Re: Finding the channel in which a package is defined
Hi everyone, thanks for your suggestions. My award for the most useful one (to me) goes to Mathieu : > You can run something like: > > --8<---cut here---start->8--- > ,use (guix describe) (gnu packages) (gnu packages linux) > (%package-module-path) > (package-channels strace) > --8<---cut here---end--->8--- Since the information is stored with all packages, it would be reasonable for "guix show" to display it as well. I'll look at this and propose a patch if I succeed. It's a bit surprising at first sight that there are multiple channels. I suspect that the list contains the channels of all inputs as well, recursively, meaning that channel "guix" is present almost everywhere. Cheers, Konrad.
Re: Finding the channel in which a package is defined
Mathieu Othacehe writes: package-channels Ah sweet! This is exactly what I was looking for (guix packages) ...here. -_- Thanks, T G-R signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Finding the channel in which a package is defined
Hello Konrad, > Is there a simple way to find out in which channel a given package was > defined? I tried "guix edit" to see the source code, but it shows a file > from a "module-union" directory in the store. You can run something like: --8<---cut here---start->8--- ,use (guix describe) (gnu packages) (gnu packages linux) (%package-module-path) (package-channels strace) --8<---cut here---end--->8--- in a "guix repl" to determine the channel providing "strace". If you replace "strace" by a package provided by my-channel, "package-channels" should return a list containing the default Guix channel as well as my-channel. Mathieu
Re: Finding the channel in which a package is defined
Konrad Hinsen writes: > Tobias, > > Thanks for your reply! > >> Does the ‘location’ field of ‘guix show PACKAGE’ do what you want? > > Taking coreutils as a test case, it displays: > >gnu/packages/base.scm:328:2 > > as a link pointing to: > > > /gnu/store/3qykwxq1mqlin3lrb93s3rzi1ah5xia8-guix-module-union/share/guile/site/3.0/gnu/packages/base.scm > > and that is the same file that is opened with "guix edit". But it's a > copy of the input source file that is part of some channel, so the > provenance is lost. I’m pretty sure that the union file itself is a link. By using “readlink -f /gnu/store/3qykwxq1mqlin3lrb93s3rzi1ah5xia8-guix-module-union/share/guile/site/3.0/gnu/packages/base.scm” you could get the source directory of that file. The prefix will indicate that this is a Guix source checkout, whereas for files from other channels the prefix directory will differ. Still, that’s a bit crude. It might be better to record a channel reference in the package values. -- Ricardo
Re: Finding the channel in which a package is defined
Konrad Hinsen writes: Taking coreutils as a test case, it displays: gnu/packages/base.scm:328:2 Right, it's not guaranteed to match the channel name, but it's usually enough to deduce it. I meant something like: λ guix show nicecat | grep ^location location: nckx/packages/gnuzilla.scm:105:2 Because my channel uses (nckx packages ...) module names. Most channels do something similar. If you're using a third-party channel that shadows (clobbers?) the (gnu packages ...) namespace, I'm not sure what you could do. Kind regards, T G-R signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Finding the channel in which a package is defined
Tobias, Thanks for your reply! > Does the ‘location’ field of ‘guix show PACKAGE’ do what you want? Taking coreutils as a test case, it displays: gnu/packages/base.scm:328:2 as a link pointing to: /gnu/store/3qykwxq1mqlin3lrb93s3rzi1ah5xia8-guix-module-union/share/guile/site/3.0/gnu/packages/base.scm and that is the same file that is opened with "guix edit". But it's a copy of the input source file that is part of some channel, so the provenance is lost. Cheers, Konrad
Re: Finding the channel in which a package is defined
Konrad, Konrad Hinsen writes: Dear Guix experts, I'll answer in the meantime. Is there a simple way to find out in which channel a given package was defined? Does the ‘location’ field of ‘guix show PACKAGE’ do what you want? Kind regards, T G-R
Finding the channel in which a package is defined
Dear Guix experts, Is there a simple way to find out in which channel a given package was defined? I tried "guix edit" to see the source code, but it shows a file from a "module-union" directory in the store. Cheers, Konrad
