Hi, This old bug [1] is about dry-run. IIUC, it is not now fixed as shown below. However, there is another annoying thing about the option ’--verbosity’.
1: <http://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/28743> On Sun, 08 Oct 2017 at 10:06, Oleg Pykhalov <[email protected]> wrote: > [email protected] (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Previous discussion thread and attached debugging files: > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2017-10/msg00000.html > > > After patching no new generation created. But dry-run still shows > available upgrades and that will be build some derivations. > >> I’ve pushed the above patch as eca16a3d1d9e6b2c064e0105c1015258bf2755f2. >> Now we need to fix the UI side of things. Let create a profile with a package without the grafts, then check the update with dry-run, make the upgrade, check the dry-run upgrade again. All seem fine, right? --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- $ guix package -i r-shiny -p /tmp/foo --no-grafts 2>/dev/null $ guix package -p /tmp/foo --upgrade --dry-run The following package would be upgraded: r-shiny (dependencies or package changed) The following derivation would be built: /gnu/store/bqsnn9k5jw3gklbzkzhknqpfikvl3bdy-profile.drv $ guix package -p /tmp/foo --list-generations Generation 1 Sep 16 2021 09:04:48 (current) r-shiny 1.6.0 out /gnu/store/gq31n44a6b815xlrh0zph6vwc7wqqw8c-r-shiny-1.6.0 $ guix package -p /tmp/foo --upgrade --dry-run The following package would be upgraded: r-shiny (dependencies or package changed) The following derivation would be built: /gnu/store/bqsnn9k5jw3gklbzkzhknqpfikvl3bdy-profile.drv $ guix package -p /tmp/foo --upgrade The following package will be upgraded: r-shiny (dependencies or package changed) The following derivation will be built: /gnu/store/bqsnn9k5jw3gklbzkzhknqpfikvl3bdy-profile.drv building CA certificate bundle... listing Emacs sub-directories... building fonts directory... building directory of Info manuals... building database for manual pages... building profile with 1 package... $ guix package -p /tmp/foo --list-generations Generation 1 Sep 16 2021 09:04:48 r-shiny 1.6.0 out /gnu/store/gq31n44a6b815xlrh0zph6vwc7wqqw8c-r-shiny-1.6.0 Generation 2 Sep 16 2021 09:06:05 (current) $ guix package -p /tmp/foo --upgrade --dry-run guix package: warning: nothing to do --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- However, let do the same thing with the option ’--verbosity=2’ (equal deprecated ’--verbose’). --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- $ rm -fr /tmp/foo* $ guix package -i r-shiny -p /tmp/foo --no-grafts 2>/dev/null $ guix package -p /tmp/foo --upgrade --dry-run --verbosity=2 The following package would be upgraded: r-shiny (dependencies or package changed) $ guix package -p /tmp/foo --list-generations Generation 1 Sep 16 2021 09:04:48 r-shiny 1.6.0 out /gnu/store/gq31n44a6b815xlrh0zph6vwc7wqqw8c-r-shiny-1.6.0 Generation 2 Sep 16 2021 09:06:05 (current) $ guix package -p /tmp/foo --upgrade --verbosity=2 guix package: warning: nothing to do --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Et voilà! Still a bug. Same with any other ’verbosity’ value. All the best, simon
