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'guix shell --export-manifest' fails for some transformations

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From: Suhail Singh <suhailsingh247 <at> gmail.com>
To: Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>, 74015 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#74015: 'guix shell --export-manifest' fails for some transformations
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 10:33:59 -0500

Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com> writes:

> However, I am proposing: Aside the profile ’manifest’ file (lossy
> process), we could store all the manifests provided by the command
> line.  Something as:
>
>     /gnu/store/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx-profile/manifest
>     /gnu/store/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx-profile/manifest.orig1
>     /gnu/store/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx-profile/manifest.orig2
>     …
>
> where manifest.orig1 and manifest.orig2 are the copy of files ’foo.scm’
> and ’bar.scm’ from:
>
>     -m foo.scm -m bar.scm
>
> ...
>
> Well, maybe this extra work could be only done when there is an option
> ’--save-provenance’ applied.

For --save-provenance, is your proposal that in addition to saving the
additional manifests, the commandline that was used would also be saved?

-- 
Suhail

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