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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2021-05-28 15:41:32 +0200
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2021-05-28 23:04:43 +0200
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guix package: Do not warn about "missing arguments" when there's nothing to do.
In some cases, running "guix upgrade" can trigger this warning, and "missing arguments" is misleading then. Reported by flatwhatson on #guix. * guix/scripts/package.scm (process-actions): Change warning to "nothing to do".
-rw-r--r--guix/scripts/package.scm7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/guix/scripts/package.scm b/guix/scripts/package.scm
index 52e9961a42..6db83807af 100644
--- a/guix/scripts/package.scm
+++ b/guix/scripts/package.scm
@@ -1045,7 +1045,12 @@ processed, #f otherwise."
(warn-about-old-distro)
(when (and (null? files) (manifest-transaction-null? trans))
- (warning (G_ "missing arguments, nothing to do~%")))
+ ;; We can reach this point because the user did not specify any action
+ ;; (as in "guix package"), did not specify any package (as in "guix
+ ;; install"), or because there's nothing to upgrade (as when running
+ ;; "guix upgrade" on an up-to-date profile). We cannot distinguish
+ ;; among these here; all we can say is that there's nothing to do.
+ (warning (G_ "nothing to do~%")))
(unless (manifest-transaction-null? trans)
;; When '--manifest' is used, display information about TRANS as if we