bug#29654: Manual database index.db embeds timestamps

[Ludovic Courtès]

Ruud van Asseldonk <address@hidden> skribis:

> Unfortunately, I am unable to pull that commit. Guix pull output:
>
> Updating from Git repository at
> 'https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git'...
> Building from Git commit b8396f96bfeadfa63e7ad2afc2ab5a37f37f5f81...
> The following derivation will be built:
>    /gnu/store/m8wcw35f4d33rzf54zzcrg0g80m0zi4r-guix-latest.drv
> copying and compiling to
> '/gnu/store/2g14x91l9wh4wv8zsvnkfblrrdfcysg4-guix-latest' with Guile
> 2.2.2...
> loading...     17.1% of 659 filesBacktrace:
>           12 (primitive-load "/gnu/store/9pgqmhjclkayr5bdhqfk69sbn84?")
> In ./guix/build/pull.scm:
>     127:8 11 (build-guix _ _ #:system _ #:storedir _ #:localstatedir ?)
> In ./guix/build/compile.scm:
>     158:6 10 (compile-files _ _ ("/gnu/store/2g14x91l9wh4wv8zsvn?" ?) ?)
>    107:11  9 (load-files "/gnu/store/2g14x91l9wh4wv8zsvnkfblrrdfcys?" ?)
> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>   2792:17  8 (resolve-interface (guix man-db) #:select _ #:hide _ # _ ?)
>   2718:10  7 (_ (guix man-db) _ _ #:ensure _)
>   2986:16  6 (try-module-autoload _ _)
>    2316:4  5 (save-module-excursion #<procedure 44847e0 at ice-9/boo?>)
>   3006:22  4 (_)
> In unknown file:
>            3 (primitive-load-path "guix/man-db" #<procedure 40e90a0 ?>)
> In ice-9/eval.scm:
>    196:43  2 (_ #f)
> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>    2795:6  1 (resolve-interface _ #:select _ #:hide _ #:prefix _ # _ ?)
> In unknown file:
>            0 (scm-error misc-error #f "~A ~S" ("no code for modu?" ?) ?)
>
> ERROR: In procedure scm-error:
> ERROR: no code for module (gdbm)

My bad, fixed in 16613d230b3d9a9cf307c5c5d3899eb0a0c93b0e, which makes
GDBM is “soft dependency” (we only need it when building the manual
database, not when building Guix itself, after all.)

Thanks!

Ludo’.