bug#67586: guix package: error: package glibc-locales@2.37 does not support x86_64-linux

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Nils Landt <nils@landt.email> skribis:

>> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> hat am 06.12.2023 23:58 CET geschrieben:
>> 
>>  
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Nils Landt <nils@landt.email> 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 glibc-locales@2.37 does not support 
>> > x86_64-linux
>> 
>> Fixed with 4a6cef9d66ff26e96d63f2f1f886b8212154ca00.
>> 
>> The problem was that glibc-locales@2.37 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’.