From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: Olivier Dion <olivier.dion@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Olivier Dion via <help-guix@gnu.org>, zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Questions regarding substitutes with debug output
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2022 16:18:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874k2d2sup.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mtg5qovg.fsf@laura>
Olivier Dion <olivier.dion@polymtl.ca> writes:
>> Therefore, since your question is rooted from GWL:
>>
>> I need to specify the package programmatically as a string in
>> Guile. More specifically in the process packages field of Guix
>> Workflow Language.
>>
>> maybe GWL could also accept a symbol instead of a name string. Well, I
>> have not used GWL since many months and I do not remember but I think it
>> is doable. Ricardo?
>
> In my case, I prefer to avoid using package object directly. As
> mentioned in GWL' manual, the version of Guix running GWL and the
> version of Guix used by GWL (the inferior) might not be the same. Thus,
> it is not okay for reproducibility in the long term. In my case, I use
> `guix time-machine --channels` as the inferior.
The process itself could specify channels to use for its environment.
Then it would be self-contained and reproducible without having to rely
on time-machine.
--
Ricardo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-04-28 14:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-04-20 17:32 Questions regarding substitutes with debug output Olivier Dion via
2022-04-22 4:22 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-04-22 14:29 ` Olivier Dion via
2022-04-24 3:38 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-04-24 14:56 ` Olivier Dion via
2022-04-25 4:10 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-04-28 8:13 ` zimoun
2022-04-28 8:58 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2022-04-28 14:11 ` Olivier Dion via
2022-04-28 14:18 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2022-04-28 14:25 ` Olivier Dion via
2022-04-29 5:06 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2022-04-28 14:20 ` Olivier Dion via
2022-04-29 8:49 ` zimoun
2022-04-29 14:47 ` Olivier Dion via
2022-04-29 16:01 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2022-04-29 16:17 ` Olivier Dion via
2022-04-29 20:08 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2022-04-29 20:53 ` Olivier Dion via
2022-05-09 10:33 ` zimoun
2022-05-09 13:33 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2022-05-09 14:37 ` zimoun
2022-04-29 16:06 ` zimoun
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