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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next prev parent 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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