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From: Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com>
To: 33285@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#33285: Installing, then removing, a package yields a different profile
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2018 22:25:46 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8736seyb6d.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)

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Hi,

I've noticed that if I do the following...

guix package -p .guix-profile -i hello
guix package -p .guix-profile -i coreutils
guix package -p .guix-profile -r coreutils

...I get profile generations like the following:

.guix-profile-1-link  ->  /gnu/store/mbvwb1pv8ps0l39gil41g4zj3khx3r8p-profile
.guix-profile-2-link  ->  /gnu/store/m6cwnnxcccnd8bga52jxn74vm67n7ry1-profile
.guix-profile-3-link  ->  /gnu/store/qfpmx9rz7kxa8w8r2pz4vj8ilbi70dcp-profile

However, the 1st and 3rd generations are practically the same:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ diff -r /gnu/store/mbvwb1pv8ps0l39gil41g4zj3khx3r8p-profile /gnu/store/qfpmx9rz7kxa8w8r2pz4vj8ilbi70dcp-profile
diff -r /gnu/store/mbvwb1pv8ps0l39gil41g4zj3khx3r8p-profile/etc/profile /gnu/store/qfpmx9rz7kxa8w8r2pz4vj8ilbi70dcp-profile/etc/profile
11c11
< export PATH="${GUIX_PROFILE:-/gnu/store/mbvwb1pv8ps0l39gil41g4zj3khx3r8p-profile}/bin${PATH:+:}$PATH"
---
> export PATH="${GUIX_PROFILE:-/gnu/store/qfpmx9rz7kxa8w8r2pz4vj8ilbi70dcp-profile}/bin${PATH:+:}$PATH"
[1] marusich@garuda.local:/tmp/tmp.ZOTdkBr4rD
$ 
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Now, this isn't really a problem, since it isn't wasting space, and it
doesn't take long to build.  It's more of a curiosity.  Why is it that
profile generations 1 and 3 don't both point to the same profile in the
store?  Is this expected behavior?

I wasn't sure what would happen when I tried this.  I had guessed
(incorrectly) that generation 3 would point to the same profile that had
been built for generation 1, so I was a little surprised by this.

-- 
Chris

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             reply	other threads:[~2018-11-06  6:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-06  6:25 Chris Marusich [this message]
2018-11-06 14:25 ` bug#33285: Installing, then removing, a package yields a different profile Ludovic Courtès
2018-11-07  7:08   ` Chris Marusich
2019-02-03 23:14     ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-02-04 18:02       ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-02-06 13:19         ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-02-06 14:29           ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-02-07 11:11             ` Jelle Licht
2019-02-09  3:44               ` Chris Marusich
2019-03-12 11:58                 ` Ricardo Wurmus

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