Re: Finding the channel in which a package is defined

[Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net>]

Hi everyone,

thanks for your suggestions. My award for the most useful one (to me)
goes to Mathieu :

> You can run something like:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> ,use (guix describe) (gnu packages) (gnu packages linux)
> (%package-module-path)
> (package-channels strace)
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Since the information is stored with all packages, it would be
reasonable for "guix show" to display it as well. I'll look at this and
propose a patch if I succeed.

It's a bit surprising at first sight that there are multiple channels. I
suspect that the list contains the channels of all inputs as well,
recursively, meaning that channel "guix" is present almost everywhere.

Cheers,
  Konrad.