bug#38673: missing 'provenance' in $PROFILE/manifest

[zimoun]

Dear,

As explained here [1], the field 'provenance' does not appear in
$PROFILE/manifest when using the option --manifest; but appears when
manually installing. Below instructions to reproduce the bug.

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-12/msg00135.html


All the best,
simon

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The manifest contains:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(specifications->manifest
  '("emacs"
    "git"
    "guile"))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---


Let create 2 profiles: one using the --manifest option and the other
one by plain --install.

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
guix package -m /tmp/manif.scm -p /tmp/kikoo-manif
guix package -i emacs git guile -p /tmp/kikoo-nomanif
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---


And here we are...

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
grep provenance /tmp/kikoo-manif/manifest

--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

versus

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
grep provenance /tmp/kikoo-nomanif/manifest
        (provenance
        (provenance
        (provenance
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---


For the record.

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
guix describe
Generation 60   Dec 13 2019 12:52:55    (current)
  guix eb8aad6
    repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
    branch: master
    commit: eb8aad6a23442cf7b23e0df88b89b4cd030dfbf5
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