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bug#25775: Can't install packages after guix pull
From: |
Ricardo Wurmus |
Subject: |
bug#25775: Can't install packages after guix pull |
Date: |
Thu, 23 Feb 2017 22:36:54 +0100 |
User-agent: |
mu4e 0.9.18; emacs 25.1.1 |
Leo Famulari <address@hidden> writes:
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 05:06:48PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>> Since I lack an understanding of why the “guile” argument could ever
>> purposefully be set to “#f” I cannot come up with a nice fix. Instead
>> of a nice fix I have found a really gross fix:
>>
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> diff --git a/guix/download.scm b/guix/download.scm
>> index 813f51f48..86f859881 100644
>> --- a/guix/download.scm
>> +++ b/guix/download.scm
>> @@ -418,7 +418,10 @@ GnuTLS itself and its dependencies. See
>> <http://bugs.gnu.org/22774>."
>> ;; hash of the expected result.
>> #:verify-certificate? #f)))))
>>
>> - (mlet %store-monad ((guile (package->derivation guile system)))
>> + (mlet %store-monad ((guile (package->derivation
>> + (or guile
>> + (@@ (gnu packages bootstrap)
>> %bootstrap-guile))
>> + system)))
>> (gexp->derivation file-name builder
>> #:guile-for-build guile
>> #:system system
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Based on discussion on #guix with Ricardo and Andy, I pushed this diff
> as 9f05908fb1e3707cae593d94688748294717a546 on Ricardo's behalf.
Thank you!
> I'm leaving the bug open until we find a better fix.
That’s fair.
For people who encounter this bug at a later point: please upgrade the
daemon; that’s better than trying to use the latest Guix with an
outdated daemon.
--
Ricardo
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bug#25775: Can't install packages after guix pull, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz), 2017/02/19
bug#25775: Can't install packages after guix pull, Ricardo Wurmus, 2017/02/20
bug#25775: Attempts to fix bootstrap Guile bug, Andy Wingo, 2017/02/21