Thanks a lot for having a look at it! So I'm guessing that even when the bug is corrected, it won't be possible to depend on a commit prior to May 1st 2019, is that right?
Le mar. 19 déc. 2023 à 15:42, Simon Tournier <zimon.touto...@gmail.com> a écrit : > Hi, > > On Sun, 10 Dec 2023 at 09:18, Philippe Veber <philippe.ve...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > (define mychannels > > (list (channel > > (name 'guix) > > (url "https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git";) > > ;; Last commit that still has openmpi < 4.0.0 > > (commit > > "1482531cd7d0f1f7e565207240affb68dd822e17")))) > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > $ guix time-machine --commit=1482531cd7d0f1f7e565207240affb68dd822e17 -- > help > guix time-machine: error: cannot travel past commit `6298c3ffd965' from > May 1st, 2019 > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > > > My question is this: should I just be patient and wait for it to > > complete or I'm doing this wrong? > > You are trying to time-travel to something before the introduction of > time-travel. Hence the unexpected behaviour, I guess. > > Thanks for reporting that something is missing. The inferior should > stop and error out. It does not because ’cached-channel-instance’ is > currently called with the argument ’#:validate-channels’ set to the > default (const #t). > > Currently, the verification is only done in > guix/scripts/time-machine.scm. Well, this issue seems being part of > bug#65788 [1]. > > > 1: bug#65788: poor information when updating using “guix time-machine” > Simon Tournier <zimon.touto...@gmail.com> > Wed, 06 Sep 2023 18:57:38 +0200 > id:87pm2vme7x....@gmail.com > https://issues.guix.gnu.org/65788 > https://issues.guix.gnu.org/msgid/87pm2vme7x....@gmail.com > https://yhetil.org/guix/87pm2vme7x....@gmail.com > > Cheers, > simon >
