Re: Daemon update

[Alexander Vorobiev <alexander.vorobiev@gmail.com>]

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Pulled, restarted. The next stop is tcsh. The tarball at ftp.astron.com s
gone, replaced with more recent version...
One observation: apparently coreutils refuses to be built as root so I had
to create a build user/group to give to guix-daemon.

Thanks,
Alex

On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:

> Alexander Vorobiev <alexander.vorobiev@gmail.com> skribis:
>
> > I have some good progress finally. I started from scratch and pulled the
> > latest from git. I am now running guix-daemon as root with only one
> option
> > --no-substitutes. The make guix-binary* ran for hours and built a lot of
> > stuff (bash, gcc, perl, etc) but stumbled upon openldap which doesn't
> seem
> > to be available at the url it wants to use:
>
> Indeed, I’ve updated the OpenLDAP URLs.
>
> > I tried modifying gnu/packages/openldap.scm to use correct url (
> > ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/OpenLDAP/openldap-release/...) but that
> > didn't change anything since (I am guessing) the .drv files in store
> > weren't rebuilt and still point to the old url. How do I fix that without
> > rebuilding everything that it created so far?
>
> Changing the file does have an effect, but perhaps you modified the
> wrong file?  At any rate, if you git pull now and try again it should
> work (and it won’t rebuild everything.)
>
> > As a side note, would it be possible to modify the files you suggested
> (gnu
> > packages package-management and gnu system instal) for the custom local
> > state dir in such a way (through configure? scheme variable?) that it
> > wouldn't be hard-coded? I am guessing any update to guix would cause my
> > changes to be lost?
>
> Since you’re working from a git checkout (right?), you can always
> arrange to have your changes applied.
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.
>

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