Re: [outreachy] Further steps

[Laura Lazzati]

Hi!
On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 2:59 AM Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Laura,
>
> > BTW, I was trying to run guix pull, the one installed on top of my
> > foreing distro - not the one in the guix environment - and I am
> > getting this error, don't know why, I have already run guix pull
> > before:
> > :~/guix$ guix pull
> > Migrating profile generations to '/var/guix/profiles/per-user/laura'...
> > guix pull: error: symlink: File exists:
> > "/var/guix/profiles/per-user/laura/current-guix-1-link"
>
> Could you please tell us what “guix --version” says?  This might make it
> easier for us to tell you how to get around this problem.

This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
>
> There was a recent change to the storage location of the profile used by
> “guix pull”.  It would previously be stored in the home directory and
> has now been changed to be stored where other profiles are stored.
Yes, I've been struggling a lot, all day long yesterday.

Maybe all the steps shed some light
 I say one commit with:
$git log | grep -C 10 pull: |  less

commit aa227b3be3d7728331a08dbd139c47c9b271dc23
Author: Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden>
Date:   Fri Oct 12 16:43:18 2018 +0200

    pull: Fix target of /var/guix/profiles/per-user/USER/current-guix.

    This is a followup to 8155a209071f981fbf359975f463be4bcf8fa23e.

    * guix/scripts/pull.scm (migrate-generations): Compute the right target
    for /var/guix/profiles/per-user/USER/current-guix.  Previously we'd
    return "current-N-link" instead of "current-guix-N-link'.

I removed the current path from PATH, and my guix pull -l was pointing
at the commit from where my clone date was:
$guix pull -l
Generation 1    oct 25 2018 14:34:43    (current)
  guix 84f6a99
    repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
    branch: origin/master
    commit: 84f6a9907b91a1a2fdb5fe3fc4bab177b8734f95

and which guix showed
/user/local/bin/guix

but when guix pulling I was getting the same error, and strangely my
git HEAD was ponting at that commit, even after doing git pull and
having later commits shown with git log, not in chronogical order
(commit 84f6a9907b91a1a2fdb5fe3fc4bab177b8734f95)

It worked with sudo, as Thorsten Wilms mentioned (ran sudo guix pull)
I have just checked that:
$sudo guix pull  -l
guile: warning: failed to install locale
hint: Consider installing the `glibc-utf8-locales' or `glibc-locales'
package and defining `GUIX_LOCPATH', along these lines:

     guix package -i glibc-utf8-locales
     export GUIX_LOCPATH="$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/locale"

See the "Application Setup" section in the manual, for more info.


Generation 1    Oct 17 2018 12:32:20
  guix c4d6244
    repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
    branch: origin/master
    commit: c4d62443eb50a615d47b590a7fedcc7f7f0ec100

Generation 2    Oct 25 2018 17:39:44
  guix 84f6a99
    repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
    branch: origin/master
    commit: 84f6a9907b91a1a2fdb5fe3fc4bab177b8734f95

Generation 3    Oct 26 2018 00:18:32    (current)
  guix 21c51eb
    repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
    branch: origin/master
    commit: 21c51ebd66faa0b47f0be223d97c3a371346f54b
but guix pull (without sudo), however, it shows the same error:
$guix pull
Migrating profile generations to '/var/guix/profiles/per-user/laura'...
guix pull: error: symlink: File exists:
"/var/guix/profiles/per-user/laura/current-guix-1-link"

However, my current version:
$guix --version
guix (GNU Guix) 21c51ebd66faa0b47f0be223d97c3a371346f54b
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.

and checked:
 $cd /usr/local/bin
 $ll | grep guix
which happens to show
 guix -> /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/guix-profile/bin/guix*
(I see that it point to root, not my user, I guess that because of sudo)

Any ideas?

>
> The error message seems to say that a migration to the new location had
> already happened, so it shouldn’t attempt to do this again.
>
> --
> Ricardo
>
Regards!
Laura