Hi,
Thanks for your report. On Tue, 11 Aug 2020 at 15:54, Steffen Rytter Postas <n...@scalehost.eu> wrote: > Some background first, to better understand the issue: > I've been running Guix on a foreign distribution > with my own channel in ~/.config/guix/channels.scm for some time now. > However this means having to deal with doing both a `guix pull` as > a user, but also `guix pull` as superuser to keep the system > builder daemon etc up to date. > I wanted to avoid this, by using simply a system-wide guix install, and > not have my own user have a guix variant. I tried simply deleting > ~/.config/guix/current symlink, and confirmed that `guix` was now using > the `/usr/local/bin/guix` symlink. > Then I moved my ~/.config/guix/channels.scm file to > /etc/guix/channels.scm > and satisfied with my setup, performed `sudo guix pull --fallback` to > pull the latest changes and verify it worked. > The command ran as expected, and printed the new packages from my > channel that were now available. > > So, that's the background of what I've been trying to do. Here's what > happened: > > I have in my own channel a package called `entr-git`. Installing it is > simple: > > `guix show entr-git` > > Expected result: > > name: entr-git > version: 4.5-0.6b13a97 > outputs: out > systems: x86_64-linux i686-linux > dependencies: ncurses@6.2 > location: gnu/packages/entr-git.scm:25:2 > homepage: http://entrproject.org/ > license: ISC > synopsis: Run arbitrary commands when files change > description: entr is a zero-configuration tool with no external build > or run-time dependencies. The interface to entr is not only minimal, > it aims to be simple enough to create a new > + category of ad hoc automation. These micro-tests reduce keystrokes, > but more importantly they emphasize the utility of automated checks. > > Actual result: > > guix show: error: entr-git: package not found > > Additional information: > > `type guix`: > /usr/local/bin/guix > > `readlink /usr/local/bin/guix` > /var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/current-guix/bin/guix > > `/usr/local/bin/guix show entr-git` > guix show: error: entr-git: package not found > > `/var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/current-guix/bin/guix show entr-git` > name: entr-git > version: 4.5-0.6b13a97 > outputs: out > systems: x86_64-linux i686-linux > dependencies: ncurses@6.2 > location: gnu/packages/entr-git.scm:25:2 > homepage: http://entrproject.org/ > license: ISC > synopsis: Run arbitrary commands when files change > description: entr is a zero-configuration tool with no external build > or run-time dependencies. The interface to entr is not only minimal, > it aims to be simple enough to create a new > + category of ad hoc automation. These micro-tests reduce keystrokes, > but more importantly they emphasize the utility of automated checks. > > Simplest reproduction of issue: > > * Ubuntu 20.04 AMD64 Desktop/Server system. > * Install Guix using guix-install.sh script. > * As a user, ensure absence of ~/.config/guix/current symlink. > * As a user, run `guix pull --fallback` > * As a user, run `guix describe`. > * As a user, run `sudo guix describe`. > * As root, run `guix describe`. > > Workaround: > > Use `/var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/current-guix/bin/guix` "directly" > (despite this also being a symlink). > > > I hope this is enough relevant information, otherwise it appears very > straight forward to reproduce. This bug is marked ’moreinfo’ since months and because I do not see how it is actionable, I am closing. If I miss something, please reopen it. All the best, simon
