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

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Message #17 received at 74015 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>
To: Suhail Singh <suhailsingh247 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>, 74015 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#74015: 'guix shell --export-manifest' fails for some
 transformations
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2024 08:20:49 +0100

Hi,

On Tue, 12 Nov 2024 at 10:33, Suhail Singh <suhailsingh247 <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

We could save the command line too using another file. :-)

Cheers,
simon

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