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[bug#28273] [PATCH] gnu: Fix current-guix.
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Ludovic Courtès |
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[bug#28273] [PATCH] gnu: Fix current-guix. |
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Date: |
Thu, 31 Aug 2017 15:18:37 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.2 (gnu/linux) |
Christopher Baines <address@hidden> skribis:
> Without this change, I get errors like:
> ERROR: In procedure string-drop:
> ERROR: Value out of range 0 to 35: 51
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> * gnu/packages/package-management.scm (current-guix): Pass exactly the same
> path to git-predicate and local-file, to ensure that the select? function is
> compatible.
Good catch, LGTM.
I think that fundamentally, we should arrange for ‘git-predicate’ to not
do any string prefix comparison. That’s bound to fail. If we could
somehow restrict it to comparing inode numbers, that’d be perfect.
Ludo’.