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Re: ~/.guix-profile/manifest usage with "guix package -m [manifest]" / "


From: Ludovic Courtès
Subject: Re: ~/.guix-profile/manifest usage with "guix package -m [manifest]" / "guix pack -m [manifest]" etc..
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2018 12:19:34 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux)

Hello,

YOANN P <address@hidden> skribis:

> I was thinking than "~/.guix-profile/manifest" was a valid manifest file due 
> to his name, but it seems not that is the case from the error i've got
>
> https://pastebin.com/Z7h2t5mL
>
> After some search , i've finally understand that the instantiated profile 
> couldn't be used as source profile for "guix package -m" etc... due to the 
> same words despite use case and is a bit confusing

I agree it’s a bit confusing.  The manual does make it clear that -m
expects source code that evaluates to a manifest object, though.

> https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2016-05-27#T1040380
>
> It will be really convenient to only have the instantiate profile to easily 
> maintain it in a vcs system.
>
> Despite what ludo said in 2016 on IRC, i didn't see those options yet.
> Did i missed them ?
> If not implemented yet, any news about this feature ? :)

No news I’m afraid :-) but I’ve opened an issue so we keep track of it:

  https://issues.guix.info/issue/32844

Maybe you can help?

Thanks,
Ludo’.



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