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From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Subject: Re: guix system seems not to respect ./pre-inst-env
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2016 11:24:03 -0500
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To: John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>
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John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au> writes:

> When I run:  ./pre-inst-env guix system disk-image gnu/system/install.scm
>
> The resulting disk image is always the one corresponding to the
> currently installed guix, not the one whose source is in .

That's odd.  It has always worked for me.  I can think of two possible
environment variables that could cause 'pre-inst-env' to fail:
"BASH_ENV" and "GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH".  Were either of these variables set
in the environment of the above command when it failed?

      Mark