bug#48313: [1.3.0rc2] ‘guix describe’ prints nothing and exits with 0

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hi!

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> skribis:
>
>> In the 1.3.0rc2 VM image, ‘guix describe’ prints nothing and exits with
>> 0 (success).  This is with /run/current-system/profile/bin/guix.
>> ‘strace’ shows that it parses /run/current-system/profile/manifest,
>> which does not contain provenance information.
>
> Fixed in 8a154c29151fc445e8d0364f507f6e200de1e700.  (I tested with ‘make
> update-guix-package’ from which I built a VM to test into.)
>
> The bug would also cause ‘guix pull’ to start authentication at the
> introductory commit (thus authenticating more than 17,000 commits)
> instead of starting at the current commit (around 800 commits today.)
>
> If anyone wants to double-check, you can run, on version-1.3.0:
>
>   make update-guix-package
>   ./pre-inst-env guix system vm gnu/system/examples/vm-image.tmpl
>
> and from there try things like:
>
>   guix describe
>   guix pull

Thanks for catching & fixing this!

Maxim