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From: "Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
To: Myles English <mylesenglish@gmail.com>
Cc: help-guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: how to fix the store after using rm to remove packages
Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 08:22:54 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ=Rwfa3Q3wp6TvTJBXGTPR9q63jQzM9bZEx3w1VRa=549z4kw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874m9nu8db.fsf@gmail.com>

On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 5:13 AM, Myles English <mylesenglish@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello, I had a problem with a python application and deleted (with rm,
> instead of 'guix package -r') the packages I wanted to rebuild.
>
> Now the store is broken.  I have just started down the guix road so
> don't mind starting again with a clean store.  Or I could try and fix
> the problem.  I haven't found any information on how to start again, but
> have tried fixing it and have got stuck on how to delete derivations.
> Can anyone help please?

Start over.  The store is immutable for a good reason.

- Dave

      parent reply	other threads:[~2016-05-24 12:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-24  9:13 how to fix the store after using rm to remove packages Myles English
2016-05-24  9:55 ` Efraim Flashner
2016-05-24 12:22 ` Thompson, David [this message]

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