Dear, As explained here [1], the field 'provenance' does not appear in $PROFILE/manifest when using the option --manifest; but appears when manually installing. Below instructions to reproduce the bug.
[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-12/msg00135.html All the best, simon -- The manifest contains: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- (specifications->manifest '("emacs" "git" "guile")) --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Let create 2 profiles: one using the --manifest option and the other one by plain --install. --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- guix package -m /tmp/manif.scm -p /tmp/kikoo-manif guix package -i emacs git guile -p /tmp/kikoo-nomanif --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- And here we are... --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- grep provenance /tmp/kikoo-manif/manifest --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- versus --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- grep provenance /tmp/kikoo-nomanif/manifest (provenance (provenance (provenance --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- For the record. --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- guix describe Generation 60 Dec 13 2019 12:52:55 (current) guix eb8aad6 repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git branch: master commit: eb8aad6a23442cf7b23e0df88b89b4cd030dfbf5 --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---