‘guix shell --export-manifest ’ ignores transformations for ‘-D’ packages
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874jgufhb1.fsf@inria.fr
Hello!
‘--export-manifest’ does not apply transformations to packages preceded
by ‘-D’ (development environment):
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$ guix shell -D guile-git --with-branch=libgit2=main --export-manifest
;; What follows is a "manifest" equivalent to the command line you gave.
;; You can store it in a file that you may then pass to any 'guix' command
;; that accepts a '--manifest' (or '-m') option.
(package->development-manifest
(specification->package "guile-git"))
$ guix shell guile-git --with-branch=libgit2=main --export-manifest
;; What follows is a "manifest" equivalent to the command line you gave.
;; You can store it in a file that you may then pass to any 'guix' command
;; that accepts a '--manifest' (or '-m') option.
(use-modules (guix transformations))
(define transform1
(options->transformation
'((with-branch . "libgit2=main"))))
(packages->manifest
(list (transform1 (specification->package "guile-git"))))
$ guix describe
Generation 283 Dec 04 2023 00:32:23 (current)
guix 6e2dd51
repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
branch: master
commit: 6e2dd51df5f3f51e9056dd4f2e1b036195ab3caa
Ludo’.