Hi, Am Samstag, dem 19.02.2022 um 15:43 +0000 schrieb Zelphir Kaltstahl: > [...] > Given that I did the guix pull yesterday/today and that the store > inconsistencies disappeared with that, I have to assume the > following: > > (1) Either my guix installation is broken somehow, although I never > messed around in the store and only have quite basic usage using > environments and profiles (actually haven't touched profiles in a > while and this is the first time in a long time that I have thought I > should make a profile for something, instead of merely an > environment), or (2) the command `guix shell -C emacs > emacs-magit -E TERM -- emacs` does something different, than the > command, which I use to make a profile and that therefore the results > are different. > > If (1) is the case, then I guess there has to be a bug somewhere in > guix package manager, which messed things up, since I only use very > few basic commands of guix to install packages, use environments and > profiles. It's not like I go into the store and mess around in the > folders ^^' > > If (2) is the case, then I am simply not knowledgeable about guix to > say what that difference might be. Note that your profile is a normal directory. You can ls the files and everything, so you should be able to find out whether git-commit.el is broken or any other file is broken, and you should also be able to diff one version of magit against another.
> I am not sure I really want to somehow remove guix and then reinstall > it again, because everything else seems to work just fine. > > Not sure what to do now. I might have to abandon the project of > getting reproducible emacs setup using guix again, or simply cannot > use guix' profile functionality for that. I'm not sure if Emacs itself is fully reproducible (there has been a bug in its build IIRC), but I doubt that this is the change you're seeing. Note that Guix is not fully resilient against power outages (despite what John said in his presentation); I personally had empty files after power outages on two separate machines, which I do attribute to the file system/disk rather than Guix however. Cheers.
