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Subject: Re: bug#18534: problems with "guix pull"
Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2014 22:38:44 +0100
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To: Carlos Carleos <carleos@uniovi.es>, Igor Gajsin <igajsin@mirantis.com>
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ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) skribis:

> The old =E2=80=98guix pull=E2=80=99 didn=E2=80=99t now about the gnu.scm =
file, hence the error
> (this was fixed in June, in commit 9d0b8fbd.)
>
> That means you have to actually run =E2=80=98guix pull=E2=80=99 from 0.7,=
 or from a
> recent checkout.
>
> The fact that =E2=80=98guix pull=E2=80=99 can potentially break for some =
future version
> is unfortunate.  It would be ideal if instead of using its own build
> recipe, it would use one from the tarball.

[...]

> Igor Gajsin <igajsin@mirantis.com> skribis:
>=20
> > This is a output of `guix pull --verbose`
> >
> > compiling
> > /gnu/store/akma9bmmjnizkv9sj1669wa8x4abrzyp-guix-latest/guix/import/pyp=
i.scm'...
> > ERROR: no code for module (json)
>=20
> For now, this problem can be worked around as described here:
>=20
>   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2014-09/msg00488.html

This bug should be fixed by f81ac34.

The idea is that the build recipe that is executed is now taken from the
newly-downloaded Guix.  Before that, we would use the build recipe from
whatever Guix version was running, hence this kind of problems.

Comments and testing welcome!

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.