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

[YOANN P]

>De : Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden>
>Envoyé : mardi 1 octobre 2019 09:28
>À : YOANN P <address@hidden>
>Cc : address@hidden <address@hidden>
>Objet : Re: bug#37565: [use profile manifest] upstream VCS informations only 
>available after a guix pull
>
>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?
>

Not exactly but has the same behavior indeed.
I was talking about upstream VCS informations in ~/.guix-profile/manifest (user 
profile manifest)
Every packages installed with "guix install xxx" from a fresh install ( 1.0.1 
in my case ) doesn't have upstream VCS informations in ~/.guix-profile/manifest 
as you described here ( 
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2018-10/msg00018.html ).
Those informations only appear after a "guix pull" and think those informations 
should be available even on a fresh install.

>> 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’.

Regards,