From: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Cc: "Nicolas Graves via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System
distribution." <guix-devel@gnu.org>,
Nicolas Graves <ngraves@ngraves.fr>
Subject: Re: API for rewriting package fields ?
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2024 19:57:37 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZivdAQ_w-a-3VCNK@pbp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87edasno1w.fsf@elephly.net>
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On Fri, Apr 26, 2024 at 05:25:47PM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> Nicolas Graves via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." <guix-devel@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > Is there an interface to rewrite / update a field from a series of
> > packages easily?
>
> We have "update-package-inputs" in (guix upstream), which defines a
> local procedure "update-field". Perhaps you can use that?
>
> What it cannot do yet is *create* a field, e.g. add a native-inputs
> field to add an input when the package currently doesn't have a
> native-inputs field.
There's also the package property updater-extra-{native-,propagated-,}inputs
to add a package even if it's not shown as required by the importer.
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2024-04-26 5:25 API for rewriting package fields ? Nicolas Graves via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2024-04-26 15:25 ` Ricardo Wurmus
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