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From: "Bonface M. K." <bonfacemunyoki@gmail.com>
To: Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org, Pjotr Prins <pjotr2020@thebird.nl>
Subject: Re: How do you write a package's deps to a file?
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2020 11:29:06 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86o8jeexpp.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D5CB7294-94CA-4698-9612-F5609FAE8129@lepiller.eu> (Julien Lepiller's message of "Mon, 30 Nov 2020 12:17:30 -0500")

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Hi!

Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> writes:

> The reason you always get the same data is because
> you're assigning "name" inside the sexp
> (build-side), but you're using it inside tge
> unquote (host-side), so it refers to the name of
> the package you're building.
>

Ah yes! I see that now. Silly me ~.~

> I think you're doing it wrong, because some input
> names have no corresponding package (see source
> for instance). Why not use the package data
> directly, like guix graph does for instance?
>

I don't know how to do this. I've had a look at
guix/graph.scm and scripts/graph.scm... And I got
lost--- I'm not /yet/ a scheme guru... I reckon
I'll go with Efraim's suggestion which seems
easier to do :)

Thanks for the pointers!

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-12-01  8:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-30 16:25 How do you write a package's deps to a file? Bonface M. K.
2020-11-30 17:17 ` Julien Lepiller
2020-11-30 23:23   ` zimoun
2020-12-01  9:13     ` Bonface M. K.
2020-12-01  9:59       ` zimoun
2020-12-01 18:04         ` Bonface M. K.
2020-12-01  8:29   ` Bonface M. K. [this message]
2020-12-01  7:35 ` Efraim Flashner
2020-12-01  9:15   ` Bonface M. K.

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