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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: myglc2@gmail.com
Cc: 31841@debbugs.gnu.org, Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de>
Subject: bug#31841: ./pre-inst-env guix system no longer works without ~/.config/guix
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 16:06:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bmc5sgal.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o9g6zot6.fsf@g1.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> (myglc2's message of "Tue, 19 Jun 2018 13:08:53 -0400")

Hello,

myglc2@gmail.com skribis:

> On 06/17/2018 at 22:53 Ludovic Courtès writes:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:
>>
>>> I should emphasize that when running Guix this way, if you wish to avoid
>>> running 'guix pull', it's important to always keep at least one
>>> known-good development environment for Guix saved as a GC root.  Toward
>>> that end, when I run "guix environment guix" to update my development
>>> environment profile, I make sure to preserve my previous profile as a GC
>>> root until I'm confident that my new profile is working.
>>
>> The “make as-derivation” command aims to help with this bootstrapping
>> problem: given an already installed Guix, it builds your checkout and
>> its dependencies like ‘guix pull’ would do.  Thus, you can run:
>>
>>   $(make as-derivation)/bin/guix environment guix
>
> Nice! This is news to me. Thank you for pointing it out.
>
> Does 'make as-derivation' set the "current" symlink normally set by
> 'guix pull'?

Not at all; only ‘guix pull’ does.

Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-06-20 14:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-15  2:24 bug#31841: ./pre-inst-env guix system no longer works without ~/.config/guix Mark H Weaver
2018-06-15  6:56 ` Rutger Helling
2018-06-15 10:56   ` myglc2
2018-06-15 11:24 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-06-15 11:45   ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-06-15 12:04     ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-06-15 13:08       ` Mark H Weaver
2018-06-15 13:40     ` Mark H Weaver
2018-06-15 16:51       ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-06-15 22:56         ` myglc2
2018-06-16  8:06           ` Mark H Weaver
2018-06-16  8:25           ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-06-16  9:50             ` Mark H Weaver
2018-06-16 14:31               ` George Clemmer
2018-06-17 20:53               ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-06-19 17:08                 ` myglc2
2018-06-20 14:06                   ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2018-06-16  7:51         ` Mark H Weaver
2018-06-17 12:54 ` bug#31841: Status: Guix requires guile-sqlite3 Maxim Cournoyer
2018-06-17 21:19   ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-06-18  1:34     ` Maxim Cournoyer

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