bug#54942: Can't run guix upgrade when a package is installed with the --with-git-url transformation

[Greg Hogan]

Hi,

The manual page Defining Package Variants [0] gives an example translating command-line options into a Guix manifest. The full list of options is found in the source [1] (including with-git-url).

[0] https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Defining-Package-Variants.html

[1] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/guix/transformations.scm?id=237d90a7808cfdced34b34595eba16632cbcb89e#n794

Greg

On Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 8:18 AM SeerLite via Bug reports for GNU Guix <bug-guix@gnu.org> wrote:

Hi!

I installed a package with --with-git-url and --with-branch to my profile:

     guix install kakoune
--with-git-url="" href="https://github.com/mawww/kakoune.git" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/mawww/kakoune.git
--with-branch=kakoune=breaking-cleanups

However, now I can't run `guix upgrade`. I get the following error:

     guix upgrade: error: the source of kakoune@2021.08.28 is not a Git
reference

I also tried to add the same transformation options to `guix upgrade`,
but I got the same error.


Is installing packages with the --with-git-url transformation to
profiles not supported? Or is this a bug?

Ideally I'd like `guix upgrade` to remember the way in which this
package was installed and update it accordingly. In this case by
fetching the latest changes from the breaking-cleanups branch. Is this
not how this transformation option works?

Thanks :)