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bug#56114: Guix does not have a documented general and practical procedu
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zimoun |
Subject: |
bug#56114: Guix does not have a documented general and practical procedure for lowering a single lowerable object to the /gnu/store/... string. |
Date: |
Mon, 04 Jul 2022 17:43:22 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
If I read correctly, this snippet from the manual,
>> scheme@(guile-user)> ,run-in-store (package->derivation hello)
>> $1 = #<derivation /gnu/store/...-hello-2.9.drv => ...>
becomes
scheme@(guile-user)> ,lower hello
and this snippet,
> scheme@(guix-user)> ,run-in-store (lower-object (plain-file "foo" "bar"))
> $15 = "/gnu/store/798sxvdgr0680czdggbls7rd3sfwk2yx-foo"
becomes
scheme@(guile-user)> ,build (plain-file "foo" "bar")
However, note that,
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
scheme@(guix-user)> ,build (plain-file "foo" "bar")
$1 = "/gnu/store/798sxvdgr0680czdggbls7rd3sfwk2yx-foo"
scheme@(guix-user)> ,lower (plain-file "foo" "bar")
$2 = "/gnu/store/798sxvdgr0680czdggbls7rd3sfwk2yx-foo"
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
which is confusing, especially when,
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
scheme@(guix-user)> ,lower (mixed-text-file "foo" "bar")
$6 = #<derivation /gnu/store/40982nzm6c7n4yawvs3m39k313jsrl80-foo.drv =>
/gnu/store/raihpcxdz6wmdpyj67bwd4bjk02xq0x3-foo 7f6f9bc5cd20>
scheme@(guix-user)> ,build (mixed-text-file "foo" "bar")
$7 = "/gnu/store/raihpcxdz6wmdpyj67bwd4bjk02xq0x3-foo"
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
The issue – unrelated to the nice patch – is a potential “inconsistency”
between ’<plain-file>’ and ’<computed-file>’; ’plain-file’ refers to
’text-file’ and ’mixed-text-file’ refers to ’text-file*’; and both are
really different despite close names around. :-)
Maybe the docstring of ’plain-file’ and of ’mixed-text-file’ could be
extended. For instance,
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(define (plain-file name content)
"Return an lowered object representing a text file called NAME with the given
CONTENT (a string) to be added to the store.
This is the declarative counterpart of 'text-file'."
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(define* (mixed-text-file name #:key guile #:rest text)
"Return an object representing store file NAME containing TEXT. TEXT is a
sequence of strings and file-like objects, as in:
(mixed-text-file \"profile\"
\"export PATH=\" coreutils \"/bin:\" grep \"/bin\")
This is the declarative counterpart of 'text-file*' but note that a
'computed-file' object is returned."
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> diff --git a/guix/monad-repl.scm b/guix/monad-repl.scm
> index aefabdeebb..15c10efe01 100644
> --- a/guix/monad-repl.scm
> +++ b/guix/monad-repl.scm
> @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
All LGTM.
> +(define* (evaluate/print-with-store mvalue #:key build?)
> + "Run monadic value MVALUE in the store monad and print its value."
I do not know if it makes sense to have a list of monadic values,
allowing something like:
,build hello coreutils
Cheers,
simon
- bug#56114: Guix does not have a documented general and practical procedure for lowering a single lowerable object to the /gnu/store/... string., Ludovic Courtès, 2022/07/03
- bug#56114: Guix does not have a documented general and practical procedure for lowering a single lowerable object to the /gnu/store/... string.,
zimoun <=
- bug#56114: Guix does not have a documented general and practical procedure for lowering a single lowerable object to the /gnu/store/... string., Ludovic Courtès, 2022/07/04
- bug#56114: Guix does not have a documented general and practical procedure for lowering a single lowerable object to the /gnu/store/... string., zimoun, 2022/07/04
- bug#56114: Guix does not have a documented general and practical procedure for lowering a single lowerable object to the /gnu/store/... string., Ludovic Courtès, 2022/07/05
- bug#56114: Guix does not have a documented general and practical procedure for lowering a single lowerable object to the /gnu/store/... string., zimoun, 2022/07/05
- bug#56114: Guix does not have a documented general and practical procedure for lowering a single lowerable object to the /gnu/store/... string., Joshua Branson, 2022/07/10
- bug#56114: Guix does not have a documented general and practical procedure for lowering a single lowerable object to the /gnu/store/... string., Ludovic Courtès, 2022/07/15
- bug#56114: Guix does not have a documented general and practical procedure for lowering a single lowerable object to the /gnu/store/... string., Maxime Devos, 2022/07/19