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[PATCH] find-package-by-name: reverse package load precedence

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Robert Vollmert <rob <at> vllmrt.net>
Cc: 35905-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#35905] [PATCH] find-package-by-name: reverse package load
 precedence
Date: Sun, 26 May 2019 23:04:05 +0200

Hi Robert,

Robert Vollmert <rob <at> vllmrt.net> skribis:

> From e484a11fa652c6e9cb4484c6f700b91f134e7156 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Robert Vollmert <rob <at> vllmrt.net>
> Date: Sat, 25 May 2019 08:40:38 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] guix: find-package-by-name: list modules in path order
>
> A particular effect of this is that if there are ambiguous
> packages in a directory specified with `-L module_dir` and the
> distribution, the version from `module_dir` will be loaded,
> which is usually what would be expected. (E.g. for `guix build`
> or `guix package -i`.)
>
> * guix/discovery.scm (all-modules): Return modules in path order.
> * tests/guix-package.sh: Test local definitions take precedence.

Good catch, applied!  (I adjusted the summary line so that it mentions
“discovery”.)

Likewise, in case more than one packages match a given spec, packages of
third-party channels would take precedence over those coming from the
‘guix’ channel, contrary to what was intended.

Thanks for fixing it!

Ludo’.

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