Re: [outreachy] Further steps

[Laura Lazzati]

On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 7:00 AM Laura Lazzati
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> 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?
Sorry, I have restored to the point in which I cloned the repo (and
had not worked yet on branch master):
which guix
/home/laura/.config/guix/current/bin/guix

guix --version
guix (GNU Guix) c4d62443eb50a615d47b590a7fedcc7f7f0ec100
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.

git pulled

But the same error with guix pull


>
> >
> > 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