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Re: List available versions of package.
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Philippe Veber |
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Re: List available versions of package. |
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Wed, 26 Jun 2019 20:32:29 +0200 |
Hi Tobias,
Le mar. 11 juin 2019 à 09:43, Philippe Veber
> <address@hidden> a écrit :
> > Hello Tobias, and thanks a lot for your answer!
>
> I completely missed this reply. I am so sorry.
>
Really no worries, and thanks for lending your help!
>
> Philippe Veber wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > FWIW, I tried the exact example given in the manual [0] and it
> > failed,
> > although for a different reason. It does a lot of work until it
> > reaches an
> > exception (the build of profile.drv fails). Could someone
> > confirm this
> > should work?
>
> Pasting the contents of that first code box into ‘foo’ and running
> ‘guix environment -m foo’ works fine for me on today's guix.
>
> Could you tell us which command you're using and what the result
> is?
>
The command is
guix environment --manifest=manifest.scm
and the log is available here:
https://gist.github.com/pveber/c6e9437f4964ec9f00e7f1ec6cccce52
>
> > Also, is it expected that packages from guix commits dating
> > from a few years ago will still work in this setting? Thanks!
>
> I'm not sure. There have been some watershed moments in those
> years, and I don't know how well inferiors would isolate those
> changes, if at all.
>
Ok, that limitation makes a lot of sense. I think I'll follow Ricardo's
advice to enable installation of old versions. Again, thanks a lot!
ph.
- List available versions of package., Philippe Veber, 2019/06/10
- Re: List available versions of package., Tobias Geerinckx-Rice, 2019/06/10
- Re: List available versions of package., Philippe Veber, 2019/06/11
- Re: List available versions of package., Ricardo Wurmus, 2019/06/22
- Re: List available versions of package., Philippe Veber, 2019/06/26
- Re: List available versions of package., Ricardo Wurmus, 2019/06/26
- Re: List available versions of package., Philippe Veber, 2019/06/30