bug#22017: Bug #22017 Hunting: Pinning a Guix version

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello!

zimoun <address@hidden> skribis:

> You wrote:
>
>   git clone …/guix.git my-pinned-guix
>   (cd my-pinned-guix; git checkout deadbeef)
>   guix package -L my-pinned-guix --manifest=my-manifest.scm
>
>
> which is now possible with
>
>   guix pull --commit=deadbeef
>   guix package -m my-manifest.scm
>
> Moreover, "guix time-machine" also handles such use case. If I understand 
> well.

Yes, pinning is definitely implemented, and much more nicely than what I
was suggesting back in 2015!

> Recently, a lot of new features have been discussed on guix-devel.
> This one has not been raised: add local tags to ease the navigation
> through different versions of Guix. It is not clear to me if it should
> be under "guix pull", e.g., "guix pull --tag=add foo" or another
> command "guix tag add foo".
>
> Because it is an really old bug, I am not sure that this whishlist
> will efficiently work as a reminder, so I am inclined to close it or
> maybe change the title or raise this very tagging feature to
> guix-devel.

Yes, I think we should close this issue and create a new one about
tagging Guix revisions/channel instances.

Thanks!

Ludo’.