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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Subject: Re: Stuck upgrading from Guix v0.12
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2018 15:26:13 +0100
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Ludovic Court=C3=A8s <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Heya,
>
> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:
>
>> I=E2=80=99m in the same situation upgrading a machine that didn=E2=80=99=
t have an
>> Internet connection for months.
>>
>> Here=E2=80=99s what I do:
>>
>> - use a git checkout to jump to commit
>>   b0cb92b2d43a2c4d5fa9b3f8c04c5732c60061e7, which adds guile-gcrypt
>>
>> - ./bootstrap && ./configure --localstatedir=3D/var && make clean && make
>>
>> - ./pre-inst-env guix package -i guile guile-sqlite3 guile-json
>>   guile-ssh guile-gcrypt
>>
>> - update to the latest version
>
> Just a reminder so people don=E2=80=99t run away ;-): the upgrade story g=
ot much
> better shortly before 0.15.0, when =E2=80=98guix pull=E2=80=99 got the ab=
ility to =E2=80=9Cbuild
> Guix from Guix=E2=80=9D in a way that does not rely* on the currently ins=
talled
> Guix.  For example, you can run 0.15=E2=80=99s =E2=80=98guix pull=E2=80=
=99 and upgrade to
> today=E2=80=99s Guix without problems.

Yes, this is correct.

The above recipe works when Guix is used exclusively from a git
checkout.  Using =E2=80=9Cguix pull=E2=80=9D via version 0.15.0 is easier.

--
Ricardo