Ah aaaah... Indeed, "type -p guix" returns "guix is /usr/local/bin/guix"
And:
> *guix describe*
guix a0178d3
repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
branch: master
commit: a0178d34f582b50e9bdbb0403943129ae5b560ff
My "~/.profile" contains the following:
# GNU Guix
GUIX_PROFILE="/home/[me]/.guix-profile"
. "$GUIX_PROFILE/etc/profile"
GUIX_PROFILE="/home/[me]/.config/guix/current"
. "$GUIX_PROFILE/etc/profile"
export GUIX_LOCPATH="$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/locale"
I reloaded it using ". ~/.profile" Then:
> *guix describe*
Generation 214 Sep 02 2025 20:52:27 (current)
guix 520ba1b
repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
branch: master
commit: 520ba1b90467cc9839d9cad9a097c0d5600aaff5
> *guix package -l*
Generation 1 Sep 02 2025 20:54:18 (current)
node 14.16.0 out /gnu/store/s9dawdas9g3a4889w37v4azsar81r0lp-node-14.16.0
In the above output, on Zsh, both "Generation xxx" text is actually a
link. The first one links to "/var/.../current-guix-214-link". and the
second one to "/var/.../guix-profile-1-link".
After "guix pull && guix upgrade && guix package -u", which upgraded node
14.16.0 → 22.14.0, now I have:
> *guix describe*
Generation 215 Sep 02 2025 22:23:52 (current)
guix 96fdd95
repository URL: https://git.guix.gnu.org/guix.git
branch: master
commit: 96fdd95d2057bd30020d9987adf82245b4da3ecc
> *guix package -l*
Generation 1 Sep 02 2025 20:54:18
node 14.16.0 out /gnu/store/s9dawdas9g3a4889w37v4azsar81r0lp-node-14.16.0
Generation 2 Sep 02 2025 22:24:13 (current)
+ node 22.14.0 out /gnu/store/fkmkmzvfp7knpy728qk672jgb0jdxb1p-node-22.14.0
- node 14.16.0 out /gnu/store/s9dawdas9g3a4889w37v4azsar81r0lp-node-14.16.0
I am not sure whether I should be concerned that both commands show
different generations. If not, it looks like I have to reinstall all
packages I had previously installed?
--
Florent Georges
H2O Consulting
http://h2o.consulting/
On Tue, 2 Sept 2025 at 21:57, Rutherther <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Florent Georges <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > Thank you!
> >
> > I did a "guix pull", then "guix install node", and "guix package
> > --list-generations" finally showed something consistent. Hooray!
> >
> > But... The version installed is very old, it has been updated in Oct.
> 2021
> > (and many times since then):
> >
> https://codeberg.org/guix/guix/commit/f3cd70ff8c60ce51dfe8e37365caf1c787fcf62c
> >
> > I tried pulling, upgrading, package -u 'ing, but it stays the same. The
> > strangest thing is that Guix itself tells me to do a "pull" and a
> "package
> > -u", I do, but it has no effect:
> >
> >> *guix pull*
> > Updating channel 'guix' from Git repository at '
> > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git'...
> > Authenticating channel 'guix', commits 9edb3f6 to 520ba1b (59 new
> > commits)...
> > guix pull: warning: pulled channel 'guix' from a mirror of
> > https://git.guix.gnu.org/guix.git, which might be stale
> > Building from this channel:
> > guix https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git 520ba1b
> > [...]
> >
> > New in this revision:
> > 15,674 new packages: 9base, 9yacc, a2jmidid, aacircuit, aardvark-dns,
> > abc-yosyshq, abjad, abjad-ext-nauert, abjad-ext-rmakers,
> > ablorb, abstractdark-sddm-theme, ack, …
> > 8,015 packages upgraded: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected],
> > [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected],
> > [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected],
> > [email protected], …
> >
> > News for channel 'guix'
> > Linux-libre 6.16 now available
> >
> > hint: Run `guix pull --news' to read all the news.
> >
> >> *guix install node*
> > guix install: warning: Consider running 'guix pull' followed by
> > 'guix package -u' to get up-to-date packages and security updates.
> >
> > The following package will be installed:
> > node 14.16.0
> >
> > substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.gnu.org'...
> 100.0%
> > 20.6 MB will be downloaded
> > c-ares-1.16.0 123KiB
> > 1.2MiB/s 00:00 [##################] 100.0%
> > google-brotli-1.0.9 307KiB
> > 1.7MiB/s 00:00 [##################] 100.0%
> > icu4c-67.1 9.0MiB
> > 1.8MiB/s 00:05 [##################] 100.0%
> > libuv-1.40.0 97KiB
> > 2.8MiB/s 00:00 [##################] 100.0%
> > node-14.16.0 10.1MiB
> > 1.1MiB/s 00:09 [##################] 100.0%
> > substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.gnu.org'...
> 100.0%
> > The following derivation will be built:
> > /gnu/store/6hrp4xf4bm3kbns4iik4f35vi247ca1p-profile.drv
> >
> > 0.1 MB will be downloaded
> > c-ares-1.17.1 126KiB
> > 957KiB/s 00:00 [##################] 100.0%
> > applying 1 graft for
> > /gnu/store/2q2x076r8pjdqiyh8cmfy7ndfa8qplig-node-14.16.0.drv ...
> > building CA certificate bundle...
> > building fonts directory...
> > building directory of Info manuals...
> > building database for manual pages...
> > building profile with 1 package...
> >
> >> *guix package --list-generations*
> > Generation 1 Sep 02 2025 20:54:18 (current)
> > node 14.16.0 out
> /gnu/store/s9dawdas9g3a4889w37v4azsar81r0lp-node-14.16.0
> >
> >> *guix pull*
> > Updating channel 'guix' from Git repository at '
> > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git'...
> > guix pull: warning: pulled channel 'guix' from a mirror of
> > https://git.guix.gnu.org/guix.git, which might be stale
> > Building from this channel:
>
> Even this is an indication of running an old guix as it doesn't expect
> git.guix.gnu.org/guix.git to be the main url.
>
> > guix https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git 520ba1b
> > Computing Guix derivation for 'x86_64-linux'... -
> > nothing to be done
> > New in this revision:
> > 15,674 new packages: 9base, 9yacc, a2jmidid, aacircuit, aardvark-dns,
> > abc-yosyshq, abjad, abjad-ext-nauert, abjad-ext-rmakers,
> > ablorb, abstractdark-sddm-theme, ack, …
> > 8,015 packages upgraded: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected],
> > [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected],
> > [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected],
> > [email protected], …
> >
> > News for channel 'guix'
> > Linux-libre 6.16 now available
> >
> > hint: Run `guix pull --news' to read all the news.
> >
> >> *guix upgrade*
> > guix upgrade: warning: Consider running 'guix pull' followed by
> > 'guix package -u' to get up-to-date packages and security updates.
> >
> >> *guix package -u*
> > guix package: warning: Consider running 'guix pull' followed by
> > 'guix package -u' to get up-to-date packages and security updates.
> >
> > Any clue about this? Because I am stuck in 2021, and it feels like
> > different times already :/
>
> Yes. It seems you aren't using the newly pulled guix. See output of
> `guix describe`, what commit does it show?
>
> To see what guix you're using, `type -p guix`. It should say
> $HOME/.config/guix/current/bin/guix to get the proper guix. If it
> doesn't, that's the problem. I presume it will show /usr/bin/guix for
> you.
>
> To fix this... depends on where the error is. If you've already used
> guix in the past and you didn't touch the
> /var/guix/profiles/per-user/$USER/current-guix* files, I am quite
> surprised you would get this issue. First thing you can try is relogging
> as you might get the env vars for the profile. If that won't help,
> you're somehow missing the
> `GUIX_PROFILE=$HOME/.config/guix/current; . $GUIX_PROFILE/etc/profile`
> that should be ran on login. This is usually in /etc/profile.d/XX-guix.sh
> (forgot the number).
>
> At least temporarily you can just do manually
> `GUIX_PROFILE=$HOME/.config/guix/current; . $GUIX_PROFILE/etc/profile`
> if you won't be able to figure out what the issue currently is.
>
> You can always use the `guix describe` to debug what version of guix
> you're actually using.
>
> On the off chance that `type -p guix` actually prints
> `$HOME/.config/guix/current/bin/guix`,
> that would mean you're pulling an old guix version, and you would need
> to update the commit you pull in channels.scm.
>
> Rutherther
>
> >
> > --
> > Florent Georges
> > H2O Consulting
> > http://h2o.consulting/
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 2 Sept 2025 at 15:47, Rutherther <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> On September 2, 2025 11:09:35 AM GMT+02:00, Florent Georges <
> >> [email protected]> wrote:
> >> >Hi,
> >> >
> >> >> Yes, that is expected, you cannot list something that doesn't exist.
> But
> >> >> you shouldn't have removed only guix-profile, you need to remove all
> >> >> `guix-profile*` files to remove all generations. (ie
> >> >> guix-profile-1-link) You need to install
> >> >> something to recreate the profile and then you will have new
> generation.
> >> >
> >> >I see, thank you.
> >> >
> >> >Last question before I delete all "guix-profile-*-link"... They all
> point
> >> >to "/gnu/store/xxxx-profile" directories, which collectively take a
> huge
> >> >amount of disk space. Can I delete them as well, or just the soft
> link?
> >>
> >> No, never delete stuff under the store manually. After everything stops
> >> pointing to it, guix gc will remove it. Remove only the links.
> >>
> >> >And if I do, can I delete "current-guix-*-link" as well? I am the only
> >> >user on the machine.
> >>
> >> Except for cases like this where something is not working right, I would
> >> advise against deleting stuff in /var/guix/profiles/per-user. Just use
> the
> >> guix commands for that, current-guix is managed by guix pull, so guix
> pull
> >> --delete-generations.
> >>
> >> Rutherther
> >> >
> >> >Regards,
> >> >
> >>
>
