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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: pkill9 <pkill9@runbox.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Change the '--with-source' flag to use the syntax `--with-source=PACKAGE=SOURCE`
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2020 23:21:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v9jmda6b.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200617141716.1fb9f553@runbox.com> (pkill9@runbox.com's message of "Wed, 17 Jun 2020 14:17:16 +0100")

Hi,

pkill9 <pkill9@runbox.com> skribis:

> I propose changing the `--with-source` flag to use the syntax of
> similar `--with-...` flags such as `--with-commit`, e.g.
> `--with-source=PACKAGE=SOURCE`, because currently you need to
> change a file to match the form "package-version.extension`, and it
> searches the package graph to find the package to replace the input
> with. It's annoying having to download a source file and change it's
> filename just to have it work with this flag.

You can use ‘--with-source=PACKAGE=SOURCE’, too:

  https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Package-Transformation-Options.html

Ludo’.


  reply	other threads:[~2020-06-19 21:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-17 13:17 Change the '--with-source' flag to use the syntax `--with-source=PACKAGE=SOURCE` pkill9
2020-06-19 21:21 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2020-06-19 22:56   ` pkill9

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