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guix pull failed updating guix

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Message #14 received at 27450 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jonathan Brielmaier <jonathan.brielmaier <at> web.de>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>,
 Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
Cc: 27450 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#27450: guix pull failed updating guix
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 23:09:44 +0200

Am 22.06.2017 um 23:05 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:
> Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name> skribis:
> 
>> On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 06:20:54PM +0200, Jonathan Brielmaier wrote:
>>> copying and compiling to
>>> '/gnu/store/ld6h1fc696q6iaxi9pax0khnm747hvgi-guix-latest' with Guile
>>> 2.0.12...
>>> loading...	 12.6% of 605 filesice-9/psyntax.scm:3084:32: In procedure
>>> #<procedure 4f831a0 (k filename)>:
>>> ice-9/psyntax.scm:3084:32: Syntax error:
>>> bytestructures/guile/base.scm:8:19: include-from-path: file not found in
>>> path in subform "bytestructures/r7/base.exports.sld" of
>>> (include-from-path "bytestructures/r7/base.exports.sld")
>>> builder for
>>> `/gnu/store/lh7ja8hk54rlx7q3hrch6726cgrsqr8j-guix-latest.drv' failed
>>> with exit code 1
>>> guix pull: error: build failed: build of
>>> `/gnu/store/lh7ja8hk54rlx7q3hrch6726cgrsqr8j-guix-latest.drv' failed
>>> $ guix --version
>>> guix (GNU Guix) 20170303.14
>>>
>>> guile-version: 2.0.12
>>
>> This Guix was a bit old (from March 2017) and was using Guile 2.0
>> instead of Guile 2.2.
>>
>> I'm not sure, but I'd guess the issue is related to the recent addition
>> of a dependency on guile-bytestructures [0].
>>
>> [0]
>> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=19c90e5f697bbf1be5ea3a7b4f5fe712d77070a1
> 
> The problem is that there was a time window in March where
> ‘guile-bytestructures’ was broken as can be seen above.  This prevents
> upgrade here.  :-/
> 
> The workaround would be to first upgrade to the commit before the one
> you gave:
> 
>   guix pull \
>     --url=https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/snapshot/6fe5c49ab487154074eaab2ef80e9a2f8163320c.tar.gz
> 
> and then upgrade again:
> 
>   guix pull
> 
> Jonathan, are you able to confirm that this works or did you work around
> it differently already?
Sadly I can't confirm if this work around works because I reinstalled
guix (I removed the broken one and did a clean new 0.13 installation).

Next time I'll wait until the mailing list gives me the right commit :)

Jonathan

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