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

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2019 23:02:56 +0200

Hi,

YOANN P <[email-masked]> skribis:

>>> 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 ).

Ah yes, it’s the same issue as with ‘guix describe’.

Thanks,
Ludo’.