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bug#22017: Bug #22017 Hunting: Pinning a Guix version
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
bug#22017: Bug #22017 Hunting: Pinning a Guix version |
Date: |
Thu, 28 Nov 2019 09:34:07 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux) |
Hello!
zimoun <address@hidden> skribis:
> You wrote:
>
> git clone …/guix.git my-pinned-guix
> (cd my-pinned-guix; git checkout deadbeef)
> guix package -L my-pinned-guix --manifest=my-manifest.scm
>
>
> which is now possible with
>
> guix pull --commit=deadbeef
> guix package -m my-manifest.scm
>
> Moreover, "guix time-machine" also handles such use case. If I understand
> well.
Yes, pinning is definitely implemented, and much more nicely than what I
was suggesting back in 2015!
> Recently, a lot of new features have been discussed on guix-devel.
> This one has not been raised: add local tags to ease the navigation
> through different versions of Guix. It is not clear to me if it should
> be under "guix pull", e.g., "guix pull --tag=add foo" or another
> command "guix tag add foo".
>
> Because it is an really old bug, I am not sure that this whishlist
> will efficiently work as a reminder, so I am inclined to close it or
> maybe change the title or raise this very tagging feature to
> guix-devel.
Yes, I think we should close this issue and create a new one about
tagging Guix revisions/channel instances.
Thanks!
Ludo’.