Subject: Re: bug#51732: [core-updates-frozen] ‘--dry-run’ is ineffective
From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2021 00:44:57 +0100
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Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]> skribis:

> I just noticed that ‘-n’ is ineffective:
>
> $ ./pre-inst-env guix build elogind -n --no-grafts -v1
> The following derivation would be built:
>    /gnu/store/d20fvmyywlavvbbda101k2906nxfn4l0-elogind-243.7.drv
>
> 20.6 MB would be downloaded
> $ ./pre-inst-env guix build elogind -n -v1
>  guile-3.0.7  6.9MiB                                                         4.5MiB/s 00:02 [##################] 100.0%
> ^C
> $ git log |head -1
> commit d855119eceb838ce56d45157a3f45f97dc7a1749

Fixed in 745d3a9b44f93af6fa84468b4b846d1104a73007.

This regression that made it in the recent merge of ‘master’, in commit
1c94392a13cbdf87e03a644633eb775bf45694a1.  (There’s no such problem on
‘master’ because there the store’s object identity is preserved.)

Ludo’.