I’m closing this because we now have “guix locate”.
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Ricardo
On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 01:03:38PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
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> > This could be solved by a new field in the package-record: (provides
> > '("list of commands provided"))
>
> The danger with doing this in a package definition is that it can easily
> go out of sync unless we also add a verific
> This could be solved by a new field in the package-record: (provides
> '("list of commands provided"))
The danger with doing this in a package definition is that it can easily
go out of sync unless we also add a verification phase to compare the
output with the list of provided executables. A
Hi
This could be solved by a new field in the package-record: (provides
'("list of commands provided"))
What do you think?
This could allow us to quickly let guile search the list of provided
commands and return the package name.
E.g. right now in my guixsd I have no "file" command. I have no i
Mathieu Lirzin skribis:
> I would find really useful if Guix was providing a tool similar to what
> ‘dnf whatprovides’ or ‘apt-file’ does. I mean something to check what
> packages provides a particular file (executable/manual/library).
This has been discussed before, and can be summarized this
Hello,
I would find really useful if Guix was providing a tool similar to what
‘dnf whatprovides’ or ‘apt-file’ does. I mean something to check what
packages provides a particular file (executable/manual/library).
My main use-case is when running a ‘configure’ script which checks an
arbitrary pr
