From: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 29177-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#29177: Hidden packages are not accounted for by `guix refresh`
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2017 20:09:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tvy53nyf.fsf@fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y3njknit.fsf@gnu.org>
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Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:
>
>> The problem is not that ‘xorg-server-1.19.3’ is hidden (we can work
>> around it with -e), but that it inherits from ‘xorg-server’, and thus
>> ended up being rebuilt.
>
> Nevertheless, commit 8e57e416c0a6431a14d487ff8b69dece76d37c03 makes sure
> ‘guix refresh -l’ accounts for hidden packages.
>
> For instance, previously it would not report the hidden ‘xorg-server’
> when running ‘guix refresh -l dri2proto’; it now does.
Thanks, that was fast! Closing the bug.
> I think it doesn’t change results significantly though.
Maybe not, but at least people won't accidentally trigger a GTK rebuild
and soon 'net-tools-for-tests' because `guix refresh` missed it.
It would be good to reduce the inputs of these packages to the absolute
minimum in order to minimize the impact. Something to think about.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-06 20:47 bug#29177: Hidden packages are not accounted for by `guix refresh` Marius Bakke
2017-11-06 22:16 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-11-06 23:14 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-11-07 19:09 ` Marius Bakke [this message]
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