bug#54942: closed (Can't run guix upgrade when a package is installed with the --with-git-url transformation)

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> Can't run guix upgrade when a package is installed with the --with-git-url transformation
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> Thu, 14 Apr 2022 12:45:11 -0400
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> Hi!
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> I installed a package with --with-git-url and --with-branch to my profile:
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>     guix install kakoune 
> --with-git-url=kakoune=https://github.com/mawww/kakoune.git 
> --with-branch=kakoune=breaking-cleanups
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> However, now I can't run `guix upgrade`. I get the following error:
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>     guix upgrade: error: the source of kakoune@2021.08.28 is not a Git 
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> I also tried to add the same transformation options to `guix upgrade`, 
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> Is installing packages with the --with-git-url transformation to 
> profiles not supported? Or is this a bug?
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> Ideally I'd like `guix upgrade` to remember the way in which this 
> package was installed and update it accordingly. In this case by 
> fetching the latest changes from the breaking-cleanups branch. Is this 
> not how this transformation option works?
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> Thanks :)
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> Hi,
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> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> skribis:
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> > SeerLite <seerlite@nixnet.email> skribis:
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> >> I installed a package with --with-git-url and --with-branch to my profile:
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> >>     guix install kakoune
> >>     --with-git-url=kakoune=https://github.com/mawww/kakoune.git 
> >> --with-branch=kakoune=breaking-cleanups
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> >> However, now I can't run `guix upgrade`. I get the following error:
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> >>     guix upgrade: error: the source of kakoune@2021.08.28 is not a Git
> >>     reference
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> > Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be> skribis:
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> >> I guess the problem is that 'with-branch'/'with-commit' come before
> >> 'with-git-url' in
> >> <https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/guix/transformations.scm?id=237d90a7808cfdced34b34595eba16632cbcb89e#n794>
> >> (untested!).
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> > My guess is rather than the profile records (or replays) transformations
> > in the wrong order:
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> I believe this is fixed by 0f024554e63a49e20c2a7a67e928073c266bf5c5.
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> Please let me know if anything’s wrong!
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> Ludo’.
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