From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Theodoros Foradis Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: Mention "guix pull" during installation. Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2016 14:05:25 +0200 Message-ID: <87fulle93t.fsf@openmailbox.org> References: <82b3233597949c866c26628054117ee3@mykolab.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47489) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cIaJi-00046k-FE for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Dec 2016 07:11:51 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cIaJf-0005fn-9B for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Dec 2016 07:11:50 -0500 Received: from mail2.openmailbox.org ([62.4.1.33]:43837) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cIaJe-0005eZ-WB for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Dec 2016 07:11:47 -0500 In-reply-to: <82b3233597949c866c26628054117ee3@mykolab.ch> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: guix-devel Petter writes: > Hi, > > Some new users don't run `guix pull` before installing, and can have a > less good experience because of this. Proposing a patch to add this to > the manual. > > Thanks, > Petter Just a sidenote here, that I mentioned in #guix irc channel the other time. I tried to `guix pull` from the 0.11 USB installer, and it would fail because some package couldn't be substituted, module-import-compiled if I recall correctly. Guix suggested as normal, that `--fallback` flag should be used, which is a non-accepted flag for `guix pull`. I had to `guix system init --fallback`, until that package was built, and then `guix pull`. Not having run `guix pull`, building from source was failing anyway. Is this intented behaviour, or something to be fixed? Regards, -- Theodoros Foradis