Unable to upgrade guix

Guix
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When I try to upgrade guix I recieve this error:

$ guix upgrade

...
building /gnu/store/hnfzbp1vw8v6dxva3q47ac6m3gvx8667-icedove-minimal-140.5.0.drv...
| 'build' phasebuilder for `/gnu/store/hnfzbp1vw8v6dxva3q47ac6m3gvx8667-icedove-minimal-140.5.0.drv' failed with exit code 1
build of /gnu/store/hnfzbp1vw8v6dxva3q47ac6m3gvx8667-icedove-minimal-140.5.0.drv failed
View build log at '/var/log/guix/drvs/hn/fzbp1vw8v6dxva3q47ac6m3gvx8667-icedove-minimal-140.5.0.drv.gz'.
cannot build derivation `/gnu/store/d4rnw4s1xxm1pyl0a8cj5yw8izxs2hdb-icedove-140.5.0.drv': 1 dependencies couldn't be built
guix upgrade: error: build of `/gnu/store/d4rnw4s1xxm1pyl0a8cj5yw8izxs2hdb-icedove-140.5.0.drv' failed

P.S. is there a reason why upgrades and pulls take such a long time compared to other Linux repositories?

2

Normally, I do

guix pull && guix package -u

For upgrade, I do reconfiguration.

4

Looks like there’s a –do-not-upgrade option.

$ guix upgrade --do-not-upgrade='icedove|ungoogled-chromium'

5

How is it possible to fail to build a source package from guix channel? I thought every package from guix channel is supposed to be built successfully everywhere.

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6

This does seem to happen sometimes if you’re doing guix pull often and you catch a bad commit. I always just assume it was something missed by the CI or a maintainer just pushed something in without CI running fully. Maybe something like a dependency got updated and it broke a dependent package.

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7

I guess the process isn’t perfect.

8

Yes and the error messages could be better. For example not cut off.

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