Subject: bug#41693: freshly installed system cannot run “guix pull”

From: Ricardo Wurmus <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2020 21:41:55 +0200

Mathieu Othacehe <[email-masked]> writes:

>> I just installed two servers with the installer image built from commit
>> 2f49007dd076b14feb40d7c3331dee3e737265c8.  Both of these servers boot
>> just fine, but “guix pull” does not work.
>>
>> It fails with the following error:
>>
>>   guix pull: error: glibc-bootstrap-system-2.2.5.patch: patch not found
>
> The commit you picked should create an installer with a Guix package
> that contains the appropriate fix:
> 179e6c524ae4957e6ace83f72a5651767f786ca4.
>
> Could you run a "guix describe" just to be sure?

“guix describe” tells me that my Guix was not created with “guix
pull” but says:

    Its version string is 1.1.0-3.52b01cb.

-- 
Ricardo