bug#53210: installer: referring to N-1 guix is problematic.

2022-08-11 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Mathieu Othacehe skribis: >> Let me know if you have comments! > > Thanks for taking care of this! > > Looks like we have a small regression on 'system-tests and 'guix > specifications: > > https://ci.guix.gnu.org/eval/528053/log/raw > https://ci.guix.gnu.org/eval/528056/log/raw > > I thi

bug#53210: installer: referring to N-1 guix is problematic.

2022-08-10 Thread Mathieu Othacehe
Hey, > Let me know if you have comments! Thanks for taking care of this! Looks like we have a small regression on 'system-tests and 'guix specifications: https://ci.guix.gnu.org/eval/528053/log/raw https://ci.guix.gnu.org/eval/528056/log/raw I think this is because channel-source->package is

bug#53210: installer: referring to N-1 guix is problematic.

2022-08-09 Thread Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GNU Guix
Hi Ludo, Sorry for the delay, I was on holidays for the past few weeks. Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hi Josselin & all, > > I ended up pushing the following patches: > > fdafd40432 maint: Use a pretty version string in ISO and VM images. > 95a03aa5c5 system: install: Always use 'current-guix'.

bug#53210: installer: referring to N-1 guix is problematic.

2022-08-09 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Josselin & all, I ended up pushing the following patches: fdafd40432 maint: Use a pretty version string in ISO and VM images. 95a03aa5c5 system: install: Always use 'current-guix'. 57f1892d36 gnu: guix: Default 'current-guix' is built using the current channels. 64a070717c channels: A

bug#53210: installer: referring to N-1 guix is problematic.

2022-07-18 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Josselin Poiret skribis: > -(define channel-build-system > - ;; Build system used to "convert" a channel instance to a package. > +(define channel-profile-build-system > + ;; Build system used to "convert" a channel instance to a profile, in > + ;; package form. In hindsight I’m not convinced

bug#53210: installer: referring to N-1 guix is problematic.

2022-01-12 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! Mathieu Othacehe skribis: > Any idea on how to improve this inception problem? We can arrange for ‘installation-os’ to use Guix from the current commit, as built by (guix self), instead of using the ‘guix’ package. (For the record, (gnu ci) already does that in ‘system-test-jobs’ to make in

bug#53210: installer: referring to N-1 guix is problematic.

2022-01-12 Thread Mathieu Othacehe
Hello, If I download the latest installer and use it to install a new system, the "guix system init" command will install the guix package defined in the (gnu packages package-management) module. That means that if the installer is built with a guix package at the version N in that module, the