Hi Tobias, Le mar. 11 juin 2019 à 09:43, Philippe Veber > <philippeve...@gmail.com> a écrit : > > Hello Tobias, and thanks a lot for your answer! > > I completely missed this reply. I am so sorry. >
Really no worries, and thanks for lending your help! > > Philippe Veber wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > FWIW, I tried the exact example given in the manual [0] and it > > failed, > > although for a different reason. It does a lot of work until it > > reaches an > > exception (the build of profile.drv fails). Could someone > > confirm this > > should work? > > Pasting the contents of that first code box into ‘foo’ and running > ‘guix environment -m foo’ works fine for me on today's guix. > > Could you tell us which command you're using and what the result > is? > The command is guix environment --manifest=manifest.scm and the log is available here: https://gist.github.com/pveber/c6e9437f4964ec9f00e7f1ec6cccce52 > > > Also, is it expected that packages from guix commits dating > > from a few years ago will still work in this setting? Thanks! > > I'm not sure. There have been some watershed moments in those > years, and I don't know how well inferiors would isolate those > changes, if at all. > Ok, that limitation makes a lot of sense. I think I'll follow Ricardo's advice to enable installation of old versions. Again, thanks a lot! ph.
