From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: A few questions about channels Date: Mon, 06 May 2019 23:43:20 +0200 Message-ID: <8736lrfedj.fsf@elephly.net> References: <20190424224654.td7fwnjjf4hnguyc@cf0> <87woj4xo72.fsf@gmail.com> <20190506211330.o4k4de6il2byu4lb@cf0> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:37667) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hNlOa-0004sc-KX for help-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 06 May 2019 17:43:37 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hNlOZ-0002PP-Lf for help-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 06 May 2019 17:43:36 -0400 Received: from sender4-of-o53.zoho.com ([136.143.188.53]:21369) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hNlOZ-0002Ov-CV for help-guix@gnu.org; Mon, 06 May 2019 17:43:35 -0400 In-reply-to: <20190506211330.o4k4de6il2byu4lb@cf0> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: ison Cc: help-guix@gnu.org ison writes: >> This should work just like it would for GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH. Are you >> saying that the patch files you have created in your channel are not >> being found? > > Correct, they're not being found. But I do not have the variable > $GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH set, because I thought it was being deprecated. Do I n= eed it > to make patches work? Everything else seems to work without it except pat= ches. Here=E2=80=99s a channel I=E2=80=99ve been maintaining long before channels= were a thing: https://github.com/BIMSBbioinfo/guix-bimsb It includes patch files in the root directory and they are found just fine. -- Ricardo