From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: ~/.guix-profile/manifest usage with "guix package -m [manifest]" / "guix pack -m [manifest]" etc.. Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2018 12:19:34 +0200 Message-ID: <87h8ic36ix.fsf@gnu.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58046) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g56uv-0002Tq-3h for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Sep 2018 06:19:37 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g56uu-0003Cf-4i for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Sep 2018 06:19:37 -0400 In-Reply-To: (YOANN P.'s message of "Tue, 25 Sep 2018 19:55:12 +0000") 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: YOANN P Cc: "guix-devel@gnu.org" Hello, YOANN P skribis: > I was thinking than "~/.guix-profile/manifest" was a valid manifest file = due to his name, but it seems not that is the case from the error i've got > > https://pastebin.com/Z7h2t5mL > > After some search , i've finally understand that the instantiated profile= couldn't be used as source profile for "guix package -m" etc... due to the= same words despite use case and is a bit confusing I agree it=E2=80=99s a bit confusing. The manual does make it clear that -m expects source code that evaluates to a manifest object, though. > https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2016-05-27#T1040380 > > It will be really convenient to only have the instantiate profile to easi= ly maintain it in a vcs system. > > Despite what ludo said in 2016 on IRC, i didn't see those options yet. > Did i missed them ? > If not implemented yet, any news about this feature ? :) No news I=E2=80=99m afraid :-) but I=E2=80=99ve opened an issue so we keep = track of it: https://issues.guix.info/issue/32844 Maybe you can help? Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.