Re: Listing all packages with --search now impossible

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Hi swedebugia,

<address@hidden> writes:

> Yesterday when I played around with guix I noticed that the default
> behavior of
> $ guix package --search
> guix package: error: invalid argument: Missing required argument after
> `--search'
>
> has changed recently from showing all packages to now showing none.
>
> also:
>
> $ guix package --search *
> guix package: error: invalid argument: Missing required argument after
> `--search'
>
> This is a bug. "*" should match everything.

This is not a bug.

The argument must be separated from the option with an “=”.  The second
problem is that “*” is not a regular expression but a shell glob
pattern.  You need to provide a regular expression.  This works:

    guix package --search=.*

-- 
Ricardo