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bug#22629: Towards a new 'guix pull'
From: |
Nils Gillmann |
Subject: |
bug#22629: Towards a new 'guix pull' |
Date: |
Sun, 8 Apr 2018 17:45:33 +0000 |
Ludovic Courtès transcribed 2.0K bytes:
> Hello Guix!
>
> address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:
>
> > Here’s a series of improvements that I think we should make in ‘guix
> > pull’:
> >
> > • Use Git instead of downloading a whole snapshot every time. The Git
> > checkout would be kept in ~/.cache/guix/pull/checkouts, say.
>
> That was done a while back. :-)
>
> > • Build & install not only Scheme code, but also locales and the Info
> > manual.
>
> … and also the C++ bits.
>
> With the work done in <https://bugs.gnu.org/27284>, we can build all of
> Guix and its dependencies when doing ‘guix pull’, which brings us closer
> to what the ‘guix’ package provides.
>
> Thus we can at least partly address the issue described in
> <https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=22629#10>, i.e., have
> ‘guix pull’ install not just a bunch of .go files but also guile-git,
> guile-ssh, gnutls, and Guile itself.
>
> To do that, we need a “paradigm shift” (sounds cute, no? :-)).
> Currently, ‘scripts/guix’ fiddles with its %load-path and adds
> ~/.config/guix/latest if it exists. The new ‘guix pull’ should provide
> not just .go files but also a ‘guix’ command referring to the latest
> Guile, Guile-Git, etc.
>
> To achieve this, I think the new approach would be to have:
>
> export PATH=$HOME/.config/guix/current/bin:$PATH
> export INFOPATH=$HOME/.config/guix/current/share/info:$INFOPATH
> …
>
> ‘guix pull’ would update ~/.config/guix/current, which would contain the
> ‘guix’ command, all the .go files, locales, the Info manual, and ideally
> ‘guix-daemon’ as well.
>
> ~/.config/guix/current could be a profile, or something that resembles a
> profile.
>
> For a while ‘guix pull’ will have to keep updating ~/.config/guix/latest
> as well, for users running an old ‘guix’ command.
>
> Thoughts?
First thought: Woo! Good progress!
On your propossed steps, sounds good to me.
> Ludo’.
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