Hi Marius, Marius Bakke <[email protected]> skribis:
> Currently, some packages are marked as "hidden". This makes `guix > refresh` fail to realize the full impact of a change. Most notably this > affects 'xorg-server': there have already been a few commits that > rebuilds the for-test variant (and thus GTK) because they seemed to only > cause ~150 rebuilds, where in reality it's more than 400: > > 97ecd75e289d96a8b4f9b1ae877d9d1a2f6774b4 gnu: libxfont: Fix CVE-2017-13720, > CVE-2017-13722. > c2eb8cd98c82277e851eb4302b7f12614e215a76 gnu: xorg-server: Build reproducibly. > 9371600ec8397ab3d596dea89c388b4acb1c2437 gnu: libxres: Update to 1.2.0. Oooops! I’m the guilty party here. The real dependency count can be found with: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- $ guix refresh -l -e '(@ (gnu packages xorg) xorg-server-1.19.3)' xorg-server Building the following 276 packages would ensure 516 dependent packages are rebuilt: [email protected] [email protected] … --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- The problem is not that ‘xorg-server-1.19.3’ is hidden (we can work around it with -e), but that it inherits from ‘xorg-server’, and thus ended up being rebuilt. That’s a “known limitation” of ‘guix refresh -l’ and not something easily addressed since inheritance is purely syntactic. Tricky! So I think it’s “not a bug” from the ‘guix refresh’ viewpoint, but it’s definitely a mistake on my side. Apologies! I think at this stage it’s no longer useful to revert this commit though. WDYT? Thanks for the heads-up! Ludo’.
