On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 04:45:12PM -0800, carl hansen wrote: > On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 2:02 PM, Leo Famulari <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 12:17:32PM -0500, Thompson, David wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 4:34 AM, carl hansen <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > Yes, that is the case, there is no mystery, there is indeed a > > > > /root/.guix-profile/share/info/guix.info > > > > and there is NOT a > > > > ~user/.guix-profile/share/info/guix.info > > > > > > > > snip snip > > Ok I did, as suggested, > guix package -i guix > which I was afraid of, fearing some ouroboros strange loop destruction of > the universe; > fears unfounded, only curious effect was dozens or hundreds of > > warning: collision encountered: /gnu/store/wfvxxpdhnzd59v ... > warning: arbitrarily choosing /gnu/store/wfvxxpdhnzd59vkad1z... > > type messages. Otherwise, seems to work.
That's not optimal. Those messages mean that of the store directories linked to from your profile, more than one provide a given path. For example, GNU Parallel and moreutils both have a path "bin/parallel": /gnu/store/7ggbvsql79s5i05a3v8cbn48kdrzf7nc-parallel-20151222/bin/parallel /gnu/store/ax4ppgzmx5cjqr813l3djgzhiniam1yz-moreutils-0.57/bin/parallel If you install both in your profile, those two paths both become: ~/.guix-profile/bin/parallel And so you get a warning and the conflict is resolved arbitrarily. You can't have both of the "parallels" in your profile at once. Were the conflicting paths related to Guix? > > As suggested by Efraim Flashner , add that command to the Binary install > instructions. > > Now, about your fine manual, on http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/ > we see "last updated November 04, 2015" > Please use a cronjob to update the manual nightly , or so, to the latest > version. The universe will thank you.
