From 9c8098424b5be3abf21144c74162ec39c0c2e799 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Ludovic=20Court=C3=A8s?= Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2023 16:54:26 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] pull, time-machine: Add '-q' to ignore channel files. This also fixes . * guix/scripts/pull.scm (show-help, %options): Add '-q'. (channel-list): Honor it. * guix/scripts/time-machine.scm (show-help, %options): Add '-q'. * doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix pull, Invoking guix time-machine): Document it. Reported-by: Simon Tournier --- doc/guix.texi | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- guix/scripts/pull.scm | 15 +++++++++-- guix/scripts/time-machine.scm | 8 +++++- 3 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 4d63627a26..a5e9f06957 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -4802,9 +4802,11 @@ Specifically, @command{guix pull} downloads code from the @dfn{channels} @item the @option{--channels} option; @item -the user's @file{~/.config/guix/channels.scm} file; +the user's @file{~/.config/guix/channels.scm} file, unless @option{-q} +is passed; @item -the system-wide @file{/etc/guix/channels.scm} file; +the system-wide @file{/etc/guix/channels.scm} file, unless @option{-q} +is passed; @item the built-in default channels specified in the @code{%default-channels} variable. @@ -4906,6 +4908,11 @@ Read the list of channels from @var{file} instead of evaluates to a list of channel objects. @xref{Channels}, for more information. +@item --no-channel-files +@itemx -q +Inhibit loading of the user and system channel files, +@file{~/.config/guix/channels.scm} and @file{/etc/guix/channels.scm}. + @cindex channel news @item --news @itemx -N @@ -5051,7 +5058,9 @@ guix time-machine --commit=v1.2.0 -- \ environment -C --ad-hoc guile -- guile @end example -The command above fetches Guix@tie{}1.2.0 and runs its @command{guix +The command above fetches Guix@tie{}1.2.0 (and possibly other channels +specified by your @file{channels.scm} configuration files---see +below) and runs its @command{guix environment} command to spawn an environment in a container running @command{guile} (@command{guix environment} has since been subsumed by @command{guix shell}; @pxref{Invoking guix shell}). It's like driving a @@ -5061,6 +5070,21 @@ invocation can be expensive: it may have to download or even build a large number of packages; the result is cached though and subsequent commands targeting the same commit are almost instantaneous. +As for @command{guix pull}, in the absence of any options, +@command{time-machine} fetches the latest commits of the channels +specified in @file{~/.config/guix/channels.scm}, +@file{/etc/guix/channels.scm}, or the default channels; the @option{-q} +option lets you ignore these configuration files. The command: + +@example +guix time-machine -q -- build hello +@end example + +will thus build the package @code{hello} as defined in the main branch +of Guix, without any additional channel, which is in general a newer +revision of Guix than you have installed. Time travel works in both +directions! + @quotation Note The history of Guix is immutable and @command{guix time-machine} provides the exact same software as they are in a specific Guix @@ -5110,18 +5134,21 @@ string or the name of a tag), or @var{branch}. Read the list of channels from @var{file}. @var{file} must contain Scheme code that evaluates to a list of channel objects. @xref{Channels} for more information. -@end table -As for @command{guix pull}, the absence of any options means that the -latest commit on the master branch will be used. The command +@item --no-channel-files +@itemx -q +Inhibit loading of the user and system channel files, +@file{~/.config/guix/channels.scm} and @file{/etc/guix/channels.scm}. + +Thus, @command{guix time-machine -q} is equivalent to the following Bash +command, using the ``process substitution'' syntax (@pxref{Process +Substitution,,, bash, The GNU Bash Reference Manual}): @example -guix time-machine -- build hello +guix time-machine -C <(echo %default-channels) @dots{} @end example -will thus build the package @code{hello} as defined in the master branch, -which is in general a newer revision of Guix than you have installed. -Time travel works in both directions! +@end table Note that @command{guix time-machine} can trigger builds of channels and their dependencies, and these are controlled by the standard build diff --git a/guix/scripts/pull.scm b/guix/scripts/pull.scm index 9b78d4b5ca..759c3a94a3 100644 --- a/guix/scripts/pull.scm +++ b/guix/scripts/pull.scm @@ -84,6 +84,9 @@ (define (show-help) Download and deploy the latest version of Guix.\n")) (display (G_ " -C, --channels=FILE deploy the channels defined in FILE")) + (display (G_ " + -q, --no-channel-files + inhibit loading of user and system 'channels.scm'")) (display (G_ " --url=URL download \"guix\" channel from the Git repository at URL")) (display (G_ " @@ -133,6 +136,9 @@ (define %options (cons* (option '(#\C "channels") #t #f (lambda (opt name arg result) (alist-cons 'channel-file arg result))) + (option '(#\q "no-channel-files") #f #f + (lambda (opt name arg result) + (alist-cons 'ignore-channel-files? #t result))) (option '(#\l "list-generations") #f #t (lambda (opt name arg result) (cons `(query list-generations ,arg) @@ -735,6 +741,9 @@ (define (channel-list opts) (define file (assoc-ref opts 'channel-file)) + (define ignore-channel-files? + (assoc-ref opts 'ignore-channel-files?)) + (define default-file (string-append (config-directory) "/channels.scm")) @@ -750,9 +759,11 @@ (define (load-channels file) (define channels (cond (file (load-channels file)) - ((file-exists? default-file) + ((and (not ignore-channel-files?) + (file-exists? default-file)) (load-channels default-file)) - ((file-exists? global-file) + ((and (not ignore-channel-files?) + (file-exists? global-file)) (load-channels global-file)) (else %default-channels))) diff --git a/guix/scripts/time-machine.scm b/guix/scripts/time-machine.scm index e4fe511382..87000d82ec 100644 --- a/guix/scripts/time-machine.scm +++ b/guix/scripts/time-machine.scm @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ ;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU ;;; Copyright © 2019 Konrad Hinsen -;;; Copyright © 2019, 2020, 2021 Ludovic Courtès +;;; Copyright © 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023 Ludovic Courtès ;;; Copyright © 2021 Simon Tournier ;;; Copyright © 2023 Maxim Cournoyer ;;; @@ -62,6 +62,9 @@ (define (show-help) Execute COMMAND ARGS... in an older version of Guix.\n")) (display (G_ " -C, --channels=FILE deploy the channels defined in FILE")) + (display (G_ " + -q, --no-channel-files + inhibit loading of user and system 'channels.scm'")) (display (G_ " --url=URL use the Git repository at URL")) (display (G_ " @@ -86,6 +89,9 @@ (define %options (cons* (option '(#\C "channels") #t #f (lambda (opt name arg result) (alist-cons 'channel-file arg result))) + (option '(#\q "no-channel-files") #f #f + (lambda (opt name arg result) + (alist-cons 'ignore-channel-files? #t result))) (option '("url") #t #f (lambda (opt name arg result) (alist-cons 'repository-url arg