Subject: Re: bug#55521: ‘guix shell --export-manifest’ can yield incorrect results
From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
To: Dominic Martinez <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2022 23:59:42 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Hi,

Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]> skribis:

> Uh, weird.  I do encounter it like this:
>
> $  guix time-machine --commit=6b588da368c77cde82ea2f22ca315116228777ad -- shell --export-manifest texlive-base rubber
> ;; What follows is a "manifest" equivalent to the command line you gave.
> ;; You can store it in a file that you may then pass to any 'guix' command
> ;; that accepts a '--manifest' (or '-m') option.
> (concatenate-manifests)

Turns out the problem occurs if the given environment has been cached by
a previous invocation (thanks to Marek Felšöci for putting me on the
right track!).

Fixed in 925a57c5d04553ff6c514867348e7d3c5c22ca66.

Ludo’.