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bug#58247: Using guix time-machine results in unsupported manifest forma
From: |
zimoun |
Subject: |
bug#58247: Using guix time-machine results in unsupported manifest format error |
Date: |
Mon, 03 Oct 2022 00:10:24 +0200 |
Hi,
On Sun, 02 Oct 2022 at 20:57, david larsson <david.larsson@selfhosted.xyz>
wrote:
> On 2022-10-02 19:02, zimoun wrote:
>> It is probably because an issue with version of manifest; e.g, fixed by
>> 67a6828b2bb821274757f686f7c685b664339a96. See
>> <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/57306>.
>
> Note that the commit I'm on, is from 2 days ago, which is after the fix
> commit you're mentioning.
Yes, note that the earlier mentioned commit
7e8e07033d2a6b0ecef566a05084c534c774cd4a is from Oct 2021 if I read
correctly.
> Not sure it matters, but Im able to run guix time-machine
> --commit=<somecommit> -- describe but not package -i <somepackage>
IIUC, ’describe’ reads from ~/.config/guix/current/manifest and here the
issue is from ~/.guix-profile/manifest.
Maybe I am wrong, but I think the issue is coming from an
incompatibility about the version of ~/.guix-profile/manifest.
This manifest is at the version 4. When you run
guix time-machine --commit=<commit> -- package -i hello
then I guess it works or not depending on <commit>.
The manifest file ~/.guix-profile/manifest needs to be updated and there
is a conflict because some versions of the profile manifest. For
instance, consider two profiles generated using 2 different revisions of
Guix – a recent one and an old one:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ guix time-machine --commit=729ce5f -- package -i hello -p /tmp/new
$ cat /tmp/new/manifest | grep -A 1 '(manifest'
(manifest
(version 4)
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
and
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ guix time-machine --commit=7e8e070 -- package -i hello -p /tmp/old
$ cat /tmp/old/manifest | grep -A 1 '(manifest'
(manifest
(version 3)
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Now, consider the recent profile named /tmp/new and try to install a
previous package from an old commit,
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ guix time-machine --commit=7e8e070 -- package -i hello -p /tmp/new
guix package: error: unsupported manifest format
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
The old Guix uses version 3 and cannot read/write version 4 and bang!
Let try the converse,
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ guix time-machine --commit=729ce5f -- package -i hello -p /tmp/old
$ cat /tmp/old/manifest | grep -A 1 '(manifest'
(manifest
(version 4)
$ guix package --list-generations -p /tmp/old
Generation 1 oct. 02 2022 18:53:10
hello 2.10 out /gnu/store/xg67cpxq2p6q7wn4y2z194pndwdymhpf-hello-2.10
Generation 2 oct. 02 2022 21:25:11 (current)
+ hello 2.12.1 out
/gnu/store/s5pd3rnzymliafb4la5sca63j86xs0y0-hello-2.12.1
- hello 2.10 out
/gnu/store/xg67cpxq2p6q7wn4y2z194pndwdymhpf-hello-2.10
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
This profile /tmp/old is thus converted from version 3 to version 4, and
then, reusing old version of Guix fails,
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ guix time-machine --commit=7e8e070 -- package -i hello -p /tmp/old
guix package: error: unsupported manifest format
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Well, I do not know if a fix is possible. The issue is a
backward compatibility issue.
Cheers,
simon