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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: ison <ison@airmail.cc>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Discrepancy between manual and channels.scm
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2021 18:02:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <875z1l7o7q.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pmzwosfd.fsf@airmail.cc> (ison@airmail.cc's message of "Thu, 18 Mar 2021 19:15:02 -0600")

Hi,

ison <ison@airmail.cc> skribis:

> Under "6.7 Declaring Channel Dependencies" the examples show names being
> quoted, such as (name 'some-collection) however this causes guix pull to
> fail. I don't remember the exact error but it was failing the "match"
> statement under "resolve-dependencies" in "guix/channels.scm".
>
> (name "some-collection") also fails.
> (name some-collection) succeeds, without any quoting.

Oops you’re right; I’ll push a fix to the manual shortly.

> I'm not sure if it's the manual which needs fixing or the code, but
> specifying the name without quoting would be inconsistent with how
> channel names are declared in ~/.config/guix/channels.scm.

It’s necessarily different because ‘.guix-channel’ is data whereas
‘channels.scm’ is code.

Thanks!

Ludo’.


  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-20 17:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-19  1:15 Discrepancy between manual and channels.scm ison
2021-03-20 17:02 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2021-03-26  7:54   ` zimoun
2021-03-27  3:23   ` Ozhap

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