bug#58149: guix pull error

[Matthieu Haefele]

Le 06/10/2022 à 12:30, zimoun a écrit :
> On Thu, 6 Oct 2022 at 12:10, Matthieu Haefele <matthieu.haefele@cnrs.fr> wrote:
>
>
> > 1. What am I doing wrong to have stuck to this old guix daemon all this time ? 
> > Shall I run this `sudo -i guix pull` regularly to
> > keep my daemon up to date ? But then it looks like I am the only one who faced 
> > this issue, weird, no ? And problems should have
> > started back in February, but I intensively worked on guix this summer, 
> > including some `guix pull`... If reasons are not too
> > complicated, I am interested in getting some insights.
>
> Personally, I run "guix pull" as root (update the daemon) each every
> while. ;-)  Usually, at each new release and/or when I read (guix pull
> --news; as regular user) something important.

Thanks for the explaination, it confirms what I understood. Maybe the three lines above should be part of some best practise or 
documentation, especially for people like me running guix on a foreign distro without using the distro's package manager. I do not 
remember having seen such recommendation.

Thanks again
Best,
Mat

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