GNU bug report logs - #65001
‘guix locate’ method is silently ignored when a cache exists

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From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: ‘guix locate’ method is silently ignored when a cache exists
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2023 23:05:12 +0200

Quick niggle I noticed:

~/guix master ↑2 λ guix locate libstdc++.so.
guix locate: indexing files from /gnu/store...
guix locate: traversing local profile manifests...
indexing 735 packages
…
~/guix master ↑29 ↓26 λ guix locate --method=store libstdc++.so.6
…
~/guix master ↑29 ↓26 λ guix locate --method=store --update 
libstdc++.so.6
guix locate: indexing files from /gnu/store...
indexing 24,455 packages
…

Either:
- the second invocation should imply --update, so Guix should store the 
currently cache method(s),
- or Guix should use separate databases for each method.  That's 
probably too ugly.

Kind regards,

T G-R

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Message #8 received at 65001 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr>
Cc: 65001 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#65001: ‘guix locate’ method is
 silently ignored when a cache exists
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2023 22:03:19 +0200

Hi,

Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr> skribis:

> Either:
> - the second invocation should imply --update, so Guix should store
>   the currently cache method(s),
> - or Guix should use separate databases for each method.  That's
>   probably too ugly.

The latter sounds ugly.  The former, why not; we then only need to
distinguish between “user-specified method” and “default method” to
determine whether ‘--update’ is implied.

Ludo’.

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