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From: Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Debugging Guix packages?
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 05:13:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160122041302.GA7694@thebird.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8760ymy7nf.fsf@gnu.org>

On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 09:55:32PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> > I wonder how this could be implemented, any ideas?
> 
> Roughly, we could generate a Scheme file containing the list of phases
> (the generated build script contains them, but it immediately passes
> them to ‘gnu-build’ or similar), which could be loaded into Guile.  From
> there we could explicitly manipulate the list of phases and run them.
> 
> There are complications though, such as the fact that build systems can
> lack the notion of phases altogether (this is the case of
> ‘trivial-build-system’, but it may be the only one.)  I wonder if we
> should move phases from the build side to the host side at some point…

How about extending the -K switch with a build phase option where it
should stop? 

I think the container thing is nice, but not really suitable for
fixing stuff (as Chris notes, it ends up read-only in the store). I am
pretty happy with -K.

Pj.
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  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-22  4:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-19  2:42 Debugging Guix packages? Jookia
2016-01-19 14:52 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-01-19 15:56   ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-01-20 22:26   ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-01-21  0:21     ` Jookia
2016-01-21  1:27       ` Leo Famulari
2016-01-21  1:59       ` Ben Woodcroft
2016-01-21 20:55       ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-01-22  4:13         ` Pjotr Prins [this message]
2016-01-22  4:53           ` Jookia
2016-01-22 17:05           ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-01-21 20:58       ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-01-21 22:10         ` Jookia
2016-01-21 22:28     ` Christopher Allan Webber

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