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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Feng Shu <tumashu@163.com>
Subject: Re: emacs.scm: Suggest add emacs-next or emacs-snapshot
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2015 12:25:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bnawzutu.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <idjegfuc62j.fsf@bimsb-sys02.mdc-berlin.net> (Ricardo Wurmus's message of "Fri, 13 Nov 2015 15:44:20 +0100")

Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de> skribis:

> Feng Shu <tumashu@163.com> writes:
>
>> ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>>
>>> Currently you have to do:
>>>
>>>   guix package -i $(guix build emacs --with-source=…/emacs-20151111.tar.gz)
>>>
>>> Not as convenient as one would like.  I guess we could add --with-source
>>> directly in ‘guix package’.
>>
>> I agree and suggest add a way which can override name and verison, for
>> example:
>>
>>   guix package -i emacs-snapshot --with-source=/path/to/emacs.git --override-name=emacs-snapshot --override-version=20151111
>
> I don’t like to add override-name and override-version flags.  They
> don’t seem very useful.  After all, every different build gets its own
> directory in the store, so “override-version” seems to be useless.
>
> “override-name” just duplicates the package name, so I fail to see how
> it would be an improvement.

Currently the name and version are inferred from the file/directory name
passed to --with-source.  That seemed like a simple UI, at the expense
of less flexibility compared to what Feng Shu proposes.

It’s always possible to do something arbitrarily complex and then use
‘guix package --install-from-file’.

What’s missing though is the ability to pass --with-source to ‘guix
package’.

> I do agree that it would be a little nicer if we could build and install
> a package from a directory, rather than just from a tarball.

It’s already possible, but its name must match the package name.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-11-14 11:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-12  0:35 emacs.scm: Suggest add emacs-next or emacs-snapshot tumashu
2015-11-12 12:52 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-11-13  0:26   ` tumashu
2015-11-13  8:04     ` Ricardo Wurmus
2015-11-13  8:47     ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-11-13 12:00       ` Feng Shu
2015-11-13 14:44         ` Ricardo Wurmus
2015-11-14 11:25           ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2015-11-13 11:56   ` Feng Shu
2015-11-14 11:32     ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-11-15  7:06       ` Feng Shu

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