Re: Appropriate way to use Guix API from a Guile program

[Marius Bakke]

sirgazil <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I use Guix's GNU system. 
>
> I had written a Guile script that called Guix procedures to manipulate 
> profiles. I put it in a Guix package in a custom channel and installed it. It 
> used to work, but now it fails with an error I can also reproduce when trying 
> to do something similar from a Guile REPL. For instance:
>
> ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★
> $ mkdir profile-x
> $ guile
> GNU Guile 3.0.2
> [...]
> scheme@(guile-user)> (use-modules (guix scripts package))
> scheme@(guile-user)> (guix-package "-m" "manifest.scm" "-p" 
> "profile-x/profile-x")
> error: glibc-bootstrap-system-2.2.5.patch: patch not found
> ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★

There are a couple of things going on here.  Calling the Guix APIs from
Guile will use the 'system-installed' Guix, unless you have fiddled with
GUILE_LOAD_PATH.

You can use 'guix repl' to use the _current_ Guix instead (the one
obtained with 'guix pull'), where this problem has been fixed.

The system-installed Guix in turn fails because of a bug that was fixed
in 179e6c524ae4957e6ace83f72a5651767f786ca4, and ultimately
977f478090fd96e73463efb67c56fb32f28828bd which updates the 'guix'
package to include the fix.  If you reconfigure on a recent Guix, the
missing patch error should go away.

Hope this helps!

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