[debbugs-tracker] bug#35601: closed (First 'guix pull' does not display 'hash guix' hint)

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> Mon, 06 May 2019 15:04:07 +0200
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> Hi Guix,
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> Congratulations on 1.0.0!
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> I took the opportunity to revisit bug #33647 [0] and verify that commits
> 3bbd691 and d1d7283 have the desired effect.  Unfortunately they do
> not: The first time a user runs guix pull on a freshly installed Guix
> System no hint about running 'hash guix' is displayed even though it is
> precisely when the hint was supposed to be displayed.
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> To reproduce simply run (after installing Guix System using the 1.0.0
> installer) 'guix --version', which will yield 'guix (GNU Guix) 1.0.0',
> then 'guix pull', which will display no hint about running 'hash guix',
> then 'guix --version' again, which will return 'guix (GNU Guix) 1.0.0'
> again, and finally 'hash guix' followed by 'guix --version', which now
> will yield 'guix (GNU Guix) 1234somecommithash123456789abcdefghijklm'.
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> Regardless of the hint I still believe it is unfortunate that running
> 'guix pull && guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm' for the first
> time will rather counterintuitively downgrade the system instead of
> upgrading it.
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> Regards,
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> Diego
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> [0]: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=33647
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> Hi!
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> Diego Nicola Barbato <address@hidden> skribis:
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> > To reproduce simply run (after installing Guix System using the 1.0.0
> > installer) 'guix --version', which will yield 'guix (GNU Guix) 1.0.0',
> > then 'guix pull', which will display no hint about running 'hash guix',
> > then 'guix --version' again, which will return 'guix (GNU Guix) 1.0.0'
> > again, and finally 'hash guix' followed by 'guix --version', which now
> > will yield 'guix (GNU Guix) 1234somecommithash123456789abcdefghijklm'.
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> I *think* this is fixed for good by
> a0dc97a517cbc4c82640e30cacb2a564d128bbe9.
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> > Regardless of the hint I still believe it is unfortunate that running
> > 'guix pull && guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm' for the first
> > time will rather counterintuitively downgrade the system instead of
> > upgrading it.
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> I agree.  Perhaps an option would be to somehow pre-populate
> ~/.config/guix/current for all users on Guix System, but I’m not quite
> sure how to do that intelligently.
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> Thoughts?
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> Thanks,
> Ludo’.
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