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From: "David Wilson" <david@daviwil.com>
Subject: Re: Testing small changes to upstream Guix repo
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2019 12:54:47 +0000
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To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
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Hi Danny,

Thanks so much for these steps, they worked perfectly for me.  The manual has the necessary commands laid out a bit too sparsely; having them concisely presented like this got me over the hurdle.

David

On Tue, Oct 8, 2019, at 3:33 PM, Danny Milosavljevic wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > 2. Clone the Guix repo myself, change the file, and somehow replace the upstream channel with my local repo path
> 
> $ git clone -b master --depth 1 
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git guix-foobar
> $ cd guix-foobar
> $ guix environment --pure guix --ad-hoc git guile-readline guile-json 
> nano
> (env)$ ./bootstrap
> (env)$ ./configure --localstatedir=/var
> (env)$ make -j5
> # Make sure it succeeds.
> # Lately it was broken for unrelated reasons (po files)--you don't want 
> to
> # confuse those errors with errors your change could have caused.
> (env)$ nano gnu/packages/baz.scm
> # Edit your package or whatever it is
> (env)$ make -j5
> (env)$ exit
> $ ./pre-inst-env guix build -K blah
> # On build failure, examine /tmp/guix-build-blah* directory
> # If you want, install the new package into your profile:
> $ ./pre-inst-env guix package -i blah
>