From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 63234-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#63234: cached guix shell environment not capturing environment variables set in manifest
Date: Tue, 02 May 2023 22:11:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87354e17v8.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ilda7mza.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic Courtès"'s message of "Tue, 02 May 2023 17:48:57 +0200")
Hi,
Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
> Hi,
>
> Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> Consider the following manifest.scm file:
>>
>> (setenv "DUMMY" "hello")
>>
>> (packages->manifest
>> (map specification->package
>> (list "hello")))
>>
>>
>> Running:
>>
>> $ guix shell --rebuild-cache -m manifest.scm -- sh -c 'echo $DUMMY'
>> hello
>>
>> $ guix shell -m manifest.scm -- sh -c 'echo $DUMMY'
>>
>> I think this is a recent behavior change, otherwise I wouldn't have
>> gotten fond of that trick ;-).
>
> Hmm, I don’t think it’s a recent change. It’s a trick that might work
> “by chance” but cannot be relied on.
>
> Not-a-bug to me!
Ah! Okay then :-). I'll stop using such trick.
--
Thanks,
Maxim
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2023-05-02 15:34 bug#63234: cached guix shell environment not capturing environment variables set in manifest Maxim Cournoyer
2023-05-02 15:48 ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-05-03 2:11 ` Maxim Cournoyer [this message]
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