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bug#33647: First `guix pull' behaves unexpectedly
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
bug#33647: First `guix pull' behaves unexpectedly |
Date: |
Fri, 07 Dec 2018 14:30:09 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
Diego Nicola Barbato <address@hidden> skribis:
> Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
[...]
>> In addition, be aware that Bash maintains a cache of commands it looked
>> up in $PATH. Thus it may be that, say, it had cached that ‘guix’ is
>> really /run/current-system/profile/bin/guix. When you pulled, it didn’t
>> invalidate its cache thus you kept using that old version.
>>
>> The solution is to run “hash guix” at the Bash prompt to force cache
>> invalidation (info "(bash) Bourne Shell Builtins").
>
> I believe this is it. This also explains why ‘which guix’ returned the
> updated guix while ‘guix --version’ claimed it was still the older
> version, which I found rather confusing.
> I am afraid being unaware of this has led me to inadvertently downgrade
> GuixSD whenever I reconfigured for the first time after a fresh install.
Yeah. This is not strictly speaking a Guix bug, but clearly it’s a
common pitfall. Perhaps we should print a hint upon completion?
Ludo’.
- bug#33647: First `guix pull' behaves unexpectedly, Diego Nicola Barbato, 2018/12/06
- bug#33647: First `guix pull' behaves unexpectedly, Ricardo Wurmus, 2018/12/06
- bug#33647: First `guix pull' behaves unexpectedly, Diego Nicola Barbato, 2018/12/06
- bug#33647: First `guix pull' behaves unexpectedly, Ludovic Courtès, 2018/12/06
- bug#33647: First `guix pull' behaves unexpectedly, Diego Nicola Barbato, 2018/12/07
- bug#33647: First `guix pull' behaves unexpectedly, Björn Höfling, 2018/12/07
- bug#33647: First `guix pull' behaves unexpectedly,
Ludovic Courtès <=
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- bug#33647: First `guix pull' behaves unexpectedly, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice, 2018/12/19
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