Subject: Re: bug#55521: ‘guix shell --export-manifest’ can yield incorrect results

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 19 May 2022 13:52:03 +0200

Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]> skribis:

> $ guix shell texlive-base rubber --export-manifest
> ;; What follows is a "manifest" equivalent to the command line you gave.
> ;; You can store it in a file that you may then pass to any 'guix' command
> ;; that accepts a '--manifest' (or '-m') option.
> (concatenate-manifests)
> $ guix describe
> Generation 214	May 02 2022 21:44:14	(current)
>   guix 6b588da
>     repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
>     branch: master
>     commit: 6b588da368c77cde82ea2f22ca315116228777ad

Actually it looks like this was fixed in the meantime:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ guix time-machine --commit=2f170893719e6e9fc8e19cc5f0568e20a95d92b4 -- shell --export-manifest texlive-base rubber
;; What follows is a "manifest" equivalent to the command line you gave.
;; You can store it in a file that you may then pass to any 'guix' command
;; that accepts a '--manifest' (or '-m') option.

(specifications->manifest
  (list "texlive-base" "rubber"))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

I’m not sure what happened, but it’s a good surprise.  :-)

Closing!

Ludo’.