From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: Nicolas Graves via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System
distribution." <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Cc: Nicolas Graves <ngraves@ngraves.fr>
Subject: Re: API for rewriting package fields ?
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2024 17:25:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87edasno1w.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r0es66g9.fsf@ngraves.fr> (Nicolas Graves via's message of "Fri, 26 Apr 2024 07:25:42 +0200")
Nicolas Graves via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." <guix-devel@gnu.org> writes:
> Is there an interface to rewrite / update a field from a series of
> packages easily?
We have "update-package-inputs" in (guix upstream), which defines a
local procedure "update-field". Perhaps you can use that?
What it cannot do yet is *create* a field, e.g. add a native-inputs
field to add an input when the package currently doesn't have a
native-inputs field.
--
Ricardo
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2024-04-26 5:25 API for rewriting package fields ? Nicolas Graves via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2024-04-26 15:25 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2024-04-26 16:57 ` Efraim Flashner
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