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Re: Having a Guix archive on the download page?
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: Having a Guix archive on the download page? |
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Thu, 19 Jul 2018 16:50:51 +0200 |
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Hello,
And sorry for the delay.
Pjotr Prins <address@hidden> skribis:
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 02:55:45PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Now the question is, will it always be possible to run ‘guix pull’ from
>> an arbitrary-old Guix? Maybe it will still be impossible sometimes if
>> the old Guix is really too old. However, I suspect such issues will be
>> much more rare. There’s essentially a single file that needs to be put
>> under scrutiny to avoid such issues: build-aux/build-self.scm.
[...]
> The change to guile2 was such a break, guile-json/tls another
Like I wrote, this specific class of problem disappears with the new
‘guix pull’.
> That was dependencies only. We know we are going to change the
> database in the future...
FWIW the database format for /var/guix/db/db.sqlite has always been the
same in Guix.
Ludo’.