bug#41595: time-machine failure

[zimoun]

Hey!

On Fri, 29 May 2020 at 18:34, Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes@inria.fr> wrote:

> During that interval, I see two potential culprits:
>
>   01611d141e quirks: Add patch for <https://bugs.gnu.org/41214>.
>   9db8836916 channels: 'build-from-source' restores '%guile-for-build'.
>
> This is fixed by 36640207c9543e48cd6daa92930f023f80065a5d, which also
> fixes the “incompatible bytecode” warnings.

Cool!


> >   guix pull --commit=9744cc7 -p /tmp/new
> >
> > and re-run the time-machine using '/tmp/new/bin/guix'.  It completes too.
>
> That’s because the inferior for that commit is cached in
> ~/.cache/guix/inferiors.  That “hides” the problem.

Good to know.  Thank you for the explanation.
So if I would like to reproduce using this strategy, before the new
pull, I should have to "garbage collect" to remove this cache, right?


Cheers,
simon