GNU bug report logs - #55521
‘guix shell --export-manifest’ can yield incorrect results

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes <at> inria.fr>

Date: Thu, 19 May 2022 11:44:02 UTC

Severity: important

Done: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Dominic Martinez <dom <at> dominicm.dev>
Cc: 55521-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#55521: ‘guix shell --export-manifest’ can yield incorrect results
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2022 23:59:42 +0200

Hi,

Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> skribis:

> Uh, weird.  I do encounter it like this:
>
> $  guix time-machine --commit=6b588da368c77cde82ea2f22ca315116228777ad -- 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.
> (concatenate-manifests)

Turns out the problem occurs if the given environment has been cached by
a previous invocation (thanks to Marek Felšöci for putting me on the
right track!).

Fixed in 925a57c5d04553ff6c514867348e7d3c5c22ca66.

Ludo’.
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