From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Overriding a package’s source with ‘guix build’
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 00:27:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877g80nwo2.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
Commit 7f3673f adds a ‘--with-source’ option to ‘guix build’:
‘--with-source=SOURCE’
Use SOURCE as the source of the corresponding package. SOURCE must
be a file name or a URL, as for ‘guix download’ (*note Invoking
guix download::).
The “corresponding package” is taken to be one specified on the
command line whose name matches the base of SOURCE—e.g., if SOURCE
is ‘/src/guile-2.0.10.tar.gz’, the corresponding package is
‘guile’. Likewise, the version string is inferred from SOURCE; in
the previous example, it’s ‘2.0.10’.
This option allows users to try out versions of packages other than
the one provided by the distribution. The example below downloads
‘ed-1.7.tar.gz’ from a GNU mirror and uses that as the source for
the ‘ed’ package:
guix build ed --with-source=mirror://gnu/ed/ed-1.7.tar.gz
As a developer, ‘--with-source’ makes it easy to test release
candidates:
guix build guile --with-source=../guile-2.0.9.219-e1bb7.tar.xz
Pretty cool no? :-)
Comments welcome!
Ludo’.
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