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Hidden packages are not accounted for by `guix refresh`

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>
Subject: bug#29177: closed (Re: bug#29177: Hidden packages are not
 accounted for by `guix refresh`)
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2017 19:10:02 +0000

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Your bug report

#29177: Hidden packages are not accounted for by `guix refresh`

which was filed against the guix package, has been closed.

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
If you require more details, please reply to 29177 <at> debbugs.gnu.org.

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From: Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 29177-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#29177: Hidden packages are not accounted for by `guix refresh`
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2017 20:09:44 +0100

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Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> writes:

> ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:
>
>> The problem is not that ‘xorg-server-1.19.3’ is hidden (we can work
>> around it with -e), but that it inherits from ‘xorg-server’, and thus
>> ended up being rebuilt.
>
> Nevertheless, commit 8e57e416c0a6431a14d487ff8b69dece76d37c03 makes sure
> ‘guix refresh -l’ accounts for hidden packages.
>
> For instance, previously it would not report the hidden ‘xorg-server’
> when running ‘guix refresh -l dri2proto’; it now does.

Thanks, that was fast!  Closing the bug.

> I think it doesn’t change results significantly though.

Maybe not, but at least people won't accidentally trigger a GTK rebuild
and soon 'net-tools-for-tests' because `guix refresh` missed it.

It would be good to reduce the inputs of these packages to the absolute
minimum in order to minimize the impact.  Something to think about.

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From: Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: Hidden packages are not accounted for by `guix refresh`
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2017 21:47:21 +0100

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Currently, some packages are marked as "hidden".  This makes `guix
refresh` fail to realize the full impact of a change.  Most notably this
affects 'xorg-server': there have already been a few commits that
rebuilds the for-test variant (and thus GTK) because they seemed to only
cause ~150 rebuilds, where in reality it's more than 400:

97ecd75e289d96a8b4f9b1ae877d9d1a2f6774b4 gnu: libxfont: Fix CVE-2017-13720, CVE-2017-13722.
c2eb8cd98c82277e851eb4302b7f12614e215a76 gnu: xorg-server: Build reproducibly.
9371600ec8397ab3d596dea89c388b4acb1c2437 gnu: libxres: Update to 1.2.0.

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