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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: YOANN P <yoann_mac_donald@hotmail.com>
Cc: "guix-devel@gnu.org" <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: ~/.guix-profile/manifest usage with "guix package -m [manifest]" / "guix pack -m [manifest]" etc..
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2018 12:19:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h8ic36ix.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DB6P18901MB00224167FCF569A5EA89558CDB160@DB6P18901MB0022.EURP189.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM> (YOANN P.'s message of "Tue, 25 Sep 2018 19:55:12 +0000")

Hello,

YOANN P <yoann_mac_donald@hotmail.com> skribis:

> I was thinking than "~/.guix-profile/manifest" was a valid manifest file due to his name, but it seems not that is the case from the error i've got
>
> https://pastebin.com/Z7h2t5mL
>
> After some search , i've finally understand that the instantiated profile couldn't be used as source profile for "guix package -m" etc... due to the same words despite use case and is a bit confusing

I agree it’s a bit confusing.  The manual does make it clear that -m
expects source code that evaluates to a manifest object, though.

> https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2016-05-27#T1040380
>
> It will be really convenient to only have the instantiate profile to easily maintain it in a vcs system.
>
> Despite what ludo said in 2016 on IRC, i didn't see those options yet.
> Did i missed them ?
> If not implemented yet, any news about this feature ? :)

No news I’m afraid :-) but I’ve opened an issue so we keep track of it:

  https://issues.guix.info/issue/32844

Maybe you can help?

Thanks,
Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-09-26 10:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-25 19:55 ~/.guix-profile/manifest usage with "guix package -m [manifest]" / "guix pack -m [manifest]" etc YOANN P
2018-09-26 10:19 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2018-09-27 20:03   ` YOANN P
2018-09-27 21:49     ` Alex Kost
2018-09-29 16:33     ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-10-01 20:17   ` George Clemmer
2018-10-01 22:40     ` YOANN P
2018-10-02 12:46     ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-10-02 16:55       ` George Clemmer
2018-10-02 20:41         ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-10-02 21:35           ` George Clemmer
2018-10-08 12:26           ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-10-10 14:07             ` George Clemmer
2018-10-11 13:44               ` Ludovic Courtès

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