Re: Listing all packages with --search now impossible

[swedebugia]

Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skrev: (25 januari 2019 23:05:51 CET)

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=.*

Thanks!
We should document the regex syntax and an example I think.
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