bug#33368: "guix archive" fails because of guix-authenticate

[Ludovic Courtès]

Konrad Hinsen <address@hidden> skribis:

> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> Oops, this is fixed in commit 7a54b2281d1f60fd0ae2e058c219c5a600ad756b
>> (the next commit, 0fe1fba4af41f267c4bb2c006fb37f42422ab703, changes Guix
>> itself so that the script is installed as LIBEXECDIR/guix/authenticate,
>> for consistency.)
>>
>> To test it, you’ll have to run ‘guix pull’ as root and to restart the
>> daemon.
>
> Done, works, thanks!
>
> It would be nice if guix could detect an outdated daemon and ask for an
> update. Technically that shouldn't be hard to do, but it requires
> keeping a daemon API version number.

There’s a protocol version that clients get during the handshake, so
clients could report about “old” daemons.

Now, the client-daemon protocol is meant to be backward-compatible and
to change rarely, so I’m not sure if we should warn about it.

Thoughts?

Thanks,
Ludo’.