From: Xinglu Chen <public@yoctocell.xyz>
To: 51509@debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Subject: [bug#51509] [PATCH] doc: Mention Hg support for 'guix import cran' and some caveats.
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2021 13:03:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0ef4d3530562037b77f17ef5a672d2baee7b5970.1635591629.git.public@yoctocell.xyz> (raw)
* guix.texi (Invoking guix import): Mention support for Mercurial repositories
for the CRAN importer, and some caveats with the Git and Mercurial backends.
---
Prompted by Ricardo’s comments on the “Accuracy of importers” thread:
<https://yhetil.org/guix-devel/87mtmq7pes.fsf@disroot.org/T/#mabff98d436895c18f177c4016792ec215f645bbf>
doc/guix.texi | 12 +++++++++---
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index 22215214e0..661e29e69c 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -11852,14 +11852,20 @@
guix import cran --archive=bioconductor GenomicRanges
@end example
-Finally, you can also import R packages that have not yet been published on
-CRAN or Bioconductor as long as they are in a git repository. Use
-@option{--archive=git} followed by the URL of the git repository:
+Finally, you can also import R packages that have not yet been published
+on CRAN or Bioconductor as long as they are in a Git or Mercurial
+repository. Use @option{--archive=git} or @option{--archive=hg}
+followed by the URL of the repository:
@example
guix import cran --archive=git https://github.com/immunogenomics/harmony
@end example
+One limitation of this is that dependencies that are also hosted on Git
+or Mercurial repositories cannot be imported. Also, note that the
+@command{hg} executable has to be in the users's @env{PATH} for the
+Mercurial backend to work.
+
@item texlive
@cindex TeX Live
@cindex CTAN
base-commit: cd188b9c6f28bd907b625a5cd6c616d1d2529671
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2.33.0
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2021-11-27 9:17 ` [bug#51509] [PATCH] doc: Mention Hg support for 'guix import cran' and some caveats Ricardo Wurmus
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