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Re: doc: Proposed note about symlinks in section "invoking guix pull"
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: doc: Proposed note about symlinks in section "invoking guix pull" |
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Wed, 14 Nov 2018 12:23:18 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hello,
swedebugia <address@hidden> skribis:
> "Note: if your have wound up with a faulty guix after a "guix pull" you can
> manually run an older version by looking at the symlinks in your
> /user/home/.config/guix/ directory.
> E.g. if it lists:
> $ ls -l /root/.config/guix/
> total 0
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Nov 4 01:24 current ->
> /root/.config/guix/current-1-link
> ...
> Then your faulty guix is in current-1-link, and your former probably well
> working guix is in an older symlink, e.g. current-2-link.
> To run the guix-version before the last pull in the example above, run:
> /root/.config/guix/current-2-link/bin/guix
>
> Now go ahead and use that older guix to roll back as described above."
>
> What do you think?
I think you’re describing a terrible bug, but a bug that’s behind us
AFAIK. I’m reluctant to documenting an old bug that’s hopefully no
longer relevant; I think it would clutter the manual.
Does that make sense?
Ludo’.