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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
Cc: 74015@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#74015: 'guix shell --export-manifest' fails for some transformations
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2024 12:38:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v7wvwc6t.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a5eshzzy.fsf@gmail.com> (Simon Tournier's message of "Fri, 25 Oct 2024 19:08:17 +0200")

Hi,

Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> skribis:

> $ guix shell -m manifest.scm --export-manifest

‘--export-manifest’ is meant to “translate” a command line, which it can
do faithfully; there’s no way it could possibly “recreate” what
‘manifest.scm’, which may contain arbitrary Scheme code (and someone who
already has a ‘manifest.scm’ file probably doesn’t need
‘--export-manifest’).

It’s necessarily a lossy process.  Some of the transformations
‘manifest.scm’ uses may be recorded as metadata in manifest entries, but
others, such as uses of ‘package-input-rewriting’ here, inevitably get
lost.

I would close it as not-a-bug; WDYT?

Ludo’.




  reply	other threads:[~2024-11-10 12:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-10-25 17:08 bug#74015: 'guix shell --export-manifest' fails for some transformations Simon Tournier
2024-11-10 11:38 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2024-11-10 13:06   ` Simon Tournier
2024-11-12 15:33     ` Suhail Singh
2024-11-16  7:20       ` Simon Tournier
2024-11-17 19:05         ` Suhail Singh
2024-11-20 10:29     ` Ludovic Courtès

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