From: Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com>
To: Jelle Licht <jlicht@fsfe.org>
Cc: 33285@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#33285: Installing, then removing, a package yields a different profile
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2019 19:44:33 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a7j5sk0u.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mun7onte.fsf@fsfe.org> (Jelle Licht's message of "Thu, 07 Feb 2019 12:11:41 +0100")
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Jelle Licht <jlicht@fsfe.org> writes:
> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:
>
>> [snip]
>>
>> I think it’s fine to leave it as it is, then. “--install” and
>> “--remove” are stateful and should be expected to have quirks like this.
>> (E.g. upgrading Guix in between two “--install”s can lead to
>> a mosaic of a profile that could not be produced any other way.)
>
> This seems like a very reasonable perspective on this issue, so I
> concur. Should we state this explicitly somewhere in the manual?
Thinking about it that way, I agree it makes sense as is. I think it's
valid to say this isn't a bug, then. I've confirmed that "adding" and
then "removing" a package by using a stateless method (e.g., the "guix
package -m" method) results in the expected behavior: the first and
third profile generations refer to exactly the same profile:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ ls -al /tmp/test-profile*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 marusich users 19 Feb 8 19:39 /tmp/test-profile -> test-profile-3-link
lrwxrwxrwx 1 marusich users 51 Feb 8 19:39 /tmp/test-profile-1-link -> /gnu/store/7j6gy2xvyz7zzpccwsssbxxzykv6q0zg-profile
lrwxrwxrwx 1 marusich users 51 Feb 8 19:39 /tmp/test-profile-2-link -> /gnu/store/yz9qskdl926mdy1i63yzsqwhcciswv90-profile
lrwxrwxrwx 1 marusich users 51 Feb 8 19:39 /tmp/test-profile-3-link -> /gnu/store/7j6gy2xvyz7zzpccwsssbxxzykv6q0zg-profile
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
I'm satisfied. I'm honestly not sure it's worth mentioning in the
manual. I feel like explaining it would add little value and just
clutter up the documentation. This was mainly a curiosity for me.
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Chris
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-09 3:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-06 6:25 bug#33285: Installing, then removing, a package yields a different profile Chris Marusich
2018-11-06 14:25 ` 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 [this message]
2019-03-12 11:58 ` Ricardo Wurmus
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