emacs-guix missing from package-activated-list

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  • Liliana Marie Prikler
  • Maxim Cournoyer
  • Philip McGrath
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Philip McGrath wrote on 4 Jul 2022 03:33
(address . bug-guix@gnu.org)
2246709.ElGaqSPkdT@avalon
Hi,

I've been looking into managing my Emacs packages with Guix. I found that the `emacs-guix` package doesn't seem to show up in the `package-activated-list`, even though its dependencies do, which seems like a bug. Here's an illustration:

```
philip@avalon:/tmp/emacs-bug$ guix describe --format=channels
(list (channel
(name 'guix)
(branch "master")
(commit
"e069de452a2c923868f5137421b4b6349c38d754")
(introduction
(make-channel-introduction
"9edb3f66fd807b096b48283debdcddccfea34bad"
(openpgp-fingerprint
"BBB0 2DDF 2CEA F6A8 0D1D E643 A2A0 6DF2 A33A 54FA")))))
philip@avalon:/tmp/emacs-bug$ cat demo.el
(require 'package)
(package-initialize)
(print package-activated-list)
philip@avalon:/tmp/emacs-bug$ guix shell --pure --container emacs emacs-guix -- emacs --script demo.el
Loading /gnu/store/7vpfhr5fzvyvnh62lj17b97q7vr0svjj-emacs-guix-0.5.2-5.c9aef52/share/emacs/site-lisp/guix-0.5.2-5.c9aef52/guix-autoloads.el (source)...
Loading /gnu/store/4hnp17pjbvi3xirk9ygxzv5hb24c9ghk-emacs-bui-1.2.1/share/emacs/site-lisp/bui-1.2.1/bui-autoloads...
Loading /gnu/store/gx62xcfnn7dw1ib88gzbvgbz255vrd9i-emacs-dash-2.19.1/share/emacs/site-lisp/dash-2.19.1/dash-autoloads...
Loading /gnu/store/aqbcw5fjmsr4lndhpgs4bzgd58a16rkw-emacs-edit-indirect-0.1.8/share/emacs/site-lisp/edit-indirect-0.1.8/edit-indirect-autoloads...
Loading /gnu/store/sic558dq3rlcx6d0f1h7pq6cq1mkliaz-emacs-geiser-0.23.2/share/emacs/site-lisp/geiser-0.23.2/geiser-autoloads...
Loading /gnu/store/qc3b61ygmgpnhssy4yvk4a66xcd81kss-emacs-project-0.8.1/share/emacs/site-lisp/project-0.8.1/project-autoloads...
Loading /gnu/store/6al6nhnkxkgznh7fla8rsyis8cxywz6l-emacs-xref-1.4.1/share/emacs/site-lisp/xref-1.4.1/xref-autoloads...
Loading /gnu/store/g2b2bagb3p1vw57kxgry7pnh32grl4d0-emacs-transient-0.3.7/share/emacs/site-lisp/transient-0.3.7/transient-autoloads...
Loading /gnu/store/dacdgzvhn1n4j8dcac6d67vnc9fnlmym-emacs-geiser-guile-0.23.2/share/emacs/site-lisp/geiser-guile-0.23.2/geiser-guile-autoloads...
Loading /gnu/store/l7qm8v9pnpadllxyr6g348a4knfj4x42-emacs-magit-popup-2.13.3/share/emacs/site-lisp/magit-popup-2.13.3/magit-popup-autoloads...

(bui edit-indirect xref geiser-guile geiser magit-popup dash)
```
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Liliana Marie Prikler wrote on 4 Jul 2022 08:40
880affa5d4cb2e96123afd2f4ef39bb726b50615.camel@ist.tugraz.at
Am Sonntag, dem 03.07.2022 um 21:33 -0400 schrieb Philip McGrath:
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> Hi,
>
> I've been looking into managing my Emacs packages with Guix. I found
> that the `emacs-guix` package doesn't seem to show up in the
> `package-activated-list`, even though its dependencies do, which
> seems like a bug.
This might be related to the fact that Emacs doesn't see guix as a
package. I think the recipe might be missing the -pkg.el
autogeneration we added to emacs-build-system.
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Maxim Cournoyer wrote on 4 Oct 2023 05:12
Re: bug#56376: emacs-guix missing from package-activated-list
(name . Liliana Marie Prikler)(address . liliana.prikler@ist.tugraz.at)
87fs2r3wt7.fsf@gmail.com
Hi,

Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler@ist.tugraz.at> writes:

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> Am Sonntag, dem 03.07.2022 um 21:33 -0400 schrieb Philip McGrath:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been looking into managing my Emacs packages with Guix. I found
>> that the `emacs-guix` package doesn't seem to show up in the
>> `package-activated-list`, even though its dependencies do, which
>> seems like a bug.
> This might be related to the fact that Emacs doesn't see guix as a
> package. I think the recipe might be missing the -pkg.el
> autogeneration we added to emacs-build-system.

We could workaround the problem using the ensure-package-description of
the emacs-build-system phase, but since the emacs-guix package uses the
gnu-build-system, we'd also need to manually install the -pkg.el file
generated by the phase.

Since we maintain the package in Savannah, it seems it'd be more elegant
to have an emacs-guix-pkg.el file templated by the GNU build system and
installed by it.

--
Thanks,
Maxim
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Liliana Marie Prikler wrote on 4 Oct 2023 08:13
(name . Maxim Cournoyer)(address . maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com)
e5d1dc9584abcee4b54267d1281ff0bad35c6803.camel@ist.tugraz.at
Am Dienstag, dem 03.10.2023 um 23:12 -0400 schrieb Maxim Cournoyer:
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> Hi,
>
> Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler@ist.tugraz.at> writes:
>
> > Am Sonntag, dem 03.07.2022 um 21:33 -0400 schrieb Philip McGrath:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I've been looking into managing my Emacs packages with Guix. I
> > > found that the `emacs-guix` package doesn't seem to show up in
> > > the `package-activated-list`, even though its dependencies do,
> > > which seems like a bug.
> > This might be related to the fact that Emacs doesn't see guix as a
> > package.  I think the recipe might be missing the -pkg.el
> > autogeneration we added to emacs-build-system.
>
> We could workaround the problem using the ensure-package-description
> of the emacs-build-system phase, but since the emacs-guix package
> uses the gnu-build-system, we'd also need to manually install the -
> pkg.el file generated by the phase.
>
> Since we maintain the package in Savannah, it seems it'd be more
> elegant to have an emacs-guix-pkg.el file templated by the GNU build
> system and installed by it.
Indeed, maintaining a proper package description upstream is the
preferable option.

Cheers
?