From: Bengt Richter <bokr@bokr.com>
To: Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net>
Cc: 42212@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#42212: Guix version rendered as 0.0-git in info manual
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2020 07:08:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200716050842.GA3527@LionPure> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200716004600.GA3021@LionPure>
On +2020-07-16 02:46:00 +0200, Bengt Richter wrote:
> On +2020-07-16 03:12:37 +0530, Arun Isaac wrote:
> >
> > > The “0.0-git” string comes from (guix self). As noted there, we can’t
> > > really afford to change the version string at each commit, or we’d have
> > > to rebuild the manual at each commit.
> > >
> > > We could perhaps choose a more meaningful version string, though, maybe
> > > by looking at the closest tag or something.
> >
> > That sounds good, and `git describe` could provide us with the closest
> > tag. Unfortunately, (git) doesn't seem to be available during `guix
> > pull`. I'm trying to come up with workarounds. Do you have any ideas?
>
> What does (copied from another laptop screen by hand, typos possible ;)
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> readlink -f /var/guix/profiles/per-user/{$USER,root}/current-guix/manifest|xargs grep -m1 -A1 guix
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> get you? Anything useful?
>
> On my other laptop, it got me (again copied/...elided from other screen)
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> /gnu/store/.../manifest: (("guix"
> /gnu/store/.../manifest- "87850c0"
> --
> /gnu/store/.../manifest: (("guix"
> /gnu/store/.../manifest- "0.16.0"
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> You can see that's ancient, so IDK if the same command will work for you.
> "guix -V" there still shows 0.16.0 (which version should that show, BTW?)
>
> I don't know how these versions correspond to what pull creates,
> but zimoun is a whiz on that stuff, so maybe he will chime in :)
> (I Cc'd him to raise the probability :)
Sorry, I seem not to have succeeded with the Cc: to zimoun
Or it's been scrubbed out of the headers.
Ah, do I faintly remember that one needs a special incantation?
Sorry, I will look into it.
>
> HTH
> --
> Regards,
> Bengt Richter
>
>
>
--
Regards,
Bengt Richter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-16 5:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-05 7:59 bug#42212: Guix version rendered as 0.0-git in info manual Arun Isaac
2020-07-09 22:29 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-07-15 21:42 ` Arun Isaac
2020-07-15 23:26 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-07-16 0:46 ` Bengt Richter
2020-07-16 5:08 ` Bengt Richter [this message]
2020-07-16 10:06 ` zimoun
2020-07-16 9:37 ` zimoun
2020-07-16 9:48 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-07-16 10:19 ` zimoun
2020-07-16 19:36 ` Efraim Flashner
2020-07-17 23:55 ` bug#42212: [PATCH 0/1] Use nearest tag as the version string in documentation Arun Isaac
2020-07-17 23:55 ` bug#42212: [PATCH 1/1] self: " Arun Isaac
2020-07-20 8:13 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-07-20 8:36 ` Arun Isaac
2020-07-20 12:32 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-07-20 13:42 ` zimoun
2020-07-27 23:13 ` bug#42212: [PATCH v2 0/1] " Arun Isaac
2020-07-27 23:13 ` bug#42212: [PATCH v2 1/1] " Arun Isaac
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