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[PATCH] channels: Add a #:system argument to channel-instances->manifest.

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Message #14 received at 47989 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Christopher Baines <mail <at> cbaines.net>
Cc: 47989 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#47989: [PATCH] channels: Add a #:system argument to
 channel-instances->manifest.
Date: Tue, 04 May 2021 15:48:21 +0200

Hi Christopher,

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

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Christopher Baines <mail <at> cbaines.net> skribis:
>>
>>> This allows computing a manifest for a specific system. Previously this was
>>> possible, but only through changing %current-system, which caused the
>>> derivation to be computed using that system as well (so computing a derivation
>>> for aarch64-linux on x86_64-linux would require running aarch64-linux code).
>>
>> I remember discussing it, but I wonder if I was confused.
>>
>> I think you can always do the equivalent of (say):
>>
>>   guix time-machine -- build -s armhf-linux hello -d
>>
>> … where Guix itself is built natively but it then computes a derivation
>> for a different architecture.
>>
>> The equivalent code would be roughly:
>>
>>   (let ((inferior (inferior-for-channels …)))
>>     (inferior-package-derivation store
>>                                  (car (lookup-inferior-packages inferior "hello"))
>>                                  "armhf-linux"))
>>
>> Does that make sense?
>
> Not really,

:-)

> this is just about manifests for channel instances, so nothing to do
> with package derivations as far as I'm aware.

I re-read your message and must have misunderstood.  It’s the derivation
of channel instances that you want for a given system, right?  (What’s
the use case though?)  In that case something along the lines of the
patch makes perfect sense.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

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