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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net>
Cc: 28273@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#28273] [PATCH] gnu: Fix current-guix.
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 15:18:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87val3ri36.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170829064930.19849-1-mail@cbaines.net> (Christopher Baines's message of "Tue, 29 Aug 2017 07:49:30 +0100")

Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> skribis:

> Without this change, I get errors like:
>   ERROR: In procedure string-drop:
>   ERROR: Value out of range 0 to 35: 51
>
> * gnu/packages/package-management.scm (current-guix): Pass exactly the same
>   path to git-predicate and local-file, to ensure that the select? function is
>   compatible.

Good catch, LGTM.

I think that fundamentally, we should arrange for ‘git-predicate’ to not
do any string prefix comparison.  That’s bound to fail.  If we could
somehow restrict it to comparing inode numbers, that’d be perfect.

Ludo’.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-08-31 13:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-29  6:49 [bug#28273] [PATCH] gnu: Fix current-guix Christopher Baines
2017-08-29  7:00 ` [bug#28273] " Christopher Baines
2017-08-31 13:18 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2017-08-31 21:04   ` bug#28273: [PATCH] gnu: " Christopher Baines

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