Hi Simon, >> does “guix build <package> -n” fit your use-case? > > Checking... yes! I hadn't even considered using "build" when building is > exactly what I do not want to happen. But yes, it works just fine.
Not quite: $ guix build -n zziplib substitute: /gnu/store/pwcp239kjf7lnj5i4lkdzcfcxwcfyk72-bash-minimal-5.0.16/bin/bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.utf8) 24,6 MB would be downloaded: /gnu/store/9h9153akbd6g2520mcl2d0vgbvyfi5qm-openssl-1.1.1i /gnu/store/fa6wj5bxkj5ll1d7292a70knmyl7a0cr-glibc-2.31 /gnu/store/s3dcqzwqaakv1yx37by9chksdbkgih17-glibc-2.31-static /gnu/store/fbn395nfpbp4d4fr6jsbmwcx6n10kg16-python-minimal-3.8.2 /gnu/store/7hizrpdsqf6q3pjgzmi51r5vbzlijkw0-python-minimal-wrapper-3.8.2 My first impression is that "guix build -n" shows the store path of the package only if all dependencies are in the store. Otherwise, it shows the dependencies. >> Well, ’package-output’ in (guix packages) is what you need, I guess. > > And that works just fine as well. That one is worse because it even fetches/builds the dependencies: $guix repl GNU Guile 3.0.5 Copyright (C) 1995-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Guile comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `,show w'. This program is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; type `,show c' for details. Enter `,help' for help. scheme@(guix-user)> (use-modules (guix packages) (guix store) (gnu packages compression)) scheme@(guix-user)> (with-store store (package-output store zziplib)) substitute: /gnu/store/pwcp239kjf7lnj5i4lkdzcfcxwcfyk72-bash-minimal-5.0.16/bin/bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.utf8) fetching path `/gnu/store/9h9153akbd6g2520mcl2d0vgbvyfi5qm-openssl-1.1.1i'... /gnu/store/pwcp239kjf7lnj5i4lkdzcfcxwcfyk72-bash-minimal-5.0.16/bin/bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.utf8) Downloading https://ci.guix.gnu.org/nar/lzip/9h9153akbd6g2520mcl2d0vgbvyfi5qm-openssl-1.1.1i... openssl-1.1.1i 2.1MiB 3.2MiB/s 00:01 [##################] 100.0% fetching path `/gnu/store/fbn395nfpbp4d4fr6jsbmwcx6n10kg16-python-minimal-3.8.2'... /gnu/store/pwcp239kjf7lnj5i4lkdzcfcxwcfyk72-bash-minimal-5.0.16/bin/bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.utf8) Downloading https://ci.guix.gnu.org/nar/lzip/fbn395nfpbp4d4fr6jsbmwcx6n10kg16-python-minimal-3.8.2... python-minimal-3.8.2 11.9MiB 2.5MiB/s 00:05 [##################] 100.0% ... After that, I can do $ guix build -n zziplib /gnu/store/fx0cdzzppd8jc09sianbq6gl1h7mxx3x-zziplib-0.13.72 Cheers, Konrad.
