Subject: bug#44452: Clash between guile-3.0 and guile-3.0-latest

From: zimoun <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2020 21:15:19 +0100

Dear,

On Wed, 04 Nov 2020 at 19:47, divoplade <[email-masked]> wrote:

> $ LANG=C guix system docker-image config.scm 
> guix system: error: profile contains conflicting entries for guile
> guix system: error:   first entry: [email-masked]
> /gnu/store/18hp7flyb3yid3yp49i6qcdq0sbi5l1n-guile-3.0.2
> guix system: error:   second entry: [email-masked]
> /gnu/store/ah16zr8mmfkqy23rr7jy5a842ca1q9h1-guile-3.0.4
> hint: You cannot have two different versions or variants of `guile' in
> the same profile.

Which packages ’config.scm’ contain?  Other said, what does the conflict
make happen?

I do not know if an option ’--allow-collisions’ makes sense here.

> The fix would be to deprecate guile-3.0-latest as an alias for guile-
> 3.0, and use the 3.0.4 version in guile-3.0.

I have not checked, but this proposal could lead to a world rebuild.

All the best,
simon