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468aff25-d410-102b-6e62-d8280bf70d7e@uni-bremen.de
Hi,
if someone has a profile made with a manifest like
(specifications->manifest '("gcc@11"))
and they want to update it, they might run guix package -p the-profile -u
which would currently install gcc@12, or they would run something like
package -p the-profile -m manifest.scm -u
which aborts with this unintelligible message:
Backtrace:
12 (primitive-load "/home/mcd/.config/guix/current/bin/guix")
In guix/ui.scm:
2300:7 11 (run-guix . _)
2263:10 10 (run-guix-command _ . _)
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
1752:10 9 (with-exception-handler _ _ #:unwind? _ # _)
In guix/status.scm:
850:3 8 (_)
830:4 7 (call-with-status-report _ _)
In guix/store.scm:
1298:8 6 (call-with-build-handler #<procedure 7f2b7918fdb0 at g…> …)
In guix/build/syscalls.scm:
1442:3 5 (_)
1408:4 4 (call-with-file-lock/no-wait "mani.lock" #<procedure 7…> …)
In guix/scripts/package.scm:
708:4 3 (_)
In srfi/srfi-1.scm:
460:18 2 (fold #<procedure 7f2b65ea1840 at guix/scripts/package…> …)
In guix/scripts/package.scm:
233:4 1 (transaction-upgrade-entry _ _ _)
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
1685:16 0 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)
ice-9/boot-9.scm:1685:16: In procedure raise-exception:
Throw to key `match-error' with args `("match" "no matching pattern"
#<<manifest-entry> name: "gcc" version: "11.3.0" output: "out" item:
#<package gcc@11.3.0 gnu/packages/gcc.scm:680 7f2b66b68420>
dependencies: () search-paths: (#<<search-path-specification> variable:
"C_INCLUDE_PATH" files: ("include") separator: ":" file-type: directory
file-pattern: #f> #<<search-path-specification> variable:
"CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH" files: ("include/c++" "include") separator: ":"
file-type: directory file-pattern: #f> #<<search-path-specification>
variable: "LIBRARY_PATH" files: ("lib" "lib64") separator: ":"
file-type: directory file-pattern: #f>) parent: #<promise #<procedure
7f2b769c0d00 at guix/profiles.scm:381:48 ()>> properties: ((provenance
(repository (version 0) (url
"https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git")(branch "master") (commit
"3a2200e1ad2049ad7e25295e6b4e013f74dd84e2") (name guix) (introduction
(channel-introduction (version 0) (commit
"9edb3f66fd807b096b48283debdcddccfea34bad") (signer "BBB0 2DDF 2CEA F6A8
0D1D E643 A2A0 6DF2 A33A 54FA"))))))>)'.
It would be nicer if the user got a hint how to properly upgrade such a
(or any manifest based) profile instead of a backtrace. Additionally,
the documentation of guix package -u could note that.
Martin