From: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: Guix Devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Failure with “guix copy“
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2022 19:07:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fsh5rbq9.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a67hx5kb.fsf@gnu.org>
Hi Ludo,
On ven., 02 sept. 2022 at 15:35, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Well, I was expecting that the items were just copied. Why ‘guix copy’
>> tries to locally build something?
>
> My guess: use ‘--no-grafts’ and it’ll copy the ungrafted package.
No, nothing is “grafted”. :-) Well, it is from a weird design of the
haskell-build-system applying a minor revision update via ’arguments’
and not via ’source’. See the discussion here [1].
1: <https://yhetil.org/guix/87ilmk5q8q.fsf@gmail.com>
> Otherwise, Guix starts by building the package so it can compute the
> grafting derivation, at which point it’ll happily copy the grafted
> variant from that other machine. But that’s typically not what you
> want.
What I want is just transfer ghc-lucid from one machine having it to
another.
Cheers,
simon
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2022-08-20 10:16 Failure with “guix copy“ zimoun
2022-09-02 13:35 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-09-05 17:07 ` zimoun [this message]
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