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From: Martin Castillo <castilma@uni-bremen.de>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Building from a local source code checkout
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2017 17:53:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8f370b0f-ed67-4342-1af4-5e817093dd2c@uni-bremen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zi6c5eo9.fsf@gnu.org>

> I agree the matching-name constraint can be annoying.  The alternative
> would be allow the user to (optionally?) specify the name of the package
> whose source is being changed, as in:
> 
>   guix build python-activepapers \
>     --with-source=python-activepapers=$HOME/Dev/AP
> 
> WDYT?
> 
> A bit heavyweight syntactically but maybe we have to live with it.
> 
> Ludo’.
> 

Why can't guix use the argument package name argument?
                 v-- this one
guix build python-activepapers --with-source=$HOME/Dev/AP

Martin
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  reply	other threads:[~2017-12-21 16:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-19 11:34 Building from a local source code checkout Konrad Hinsen
2017-12-19 17:15 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-12-20  8:52   ` Konrad Hinsen
2017-12-20 10:19     ` Konrad Hinsen
2017-12-20 12:41       ` Carlo Zancanaro
2017-12-21  6:38         ` Konrad Hinsen
2017-12-21 10:38           ` Pjotr Prins
2017-12-21 11:20           ` Martin Castillo
2017-12-21 14:38             ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-12-21 16:53               ` Martin Castillo [this message]
2017-12-22  9:29                 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-12-21 17:02               ` Konrad Hinsen
2017-12-22 23:07                 ` Ludovic Courtès

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