From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 56545-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#56545: guix time-machine/shell throws "unsupported manifest format" error
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2022 07:04:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k08asmva.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h73f4jue.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic Courtès"'s message of "Sun, 17 Jul 2022 21:31:21 +0200")
Hi Ludovic,
Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
> Hi!
>
> Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> scribes:
>
>> and the channels.scm file:
>>
>> (list (channel
>> (inherit %default-guix-channel)
>> (commit
>> "ceeb2bfcaeb4380e01d26c8425e28b94ac13558a"))) ;2022-06-07
>>
>>
>> and was surprised to be greeted with the following error:
>>
>> (repl-version 0 1 1)
>> (exception %exception (non-self-quoting 140737300283024 "#<&message message: \"unsupported manifest format\">"))
>> /var/log/guix/drvs/j8/0wjfx7s7nxhcn0wjxfysnnv2knx0c1-guix-package-cache.drv (END)
>>
>> What does it mean? Which manifest is it referring to?
>
> Commit 4ff12d1de7cd617b791996ee7ca1240660b4c20e introduced that bug,
> which was fixed in c9fbd40785a99e13a59d8e530830ce85220a9871:
>
> https://issues.guix.gnu.org/56441
>
> ‘guix describe’ should show that you’re using a commit in that range.
>
> The solution is to run ‘time-machine’ from a commit outside that range,
> for instance with:
>
> guix time-machine -- time-machine -C channels.scm -- whatever
>
> :-)
That's a happy resolution. Thank you!
Maxim
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2022-07-14 0:53 bug#56545: guix time-machine/shell throws "unsupported manifest format" error Maxim Cournoyer
2022-07-17 19:31 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-07-18 11:04 ` Maxim Cournoyer [this message]
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