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Bash finds old version of guix after guix pull

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From: Alex Branham <alex.branham <at> gmail.com>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
Cc: 32789 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#32789: Bash finds old version of guix after guix pull
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2018 10:01:42 -0500

On Fri 21 Sep 2018 at 09:58, Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net> wrote:

> Hi Alex,
>
>> After installing guixsd (0.15) on a VM and doing "guix pull", "guix --version"
>> gives 0.14-<stuff>.
>>
>> I asked about this on IRC a few weeks ago and got a helpful answer. All
>> I needed to do to fix is was to run a simple bash command.
>> Unfortunately, I've forgotten what that was :-(
>
> I think you mean “hash -r” to make bash forget previously remembered
> locations.

Indeed, that was it. Thanks for helping out here and on IRC!

I'll mention here for posterity that restarting the system also "fixes"
the issue.

I still don't understand why bash found guix 0.14 after guix pulling
from guix 0.15 though.

Thanks again,
Alex

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