From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Marusich Subject: Re: guix environment guix doesn't provide guix dependencies? Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 23:40:48 -0700 Message-ID: <8760pd6gb3.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87fuokhd2h.fsf@gmail.com> <20160928045450.GA26600@jocasta.intra> <87bmz8hans.fsf@gmail.com> <87d1jn202v.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35740) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bprVB-0006LL-8x for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Sep 2016 02:40:58 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bprV9-0007NV-5w for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Sep 2016 02:40:56 -0400 In-Reply-To: (David Thompson's message of "Thu, 29 Sep 2016 20:46:53 -0400") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: "Thompson, David" Cc: guix-devel --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable "Thompson, David" writes: > On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 5:20 PM, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrot= e: >> In fact there=E2=80=99s a small time window during which =E2=80=9Cguix e= nvironment guix=E2=80=9D >> doesn=E2=80=99t provide autoconf et al.: it=E2=80=99s when the =E2=80=98= guix=E2=80=99 variable in (gnu >> packages package-management) refers to a released tarball instead of a >> Git checkout, since a build from tarball doesn=E2=80=99t depend on autoc= onf et >> al. How is it possible for this variable to refer to a released tarball in one commit and a git checkout in another? I believe you, but I don't understand how that can happen. >> So if you run =E2=80=9Cguix environment guix=E2=80=9D on a commit differ= ent from >> v0.11.0 + 1, you effectively get all the dependencies. >> >> I admit this is a bit confusing. Not sure how to document/improve that. >> >> Ideas? > > How about a public guix-devel package that always builds from the Git rep= o? > > - Dave That would certainly make it obvious and easy to use. I think it's a good idea. =2D-=20 Chris --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJX7gjyAAoJEN1AmhXYIkadTpoP/1ysSTLXxueQUg2E8t8lhX1n jY8yP/9wGZzQHBaCgXW225SJYdAHws84nBrr5IosrfNRkyVG5aq2DhfTHLphictV 8/oFD0BcC5DkQjt5DQvhvebq66bbH18ksDDbI+pokdkjkOT9dmZ2+f5GD11wOVEG XigWYkK0kzy5J4HcwVUwameu9F/5i3ldfrRuxlzmMowQZCqCBaMUlXSIpb2Xcip1 OA57FYQ6H9r6N+Ql/0kI6wEHjT7tuaWcexx/ySzTNdA+pqLTGh3tQKT1n6eYeVmD 6kd/GltJXCdWqiC2aHMzh8P0g/b7lHR1a2OBHcJefPtJjoRZ4EG6cdebyc237dzm VECIoV4UpXbD+M1EQ1C6+1iM1pdGMcV9jDHnA8G7F6ooY1IgltEmWQCnnqJvbInR qH40ZHlL07Or+AE1Nkxv5gtpHdac0Uxu0SFmNXQ6RwXGJCuOXNHqv96PnZPWNVxD Yry19yDzSA79rn1aEM7p9Zt6DZViRXSDVmA691oAqLu+460ffyuAXbotge8s0a/g w933y0w2aOtupLbytwJd5TD2bateobWkOPookfvCZQcXTRCXAgc6ImRxNNGwdd9a U4mjZbnMk6h9mDhTNWwJTJ3wdI0K86hJoB5I9EGBne731Sivw1qFMtPB5Mcw+duy UZD2XhsgKivRW6xBzJAd =wfjA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--