Re: setting up a channel for pending package update patches

[jbranso@dismail.de]

March 2, 2024 at 4:53 PM, "Andy Tai" <atai@atai.org> wrote:



> 
> Hi, curious if anyone has done such a task: setting up a channel for
> the pending patches for package definitions.

I believe you are describing the guixrus channel.

https://sr.ht/~whereiseveryone/guixrus/

They will take WIP packages, and they help you to merge them upstream.

Joshua

> 
> Since pending patches for package updates take long time to process
> and merge. I wonder if anyone has set up a channel that contains the
> patches applied on top of the Guix git repo so such a channel would
> bring the pending changes to end users who use this channel before the
> official Guix git repo is updated (applying the package definition
> patches).
> 
> This is not about a permanent fork of the Guix repo or a special
> channel like guix games for some specific types of packages like say
> games.
> 
> Better yet, if anyone has set up a substitution server for this update
> channel, info on that would be even better.
> 
> This is assuming some risks, such as update patches may have errors,
> that may break things
> 
> Curious if anyone's experience in doing this, any issues running such
> setup, etc.
>