Subject: bug#19278: guix needs to be installed for guix pull

From: Tomas Cech <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 11:57:25 +0100

At Sat, 06 Dec 2014 23:56:48 +0100,
Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> 
> Tomas Cech <[email-masked]> skribis:
> 
> > `guix pull' requires to have guix among installed packages (`guix
> > package -i guix')
> 
> That shouldn’t be the case.
> 
> Do you still have the error handy, or can you reproduce it?

Yes, I just reproduced it. It can bee seen on version:

tcech@venom ~ $ LC_ALL=C LANG=C guix --version
guix (GNU Guix) 0.9
Copyright (C) 2014 the Guix authors
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

tcech@venom ~ $ LC_ALL=C LANG=C guix package -r guix
The following package will be removed:
   guix 0.8.3b09332     /gnu/store/nr7yppxdwb8gz8j323124bp06j9n6nz6-guix-0.8.3b09332

The following derivations will be built:
   /gnu/store/bc6fnvrf4h2k2m8b9w5ypgyadcyllqjp-profile.drv
   /gnu/store/fi05mwsgaabbg0xdg5s4r9s0sv9jwamq-info-dir.drv
5 packages in profile
;;; note: source file /home/tcech/.config/guix/latest/gnu/packages/dwm.scm
;;;       newer than compiled /home/tcech/.config/guix/latest/gnu/packages/dwm.go

tcech@venom ~ $ LC_ALL=C LANG=C /usr/bin/guix --version
guix (GNU Guix) 0.8
Copyright (C) 2014 the Guix authors
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

At least, that is how I understand the problem.

S_W