Benno Evers <be...@bmevers.de> skribis: > assume I have installed some package > > /gnu/store/xxx-daemon-1.0 > > After a while I notice that it's inexplicably hanging, so I do 'guix > package -i daemon-1.0:debug', attach to the daemon with gdb, and...no > debug symbols can be loaded! Turns out, in the meantime the hash has > changed so i installed > > /gnu/store/yyy-daemon-1.0:debug
I realized that I quickly focused on the issue without looking at the more general context. The “in the meantime” above means that you had run ‘guix pull’ or similar, thereby making the previous package recipe unavailable and leaving you unable to install matching debugging symbols. On my laptop, I typically run ‘guix package -u’ every time I do ‘guix pull’, so I cannot find myself in a situation where I’m unable to install debugging symbols of already installed packages. This is just to say that the scenario described here can indeed happen, but is probably not that common. And I don’t mean this to be an excuse to avoid difficult work. ;-) I think that the solutions I proposed are worse than the problem, because they’re complex and would depend on external state, thus making them look non-deterministic. So I think I’ll punt and mark it as “wontfix.” Thoughts? Ludo’.
