From: "Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
To: Carlos Carleos <carleos@uniovi.es>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: installing a modified package
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 13:40:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ=Rwfbg1Wo4QNX8P0iB8qOeqvEkacftCUuOQb6tSezQorS0RQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84sijifffn.fsf@carleos.epv.uniovi.es>
2014-09-23 12:51 GMT-04:00 Carlos Carleos <carleos@uniovi.es>:
>
> Hi!
>
> I know I should be RTFM carefully, but...
>
> In Debian, I can follow these steps to customize a package (more or less):
>
> 1. # apt-get build-dep PACKAGE
>
> 2. $ apt-get source PACKAGE
>
> 3. $ cd PACKAGE-...; ...tweak...; dpkg-buildpackage...
>
> 4. # dpkg -i PACKAGE.deb
>
> What would be the similar sequence for GUIX? Thank you very much.
>
Since packages are Scheme expressions, you can simpley create a new
package object that inherits from the package you want to modify.
Untested code below:
(use-modules (guix packages) (gnu packages emacs))
(package (inherit emacs) ...)
To install, I believe you need to use something like:
guix package -e '(load "my-custom-emacs.scm")'
Where my-custom-emacs.scm is a file that contains the code above.
Having the 'package' form at the end of the file makes it the return
value of 'load'.
I'm writing this hastily, but I hope this helps.
- Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-23 17:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-23 16:51 installing a modified package Carlos Carleos
2014-09-23 17:25 ` Jason Self
2014-09-23 17:40 ` Thompson, David [this message]
2014-09-24 12:14 ` Overlays, custom package modules Ludovic Courtès
2014-09-24 5:48 ` installing a modified package Mark H Weaver
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