zimoun writes: > Hi Pierre, > > On Fri, 28 Feb 2020 at 09:13, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > >> Beside this issue, how do you test it? I guess we first need to install >> a bunch of package with `pre-inst-env guix ...` then to a `pre-inst-env search`? > > It is not searching in the installed packages but in all the packages. > So, to test it, you need to "./pre-inst-env guix pull -p" or something > like that to populate the Xapian index database. Then "./pre-inst-env > guix search" will lookup into. > I mean, it is how I understand it should work. I have not yet looked > into the code. What I meant with "install a bunch of packages" is "guix pull -p", is you said. Xapian cache is populated as a hook of guix pull if I got it correctly. -- Pierre Neidhardt https://ambrevar.xyz/