Re: Order of manifest and overlapping binaries

[Csepp]

Greg Hogan <code@greghogan.com> writes:

> I could not find documentation on this circumstance or how to resolve.
> Both 'parallel' and 'moreutils' produce a 'bin/parallel' and only one
> can go in the $GUIX_PROFILE.
>
> Creating a container, the latter package overshadows the former
> package, as below. Unclear if this is consistent. In my manifest the
> former package overshadows the latter (I'd prefer to have parallel's
> parallel, but by default I have sorted the listing alphabetically). Is
> there a better way to fix this?
>
> Greg
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> $ guix shell --container moreutils parallel which coreutils
> [env]$ readlink -f `which parallel`
> /gnu/store/xd9kbadmrrbpkjs9vl1v9rhgayfxwgbc-parallel-20230422/bin/parallel
>
> guix shell --container parallel moreutils which coreutils
> [env]$ readlink -f $(which parallel)
> /gnu/store/60zdm9zm0nqm5d97vs30sf4plb2ib5p9-moreutils-0.67/bin/parallel
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
>
> This is operating from a recent guix pull:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> $ guix describe
> Generation 44   May 11 2023 17:02:53    (current)
>   guix d6f6b57
>     repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
>     branch: master
>     commit: d6f6b57766e95d2fa8af63d4460a2b303ca4d867
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

You could create a package that just copies the contents of moreutils
to $output, but renames some files, then include the resulting package
in your manifest.  If moreutils is not propagated from any other
package, then you don't even have to do an input rewrite.