From: Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: Guix Devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Store channel specification in profile
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 15:18:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87imkdky1w.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zhdp2p16.fsf@gnu.org>
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Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>> Same thing, what I had in mind was to store the version number in the
>> _serialized_ specifications.scm, as for the manifest.
>>
>> This way I believe we can support multiple version for specifications.scm.
>> Am I missing something?
>
> Then I don’t get how ‘specifications.scm’ would differ from ‘manifest’.
> In both cases we’re talking about a serialization format containing
> per-package provenance info, right?
The main differences:
- specifications.scm is a good fit to the --manifest argument.
- specifications.scm is human-editable because it does not contain
fields like the store path.
>> Yes, so I'll try to sum up what I want to achieve in one sentence:
>> "automate the textual serialization of profile specifications to
>> simplify their backup/deployment/reproduction".
>
> OK.
>
> To me, serialization is already automated: it’s the ‘manifest’ file.
>
> What we lack is the ability to obtain a “manifest.scm” kind of file
> (code) that users can pick as a starting point in their migration
> towards declarative deployment.
You mean a script like the following?
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
;; Run with:
;; guile -s FILE ~/.guix-profile
(use-modules (guix profiles)
(gnu packages) ; fold-packages
(guix packages) ; package structure
(ice-9 match)
(ice-9 pretty-print))
(define (packages-by-name name)
(fold-packages (lambda (package list)
(if (string=? (package-name package) name)
(cons package list)
list))
'()))
(define (guix-manifest where)
(sort (map (lambda (entry)
(let* ((name (manifest-entry-name entry))
(out (manifest-entry-output entry))
(version (manifest-entry-version entry))
(default-version (match (packages-by-name name)
((first-name . rest)
(package-version
first-name))
(else #f))))
(string-append name
(if (and default-version
(not (string= version default-version)))
(format #f "@~a" version)
"")
(if (string= out "out")
""
(format #f ":~a" out)))))
(manifest-entries (profile-manifest where)))
string<?))
;; Thanks to Ivan Vilata-i-Balaguer for this:
(define (guix-commit)
(let ((guix-manifest (profile-manifest (string-append (getenv "HOME") "/.config/guix/current"))))
(match (assq 'source (manifest-entry-properties (car (manifest-entries guix-manifest))))
(('source ('repository ('version 0) _ _
('commit commit) _ ...))
commit)
(_ #f))))
(match (command-line)
((_ where)
(format #t ";; commit: ~a\n" (guix-commit))
(pretty-print
`(specifications->manifest
',(guix-manifest where))))
(_ (error "Please provide the path to a Guix profile.")))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
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Pierre Neidhardt
https://ambrevar.xyz/
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-11 14:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-26 14:55 Store channel specification in profile Pierre Neidhardt
2019-11-26 16:40 ` Konrad Hinsen
2019-11-26 19:12 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-11-26 19:35 ` Konrad Hinsen
2019-12-02 15:58 ` zimoun
2019-12-09 17:11 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-12-09 17:21 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-12-12 19:50 ` zimoun
2019-12-12 22:35 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-12-13 12:16 ` zimoun
2019-12-19 16:12 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-12-19 17:18 ` zimoun
2020-01-06 20:07 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-01-06 21:09 ` zimoun
2020-01-08 15:17 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-01-08 19:31 ` zimoun
2020-01-11 23:48 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-01-13 14:02 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-01-13 14:46 ` zimoun
2020-01-13 14:37 ` zimoun
2020-01-13 14:59 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-01-13 15:53 ` zimoun
2020-01-13 16:53 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-01-30 19:24 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-01-31 8:51 ` zimoun
2020-01-31 9:21 ` Konrad Hinsen
2020-01-31 11:21 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-01-31 12:15 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-01-31 16:01 ` Konrad Hinsen
2020-02-05 11:08 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-02-06 10:59 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-02-07 21:28 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-02-08 17:09 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-02-11 14:10 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-02-11 14:18 ` Pierre Neidhardt [this message]
2020-02-24 16:16 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-02-25 10:32 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-03-03 21:43 ` zimoun
2020-03-04 8:09 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-03-04 13:24 ` zimoun
2020-03-03 21:49 ` zimoun
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