Re: Stuck upgrading from Guix v0.12

[Ludovic Courtès]

Heya,

Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:

> I’m in the same situation upgrading a machine that didn’t have an
> Internet connection for months.
>
> Here’s what I do:
>
> - use a git checkout to jump to commit
>   b0cb92b2d43a2c4d5fa9b3f8c04c5732c60061e7, which adds guile-gcrypt
>
> - ./bootstrap && ./configure --localstatedir=/var && make clean && make
>
> - ./pre-inst-env guix package -i guile guile-sqlite3 guile-json
>   guile-ssh guile-gcrypt
>
> - update to the latest version

Just a reminder so people don’t run away ;-): the upgrade story got much
better shortly before 0.15.0, when ‘guix pull’ got the ability to “build
Guix from Guix” in a way that does not rely* on the currently installed
Guix.  For example, you can run 0.15’s ‘guix pull’ and upgrade to
today’s Guix without problems.

Ludo’.

* More specifically, ‘guix pull’ relies on a small subset of Guix
  functionality that hasn’t changed in a couple of years, which is a lot
  given Guix’s history.