Hi, As an Emacs user, exploring Derivation (the .drv files) is easy since there is an Emacs mode. However, I have been annoyed with some pipe through ’sed’ and friends.
Therefore, I wrote a very simple Guix extension [1] that outputs derivation content using recutils format. --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- $ guix drv-show $(guix build hello -d) name: /gnu/store/qr00sgbh3vwwqswmgjjymg6wkys9r4i2-hello-2.12.1.drv outputs: + /gnu/store/6fbh8phmp3izay6c0dpggpxhcjn4xlm5-hello-2.12.1 [out] inputs: + /gnu/store/3ds56xg6njpw6hnp2w4xpx4psw5mka5q-glibc-2.35.drv [out] + /gnu/store/3zh2qpi897s2x229s93iakji86b08a20-hello-2.12.1.drv [out] + /gnu/store/5bqhdbbl71r9r936w6w8zzqlk41md3wx-glibc-2.35.drv [out] + /gnu/store/67nh3fzviy3q4s8ar8cg0dzhyzgwrwdd-module-import-compiled.drv [out] + /gnu/store/7fsz44vifdc0ws0amnpwnmig3ra6hb53-gcc-11.3.0.drv [lib] + /gnu/store/fchdaawcrxb35llbl7fj7lcsq5asmk4b-guile-2.0.14.drv [out] + /gnu/store/ky030dkfkfr3l8xgdbv45j6bs87988lx-gcc-11.3.0.drv [lib] + /gnu/store/n9kblf5cx4lphrydjr90sp3zfvcdr1pb-glibc-utf8-locales-2.35.drv [out] system: x86_64-linux builder: + /gnu/store/4p1l5bdxxbyyqc3wh0d07jv9rp1pdcy7-guile-2.0.14/bin/guile + --no-auto-compile + -L /gnu/store/a6acf6dds8s9fw7dp5div03rwik0x4x2-module-import + -C /gnu/store/yk897hj2p5mdx6hw47s90n8x9pn6s36c-module-import-compiled + /gnu/store/fiy8arwqm8vwaqs4h8b361kbmjmd1yra-hello-2.12.1-builder environment: + allowSubstitutes: 0 + guix properties: ((type . graft) (graft (count . 2))) + out: /gnu/store/6fbh8phmp3izay6c0dpggpxhcjn4xlm5-hello-2.12.1 + preferLocalBuild: 1 --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Do you think it would be useful to package it? Or maybe to include it as another subcommand (or part of some subcommand)? Let me know. :-) My motivation to do it now is this story: https://simon.tournier.info/posts/2024-04-11-rewrite-drv.html Cheers, simon 1: https://gitlab.com/zimoun/guix-drv