From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Konrad Hinsen Subject: Re: Updating a very old Guix Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2018 16:21:35 +0100 Message-ID: References: <862f79ed-d84d-122d-e83f-8910b7c57777@riseup.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51338) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gMwzK-0001gZ-3P for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Nov 2018 10:21:54 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gMwzG-0000XW-S1 for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Nov 2018 10:21:54 -0500 Received: from out5-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.29]:46157) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gMwzG-0000WZ-Id for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Nov 2018 10:21:50 -0500 In-Reply-To: List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: swedebugia , Julien Lepiller , help-guix@gnu.org swedebugia writes: > Could you report this to bug-guix@gnu.org? Done (and Ludo and Ricardo are already looking into this). > How about reinstalling v. 0.15 overwriting your current installation? > > this would invalidate all your store items though. Exactly, which is why I would like to avoid it. The current profile of the only account that matters on that machine contains some fragile software, so I am not at all sure that if I reinstall and update everything I will still have a working system. Perhaps I could try to archive all the stuff in the profile, re-install Guix, and recover my store items from the archive. But as far as I know there is no way to install them into a profile afterwards. BTW, I did find a way to run "guix pull" which has a good chance to work on a more typical installation: remove $HOME/.config/guix and then run "/usr/local/bin/guix pull". Unfortunately, this fails on my machine because of insufficient disk space for building an enormous amount of packages. Even gtk, although I am on a headless server. I actually wonder if it is reasonable to run Guix on such a limited machine. My store fills up 1/3 of the 10 GB partition, and that's right after a "guix gc". Perhaps I should keep a profile with that machine's software on my main Guix machine and just copy over the binaries from time to time. Konrad.