On 2024-05-01 10:10:28 -0400, Peter Polidoro wrote: > I have been unable to make the guix repository master branch without it > failing due to errors for maybe a week or more. > > I am just curious if the repository occasionally gets into a broken state > and I just need to wait until some set of commits fixes it eventually
Sometimes (rarely) it does happen. > or if that means that something is wrong with the particular setup on my > machine. > > I make the guix repository with the command: > cd ~/guix && git checkout master && git clean -xdf && git checkout . && git > pull && guix shell -D guix --pure -- sh -c "./bootstrap && ./configure > --localstatedir=/var && make -j$(nproc)" Could you perhaps share the error you got? > > I am running guix on x86_64 Debian stable as a foreign distro, but running > guix shell --pure should keep me isolated well enough from the particulars of > my machine correct? > Often yes, however sometimes there are issues due to your Guix being too old (since the `shell -D guix' uses package versions from *your* Guix version, not from the repository). However this issue is also somewhat rare. Have a nice day, Tomas Volf -- There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors.
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