[debbugs-tracker] bug#19278: closed (%guix-version is incorrect in the presence of 'guix pull')

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has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #19278,
regarding %guix-version is incorrect in the presence of 'guix pull'
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> guix needs to be installed for guix pull
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> Fri, 05 Dec 2014 17:47:17 +0100
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> Wanderlust/2.15.9 (Almost Unreal) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.9 (Gojō) APEL/10.8 Emacs/24.4 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MULE/6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO)
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> package: guix
> version: 0.9
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> `guix pull' requires to have guix among installed packages (`guix
> package -i guix'), but this fact is not documented in manual and not
> mentioned by `guix pull --help' message.
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> It is valid at least in my case - running Guix on top of Gentoo
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> %guix-version is incorrect in the presence of 'guix pull'
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> Wed, 20 Jul 2016 23:00:19 +0200
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> Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux)
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> Hello!
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> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:
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> > Actually it’s another bug: the version reported is static, which is
> > misleading at best.  See <http://bugs.gnu.org/19318>.
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> I’m happy to report that this bug is finally fixed, in commit
> b006ba50384f9cb517fa881299160adba0aaca9e.  :-)
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> It should take effect immediately: “guix pull && guix --version” should
> display a version string other than “0.10.0” or similar.
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> Eventually the version string will include the Git commit id, à la “git
> describe”.
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> Ludo’.
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