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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Subject: Re: Using local package
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2018 09:42:43 +0100
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To: Brett Gilio <brettg@posteo.net>
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Hi Brett,

> I am wondering about a specific dilemma for developers. I know that I
> can run a specific guix environment container of sorts to hack on
> package code, but I am curious about how I could do about using that
> locally checked out code to build it and run it.

You can generate a tarball (e.g. with =E2=80=9Cmake dist=E2=80=9D) and then=
 run

    guix build the-package \
         --with-source=3Dthe-tarball.tar.gz

=E2=80=9Cguix build=E2=80=9D returns the store path to the newly built item=
.  It won=E2=80=99t
result in a new generation of your profile.  You can usually run the
software using the full store path.

--
Ricardo