From: MSavoritias <email@msavoritias.me>
To: me@tobias.gr, 73599@debbugs.gnu.org, email@msavoritias.me
Cc: ludo@gnu.org
Subject: bug#73599: packages from store paths don't propagate propagated-inputs
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2024 10:39:27 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2214f032-e5d5-4592-b05a-c7134cfcba62@msavoritias.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9A3DB9A4-F18A-4B66-AA0A-C1E1177667D5@tobias.gr>
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Tobias Geerinckx-Rice kirjoitti 2.10.2024 klo 21.22:
> Hi [explicitly CC'ing Ludo', I hope that's OK],
>
> I don't think
>
> guix install $(guix build foo)
>
> is, or is expected to be, a supported way to install packages? Packages have more metadata attached to them than store items. I don't think that propagation is recorded in the Nix database. Nor do I think it should be just to support this hack.
It actually is mentioned explicitly in the manual.
https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-package.html
from the link above:
Alternatively, a package can directly specify a store file name such as
/gnu/store/...-guile-3.0.7, as produced by, e.g., |guix build|.
Sometimes packages have /propagated inputs/: these are dependencies that
automatically get installed along with the required package (see
|propagated-inputs| in |package| objects
<https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/package-Reference.html#package_002dpropagated_002dinputs>,
for information about propagated inputs in package definitions).
There was an investigation yesterday at the xmpp room and that is how we
discovered that the documentation has a bug. If we do not want to
support it then this is just a documentation bug.
Personally i could go either way. I already updated the project
documentation I have to reflect not to do this
https://codeberg.org/Guix_Bechamel/collective/wiki/Updating-Packages#testing-the-package-at-runtime
MSavoritias
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2024-10-02 14:46 bug#73599: packages from store paths don't propagate propagated-inputs MSavoritias
2024-10-02 18:22 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2024-10-03 7:39 ` MSavoritias [this message]
2024-10-03 8:07 ` MSavoritias
2024-10-03 9:29 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2024-10-03 9:34 ` MSavoritias
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