Hi Chris, Chris Marusich <cmmarus...@gmail.com> skribis:
> I think I might have finally found the reason. When I remove the > "--pure" from the invocation, the "installed-os" test runs successfully > on my GuixSD machine. It seems that, for some reason, "--pure" was the > cause of the failure. That's surprising to me, since my expectation was > that Guix's tests should work just fine in a pure environment. Could > this be a bug? When using ‘--pure’, there’s no ‘git’ command in $PATH. So my guess would be that this changes the content of (current-guix), which uses ‘git-predicate’. In particular, your ‘current-guix’ package ends up including guile-2.0.9.tar.xz file, because it cannot determine that it’s not under version control, and then the build process of the ‘guix’ package fails because this file already exists and is read-only. QED! :-) That’s a limitation of ‘git-predicate’ in its current form. Eventually we’ll require ‘guile-git’ and we won’t have that problem. In the meantime, the workaround is to add Git to your environment: guix environment guix --ad-hoc git --pure Thanks for debugging it, and I HTH! Ludo’.
