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Re: fixing --check saying outputs not valid
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Dave Love |
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Re: fixing --check saying outputs not valid |
Date: |
Wed, 13 Sep 2017 14:27:17 +0100 |
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Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
> Dave Love <address@hidden> skribis:
>>> Then you can run “guix build hwloc --check -L --no-grafts”, which will
>>> build hwloc locally and raise an error if hwloc:{out,lib} are not
>>> bit-identical to what you had in store.
>>
>> [Should that be documented as the procedure to use?]
>
> I think this is documented, but if you think it’s not or not in the
> right place, please tell!
I don't remember where I found out about using --check when packaging.
The manual doesn't mention --no-grafts in connexion with --check as far
as I can see. I'd add something like
You probably want to use --check with the --no-grafts option when
checking a package you are developing, so that it gets rebuilt.
>> The trouble is that I don't get a second build with --check:
>>
>> $ ./pre-inst-env guix build hwloc --check -L --no-grafts
> ^^^^
> “--no-grafts” is taken as an argument to ‘-L’, and thus you only rebuilt
> the grafting derivation:
Thanks. I shouldn't just do what I'm told :-/. However, I don't
understand why -L is needed, or what the path should be.