From: "Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
To: Vicente Vera <vicentemvp@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Installing a custom package on Guix binary setup
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 16:03:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ=Rwfa_w60ZSdX8o5DW63y=Q9UybenKm5U69k896+qHZ3-7ng@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMfbzvAdvinjWNv75i3UW9v+vfOMgYqguQ-2TYizkAh6601BAQ@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Vicente,
On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 12:42 PM, Vicente Vera <vicentemvp@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Currently i'm using a Guix binary installation on top of my GNU/Linux
> distro. Setup went fine.
>
> So far i've installed only substitutes (everything OK), but there are
> some packages that I want to tweak a little.
>
> How can I install a customized .scm package definition?
>
> For example, I want to pass some configure flags to Emacs (such as
> '#:configure-flags '("--without-dbus" ...)'). I copied
> /gnu/store/dbf9i96ac2pbyaibg591bx90a8zhvngc-guix-latest/gnu/packages/emacs.scm
> somewhere else, did some editing, but now I'm not sure what to do with
> it.
>
> Going through the mailing list i've found out that I might need to
> build Guix from source to do such a thing, but want to know if it can
> be done with a binary installation.
You'll want to create your own directory of Guile modules that contain
Guix package objects and configure the GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH environment
variable so Guix will find them. See
<https://gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Package-Modules.html#Package-Modules>
for more details.
- Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-31 20:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-31 16:42 Installing a custom package on Guix binary setup Vicente Vera
2015-08-31 20:03 ` Thompson, David [this message]
2015-08-31 20:15 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-09-01 2:28 ` Vicente Vera
2015-09-01 6:34 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2015-09-02 13:09 ` R dependencies Ludovic Courtès
2015-09-02 18:41 ` '-light' vs. '-minimal' packages Alex Kost
2015-09-02 19:26 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2015-09-02 20:18 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-09-03 8:32 ` Alex Kost
2015-09-03 21:11 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-09-04 12:59 ` Alex Kost
2015-09-05 20:29 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-09-03 0:53 ` R dependencies Vicente Vera
2015-09-03 6:29 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2015-09-03 14:55 ` Vicente Vera
2015-09-11 14:39 ` Vicente Vera
2015-09-03 10:12 ` [PATCH] " Ricardo Wurmus
2015-09-03 21:44 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-09-05 20:20 ` Ludovic Courtès
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