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Re: successful installation, but problems updating
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Thomas Sigurdsen |
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Re: successful installation, but problems updating |
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Mon, 6 Nov 2017 11:18:29 +0100 |
Hello, sadly I can't help with the guix pull error, don't know a lot
about it unfortunately. I do have some comments on the other questions.
On Mon, 06 Nov 2017 09:16:56 +0100
Marco van Hulten <address@hidden> wrote:
> After this I should execute this command.
>
> > $ guix system reconfigure
> > guix system: error: wrong number of arguments for action 'reconfigure'
>
reconfigure (and some (maybe all?) of the other system commands) require a
config file. So 'guix system reconfigure /path/to/config.scm' should work.
>
> I expected this not to work properly anyway because 'guix pull' did not
> succeed, but this seems like a syntax error that would have come up
> also after a correct 'guix pull' (except, of course, if 'guix pull'
> would provide files that account for the right number of arguments —
> but I don't understand Guix well enough to make any good presumptions
> about it).
>
>
> Finally, have two more general questions (possibly related) about
> Guix.
>
> Firstly, it often says that I need to use '--fallback'. Is that
> because the binary is not available?
>
'--fallback' means that guix will fall back to compiling from source if
it can't download binaries (also called substitutes). By default guix
tries to download substitutes from the build farm (hydra).
>
> Secondly, I noted that with, e.g., 'guix package -i kodi' software gets
> compiled. I understood that GNU Guix is capable of both binary and
> source packages. Which should I typically expect? Can I choose?
>
It seems to me I usually get core and common packages as substitutes
(binaries). There is the ‘--no-substitutes’ command line flag to disable
substitutes and always build from source. I can't see a flag for
disabling source builds.
You'll find this information in the guix info pages, specifically under
"common build options" and "invoking guix system".
> -Marco
Thomas
- successful installation, but problems updating, Marco van Hulten, 2017/11/06
- Re: successful installation, but problems updating,
Thomas Sigurdsen <=
- Re: successful installation, but problems updating, Chris Marusich, 2017/11/10
- Re: successful installation, but problems updating, Leo Famulari, 2017/11/10
- Re: successful installation, but problems updating, Chris Marusich, 2017/11/10
- Re: successful installation, but problems updating, myglc2, 2017/11/11
- Re: successful installation, but problems updating, Chris Marusich, 2017/11/11
- Re: successful installation, but problems updating, myglc2, 2017/11/11
- Re: successful installation, but problems updating, Leo Famulari, 2017/11/11
- Re: successful installation, but problems updating, myglc2, 2017/11/11
- Re: successful installation, but problems updating, Leo Famulari, 2017/11/11
- Re: successful installation, but problems updating, Chris Marusich, 2017/11/12