45mg wrote 4 weeks ago
(address . bug-guix@gnu.org)
87ecztes5n.fsf@gmail.com
Consider:
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$ guix shell --pure distrobox -- distrobox enter container-name
/gnu/store/rmqfnbqa517s5y4acx6fbmgfr148vj83-profile/bin/distrobox: line 61: dirname: command not found
...(trial and error)
$ guix shell --pure distrobox coreutils sed gawk grep -- distrobox enter container-name
/gnu/store/fhyzghpyr1ql4x7a1iz8bkv9lkprqc73-profile/bin/distrobox-enter: line 728: rev: command not found
/gnu/store/fhyzghpyr1ql4x7a1iz8bkv9lkprqc73-profile/bin/distrobox-enter: line 733: exec: exec: not found
$ guix shell --pure distrobox coreutils sed gawk grep util-linux -- distrobox enter container-name
(success)
Distrobox is a collecton of shell scripts, of which `distrobox-enter` is
just one. I'd be willing to guess that the remaining scripts also
require various other utils, which need to be added as dependencies [1].
To figure out what these are, one could attempt to use each of the
distrobox subcommands in a `guix shell`, as shown above.
Normally I'd get to work on a patch, but I ended up deciding against
using distrobox, so I won't be working on this. Just thought I should
point it out, anyway.
Good luck,
45mg
P.S Maybe we should ask contributors to test that their package works in
`guix shell`? Along with the other instructions in
"(guix) Submitting Patches".
[1] Notably, distrobox-host-exec requires flatpak to be installed on the
host. AFAICT this is not documented /anywhere/: