@@ -4802,9 +4802,11 @@ Invoking guix pull
@item
the @option{--channels} option;
@item
-the user's @file{~/.config/guix/channels.scm} file;
+the user's @file{~/.config/guix/channels.scm} file, unless @option{-q}
+is passed;
@item
-the system-wide @file{/etc/guix/channels.scm} file;
+the system-wide @file{/etc/guix/channels.scm} file, unless @option{-q}
+is passed;
@item
the built-in default channels specified in the @code{%default-channels}
variable.
@@ -4906,6 +4908,11 @@ Invoking guix pull
evaluates to a list of channel objects. @xref{Channels}, for more
information.
+@item --no-channel-files
+@itemx -q
+Inhibit loading of the user and system channel files,
+@file{~/.config/guix/channels.scm} and @file{/etc/guix/channels.scm}.
+
@cindex channel news
@item --news
@itemx -N
@@ -5051,7 +5058,9 @@ Invoking guix time-machine
environment -C --ad-hoc guile -- guile
@end example
-The command above fetches Guix@tie{}1.2.0 and runs its @command{guix
+The command above fetches Guix@tie{}1.2.0 (and possibly other channels
+specified by your @file{channels.scm} configuration files---see
+below) and runs its @command{guix
environment} command to spawn an environment in a container running
@command{guile} (@command{guix environment} has since been subsumed by
@command{guix shell}; @pxref{Invoking guix shell}). It's like driving a
@@ -5061,6 +5070,21 @@ Invoking guix time-machine
large number of packages; the result is cached though and subsequent
commands targeting the same commit are almost instantaneous.
+As for @command{guix pull}, in the absence of any options,
+@command{time-machine} fetches the latest commits of the channels
+specified in @file{~/.config/guix/channels.scm},
+@file{/etc/guix/channels.scm}, or the default channels; the @option{-q}
+option lets you ignore these configuration files. The command:
+
+@example
+guix time-machine -q -- build hello
+@end example
+
+will thus build the package @code{hello} as defined in the main branch
+of Guix, without any additional channel, which is in general a newer
+revision of Guix than you have installed. Time travel works in both
+directions!
+
@quotation Note
The history of Guix is immutable and @command{guix time-machine}
provides the exact same software as they are in a specific Guix
@@ -5093,18 +5117,21 @@ Invoking guix time-machine
Read the list of channels from @var{file}. @var{file} must contain
Scheme code that evaluates to a list of channel objects.
@xref{Channels} for more information.
-@end table
-As for @command{guix pull}, the absence of any options means that the
-latest commit on the master branch will be used. The command
+@item --no-channel-files
+@itemx -q
+Inhibit loading of the user and system channel files,
+@file{~/.config/guix/channels.scm} and @file{/etc/guix/channels.scm}.
+
+Thus, @command{guix time-machine -q} is equivalent to the following Bash
+command, using the ``process substitution'' syntax (@pxref{Process
+Substitution,,, bash, The GNU Bash Reference Manual}):
@example
-guix time-machine -- build hello
+guix time-machine -C <(echo %default-channels) @dots{}
@end example
-will thus build the package @code{hello} as defined in the master branch,
-which is in general a newer revision of Guix than you have installed.
-Time travel works in both directions!
+@end table
Note that @command{guix time-machine} can trigger builds of channels and
their dependencies, and these are controlled by the standard build
@@ -84,6 +84,9 @@ (define (show-help)
Download and deploy the latest version of Guix.\n"))
(display (G_ "
-C, --channels=FILE deploy the channels defined in FILE"))
+ (display (G_ "
+ -q, --no-channel-files
+ inhibit loading of user and system 'channels.scm'"))
(display (G_ "
--url=URL download \"guix\" channel from the Git repository at URL"))
(display (G_ "
@@ -133,6 +136,9 @@ (define %options
(cons* (option '(#\C "channels") #t #f
(lambda (opt name arg result)
(alist-cons 'channel-file arg result)))
+ (option '(#\q "no-channel-files") #f #f
+ (lambda (opt name arg result)
+ (alist-cons 'ignore-channel-files? #t result)))
(option '(#\l "list-generations") #f #t
(lambda (opt name arg result)
(cons `(query list-generations ,arg)
@@ -735,6 +741,9 @@ (define (channel-list opts)
(define file
(assoc-ref opts 'channel-file))
+ (define ignore-channel-files?
+ (assoc-ref opts 'ignore-channel-files?))
+
(define default-file
(string-append (config-directory) "/channels.scm"))
@@ -750,9 +759,11 @@ (define (channel-list opts)
(define channels
(cond (file
(load-channels file))
- ((file-exists? default-file)
+ ((and (not ignore-channel-files?)
+ (file-exists? default-file))
(load-channels default-file))
- ((file-exists? global-file)
+ ((and (not ignore-channel-files?)
+ (file-exists? global-file))
(load-channels global-file))
(else
%default-channels)))
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
;;; Copyright © 2019 Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net>
-;;; Copyright © 2019, 2020, 2021 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
+;;; Copyright © 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
;;; Copyright © 2021 Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
;;;
;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
@@ -51,6 +51,9 @@ (define (show-help)
Execute COMMAND ARGS... in an older version of Guix.\n"))
(display (G_ "
-C, --channels=FILE deploy the channels defined in FILE"))
+ (display (G_ "
+ -q, --no-channel-files
+ inhibit loading of user and system 'channels.scm'"))
(display (G_ "
--url=URL use the Git repository at URL"))
(display (G_ "
@@ -75,6 +78,9 @@ (define %options
(cons* (option '(#\C "channels") #t #f
(lambda (opt name arg result)
(alist-cons 'channel-file arg result)))
+ (option '(#\q "no-channel-files") #f #f
+ (lambda (opt name arg result)
+ (alist-cons 'ignore-channel-files? #t result)))
(option '("url") #t #f
(lambda (opt name arg result)
(alist-cons 'repository-url arg
From: Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes@inria.fr> This also fixes <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/63726>. * guix/scripts/pull.scm (show-help, %options): Add '-q'. (channel-list): Honor it. * guix/scripts/time-machine.scm (show-help, %options): Add '-q'. * doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix pull, Invoking guix time-machine): Document it. Reported-by: Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> --- doc/guix.texi | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- guix/scripts/pull.scm | 15 +++++++++-- guix/scripts/time-machine.scm | 8 +++++- 3 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) Changes since v1: • Add ‘--no-channel-files’. • Join the two ‘time-machine’ examples, the one without ‘-q’ and the one with ‘-q’ (I realized there was already one example without ‘-q’ so I figured it was easier to clarify ‘channels.scm’ handling upfront). • Document the <(echo %default-channels) trick. Let me know what you think! Ludo’.