Re: Possible error in the manual?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Nate Bargmann <address@hidden> skribis:

> * On 2014 23 Sep 05:09 -0500, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Nate Bargmann <address@hidden> skribis:
>> 
>> > Running 'guix --version' returns "guix (GNU Guix) 0.7" ...
>> 
>> Could it be that this is actually a pre-0.7 installation?  Or perhaps
>> ~/.config/guix/latest points to a pre-0.7 version?  This option appeared
>> in 0.7.
>
> I double checked and Guix is reporting the version string I quoted
> above.  I don't see "pre-" shown anywhere.

Actually it always shows the future version number, so it cannot really
be relied on.

> I installed the GNU System from:
>
> ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/guix/gnu-usb-install-0.7.i686.xz

Be aware that version X or Guix cannot contains a package of Guix
version X.  So Guix 0.7 actually comes with a pre-0.7 snapshot.  This
should be visible in the directory name in:

  readlink $(type -P guix)

To get a newer Guix, it should be enough to run ‘guix pull’.  That
should give you the ‘--show’ options and lots of other bleeding-edge
things.  ;-)

Ludo’.