Re: Updating a very old Guix

[swedebugia <swedebugia@riseup.net>]

Hi

On 2018-11-13 13:43, Konrad Hinsen wrote:

snip

> 
> So let's try a variant: use "guix archive" to export a nar file, copy it
> over to the other machine, and import it.
> 
>     guix archive --export `readlink -f ~/.config/guix/latest` > guix-update.nar
> 
> guix archive: error: build failed: program `guix-authenticate' failed
> with exit code 1

Interesting bug!

Could you report this to bug-guix@gnu.org?
this code runs on the daemon so any detailed errors will probably be in 
the daemon log.

we need the version of your guix (and your daemon) so we can reproduce it.

guix-authenticate uses gcrypt which was recently changed by ludo to 
guile-gcrypt so this might have introduced a regression.

> 
> There isn't much documentation on "guix authenticate" and how it might
> fail, so I'll end my experiments here. Does anyone have an idea for
> something else that I might try?

How about reinstalling v. 0.15 overwriting your current installation?

this would invalidate all your store items though.

-- 
Cheers
Swedebugia