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From: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de>
To: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: install --with-version?
Date: Thu, 2 May 2019 17:44:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190502154430.lesr4xoe7xjhc5bg@pelzflorian.localdomain> (raw)

Hello!

I wanted to install biber 2.10 but Guix has and never had a package
for it (I think).  So I think of rewriting the existing package.

I see no --with-version option for `guix build`.

I tried

guix environment --ad-hoc -e '(begin (use-modules (guix packages) (gnu packages tex)) (package (inherit biber) (version "2.10")))'

but it still uses the source for the current biber 2.12 instead of
biber 2.10.  I suppose Guix’ record implementation is “hygienic” and
never refers to a changed version.

What to do?

Regards,
Florian

             reply	other threads:[~2019-05-02 15:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-02 15:44 pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) [this message]
2019-05-03  0:56 ` install --with-version? ison
2019-05-04 18:18   ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)

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