GNU bug report logs - #60632
[PATCH 1/1] services: base: Add extra-env support to guix-configuration.

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Package: guix-patches;

Reported by: Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe <at> gnu.org>

Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2023 18:20:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Done: Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe <at> gnu.org>

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe <at> gnu.org>, 60632 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#60632] [PATCH 1/1] services: base: Add extra-env support to guix-configuration.
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2023 23:18:10 +0100

Hi!

Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com> skribis:

> Side topic: I wonder if (with some changes to the daemon -- perhaps in
> DerivationGoal::startBuilder) in nix/libstore/build.cc we could leak the
> COLUMNS variable to be able to control the Guile builder backtrace
> width.

As a rule of thumb, I think we should keep the build environment
unchanged forever—no changes to the set of environment variables and
files/directories present in the build environment.

It’s important because the whole reproducibile-by-construction approach
depends on that.

Ludo’.
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