Re: How do I make a manifest file that installs a specific version of a dependency?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Zachary Kanfer <address@hidden> skribis:

> Thanks for responding. When I run this, I got this error:
>
> Directory
> '/gnu/store/jvj247prbwy1jn20svy4ls5yjscpmiss-xdg-mime-database/share/mime/packages'
> does not exist!
>
> My manifest file only installs racket and address@hidden:jdk. If I rerun the
> same command, I get "nothing to be done".

Is this really an error?  Does “guix package -I” lists both Racket and
IcedTea as installed?

I suspect this message might be a harmless warning from one of the
profile hooks, but it’s admittedly confusing.

> As a side note, is this the commonly recommended way to structure the
> manifest file? The documentation for `guix package -m` instead says to use
> `use-package-modules`, and doesn't mention anything about
> `specification->package+output`.

The documentation has been updated to suggest that:

  https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=6cd1059340

(It will show up in the on-line copy when we update it.)

Thanks,
Ludo’.