Re: Using cuirass to build your own manifest.

[Mathieu Othacehe]

Hi Chris,

> Hi Mathieu!
>
> Cool stuff!  It's very interesting to see how others do things.  I have
> a basic Scheme question about what you did, though.

Thank you !

> It looks like drv-package is a procedure which returns a procedure.  Is
> that correct?

Yes it is.

>> The drv-list procedure loads the file manifest.scm which content is
>> detailed below. The list produced by drv-list looks like :
>>
>> (((#:job-name . "acpi-1.7-job") (#:derivation
>> . "/gnu/store/r9s5x0ksj02hsw4n3acdxab8ggjp4z7y-acpi-1.7.drv")) ...)
>
> If drv-package is a procedure that returns a procedure, then it seems to
> me like the the list produced by drv-list should look like a list of
> procedures, but that isn't what you wrote.  What am I misunderstanding?

Yes you're right, the list produced by drv-list is in fact a list of
procedures, as dictated by cuirass:

((lambda () '((#:job-name . "acpi-1.7-job") (#:derivation . 
"/gnu/store/r9s5x0ksj02hsw4n3acdxab8ggjp4z7y-acpi-1.7.drv"))) ...)

Sorry for the mistake,

Mathieu