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Bash finds old version of guix after guix pull

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Message #22 received at 32789-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Alex Branham <alex.branham <at> gmail.com>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
Cc: 32789-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#32789: Bash finds old version of guix after guix pull
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2018 12:47:27 -0500

On Fri 21 Sep 2018 at 11:06, Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net> wrote:

> Bash optimizes lookups on the PATH; having found an executable on PATH
> once, it can remember that location for a minor speed boost.  The only
> problem with this is that the cache can go stale.
>
> From what I understand remembering locations is usually done manually by
> running “hash”.  I don’t know what would trigger this behaviour in your
> case.

Right, all that makes sense. I'm wondering why/how bash ever found
guix-0.14 since I started out with guix-0.15.

Alex

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