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From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
To: Philippe Veber <philippe.veber@gmail.com>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: List available versions of package.
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2019 21:08:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871rzltp4e.fsf@nckx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOOOohRr08ODzSZi6hzo_4=UMCr1+di8mxOF3bEq7D+79cp6xA@mail.gmail.com>

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Philippe,

Le mar. 11 juin 2019 à 09:43, Philippe Veber 
<philippeveber@gmail.com> a écrit :
> Hello Tobias, and thanks a lot for your answer!

I completely missed this reply.  I am so sorry.

Philippe Veber wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> FWIW, I tried the exact example given in the manual [0] and it 
> failed,
> although for a different reason. It does a lot of work until it 
> reaches an
> exception (the build of profile.drv fails). Could someone 
> confirm this
> should work?

Pasting the contents of that first code box into ‘foo’ and running 
‘guix environment -m foo’ works fine for me on today's guix.

Could you tell us which command you're using and what the result 
is?

> Also, is it expected that packages from guix commits dating
> from a few years ago will still work in this setting? Thanks!

I'm not sure.  There have been some watershed moments in those 
years, and I don't know how well inferiors would isolate those 
changes, if at all.

Kind regards,

T G-R

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-06-22 19:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-10 18:27 List available versions of package Philippe Veber
2019-06-10 21:31 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2019-06-11  7:43   ` Philippe Veber
2019-06-22 11:26     ` Philippe Veber
2019-06-22 19:08       ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice [this message]
2019-06-26 18:32         ` Philippe Veber
2019-06-22 22:46       ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-06-26 18:43         ` Philippe Veber
2019-06-26 20:25           ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-06-30 11:50             ` Philippe Veber
2019-07-02 15:48         ` Leo Famulari

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