Tobias Geerinckx-Rice kirjoitti 2.10.2024 klo 21.22:
Hi [explicitly CC'ing Ludo', I hope that's OK],
I don't think
guix install $(guix build foo)
is, or is expected to be, a supported way to install packages? Packages have
more metadata attached to them than store items. I don't think that
propagation is recorded in the Nix database. Nor do I think it should be just
to support this hack.
It actually is mentioned explicitly in the manual.
https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-package.html
from the link above:
Alternatively, a package can directly specify a store file name such as
/gnu/store/...-guile-3.0.7, as produced by, e.g., |guix build|.
Sometimes packages have /propagated inputs/: these are dependencies that
automatically get installed along with the required package (see
|propagated-inputs| in |package| objects
<https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/package-Reference.html#package_002dpropagated_002dinputs>,
for information about propagated inputs in package definitions).
There was an investigation yesterday at the xmpp room and that is how we
discovered that the documentation has a bug. If we do not want to
support it then this is just a documentation bug.
Personally i could go either way. I already updated the project
documentation I have to reflect not to do this
https://codeberg.org/Guix_Bechamel/collective/wiki/Updating-Packages#testing-the-package-at-runtime
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