bug#37565: [use profile manifest] upstream VCS informations only available after a guix pull

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

YOANN P <address@hidden> skribis:

> Not sure if it should be considerated as a bug but it seems that the upstream 
> VCS information are only available after a "guix pull".

You mean that ‘guix describe’ doesn’t work for ‘guix’ not obtained from
‘guix pull’, right?

> If it is not a bug, it will be nice to have this information even on a fresh 
> install by putting as VCS information a default git repository 
> (https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git) and the current tag as commit (or 
> the real commit if available somewhere in binary install files) ?

I agree it’d be nice.

Thanks,
Ludo’.