bug#59598: "Unsupported manifest format" error

[zimoun]

Hi,

On Mon, 28 Nov 2022 at 00:34, bokr@bokr.com wrote:

> Are all the conditions for a clean sync
> of the file system where /gnu/store is mounted guaranteed?

More or less, yes.  You can read some discussion in patch#58035 [1].

1: <https://yhetil.org/guix/0530a80e-0a93-5a3a-ef98-5ba3683e810d@telenet.be>


> Hopefully the OS will recover a good state, but what can
> userland innocents expect to be guaranteed, in terms of
> work flow they can understand?

Guix cannot be magical here. :-)  From my understanding, what you are
asking depends on the properties of your filesystem.


Cheers,
simon