Hi Julien,
Julien Lepiller <[email protected]> skribis:
> I gave a small tutorial to someone today, where we installed guix on top of a
> foreign distro. We used the script and everything went smoothly, and after
> finding out that we were going to build php (we were trying to define a VM
> that would serve one of their services), we tried to run guix pull:
>
> sudo guix pull —commit=…
>
> However the command failed immediately with:
>
> Migrating profile generations to '/var/guix/profiles/per-user/root'...
> Guix pull: error: symlink: File exists:
> "/var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/current-guix"
>
> Indeed, the file exists and everything looks good. Why does guix try to
> migrate a profile that's already good?
>
> I was able to work around that situation, but it's not great for our users.
I’m guessing the machine had remnants of a previous Guix installation,
no? See:
;; In 0.15.0+ we'd create ~/.config/guix/current-[0-9]*-link symlinks. Move
;; them to %PROFILE-DIRECTORY.
(unless (string=? %profile-directory
(dirname (canonicalize-profile %user-profile-directory)))
(migrate-generations %user-profile-directory %profile-directory))
Ludo’.
