Björn Höfling <bjoern.hoefl...@bjoernhoefling.de> writes: > 9) Old guix version: > > Being in the newly booted system: > > which guix: > --> /run/current-system/profile/bin/guix > -> /gnu/store/111i...-guix-0.14.0-12.77a1aac/bin/guix > > That commit 77a1aac is from 2018-06-09. Why so old? > > After guix pull [quite fast!], I get it correctly from ~/.config/... > > Ah, whait, a `which guix` is correctly pointing to there, and that is finally > pointing to `/gnu/store/496...guix-6e65eb3a/bin/guix` But guix --version > reports still the old one ... > > So why is there this guix-0.14.0-12.77a1aac from one month ago? After a > fresh installation, I want the newest Guix!
The issue here is that the installation media has no ~/.config/guix/current: it uses the "snapshot" Guix, from (gnu packages package-management). Which in turn installs an even older snapshot. It is the same reason you got an older kernel than the installation image: when building the image, you get the latest version (from your ~/.config/guix/current); but when installing, you get the version contained in the snapshot. So it's Guix all the way down. A funny side effect is that if you never `guix pull`, but keep reconfiguring, you'll gradually downgrade your system one snapshot at a time.
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