Hello sirgazil, sirgazil <sirga...@zoho.com> writes:
[...] > Is there any way to tell Guix to create a generation that is the > aggregate of the packages installed in the current generation and the > packages specified in the manifest file? no way to aggregate packages this way in the same profile (default profile I imagine), you should use "guix environment" as already poitend out by ison in this thread or... you could "manually" list packages installed in your preferred (default?) profile to a manifest or... if you are willing to hack a little bit, Ricardo Wurmus wrote a little Guile script that helps convert a profile manifest (e.g. your default profile) to a manifest.scm file: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2018-10/msg00023.html quoting here an excerpt for completeness (since the original message was on guix-devel): > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > (use-modules (guix profiles) > (ice-9 match) > (ice-9 pretty-print)) > > (match (command-line) > ((_ where) > (pretty-print > `(specifications->manifest > ',(map manifest-entry-name (manifest-entries (profile-manifest > where)))))) > (_ (error "Please provide the path to a Guix profile."))) > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > You can put this in a file “manifest-to-manifest.scm” and run it like > this from a Guix source checkout: > > ./pre-inst-env guile -s manifest-to-manifest.scm /path/to/.guix-profile > > my-manifest.scm > > You can then proceed to install the generated manifest with: > > guix package -m my-manifest.scm -p /path/to/new/.guix-profile e.g. you can convert your current default profile manifest with: ./pre-inst-env guile -s manifest-to-manifest.scm $HOME/.guix-profile > default-manifest.scm hint: if you look at $HOME/.guix-profile/manifest you'll see what's installed in your default profile... *provenance* included :-) HTH! Gio' -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures
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