bug#22017: Bug #22017 Hunting: Pinning a Guix version

[zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>]

Hi Ludo,

The bug [1] describes a wishlist about pinning Guix version. I think
it is almost done.

[1] http://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/22017


You wrote:

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  git clone …/guix.git my-pinned-guix
  (cd my-pinned-guix; git checkout deadbeef)
  guix package -L my-pinned-guix --manifest=my-manifest.scm
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which is now possible with

  guix pull --commit=deadbeef
  guix package -m my-manifest.scm

Moreover, "guix time-machine" also handles such use case. If I understand well.


However, you wrote:

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I think ‘guix pull’ would be a good place to add support for tagging
Guixes and similar, but it would be good if the naive approach above
would work just as well.
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and it is not currently supported, AFAIK.

Recently, a lot of new features have been discussed on guix-devel.
This one has not been raised: add local tags to ease the navigation
through different versions of Guix. It is not clear to me if it should
be under "guix pull", e.g., "guix pull --tag=add foo" or another
command "guix tag add foo".

Because it is an really old bug, I am not sure that this whishlist
will efficiently work as a reminder, so I am inclined to close it or
maybe change the title or raise this very tagging feature to
guix-devel.


What do you think?


Cheers,
simon

--

As source of inspiration, you provided this link:

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See <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.nixos/18703>
for a good source of inspiration!
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which is now broken. )-:



Cheers,
simon