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guix pull to old commit fails due to unsupported manifest format
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Message #54 received at 57306-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
Hi Ludo,
Thanks for explaining.
On Thu, 01 Sep 2022 at 09:42, Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> wrote:
>> It means version 3 is used all the time, right?
>
> Yes.
>
>> Well, I miss when or where version 4 is used then.
>
> Generations that were created with a slightly older Guix have a
> version-4 manifest.
It means that the manifest of ~/.config/current is fixed “forever“ to
version 3. And version 4 is only used by other profiles, e.g., created
by ’guix package’.
>> From my understanding, set #:format-version to 3 should only be
>> considered when <hash> is a parent/ancestor of current commit in
>> ’--commit=<hash>’.
>
> Here #:format-version 3 is unconditional. That avoids having to make
> assumptions about whether or not the target commit understands newer
> format versions.
>
> But you’re right: a refinement would be to use version 3 only when
> targeting an ancestor. I don’t think it’s worth the trouble though.
Ok, yeah it makes sense. The question could be revisited when the
manifest of the profile ~/.config/current would require a version
update.
Cheers,
simon
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