On Tue, Mar 07, 2017 at 07:33:30AM +0100, Tomáš Čech wrote: > On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 04:34:34PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 10:12:21PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > > Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> skribis: > > > > > > > In my opinion, the recent bug #25775 (Can't install packages after guix > > > > pull) [0] exposed a sort of meta-bug: there are a significant number of > > > > users who were still using the guix-daemon from 0.10.0. > > > > > > > > It seems unlikely that they have been updating all of root's > > > > packages except for the guix package. Rather, I bet they never updated > > > > root's packages at all, for ~1 year. > > > > They could have been stuck with an old daemon if they copied the systemd > > or upstart service files we provide. > > > > That problem should be fixed by 613d0895b92c677e0639d5e77c55043e38e020c8 > > (build: Don't embed absolute paths in .service and .conf service > > files.). > > That is right. But > > 1) there was no release with this "fix" > 2) I (as distro package maintainer) didn't take this patch manually as > it is fragile and hacky. Have you considered fresh guix installation?
This will take effect for the next release of Guix; it addresses a problem that arises when somebody installs the binary release of Guix. I'm not addressing downstream packages of Guix with this commit.
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