Hi, Please consider the package ’x265’. If one installs it with the option ’no-grafts’ then everything works as expected. However, if one installs it with the default command line, then the output ’static’ is downloaded when it should not.
Please note this package is not grafted. Below, a reproducer. --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- $ guix time-machine -q --commit=47ab553178eb00d02ba9588ed1f7df44fb2f7c4c \ -- install x265 --no-grafts -p /tmp/no-grafts guix install: warning: Consider running 'guix pull' followed by 'guix package -u' to get up-to-date packages and security updates. The following package will be installed: x265 3.5 substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.gnu.org'... 100.0% substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://bordeaux.guix.gnu.org'... 0.0%guix substitute: warning: bordeaux.guix.gnu.org: connection failed: Connection refused substitute: substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://guix.bordeaux.inria.fr'... 100.0% The following derivation will be built: /gnu/store/cxpssdlarc9z688jp11a5aa2i50920bk-profile.drv 1.7 MB will be downloaded module-import-compiled 107KiB 1.2MiB/s 00:00 ▕██████████████████▏ 100.0% libfontenc-1.1.4 13KiB 4.4MiB/s 00:00 ▕██████████████████▏ 100.0% module-import-compiled 48KiB 5.9MiB/s 00:00 ▕██████████████████▏ 100.0% mkfontscale-1.2.2 20KiB 3.6MiB/s 00:00 ▕██████████████████▏ 100.0% module-import-compiled 58KiB 6.2MiB/s 00:00 ▕██████████████████▏ 100.0% mkfontdir-1.0.7 4KiB 3.1MiB/s 00:00 ▕██████████████████▏ 100.0% x265-3.5 1.4MiB 3.2MiB/s 00:00 ▕██████████████████▏ 100.0% building CA certificate bundle... listing Emacs sub-directories... building fonts directory... building directory of Info manuals... building profile with 1 package... hint: Consider setting the necessary environment variables by running: GUIX_PROFILE="/tmp/no-grafts" . "$GUIX_PROFILE/etc/profile" Alternately, see `guix package --search-paths -p "/tmp/no-grafts"'. --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Here, all is fine. Then bang! --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- $ guix time-machine -q --commit=47ab553178eb00d02ba9588ed1f7df44fb2f7c4c \ -- install x265 -p /tmp/with-grafts guix install: warning: Consider running 'guix pull' followed by 'guix package -u' to get up-to-date packages and security updates. The following package will be installed: x265 3.5 substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.gnu.org'... 100.0% substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://bordeaux.guix.gnu.org'... 0.0%guix substitute: warning: bordeaux.guix.gnu.org: connection failed: Connection refused substitute: 2.2 MB will be downloaded curl-8.6.0-doc 535KiB 843KiB/s 00:01 ▕██████████████████▏ 100.0% substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://bordeaux.guix.gnu.org'... 0.0% 2.8 MB will be downloaded x265-3.5-static 1.3MiB 1.6MiB/s 00:01 ▕██████████████████▏ 100.0% hint: Consider setting the necessary environment variables by running: GUIX_PROFILE="/tmp/with-grafts" . "$GUIX_PROFILE/etc/profile" Alternately, see `guix package --search-paths -p "/tmp/with-grafts"'. --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Indeed x265-3.5-static is downloaded. Hum?! A bug, I guess. Please note that both (with or without) install the exact same profile: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- $ readlink -f /tmp/no-grafts /gnu/store/znbrwzn5pkrjb1ni2y8nj5lw068syh1j-profile $ readlink -f /tmp/with-grafts /gnu/store/znbrwzn5pkrjb1ni2y8nj5lw068syh1j-profile --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- And that profile contains: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- $ guix gc --references /gnu/store/znbrwzn5pkrjb1ni2y8nj5lw068syh1j-profile /gnu/store/1h81psijhx3l8p88ds66q7a001rgvcl2-x265-3.5 /gnu/store/1vsl7yp1b94bvx5ljc7irys881q3zvl9-emacs-subdirs /gnu/store/dk3v3fdslvlj3qwf2c1bqprj0dcm6m7s-info-dir /gnu/store/znbrwzn5pkrjb1ni2y8nj5lw068syh1j-profile --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- where it’s not a grafted item: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- $ guix gc --derivers /gnu/store/1h81psijhx3l8p88ds66q7a001rgvcl2-x265-3.5 /gnu/store/7555d85ldgn3vgby3sdgl0rf9ac1b6mv-x265-3.5.drv --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- which reads: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- Derive ([("out","/gnu/store/1h81psijhx3l8p88ds66q7a001rgvcl2-x265-3.5","","") ,("static","/gnu/store/4zw8h8za4z1cg4k5iz5lha6v1s9wzwkz-x265-3.5-static","","")] ,[("/gnu/store/1fdyz77q7qwqm12nf05zsqlxgpc7qwrk-patch-2.7.6.drv",["out"]) ,("/gnu/store/1j9f9p41npw2ak7xa5vi1825jzw98r78-make-4.4.1.drv",["out"]) ,("/gnu/store/2ff71r26mzc6j0jmg2hnbxl9rrwng8cb-xz-5.4.5.drv",["out"]) ,("/gnu/store/4y1nj954qnrxjm6n706425ppzrysswsl-tar-1.34.drv",["out"]) ,("/gnu/store/548m4h6h348didy1m790wa3wm5gi9dzr-file-5.45.drv",["out"]) ,("/gnu/store/6w7kma4i566rwjnd6dcl71nnwxw8f9hj-bash-minimal-5.1.16.drv",["out"]) ,("/gnu/store/8rdk4lzpxjipxbg8gy2wcn0whiw9fkcc-coreutils-9.1.drv",["out"]) ,("/gnu/store/938lrsa8aap7ypl6bjdbyk9m2m10yb0f-findutils-4.9.0.drv",["out"]) ,("/gnu/store/9v589ilg3y17xzyg7blnm5p5zq5w53zz-gzip-1.13.drv",["out"]) ,("/gnu/store/gfw5x9m4gzwx6lp01sdpmg9bjv7rkf9g-gcc-11.4.0.drv",["out"]) ,("/gnu/store/gi824h98mhpdj748qq696xil4hb3iy75-diffutils-3.10.drv",["out"]) ,("/gnu/store/gvkzbkw6wl5ylsv3a4m6ba6blh96jlqd-ld-wrapper-0.drv",["out"]) ,("/gnu/store/hj1l9q3gz3p0w06xg7pd9kqn2bm7727m-grep-3.11.drv",["out"]) ,("/gnu/store/js4wbx994msmy5vqda3bkpkp90w85nlm-binutils-2.41.drv",["out"]) ,("/gnu/store/lskrr30zkr6zdn8kh2xr5zsgh8v34crb-linux-libre-headers-5.15.49.drv",["out"]) ,("/gnu/store/lzlbf85rsk810gxfprqcyzwpi7vbsjx5-bzip2-1.0.8.drv",["out"]) ,("/gnu/store/mpcpqg2z2496phr13mq6p66isj30ps88-guile-3.0.9.drv",["out"]) ,("/gnu/store/ncp8ppqmp8cjnhb689jdj4hjhkprdk2i-zstd-1.5.2.drv",["out"]) ,("/gnu/store/rf2pw1mhyswd49664kpyh8w74j25lqa3-module-import-compiled.drv",["out"]) ,("/gnu/store/rzzxmd5kgqicyda68mq5nr12nfv33hvn-x265_3.5.tar.zst.drv",["out"]) ,("/gnu/store/sja38khs22vdn6r2nmlv25p96jmh2v9h-glibc-2.39.drv",["out","static"]) ,("/gnu/store/smv8fspv7qn2fw0hm5p9qc99ysljxdca-gawk-5.3.0.drv",["out"]) ,("/gnu/store/xbvp18dgwylw02vg4j2gx5qly2d24ndr-cmake-minimal-3.24.2.drv",["out"]) ,("/gnu/store/xk1wxn1x2nivpnid67x7g3l7z2q0f5p0-sed-4.8.drv",["out"]) ,("/gnu/store/yp879bxngivi6i5873lkp7crnzxhazki-nasm-2.15.05.drv",["out"])] ,["/gnu/store/2cn6qcdq6h79xgjjy852apfq3v1v5dmy-module-import","/gnu/store/liw289n4sja5lzyargqfv29xdijs88sk-x265-3.5-builder"] ,"x86_64-linux","/gnu/store/xv4cd7qz4yan93zkjisbmbpxfz78hah2-guile-3.0.9/bin/guile",["--no-auto-compile","-L","/gnu/store/2cn6qcdq6h79xgjjy852apfq3v1v5dmy-module-import","-C","/gnu/store/b3l95nsz9fr09bv62ynp2n23klcfqcr4-module-import-compiled","/gnu/store/liw289n4sja5lzyargqfv29xdijs88sk-x265-3.5-builder"] ,[("out","/gnu/store/1h81psijhx3l8p88ds66q7a001rgvcl2-x265-3.5") ,("static","/gnu/store/4zw8h8za4z1cg4k5iz5lha6v1s9wzwkz-x265-3.5-static")]) --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Therefore, the issue might comes from how “guix install” internal works, I guess. Cheers, simon