Re: Need of daemon for "guix package" subcommands

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:

> Am Donnerstag, 13. Juni 2013 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:
>> Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:
>> > I noticed that
>> >    guix package --roll-back
>> > does not work without a daemon running. Could this be changed?
>> 
>> In theory yes, but in practice that’d require twisting the code for what
>> looks to me like an easily worked around corner case.
>> 
>> How strongly do you feel about it?
>
> I can always do it by hand by changing symlinks, so it is not absolutely 
> necessary.
>
> The reason I needed to do it is that I was in a situation where the daemon 
> was compiled with the glibc from guix and did not work.

Oh, weird.  (FWIW it works for me.)

> So I wanted to uninstall glibc, but --roll-back did not work. (Maybe
> -r would have worked?)

‘-r’ builds a derivation that produces the new profile, so it needs to
talk to the daemon.

Ludo’.