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[PATCH] gnu: Fix current-guix.

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Message #11 received at 28273 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Christopher Baines <mail <at> cbaines.net>
Cc: 28273 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#28273] [PATCH] gnu: Fix current-guix.
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 15:18:37 +0200

Christopher Baines <mail <at> cbaines.net> skribis:

> Without this change, I get errors like:
>   ERROR: In procedure string-drop:
>   ERROR: Value out of range 0 to 35: 51
>
> * gnu/packages/package-management.scm (current-guix): Pass exactly the same
>   path to git-predicate and local-file, to ensure that the select? function is
>   compatible.

Good catch, LGTM.

I think that fundamentally, we should arrange for ‘git-predicate’ to not
do any string prefix comparison.  That’s bound to fail.  If we could
somehow restrict it to comparing inode numbers, that’d be perfect.

Ludo’.

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