Re: Updating Guix requires full rebuild?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Jookia <address@hidden> skribis:

> Following up: davexunit looked at this issue with me on IRC and showed me it's
> to do with the Guix built from Git in Debian using /usr/local/var/guix while 
> the
> Guix installed using Guix used /var/guix - moving the files fixed everything.

Oh.  You need to be *very* careful with this because
/var/guix/db/db.sqlite contains the metadata that says what’s valid and
what’s not in /gnu/store.

If you run a guix-daemon instance that uses the wrong database, you
could lost stuff in /gnu/store.

Ludo’.