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Subject: Re: doc: Proposed note about symlinks in section "invoking guix pull"
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2018 12:23:18 +0100
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Hello,

swedebugia <swedebugia@riseup.net> skribis:

> "Note: if your have wound up with a faulty guix after a "guix pull" you c=
an manually run an older version by looking at the symlinks in your /user/h=
ome/.config/guix/ directory.
> E.g. if it lists:=20
> $ ls -l /root/.config/guix/
> total 0
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Nov  4 01:24 current -> /root/.config/guix/curr=
ent-1-link
> ...
> Then your faulty guix is in current-1-link, and your former probably well=
 working guix is in an older symlink, e.g. current-2-link.=20
> To run the guix-version before the last pull in the example above, run:
> /root/.config/guix/current-2-link/bin/guix
>
> Now go ahead and use that older guix to roll back as described above."
>
> What do you think?

I think you=E2=80=99re describing a terrible bug, but a bug that=E2=80=99s =
behind us
AFAIK.  I=E2=80=99m reluctant to documenting an old bug that=E2=80=99s hope=
fully no
longer relevant; I think it would clutter the manual.

Does that make sense?

Ludo=E2=80=99.