From: Philippe Veber <philippe.veber@gmail.com>
To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: List available versions of package.
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 20:32:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOOOohSSoRUTfB0Dm5Y14b=hY1EC5N2cq0W77FFo+eoe+-3+QA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871rzltp4e.fsf@nckx>
Hi Tobias,
Le mar. 11 juin 2019 à 09:43, Philippe Veber
> <philippeveber@gmail.com> a écrit :
> > Hello Tobias, and thanks a lot for your answer!
>
> I completely missed this reply. I am so sorry.
>
Really no worries, and thanks for lending your help!
>
> Philippe Veber wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > FWIW, I tried the exact example given in the manual [0] and it
> > failed,
> > although for a different reason. It does a lot of work until it
> > reaches an
> > exception (the build of profile.drv fails). Could someone
> > confirm this
> > should work?
>
> Pasting the contents of that first code box into ‘foo’ and running
> ‘guix environment -m foo’ works fine for me on today's guix.
>
> Could you tell us which command you're using and what the result
> is?
>
The command is
guix environment --manifest=manifest.scm
and the log is available here:
https://gist.github.com/pveber/c6e9437f4964ec9f00e7f1ec6cccce52
>
> > Also, is it expected that packages from guix commits dating
> > from a few years ago will still work in this setting? Thanks!
>
> I'm not sure. There have been some watershed moments in those
> years, and I don't know how well inferiors would isolate those
> changes, if at all.
>
Ok, that limitation makes a lot of sense. I think I'll follow Ricardo's
advice to enable installation of old versions. Again, thanks a lot!
ph.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-26 18:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-10 18:27 List available versions of package Philippe Veber
2019-06-10 21:31 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2019-06-11 7:43 ` Philippe Veber
2019-06-22 11:26 ` Philippe Veber
2019-06-22 19:08 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2019-06-26 18:32 ` Philippe Veber [this message]
2019-06-22 22:46 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-06-26 18:43 ` Philippe Veber
2019-06-26 20:25 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-06-30 11:50 ` Philippe Veber
2019-07-02 15:48 ` Leo Famulari
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