Re: [PATCH] doc: Mention "guix pull" during installation.

[Ra]

Hi Theodoros,

On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 1:12 PM Theodoros Foradis <address@hidden> wrote:

Petter writes:

> Hi,
>
> Some new users don't run `guix pull` before installing, and can have a
> less good experience because of this. Proposing a patch to add this to
> the manual.
>
> Thanks,
> Petter

Just a sidenote here, that I mentioned in #guix irc channel the other
time. I tried to `guix pull` from the 0.11 USB installer, and it would
fail because some package couldn't be substituted,
module-import-compiled if I recall correctly.

Guix suggested as normal, that `--fallback` flag should be used, which
is a non-accepted flag for `guix pull`. I had to `guix system init
--fallback`, until that package was built, and then `guix pull`. Not
having run `guix pull`, building from source was failing anyway.

Last week I tried to follow the manual (binary install with Ubuntu) and use `guix pull` without success, `--fallback` option was there and I had a lot of troubles with [module-import-compiled](https://gist.github.com/helios/6d13037a7ae7be40f118573545cbccb3)

In #guix irc I found valuable helps (cbaines, rekado)  and I ended up using the git source

git clone --recurse git://git.savannah.gnu.org/guix.git
cd guix

guix environment --fallback --pure --container -N guix --ad-hoc guile-cairo guile-charting guile-rsvg -- sh -c "make clean; ./bootstrap && ./configure --localstatedir=/var && make -j4"

ln -s ~/guix ~/.config/guix/latest

guix package -u

maybe the git/source install should be documented as well or at least tested from scratch for newbies such as me.

--

Ra