swedebugia <[email protected]> writes:
> Hi > > On 2018-11-05 04:25, George Clemmer wrote: >> Oh DUH! Never mind, I guess my 'sudo guix system reconfigure' is using >> the ancient guix version installed in root. Arf! >> > Would it be a help to you if guix declared and printed the path to > itself and version it is using when reconfiguring? > > That way you immediately see what is going on. I think this would be helpful. > Or maybe warned you that a newer guix is available but not used > because of the $PATH? Wouldn't this warning almost always be generated on a single user machine since the user's guix is, almost always, newer than root's? AIUI, the solution in general is to train the user to use 'sudo -E' with guix "system admin" commands. So maybe it would be good to add the recommendation to use 'sudo -E' with these commands to the doc. HTH - George
