bug#40985: closed (building profile with 1 package)

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> building profile with 1 package
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> Thu, 30 Apr 2020 19:53:21 +0300
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> For more than a week now, whenever I do a guix pull, it tells me it's
> building a profile with 1 package. If I do other operations, such as
> removing a package, it displays the number of packages installed in my
> profile correctly (180-ish).
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> Here's the bit that it's outputting at the end of guix pull:
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> building CA certificate bundle...
> building fonts directory...
> building directory of Info manuals...
> building profile with 1 package...
> building /gnu/store/1lbks2qii5fdwigln34yd4cpvg5gxk7i-inferior-script.scm.drv...
> building package cache...
> building profile with 1 package...
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> I'm confused by this behaviour. It has not changed in the last two
> `guix system reconfigure`s I did.
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> On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 07:53:21PM +0300, Alexandru-Sergiu Marton wrote:
> > For more than a week now, whenever I do a guix pull, it tells me it's
> > building a profile with 1 package. If I do other operations, such as
> > removing a package, it displays the number of packages installed in my
> > profile correctly (180-ish).
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> > Here's the bit that it's outputting at the end of guix pull:
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> > building CA certificate bundle...
> > building fonts directory...
> > building directory of Info manuals...
> > building profile with 1 package...
> > building 
> > /gnu/store/1lbks2qii5fdwigln34yd4cpvg5gxk7i-inferior-script.scm.drv...
> > building package cache...
> > building profile with 1 package...
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> > I'm confused by this behaviour. It has not changed in the last two
> > `guix system reconfigure`s I did.
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> Guix can manage multiple profiles, each with their own history, and that
> is what's happening here. By default, there are two profiles: the one
> that deals with Guix itself, and the one that contains your installed
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> `guix pull` uses the former, found at '~/.config/guix/current'.
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> You can interact with this profile using the '--profile' argument to
> `guix package`. For example:
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> $ guix package --profile=$HOME/.config/guix/current --list-generations
> Generation 115  Mar 27 2020 03:05:01
>   guix  260eae7 out     
> /gnu/store/ynihdaa8ripvrw2mzxdslhl3av938jpp-guix-260eae789
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> $ guix package --profile=$HOME/.config/guix/current --switch-generation=115
> switched from generation 121 to 115
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> On the other hand, when you install packages, Guix uses the default
> profile, which is found at ~/.guix-profile.
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