bug#28144: info-dir ERROR: no code for module (guix build utils)

[swedebugia]

Hi Brant

I moved your reply below. Please avoid top posting.

On 2019-01-28 23:04, Brant Gardner wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2019, at 12:57, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> >

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> > Could you please tell us what “guix describe” and/or “guix --version”
> > say?  This would help us figure out if we can do something to prevent
> > this.
> >
> > You can get out of this problem by using a different variant of Guix to
> > run “guix pull”, e.g. ~/.config/guix/current-1-link/bin/guix pull.
> As normal user:
>
> ~ % guix describe
> guix describe: error: failed to determine origin
>
> ~ % guix --version
> guix (GNU Guix) 0.16.0-8.7ba2b27
> Copyright (C) 2018 the Guix authors
> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
>
> -----
>
> Root gets very different answers, as you already pointed out I should expect:
>
> address@hidden ~# guix describe
> Generation 3    Jan 27 2019 07:33:28    (current)
>    guix 4f8be6d
>      repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
>      branch: master
>      commit: 4f8be6d905de0ca53275907cce37742287b51111
>
> address@hidden ~# guix --version
> guix (GNU Guix) 4f8be6d905de0ca53275907cce37742287b51111
> Copyright (C) 2019 the Guix authors
> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
>
>
> The path you indicated doesn't exist for me, can I use root's path to the guix 
> executable to perform the pull and fix the normal user?

Yes if you make sure it and all directories above it is readable by the 
normal user.

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Swedebugia