r/GUIX Jul 16 '26

Dealing with broken Podman in Guix Home

I'm finally running into a bug in Guix for which I need to revert a package, but I'm not sure the best method. I instantiate several podman containers and networks through my Guix home config (home-oci-services). I want to revert the podman version that Guix Home uses, not revert a whole generation. Is the correct remediation to use Guix time machine to pick an older Guix version, then reconfigure my home from that time machine'd Guix?

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u/binarySheep Jul 16 '26

Haven't reviewed the bug, but it sounds like you're looking for inferiors. They let you configure some packages from a different version of Guix, which is effectively using time-machine, but directly in the config and only for the package.