bug#48082: “guix environment -l” does not work with inferior packages

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Brice Waegeneire <brice@waegenei.re> writes:

> Hello Ricardo,
>
> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:
>
> > I wanted to use an environment file that contains a package 
> > definition, and use it with inferiors.  Here is the full 
> > guix.scm:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > The idea was that you would use the provided channels with
> >
> >     USE_GUIX_INFERIOR=t guix environment -l guix.scm
> >
> > Unfortunately, this does not work, but there also is no error. 
> > I 
> > end up in an environment where none of the declared inputs are 
> > available.  That’s because (guix scripts environments) has no 
> > facilities to deal with packages that are of type 
> > <inferior-package>.
>
> Unfortunatly the environment file isn't self contained (VERSION 
> and the
> package source are missing), so I couldn't reproduce your issue.

This example was taken from the source code here:

   https://github.com/BIMSBbioinfo/pigx_sarscov2_ww/blob/main/manifest.scm
   https://github.com/BIMSBbioinfo/pigx_sarscov2_ww/blob/main/guix.scm

--
Ricardo