bug#42688: closed (Running a script with `guix repl` doesn't "see" additional channels using (%package-module-path))

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> Running a script with `guix repl` doesn't "see" additional channels using (%package-module-path)
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> Mon, 3 Aug 2020 04:33:31 +0100
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> Running the following in `guix repl` returns additional channels:
> ```
> itsme@antelope ~> guix repl
> GNU Guile 3.0.4
> Copyright (C) 1995-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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> Guile comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `,show w'.
> This program is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
> under certain conditions; type `,show c' for details.
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> Enter `,help' for help.
> scheme@(guix-user)> (use-modules (gnu packages))
> scheme@(guix-user)> (%package-module-path)
> $1 =
> (("/gnu/store/kds0mq06qpin125gkikwzdm6mjfwjffc-guix-module-union/share/guile/site/3.0"
> . "gnu/packages")
> "/gnu/store/96pa4rc57zgqf36y2kv8z20p2jvlgypq-pkill9-free-channel-dependency/share/guile/site/3.0"
> "/gnu/store/3ilx18ywdm6xk9f5l1mznrn45vcbncsq-pkill9-free/share/guile/site/3.0")
> scheme@(guix-user)>
> ```
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> But running the following in "test.scm" with `guix repl /tmp/test.scm
> doesn't return additional channels:
> ```
> (use-modules (gnu packages))
> (display (%package-module-path))
> ```
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> ```
> ((/gnu/store/kds0mq06qpin125gkikwzdm6mjfwjffc-guix-module-union/share/guile/site/3.0
> . gnu/packages))
> ```
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> fold-available-packages uses this to search for packages, which I am
> using for a script. As a result, the script doesn't know about packages
> from the additional channels.
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> Hello,
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> Leo Prikler <leo.prikler@student.tugraz.at> skribis:
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> > With that however, I am no longer so sure.  The initial program
> > arguments are part of the UI, but at the same time, that would make it
> > not UI-free to begin with.  Kinda strengthens the argument, that it
> > should be made a fluid/parameter/what have you, that gets initialized
> > with program-arguments at some point.
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> Alright.  I went with something along these lines in commit
> 1b179d7876f19f04009a2f9e248ac10711f4c660.
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> I tested that it works as intended with ‘guix pull --url=$PWD’ and
> running a script from there that accesses modules of a secondary
> channel.
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> Thank you!
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> Ludo’.
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