Subject: bug#59598: "Unsupported manifest format" error

From: zimoun <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2022 10:41:25 +0100

Hi,

On Mon, 28 Nov 2022 at 00:34, [email-masked] wrote:

> Are all the conditions for a clean sync
> of the file system where /gnu/store is mounted guaranteed?

More or less, yes.  You can read some discussion in patch#58035 [1].

1: <https://yhetil.org/guix/[email-masked]>

> Hopefully the OS will recover a good state, but what can
> userland innocents expect to be guaranteed, in terms of
> work flow they can understand?

Guix cannot be magical here. :-)  From my understanding, what you are
asking depends on the properties of your filesystem.

Cheers,
simon