"guix shell -f guix2.scm" fails always

Put the folllowing in "oops-guix.scm":

(use-modules (gnu packages))

(specifications->packages '("hello"))

then do: "guix shell -f oops-guix.scm" to make an environment

with "hello". I get:

$ which hello

Or even simpler: do "guix shell -f non-existing-file.scm":

Looks like "-f" is ignored entirely?

Version information:

$ guix --version

guix (GNU Guix) 0

(Didn't there use to be a commit? Is confirmed on #guix as

reproducible ...)

Greetings,

Maxime.

Am Dienstag, dem 28.06.2022 um 22:47 +0200 schrieb Maxime Devos:

Have you tried specifying a file that actually contains a package (not

a manifest)? That being said, the error reporting could be better :)

Liliana Marie Prikler schreef op wo 29-06-2022 om 08:19 [+0200]:

None of the examples contain a manifest, oops-guix.scm actually

contains a list of packages as mentioned previously (*).  And the exact

same thing happens if a package is used instead of a list of packages.

(*):

Greetings,

Maxime.

Am Mittwoch, dem 29.06.2022 um 11:10 +0200 schrieb Maxime Devos:

My bad, I read that as specifications->manifest. Note that for

specifications->package, you could simply specify hello on the command

line.

Having tested your file now, I can say that guix shell builds hello as

expected, whereas with specifications->manifest, it produces a lovely

backtrace (which is more or less what one ought to expect).

One thing to check here is whether a cache might be interfering. I

think it is an already known bug, that the file itself is not key in

the cache, which you can work around by specifying --rebuild-cache.

Cheers

Liliana Marie Prikler schreef op wo 29-06-2022 om 11:22 [+0200]:

Whatever non-existent file name I use, I don't get an error message but

the warning ‘guix shell: warning: no packages specified; creating an

empty environment’, so this doesn't look like a cache issue to me.

However, if I do:

$ LANGUAGE=en_US guix shell --rebuild-cache -f nn-fefefefexistent.scm

guix shell: error: failed to load 'nn-fefefefexistent.scm': No such file or directory

$ LANGUAGE=en_US guix shell --rebuild-cache -f nn-fefefefexistent.scm

guix shell: error: failed to load 'nn-fefefefexistent.scm': No such file or directory

$ LANGUAGE=en_US guix shell --rebuild-cache -f mm-fefefefexistent.scm

guix shell: error: failed to load 'mm-fefefefexistent.scm': No such file or directory

$ LANGUAGE=en_US guix shell -f mm-fefefefexistent.scm

guix shell: error: failed to load 'mm-fefefefexistent.scm': No such file or directory

so looks like there's a cache issue!

Greetings,

Maxime.

*

Am Mittwoch, dem 29.06.2022 um 11:40 +0200 schrieb Maxime Devos:

That is exactly the cache issue, though. Once ‘guix shell -f’

“succeeds” (even with an empty environment), subsequent invocations

lacking ‘--rebuild-cache’ ignore the file completely and serve from

cache.

Cheers