From: Rutger Helling <rhelling@mykolab.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 31669@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#31669: 'guix system' enhancements
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2018 16:40:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180601164052.584cbd4d@mykolab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bmcuackk.fsf@gnu.org>
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Hi Ludo,
That might cause confusion like you said, so I'm not sure if that would
be an improvement.
I guess I was wondering whether there was an easy way to do something
like build your entire system with a newer Mesa, or use LibreSSL
instead of OpenSSL as mentioned. Of course you could change your own
git checkout, but that's not as elegant as '--with-input/--with-graft'
etc.
Another option would be to make your own transformed packages and add
those as services instead of the regular versions. Unfortunately a lot
of services right now don't have that option (OpenSSH for example).
Plus you're pretty liable to make a mistake that way.
On Fri, 01 Jun 2018 14:58:03 +0200
ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Rutger Helling <rhelling@mykolab.com> skribis:
>
> > This isn't really a bug, but I noticed that 'guix system' right now
> > cannot use certain common build options like 'with-input'. I don't
> > know how hard it would be to add that, because I think it could be
> > pretty useful for something like the following for example:
> >
> > guix system reconfigure --with-input=openssl=libressl system.scm
>
> Note that ‘--with-input’ & co. are *package* transformation options,
> so the question is which packages we’d apply them to.
>
> We could take those options as applying to all the packages in the
> global profile, but it may not be exactly what people would expect
> because it would not apply to packages used by Shepherd services.
>
> WDYT?
>
> Ludo’.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-01 14:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-31 14:44 bug#31669: 'guix system' enhancements Rutger Helling
2018-06-01 12:58 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-06-01 14:40 ` Rutger Helling [this message]
2018-06-01 20:35 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-06-02 12:29 ` Rutger Helling
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