Guix Shows Us The Executable Binaries

Guix Shows Us The Executable Binaries

[jgart]

wdyt if we show the bin folder in `guix show` output like in fedora?

$ guix show sbase
name: sbase
version: 0-0.2c2a7f5
outputs:
+ out: everything
bin: 
+ cols ed head md5sum paste sed sleep tftp unlink basename
+ comm env hostname mkdir pathchk seq sort time uudecode cal cp
+ expand install mkfifo printenv setsid split touch uuencode cat
+ cron expr join mknod printf sha1sum sponge tr wc chgrp cut
+ false kill mktemp pwd sha224sum strings true which chmod date
+ find link mv readlink sha256sum sync tsort whoami chown dd
+ flock ln nice renice sha384sum tail tty xargs chroot dirname
+ fold logger nl rev sha512 224sum tar uname yes cksum du
+ getconf logname nohup rm sha512 256sum tee unexpand cmp echo
+ grep ls od rmdir sha512sum test uniq
systems: x86_64-linux i686-linux
dependencies:
location: gnu/packages/suckless.scm:1022:4
homepage: https://core.suckless.org/sbase/
license: Expat
synopsis: Collection of UNIX tools
description: `sbase' is a collection of UNIX tools similar to those of GNU Coreutils, containing utilities
+ commands such as `grep', `cp', `rm', etc.

Re: Guix Shows Us The Executable Binaries

[Christopher Baines]

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jgart <jgart@dismail.de> writes:

> wdyt if we show the bin folder in `guix show` output like in fedora?

How would you implement that? Would the guix show command build the
package if it isn't in the store?

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Re: Guix Shows Us The Executable Binaries

[zimoun]

Hi,

On Mon, 21 Nov 2022 at 08:56, Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> wrote:
> jgart <jgart@dismail.de> writes:
>
>> wdyt if we show the bin folder in `guix show` output like in fedora?
>
> How would you implement that? Would the guix show command build the
> package if it isn't in the store?

In addition to Chris’s comment, please give a look at the “guix
filesearch” old proposal [1].  Be able to list the executable binary
files by “guix show” requires to get the list from the substitute
servers, so they need to somehow expose new features.

1: <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-03/msg00236.html>

Cheers,
simon

Re: Guix Shows Us The Executable Binaries

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

jgart <jgart@dismail.de> skribis:

> wdyt if we show the bin folder in `guix show` output like in fedora?

It’s not possible because the list of binaries is not known until the
package has been built.

However, a worthy avenue is a tool and/or service to search for packages
that provide a given file or program:

  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2022-01/msg00354.html

Ludo’.