[bug#44344] [PATCH] guix: describe: Improve package provenance tracking.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> skribis:

> So it seems that I cannot reproduce che bug either when using guix 
> timekmachine and a channel that has not been pulled by guix. I suppose in the 
> case of timekmachine, it doesn't add ~/.config/guix to the search path, so 
> the information is found.
>
> Can you try pulling this channel with guix itself? You should be able to 
> reproduce then.

I tried this and got the same result:

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$ guix pull -C /tmp/channels.scm -p /tmp/test
Updating channel 'guix-hpc' from Git repository at 
'https://gitlab.inria.fr/guix-hpc/guix-hpc.git'...
Updating channel 'guix' from Git repository at 
'https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git'...

[...]

$ /tmp/test/bin/guix repl
GNU Guile 3.0.4
Copyright (C) 1995-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Guile comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `,show w'.
This program is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type `,show c' for details.

Enter `,help' for help.
scheme@(guix-user)> ,use(guix)
scheme@(guix-user)> ,use(gnu)
scheme@(guix-user)> ,use(guix describe)
scheme@(guix-user)> ,use(inria storm)
scheme@(guix-user)> (package-provenance starpu)
$1 = ((repository (version 0) (url "https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git";) 
(branch "master") (commit "7a9e68cc8750a9b378ae54a42d3e882a2e548c95") 
(introduction (channel-introduction (version 0) (commit 
"9edb3f66fd807b096b48283debdcddccfea34bad") (signer "BBB0 2DDF 2CEA F6A8 0D1D  
E643 A2A0 6DF2 A33A 54FA")))) (repository (version 0) (url 
"https://gitlab.inria.fr/guix-hpc/guix-hpc.git";) (branch "master") (commit 
"bf3afdd85c68ee022b863da72b90e0c304b11bee")))
scheme@(guix-user)> ,use(gnu packages base)
scheme@(guix-user)> (package-provenance grep)
$2 = ((repository (version 0) (url "https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git";) 
(branch "master") (commit "7a9e68cc8750a9b378ae54a42d3e882a2e548c95") 
(introduction (channel-introduction (version 0) (commit 
"9edb3f66fd807b096b48283debdcddccfea34bad") (signer "BBB0 2DDF 2CEA F6A8 0D1D  
E643 A2A0 6DF2 A33A 54FA")))))
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Let me know if you can reproduce it somehow, otherwise we can close this
issue.

Ludo’.