Am Mittwoch, dem 29.06.2022 um 11:40 +0200 schrieb Maxime Devos: > Liliana Marie Prikler schreef op wo 29-06-2022 om 11:22 [+0200]: > > > And the exact same thing happens if a package is used instead of > > > a list of packages. > > One thing to check here is whether a cache might be interfering. I > > think it is an already known bug, that the file itself is not key > > in the cache, which you can work around by specifying --rebuild- > > cache. > > Whatever non-existent file name I use, I don't get an error message > but the warning ‘guix shell: warning: no packages specified; creating > an empty environment’, so this doesn't look like a cache issue to me. That is exactly the cache issue, though. Once ‘guix shell -f’ “succeeds” (even with an empty environment), subsequent invocations lacking ‘--rebuild-cache’ ignore the file completely and serve from cache.
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