From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org>
Cc: 42735@debbugs.gnu.org, GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org
Subject: [bug#42735] [PATCH] pre-inst-env: don't use GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2020 13:16:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h7t532bq.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mu36onjj.fsf@gnu.org>
Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org> writes:
> Hello Denis,
>
>> ./pre-inst-env is supposed to use only the packages definitions that are in
>> the guix source tree and not the host packages.
>>
>> However if GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH is set, it will use host packages as well.
>
> Let say you have a custom my-hello package inheriting from hello, and
> you want to build it on top of a recent Guix checkout, then you probably
> want GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH to cooperate with pre-inst-env.
That’s primarily how I use GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH: for development. If you
have GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH set for any other reasons you should consider
using channels instead.
--
Ricardo
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-14 11:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-07 2:21 [bug#42735] [PATCH] pre-inst-env: don't use GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
2020-08-07 3:46 ` Brett Gilio
2020-08-07 6:02 ` Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
2020-08-07 8:41 ` Mathieu Othacehe
2020-08-09 9:09 ` Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
2020-08-14 10:00 ` bug#42735: " Oleg Pykhalov
2020-08-14 11:16 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
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