Guix downgraded my package)

My laptop computer, running GuixSD, pulled Nano 4.0 (and other new packages) perfectly fine.

Running
'/path/to/guix-daemon --substitute-urls="https://ci.guix.info"'
and pulling yields the same result.
Deleting '~/.config' on both user & root, then letting 'guix pull'
regenerate them also did nothing.

I tried changing my generation and deleting old generations.
I tried the good old "RTFM" and "STFW" methods (reading info and
websearching), but I could not find an answer. Maybe I misunderstood the
information I found.

Re: Guix on a foreign distro (Mint) - List of packages is outdated and not updatable

[Julien Lepiller]

Le 23 avril 2019 22:02:00 GMT+02:00, MutoShack <shack@muto.ca> a écrit :
>I've been using Guix for a while on my Mint 19.1 machine. When Nano 4.0
>came out as a Guix package I was excited, so I ran:
>'guix pull && guix package -u'
>on my machine. It pulled Nano 2.9.3 from mirror.hydra.gnu.org (I
>recently had Nano 3.4 installed, which means Guix downgraded my
>package)
>
>My laptop computer, running GuixSD, pulled Nano 4.0 (and other new
>packages) perfectly fine.
>
>Running
>'/path/to/guix-daemon --substitute-urls="https://ci.guix.info"'
>and pulling yields the same result.
>Deleting '~/.config' on both user & root, then letting 'guix pull'
>regenerate them also did nothing.
>
>I tried changing my generation and deleting old generations.
>I tried the good old "RTFM" and "STFW" methods (reading info and
>websearching), but I could not find an answer. Maybe I misunderstood
>the
>information I found.

Hi, this sounds like you're not using she right guix, like a guix installed in your profile. If that's the case, every time you "upgrade", you actually downgrade guix itself and the packages it knoos about.

Make sure that ~/.config/guix/current/bin tomes first in your $PATH and run "hash guix" to make sure your shell refers to the right guix.

Re: Guix on a foreign distro (Mint) - List of packages is outdated and not updatable

[melon]

Hi, Julien,

Thank you for the help! This solved the problem. Just in case anyone with the same issue is
reading this mail archive in the future, I'll write my course of action
here:

'echo $PATH'
Gave me a very messy output. Apparently things like '.guix-profile/bin',
'.guix-profile/sbin' and '/usr/bin' were all shown multiple times. I
changed it to the following (by editing ~/.bashrc):

export
PATH="$HOME/.guix-profile/bin:$HOME/.guix-profile/sbin:$HOME/.config/guix/current/bin:$HOME/.bin/bin:/usr/bin:/bin"

After restarting BASH and running 'guix pull', all my packages are
once again up to date. Thank you again!

Re: Guix on a foreign distro (Mint) - List of packages is outdated and not updatable

[Chris Marusich]

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melon <shack@muto.ca> writes:

> 'echo $PATH'
> Gave me a very messy output. Apparently things like '.guix-profile/bin',
> '.guix-profile/sbin' and '/usr/bin' were all shown multiple times. I
> changed it to the following (by editing ~/.bashrc):
>
> export
> PATH="$HOME/.guix-profile/bin:$HOME/.guix-profile/sbin:$HOME/.config/guix/current/bin:$HOME/.bin/bin:/usr/bin:/bin"
>
> After restarting BASH and running 'guix pull', all my packages are
> once again up to date. Thank you again!

I'm glad to hear this solved your problem.  I just wanted to add some
information you might find useful.  When using Guix, you do not need to
set the PATH explicitly like this, but there is no harm in doing so if
you want to.  You can also write something like this instead:

  GUIX_PROFILE="$HOME/.guix-profile"
  . "$GUIX_PROFILE/etc/profile"

Whenever Guix generates a profile, by default a "profile hook" will run
that generates this etc/profile file.  This file contains shell commands
which set up all the environment variables you need in order to
"activate" the profile.  This includes PATH.  The nice thing about this
is that if you source this file in a place like ~/.bash_profile (or
similar), then whenever you log in, you'll always get the right
environment variables for your profile, regardless of what software
you've installed.

On a Guix System, both your $HOME/.guix-profile and
$HOME/.config/guix/current profiles will be "activated" automatically in
this manner (see: /etc/profile), but on a foreign distro, you have to do
this yourself by adding the appropriate lines to a shell start-up file.

I hope that perhaps this information helps simplify your configuration!

-- 
Chris

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