Jelle Licht <jli...@fsfe.org> skribis: > I had some problems getting current ansible package to work. It seems that > the bin/ansible script which is created as part of the python-build-system > via a call to `wrap-program' interferes with certain expectations ansible > has regarding how it and its subcommands are called. > > This mechanism does not work well with our generated created .ansible-real. > See [1] for a similar issue that has since been worked around in the newest > version of ansible. > > For now, I have a similar workaround that add some guix-specific checks to > ansible looking for being called as .ansible-real, though I do consider > this a hack. This problem is indicative of a bigger issue: the fact that > wrap-program currently leads to subtle bugs for lots of scripts. There has > been some noise on #guix about solving this problem in general.
For the record, the discussion is visible here: <https://gnunet.org/bot/log/guix/2017-05-02#T1370586>. I think it’s bad for a program to rely on argv[0], but I also think those .thing-real are kinda ugly. :-) Ludo’.
