---- On Thu, 21 May 2020 07:44:58 -0500 Marius Bakke <mba...@fastmail.com> wrote ---- > sirgazil <sirga...@zoho.com> writes: > > > Hi, > > > > I use Guix's GNU system. > > > > I had written a Guile script that called Guix procedures to manipulate > > profiles. I put it in a Guix package in a custom channel and installed it. > > It used to work, but now it fails with an error I can also reproduce when > > trying to do something similar from a Guile REPL. For instance: > > > > ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ > > $ mkdir profile-x > > $ guile > > GNU Guile 3.0.2 > > [...] > > scheme@(guile-user)> (use-modules (guix scripts package)) > > scheme@(guile-user)> (guix-package "-m" "manifest.scm" "-p" > > "profile-x/profile-x") > > error: glibc-bootstrap-system-2.2.5.patch: patch not found > > ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ > > There are a couple of things going on here. Calling the Guix APIs from > Guile will use the 'system-installed' Guix, unless you have fiddled with > GUILE_LOAD_PATH.
Ok. I haven't touched GUILE_LOAD_PATH. > You can use 'guix repl' to use the _current_ Guix instead (the one > obtained with 'guix pull'), where this problem has been fixed. > > The system-installed Guix in turn fails because of a bug that was fixed > in 179e6c524ae4957e6ace83f72a5651767f786ca4, and ultimately > 977f478090fd96e73463efb67c56fb32f28828bd which updates the 'guix' > package to include the fix. If you reconfigure on a recent Guix, the > missing patch error should go away. Oh, ok. I'll reconfigure then. Thanks Marius and Efraim.
