Subject: bug#62055: `guix pull` fails on freshly installed Guix on Debian aarch64

From: Simon Tournier <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2023 15:18:45 +0100

Hi,

On jeu., 09 mars 2023 at 21:59, Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GNU Guix <[email-masked]> wrote:
> "Wicki Gabriel (wicg)" <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> failed to compute the derivation for Guix (version: "6e4b997cdfb12b657f525949409c3b761ab4d901"; system: "aarch64-linux";
>> host version: "1.2.0"; pull-version: 1).
>> Please report the COMPLETE output above by email to <[email-masked]>.
>
> Your Guix version is quite old at this point, mostly because you're
> using the Debian package.  Can you try installing from the binary
> installer script instead?  Note also that `guix pull` requires quite a
> lot of memory, than a raspberry pi might not have.

Yeah, I think the failure is more about the memory than the oldness.

Aside I do not know the exact state of aarch64-linux.

Cheers,
simon