GNU bug report logs - #36785
'sudo guix pull' failure in the profile migration code

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Julien Lepiller <julien <at> lepiller.eu>

Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2019 14:41:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 37148

Done: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 36785 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Gábor Boskovits <boskovits <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#36785: Impossible to pull on foreign distro
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2019 19:49:28 +0200

Hi Maxim!

Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com> skribis:

> From a289eb3fd6239287d4a802fbba69abf21604591f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2019 00:11:28 +0900
> Subject: [PATCH] doc: Add a 'Upgrading Guix' section to the 'Installation'
>  chapter.
> MIME-Version: 1.0
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>
> This follows a discussion regarding issue #36785 (see:
> https://bugs.gnu.org/36785).
>
> * doc/guix.texi (Upgrading Guix): New section.
>
> Co-authored-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>

[...]

> +@node Upgrading Guix
> +@section Upgrading Guix
> +
> +@cindex Upgrading Guix, on a foreign distro

Nitpicking: index entries are usually lower-case.

> +To upgrade Guix, run:
> +
> +@example
> +guix pull
> +@end example

Perhaps add:

  @xref{Invoking guix pull}, for more information.

> +When you need to upgrade the build daemon, for instance, which runs as
> +root, run:
> +
> +@example
> +sudo -i guix pull
> +@end example

What about restating upfront that we’re talking about foreign distros
specifically:

  On a foreign distro, you can upgrade the build daemon by running:

  @example
  sudo -i guix pull
  @end example

  @noindent
  followed by (assuming your distro uses the systemd service management
  tool):

  @example
  systemctl restart guix-daemon.service
  @end example

  On Guix System, upgrading the daemon is achieved by reconfiguring the
  system (@pxref{Invoking guix system, @code{guix system reconfigure}}).

?

Feel free to push something along these lines.

Thank you,
Ludo’.
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