Anyone got any ideas of how to thoroughly test this pull-beast to
make it less brittle and erroneous?
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Hi!
On Ubuntu, starting from
"guix pull: error: symlink: File exists: ..."
I manually removed/changed/created symlinks and had guix working
again.
A few `guix pull` and `sudo guix pull` later:
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~: guix pull
guile: warning: failed to install locale
hint: Consider installing the `glibc-utf8-locales' or
`glibc-locales' package and defining `GUIX_LOCPATH', along these
lines:
guix package -i glibc-utf8-locales
export GUIX_LOCPATH="$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/locale"
See the "Application Setup" section in the manual, for more info.
Migrating profile generations to
'/var/guix/profiles/per-user/thorwil'...
guix pull: error: symlink: File exists:
"/var/guix/profiles/per-user/thorwil/current-guix"
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(glibc-utf8-locales is installed and
GUIX_LOCPATH=/home/thorwil/.guix-profile/lib/locale is set, but
that's another topic)
Now:
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~: readlink ~/.config/guix/current
current-1-link
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current-1-link doesn't exist!
I'm breathing manually now. I would appreciate an overview of what
is supposed to sit where and where it is supposed to point to. I
may have gotten something wrong ... but then again, guix working
and failing again shortly after isn't exactly the outcome I'd
expect in that case.
Sidenote: I wanted to try pulling as root and then choosing the
same commit as user, as recently suggested:
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~: sudo guix describe
(...)
guix: describe: command not found
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Plain `guix describe` did work, until this linking business went
wrong again.
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~: sudo guix --version
=> 0.15.0-2.8bbb79c
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