Hi Guix,
on a foreign distribution what is the recommended way to install
different versions of glibc-locales into the same profile?
Since glibc-locales install their files into a versioned directory,
having glibc-locales@2.27 in a profile containing glibc-locales@2.28
does not lead to conflicts. However, Guix refuses to build a manifest
like this because there are two packages with the same name:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(use-modules (guix inferior) (guix channels)
(srfi srfi-1)) ;for 'first'
(define inferior-2.27
(inferior-for-channels
(list (channel
(name 'guix)
(url "https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git";)
(commit
"b2c8d31ff673ca1714be16968c9ead9a99ae2b7b")))))
(packages->manifest
(list (first (lookup-inferior-packages inferior-2.27 "glibc-locales"))
(specification->package "glibc-locales")))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Should we add package definitions for older glibc-locales and give them
new names to work around this? Should we add a property to
glibc-locales to indicate to “guix package” that this package should be
ignored when trying to predict and prevent conflicts?
--
Ricardo
