Subject: Re: bug#37789: guix pull: error: You found a bug: the program

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2019 21:05:30 +0200

Hi George,

George Clemmer <[email-masked]> skribis:

> 		     (substitute-urls (list "https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org"
> 					    "https://hydra.gnu.org"
> 					    "https://berlin.guixsd.org"))

Also, remember that {mirror.,}hydra.gnu.org were phased out a few months ago:

  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-guix/2019-06/msg00001.html

> ... because it primarily builds Guix from Git. I only use 'guix pull' as
> a kind of "rescue move" when the souce build fails, as it is now doing
>
> configure: error: Guile-JSON is missing; please install it.

How are you getting this error?  Please provide all the context.

> The last time I used 'guix pull' it worked fine ...
>
>   /home/glc/.config/guix:
>   lrwxrwxrwx 1 glc users   44 Dec 14  2018 current ->
>   /var/guix/profiles/per-user/glc/current-guix
>
> The guix-configuration is unchanged since then. Shouldn't 'guix pull'
> still work?

It should work, yes.  What does ‘guix describe’ report?

Thanks,
Ludo’.