Subject: Re: bug#67586: guix package: error: package [email-masked] does not support x86_64-linux

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2023 19:11:36 +0100

Hi,

Nils Landt <[email-masked]> skribis:

>> Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]> hat am 06.12.2023 23:58 CET geschrieben:
>> 
>>  
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Nils Landt <[email-masked]> skribis:
>> 
>> > I use guix home for almost everything, but I have installed glibc-locales in my "regular" guix (just by running guix package install glibc-locales).
>> > Now, running guix package --upgrade fails with:
>> > guix package: error: package [email-masked] does not support x86_64-linux
>> 
>> Fixed with 4a6cef9d66ff26e96d63f2f1f886b8212154ca00.
>> 
>> The problem was that [email-masked] is marked as supported for
>> i586-gnu only (that’s GNU/Hurd).
>
> Thank you for the quick fix! 
> But isn't the the real bug that guix package (--install, --upgrade) consider an unsupported package as the version to install / upgrade to? Expected behaviour for me would be that it checks for the newest version that can actually be installed on the architecture.

Yes, you’re right, we should fix this.

Thanks,
Ludo’.