Re: Search in One Channel

[zimoun]

Hi,

On Wed, 28 Dec 2022 at 23:45, "jgart" <jgart@dismail.de> wrote:

> I'd like to search just in the guix-emacs channel with `guix search`. 

Currently, the only option I am aware is to parse the output (with
recutils or other).

Well, it is not convenient but something like:

    guix time-machine -C one-specific-channel.scm -- search foo-bar

should work.  Not convenient because «Compute derivation» and because
you need to extract the correct information for the file
one-specific-channel.scm.

My question is: what is your use case?  Why is “guix search” on all
the channels not fitting your needs?

Well, “guix search” should use ’location’ which is a good indication for
package channel provenance, although it is not a strong guarantee.

Well, it is not straightforward to use ’module-name’ as search term.
Because how to map the string search terms with this module name.  And
because it could lead to some performance penalty.

Cheers,
simon