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From: Philippe Veber <philippe.veber@gmail.com>
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To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
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Hi Tobias,

Le mar. 11 juin 2019 =C3=A0 09:43, Philippe Veber
> <philippeveber@gmail.com> a =C3=A9crit :
> > 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 =E2=80=98foo=E2=80=99 an=
d running
> =E2=80=98guix environment -m foo=E2=80=99 works fine for me on today's gu=
ix.
>
> Could you tell us which command you're using and what the result
> is?
>

The command is

guix environment --manifest=3Dmanifest.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.