Subject: Re: bug#57306: guix pull to old commit fails due to unsupported manifest format

From: Arun Isaac <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2022 01:11:47 +0530

Hi zimoun,

> I do not think it is related to guix-daemon and I think it is expected;
> indeed it could be considered as a bug.  The command-line,
>
>     guix pull --commit=xyz -p /tmp/test
>
> writes /tmp/test/manifest using the current Guix (say manifest 4) and
> not using Guix at commit xyz (say manifest 3).  Contrary to “guix
> time-machine --commit=xyz”.

Ah, that makes sense! Any ideas as to how this issue might be fixed?

Thanks,
Arun