Hi Ricardo,
> Also, is it expected that packages from guix commits dating > > from a few years ago will still work in this setting? Thanks! > > Commits before the introduction of inferiors likely won’t work, > unfortunately. > Sounds natural, thanks for the confirmation. > For running old versions I recommend writing new package variants > instead and including them in a channel. Using inferiors is a good idea > when you want to reproduce a Guix environment that somebody else (or > your younger self) recorded, but I would not recommend them as a way to > make past software variants available. If you are not interested in a > particular old state of the world but only care about a particular > version of a single piece of software (that may be built with current > toolchains and libraries) then package variants are a better idea. > Alright, thanks! One question though: I suppose dependencies of these packages have to be maintained in the same channel right? Otherwise, if I rely on packages from guix distribution, they can be dropped or updated to an incompatible version at any moment. That scares me a little, because it could break my channel anytime, or am I mistaken? > > For bioinfo package variants also take a look at the guix-bimsb channel: > > https://github.com/BIMSBbioinfo/guix-bimsb > > (I should update the README to recommend using channels instead of > GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH…) > Looks interesting for me! I'll ping you there for further questions! > -- > Ricardo > >
