Re: Add the git commit id to the generation information

[Ludovic Courtès]

Roel Janssen <address@hidden> skribis:

> Ricardo Wurmus writes:
>
>> Hi Roel,
>>
>>> I have a feature request.
>>>
>>> When I run 'guix pull', install a package, run 'guix pull' again (on
>>> another day), and install another package, I'd get two generations:
>>>
>>>> Generation 181  May 22 2017 11:47:37
>>>>  + haunt        0.2.1   out     
>>>> /gnu/store/x2bkpzrdbaxavl29r2xg0fip1jjici9q-haunt-0.2.1
>>>>
>>>> Generation 182  May 24 2017 09:52:06    (current)
>>>>  + guile-commonmark     0.1     out     
>>>> /gnu/store/k8vq65czfb8k4hvvjvsca34scd9xsxik-guile-commonmark-0.1
>>>
>>> Now, if I'd like to go to the Guix packages source code of generation
>>> 181, I can only guess at which actual state of the Guix repository this
>>> was, because this timestamp is the timestamp of creating the generation,
>>> not the timestamp of the Guix package state.  So, I'd like to propose to
>>> add the commit id to the generation like so:
>>>
>>>> Generation 181  May 22 2017 11:47:37    
>>>> (ae548434337cddf9677a4cd52b9370810b2cc9b6)
>>>>  + haunt        0.2.1   out     
>>>> /gnu/store/x2bkpzrdbaxavl29r2xg0fip1jjici9q-haunt-0.2.1
>>>>
>>>> Generation 182  May 24 2017 09:52:06    (current)
>>>>  + guile-commonmark     0.1     out     
>>>> /gnu/store/k8vq65czfb8k4hvvjvsca34scd9xsxik-guile-commonmark-0.1
>>
>> What would be the expected behaviour in the presence of
>> GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH?  I could have had GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH set pointing to a
>> module containing a custom variant of haunt.
>>
>> I do agree that it would be very useful to know more about the state of
>> Guix for any given generation.  However, that state is more complex than
>> a single commit.
>
> Oh, indeed..  Any suggestions?

I think this is one of the things that channels mean to address.

As a first step, once ‘guix pull’ uses Guile-Git, we can at least record
the commit of Guix.

Ludo’.