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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
Cc: bug-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Obsolete packages listed as available
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 15:49:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d2xm5nk2.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201301031421.44877.andreas@enge.fr> (Andreas Enge's message of "Thu, 3 Jan 2013 14:21:44 +0100")

Hi,

Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:

> when executing
>    guix-package --list-available | grep mit
> I see two packages:
> mit-krb5        1.11    distro/packages/mit-krb5.scm:29:3
> mit-krb5        1.11    distro/packages/sasl.scm:145:3
>
> The first one is the really available one; the second one was contained in 
> a file sasl.scm in an old branch. Both the file and the branch have been 
> deleted in the meantime. However, I suppose the package exists still 
> somewhere in the nix store.

I suppose the file sasl.scm still exists along with the other files.
Even if it’s not under version control, the module-listing code in
distro.scm will stumble upon it, and thus list any packages that it
exports.

If you remove that file, it will no longer show up.

HTH,
Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-03 14:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-03 13:21 Obsolete packages listed as available Andreas Enge
2013-01-03 14:49 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2013-01-03 16:37   ` Andreas Enge
2013-01-03 18:39     ` Ludovic Courtès

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