From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: elaexuotee@wilsonb.com
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Using --manfistest with <profile>/manifest files
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2020 22:36:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v9juwvn0.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <338KGSFKQGP1E.23382XUCMS8T3@wilsonb.com> (elaexuotee@wilsonb.com's message of "Thu, 11 Jun 2020 10:40:29 +0900")
Hi,
elaexuotee@wilsonb.com skribis:
> In an attempt to tar up the *build* environment for a package to share with a
> colleague, I encountered this:
>
> [env]$ guix pack -m $GUIX_ENVIRONMENT/manifest
> (manifest ...): Wrong number of arguments
>
> From playing around a bit, my guess is that the `<profile>/manifest' files are
> just human-readable serializations of <manifest> objects and don't deserialize
> back:
>
> $ guix environment -m ~/.guix-profile/manifest
> (manifest ...): Wrong number of arguments
>
> Asking around on #guix, user leoprikler suggested a workaround by putting this
> in a file:
>
> (call-with-input-file
> "/path/to/manifest"
> (@@ (guix profiles) read-manifest))
>
> and feeding that file to --manifest. This works as intended.
>
> First, am I missing something? Is there a better/preferred way to make use of
> the `manifest' files in profiles?
You’re not missing anything: it’s a longstanding source of confusion
that these ‘manifest’ files are not like the ‘manifest.scm’ files.
These ‘manifest’ files are meant for internal consumption.
I think Pierre Neidhardt started looking at ways to address it from
different angles, but that hasn’t materialized yet. One thing we
discussed was to add an ‘--export-manifest’ (or similar) option that
would export a ‘manifest.scm’ file for a profile, where the
‘manifest.scm’ file could be an approximation of what the profile
contains, in some cases.
> If not, does it seem reasonable to make the `manifest' files automatically
> deserialize into the objects they describe? I think this could be a fun, simple
> project for a Guix newbie like me, but before I start figuring out how to do
> this, I just want to sanity check the idea.
Yup!
Thanks,
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-06-13 20:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-11 1:40 Using --manfistest with <profile>/manifest files elaexuotee
2020-06-13 20:36 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2020-06-14 10:17 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-06-14 15:24 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-06-15 7:52 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-06-16 9:44 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-06-15 8:08 ` zimoun
2020-06-16 9:46 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-06-16 11:33 ` elaexuotee
2020-06-16 13:42 ` zimoun
2020-06-17 0:45 ` elaexuotee
2020-06-17 7:58 ` how to "guix pack" a profile? zimoun
2020-06-18 9:20 ` elaexuotee
2020-06-18 23:49 ` zimoun
2020-06-19 2:52 ` elaexuotee
2020-06-19 8:30 ` zimoun
2020-06-19 12:34 ` elaexuotee
2020-06-19 15:38 ` zimoun
2020-06-19 10:00 ` zimoun
2020-06-19 12:16 ` elaexuotee
2020-06-19 20:40 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-06-19 20:35 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-06-16 2:51 ` Using --manfistest with <profile>/manifest files George Clemmer
2020-06-16 4:27 ` elaexuotee
2020-06-17 19:09 ` George Clemmer
2020-06-16 9:38 ` zimoun
2020-06-16 14:03 ` George Clemmer
2020-06-16 15:09 ` zimoun
2020-06-16 9:50 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-06-15 7:54 ` zimoun
2020-06-15 10:08 ` elaexuotee
2020-06-16 9:09 ` zimoun
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