GNU bug report logs - #37347
'guix environment' fails after trying to follow the steps from "Running Guix Before It Is Installed" page

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Jan <tona_kosmicznego_smiecia <at> interia.pl>

Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2019 00:50:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Gábor Boskovits <boskovits <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Jan Wielkiewicz <tona_kosmicznego_smiecia <at> interia.pl>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Julien Lepiller <julien <at> lepiller.eu>, Jesse Gibbons <jgibbons2357 <at> gmail.com>, 37347 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#37347: 'guix environment' fails after trying to follow the steps from "Running Guix Before It Is Installed" page
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2019 18:39:45 +0200

On Mon, 16 Sep 2019 18:01:04 +0200
Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> wrote:

> It looks like X.509 certificates used to authenticate web sites over
> HTTPS could not be found.
> 
> Did you set environment variables and all as described at
> <https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/X_002e509-Certificates.html>?
> 
> HTH,
> Ludo’.

Hi again, I've tried setting these variables in the environment but the
same effect. How can I get "guix refresh" to work in the environment?
I think this should be explained somewhere a bit more, because after
reading the packaging tutorial and parts of the documentation I
couldn't set up the development environment for Guix. 
A simple step-by-step tutorial or just list of things to do would make
it more understandable.
Is this already work in progress in the Cookbook?

For example in this section:
https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Building-from-Git.html#Building-from-Git

It is easy to miss the last step - running "make check", because it
isn't explained that running "make check" is necessary to be able to
run ./pre-inst-env. I thought I could just skip this and start hacking.

It would be more clear if the manual or the cookbook contained a
step-by-step list like this:

Quick setting up the environment:
1. git clone ...
2. ./bootstrap
3. ./configure --localstatedir=/var/
4. make check
5. setting certificates to be able to update a package
etc.


Jan Wielkiewicz
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