bug#58419: Grafting order depends on store connection state

2022-10-17 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi,

Ludovic Courtès  skribis:

> If we squint a bit, we realize it’s the same thing but in a different
> order, which is good news: it’s functionally equivalent.
>
> The downside is obvious: it’s stupidly non-deterministic, and we can end
> up building the same grafts multiple times.
>
> The order differs in two places: in the definition of ‘%build-inputs’,
> and in the definition of the ‘mapping’ variable.  This can be solved by
> sorting things in the right place, but that needs some thought.

I posted a patch series that fixes this as a side-effect of switching to
‘gexp->derivation’:

  https://issues.guix.gnu.org/58579

That eliminates ‘%build-inputs’, which was one source of differences,
and the ‘mapping’ variable is now populated in a deterministic fashion,
though I must say it’s not entirely clear to me why this part has
changed.

Feedback welcome!

Ludo’.





bug#58419: Grafting order depends on store connection state

2022-10-14 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi,

Josselin Poiret  skribis:

> (let ((right (with-store store (run-with-store store (package->derivation
>   (specification->package
>"password-store")
>   (wrong (with-store store (run-with-store store (mbegin %store-monad
>(package->derivation
> 
> (specification->package
>  "texlive-bin"))
>(package->derivation
> 
> (specification->package
>  
> "password-store")))
>   (pk right)
>   (pk wrong))
>
> Both derivations differ even though they ideally should be identical,
> apparently git doesn't appear in the same place in the grafting
> derivation.

Right:

--- #
+++ #
@@ -19,17 +19,17 @@
   ("x" . "/gnu/store/3bpq5knfvzhxhqfwzqm9br917nz7r0yp-gnupg-2.2.32")
   ("x" . "/gnu/store/31ffp5lszf1g7h1zw750w621cm14hxlr-util-linux-2.37.2")
   ("x" . "/gnu/store/zpw3l0y7sq3ag3fmq001x22bdpalw1fy-xclip-0.13")
-  ("x" . "/gnu/store/f686n3snbkbbf41g7hqyb75dymnckr3z-git-2.37.3")
   ("x" . "/gnu/store/g8qm4vq1f9v81zg8aazkiaf1j3wb8w0s-dmenu-5.1")
   ("x" . "/gnu/store/mk4514a1rjf6mqp0z46kzh80z7j1mhbs-xdotool-3.20211022.1")
   ("x" . "/gnu/store/vmwvxj3ksnmck2cfwsgm9dfi9n41050x-wl-clipboard-2.0.0")
+  ("x" . "/gnu/store/f686n3snbkbbf41g7hqyb75dymnckr3z-git-2.37.3")
   ("x" . "/gnu/store/0jlw8kk0ll25lzbz939jaz4sbfkr8gqj-gnupg-2.2.32")
   ("x" . "/gnu/store/a8k9s0wpf0f3l7nwsscjhnbs5wrn2y1q-util-linux-2.37.2")
   ("x" . "/gnu/store/4vh3qdhsq6misl3vvgm39zdh4sflz4s0-xclip-0.13")
-  ("x" . "/gnu/store/svj9wb4jcb701g3fjf0cmi87rv85sx0x-git-2.37.3")
   ("x" . "/gnu/store/h647qh34g8afyy99gbkngavvlm2p14vn-dmenu-5.1")
   ("x" . "/gnu/store/n6gsqfcc51m4flr21p8szzic5yh1fpfb-xdotool-3.20211022.1")
-  ("x" . "/gnu/store/k28gncxkgxy3hn8qzwylsazc00pwr71s-wl-clipboard-2.0.0"
+  ("x" . "/gnu/store/k28gncxkgxy3hn8qzwylsazc00pwr71s-wl-clipboard-2.0.0")
+  ("x" . "/gnu/store/svj9wb4jcb701g3fjf0cmi87rv85sx0x-git-2.37.3"
   (unsetenv "GUILE_LOAD_COMPILED_PATH")
   (unsetenv "LD_LIBRARY_PATH"))
 (exit
@@ -44,10 +44,10 @@
 	   (("/gnu/store/3bpq5knfvzhxhqfwzqm9br917nz7r0yp-gnupg-2.2.32" . "/gnu/store/0jlw8kk0ll25lzbz939jaz4sbfkr8gqj-gnupg-2.2.32")
 	("/gnu/store/31ffp5lszf1g7h1zw750w621cm14hxlr-util-linux-2.37.2" . "/gnu/store/a8k9s0wpf0f3l7nwsscjhnbs5wrn2y1q-util-linux-2.37.2")
 	("/gnu/store/zpw3l0y7sq3ag3fmq001x22bdpalw1fy-xclip-0.13" . "/gnu/store/4vh3qdhsq6misl3vvgm39zdh4sflz4s0-xclip-0.13")
-	("/gnu/store/f686n3snbkbbf41g7hqyb75dymnckr3z-git-2.37.3" . "/gnu/store/svj9wb4jcb701g3fjf0cmi87rv85sx0x-git-2.37.3")
 	("/gnu/store/g8qm4vq1f9v81zg8aazkiaf1j3wb8w0s-dmenu-5.1" . "/gnu/store/h647qh34g8afyy99gbkngavvlm2p14vn-dmenu-5.1")
 	("/gnu/store/mk4514a1rjf6mqp0z46kzh80z7j1mhbs-xdotool-3.20211022.1" . "/gnu/store/n6gsqfcc51m4flr21p8szzic5yh1fpfb-xdotool-3.20211022.1")
-	("/gnu/store/vmwvxj3ksnmck2cfwsgm9dfi9n41050x-wl-clipboard-2.0.0" . "/gnu/store/k28gncxkgxy3hn8qzwylsazc00pwr71s-wl-clipboard-2.0.0")))
+	("/gnu/store/vmwvxj3ksnmck2cfwsgm9dfi9n41050x-wl-clipboard-2.0.0" . "/gnu/store/k28gncxkgxy3hn8qzwylsazc00pwr71s-wl-clipboard-2.0.0")
+	("/gnu/store/f686n3snbkbbf41g7hqyb75dymnckr3z-git-2.37.3" . "/gnu/store/svj9wb4jcb701g3fjf0cmi87rv85sx0x-git-2.37.3")))
 	  (map
 	   (match-lambda
 	 ((name . file)

If we squint a bit, we realize it’s the same thing but in a different
order, which is good news: it’s functionally equivalent.

The downside is obvious: it’s stupidly non-deterministic, and we can end
up building the same grafts multiple times.

The order differs in two places: in the definition of ‘%build-inputs’,
and in the definition of the ‘mapping’ variable.  This can be solved by
sorting things in the right place, but that needs some thought.

To be continued…

Ludo’.


bug#58419: Grafting order depends on store connection state

2022-10-10 Thread Josselin Poiret via Bug reports for GNU Guix
Hi,

Someone reported yesterday on IRC [1] that they didn't get the same
canonical path for the pass (from `password-store`) binary if they built
it directly or in a profile with `fontconfig` added.  I managed to
isolate the issue down to the following:

--8<---cut here---start->8---
(let ((right (with-store store (run-with-store store (package->derivation
  (specification->package
   "password-store")
  (wrong (with-store store (run-with-store store (mbegin %store-monad
   (package->derivation
(specification->package
 "texlive-bin"))
   (package->derivation
(specification->package
 "password-store")))
  (pk right)
  (pk wrong))
--8<---cut here---end--->8---

Both derivations differ even though they ideally should be identical,
apparently git doesn't appear in the same place in the grafting
derivation.

I've tried to debug the grafting code but to no avail yet.  Does anyone
have any idea?

[1] https://logs.guix.gnu.org/guix/2022-10-09.log#203800

-- 
Josselin Poiret