Sergio Pastor Pérez <sergio.pastorpe...@gmail.com> writes: > Hi, > > Malte Frank Gerdes <malte.f.ger...@gmail.com> writes: > >> Hi, >> >> for me `guix system reconfigure` inevitably needs sudo, so i'm not >> actually running it under my user (where i regularly guix pull). So the >> guix checkout of root is most likely older, hence i find it useful that >> it first pulls. guix pull only updates the guix checkout for the current >> user and while i have seen patches allowing to share a single checkout >> with multiple users this isn't the default and has its own >> disadvantages. > > Try using the -E flag from sudo[1] to preserve the user environment, like so: > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > sudo -E guix system ... > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > This will ensure that sudo uses the same `guix' binary the user has in > PATH. > > [1] https://www.sudo.ws/docs/man/1.8.15/sudo.man/#E
Ah, thanks for this, i never thought about it, but it makes perfect sense :-) > Best regards, > Sergio
