Subject: RE: bug#37565: [use profile manifest] upstream VCS informations only available after a guix pull

From: YOANN P <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2019 12:31:19 +0000

>De : Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
>Envoyé : mardi 1 octobre 2019 09:28
>À : YOANN P <[email-masked]>
>Cc : [email-masked] <[email-masked]>
>Objet : Re: bug#37565: [use profile manifest] upstream VCS informations only available after a guix pull
>
>Hi,
>
>> YOANN P <[email-masked]> skribis:
>> Not sure if it should be considerated as a bug but it seems that the upstream VCS information are only available after a "guix pull".
>
>You mean that ‘guix describe’ doesn’t work for ‘guix’ not obtained from ‘guix pull’, right?
>

Not exactly but has the same behavior indeed.
I was talking about upstream VCS informations in ~/.guix-profile/manifest (user profile manifest)
Every packages installed with "guix install xxx" from a fresh install ( 1.0.1 in my case ) doesn't have upstream VCS informations in ~/.guix-profile/manifest as you described here ( https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2018-10/msg00018.html ).
Those informations only appear after a "guix pull" and think those informations should be available even on a fresh install.

>> If it is not a bug, it will be nice to have this information even on a fresh install by putting as VCS information a default git repository (https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git) and the current tag as commit (or the real commit if available somewhere in binary install files) ?
>
>I agree it’d be nice.
>Thanks,
>Ludo’.

Regards,