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guix locate: unsupported manifest format

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
Cc: 64187 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#64187: guix locate: unsupported manifest format
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2023 16:03:37 +0200

Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
>> However, how can it happen?  ‘guix locate’ knows all the manifest format
>> version, so maybe it mistook a file for a manifest when in fact it’s
>> something else?
>>
>> Could you ‘strace -o /tmp/log.strace guix locate ls’ to get the name of
>> the offending file for now?
>
> The last manifest it reads is
> /gnu/var/guix/profiles/per-user/wneuber/guix-profile-1-link/manifest
> with the following contents
>
> (manifest
>   (version 1)
>   (packages
>     (("gcc"
>       "4.9.2"
>       "out"
>       "/gnu/store/ym7sybrdifnm3g0rafhclv891niaczcv-gcc-4.9.2"
>       ()))))

Woow, this profile predates May 2015 and commit
dedb17ad010ee9ef67f3f4f3997dd17f226c8090.  And indeed, it’s no longer
recognized since e7e04396c0e91569bf493e1352d6539babc15327 (July 2022).

I’ll work on a fix…

Ludo’.

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