Re: List available versions of package.

[Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>]

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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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