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Re: Reproducible profiles
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David Thompson |
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Re: Reproducible profiles |
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Wed, 20 May 2015 12:14:48 -0400 |
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Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
> David Thompson <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> Below is a new patch set taking into account the feedback received thus
>> far. The (guix profiles) module still needs to be documented in the
>> manual, but there's quite a lot of procedures and variables to account
>> for. Would anyone be intertested in helping with this part?
>
> I can help with that, but it’s even better if someone else does it.
> :-)
Okay. :)
>> From d506ad1d8824cc694364be502acddb25b76d0020 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: David Thompson <address@hidden>
>> Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 07:49:44 -0400
>> Subject: [PATCH 1/3] ui: Factorize user-provided Scheme file loading.
>>
>> * guix/ui.scm (make-user-module, read-scheme-file): New procedures.
>> * guix/scripts/system.scm (%user-module): Define in terms of
>> 'make-user-module'.
>> (read-operating-system): Define in terms of 'read-scheme-file'.
>
> [...]
>
>> +(define (read-scheme-file file user-module)
>> + "Read the user provided Scheme source code FILE."
>
> What about calling it ‘load*’ and s/Read/Load/ in the docstring?
> It’s really a variant of ‘load’ rather than a variant of ‘read’.
>
> If that’s fine with you, OK to push with this change.
Done.
>> From 5665da9934726ce0a8c4ed358b7f606d917c300a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: David Thompson <address@hidden>
>> Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 07:51:56 -0400
>> Subject: [PATCH 2/3] profiles: Add 'packages->manifest' procedure.
>>
>> * guix/profiles.scm (packages->manifest): New procedure.
>
> [...]
>
>> +(define (packages->manifest packages)
>> + "Convert PACKAGES into a manifest containing entries for all of them."
>
> What about something like:
>
> Return a list of manifest entries, one for each item listed in
> PACKAGES. Elements of PACKAGES can be either package objects or
> package/string tuples denoting a specific output of a package.
>
> OK to push with something along these lines.
Done.
>> From 3be657353bfebc33dc9733b820165699ac07b43d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: David Thompson <address@hidden>
>> Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 21:11:57 -0400
>> Subject: [PATCH 3/3] package: Add --manifest option.
>>
>> * guix/scripts/package.scm (show-help): Add help text.
>> (%options): Add manifest option.
>> (guix-package): Add manifest option handler.
>> * doc/guix.texi ("Invoking guix package"): Document it.
>> * tests/guix-package.sh: Add test.
>
>
> [...]
>
>> address@hidden address@hidden
>> address@hidden -m @var{file}
>> +Create a new @dfn{generation} of the profile from the manifest object
>> +contained in @var{file}, a Scheme source code file.
>
> s/contained in.*/returned by the Scheme code in @var{file}./
Done.
>> +A manifest file may look like this:
>> +
>> address@hidden
>> +(use-package-modules guile emacs gcc)
>> +
>> +(packages->manifest
>> + (list guile-2.0
>> + emacs
>> + ;; Use a specific package output.
>> + (list gcc "debug")))
>> address@hidden example
>
> Maybe s/gcc/guile-2.0/, which might better illustrate the use case.
>
>> + -m, --manifest=FILE create a new profile generation with the manifest
>> + contained within FILE."))
>
> s/contained within/from/
>
> Also no period at the end.
Done.
>> +# Applying a manifest file
>> +cat > "$module_dir/manifest.scm"<<EOF
>> +(use-package-modules bootstrap)
>> +
>> +(packages->manifest (list %bootstrap-guile))
>> +EOF
>> +guix package --bootstrap -m "$module_dir/manifest.scm"
>
> Maybe just add something like:
>
> guix package -I | grep guile
> test `guix package -I | wc -l` -eq 1
Done.
> OK with these changes! I think it’s going to be nice to be able to
> use this declarative approach for user profiles, have the file under
> VC, etc.
Me too! Pushed all 3 patches!
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