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From: Pierre Neidhardt <ambrevar@gmail.com>
To: Mathieu Lirzin <mthl@gnu.org>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to install prerelease package versions (particularly Emacs)
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2018 17:49:10 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sh8hiwn5.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87370hwykf.fsf@gnu.org>

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Mathieu Lirzin <mthl@gnu.org> writes:

> I think you have to use the ‘local-file’ procedure in place of ‘origin’
> in the ‘source’ field.

Unless I'm mistaken, local-file does not work on folders.  In the case
of a Git repo, that would mean extracting the archive and overwriting
the destination on each build.  It's not a solution then.

-- 
Pierre Neidhardt

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-03-30 12:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-03  0:00 How to install prerelease package versions (particularly Emacs) Jorge
2018-03-03 10:24 ` Oleg Pykhalov
2018-03-19  4:13   ` Chris Marusich
2018-03-26 18:42     ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-03-27  9:51       ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-03-27 12:24         ` Clément Lassieur
2018-03-27 15:33         ` Oleg Pykhalov
2018-03-27 17:46           ` Marius Bakke
2018-03-27 20:57           ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-03-28  7:12             ` Oleg Pykhalov
2018-03-30  7:06               ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-03-30 12:13                 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2018-03-30 12:19                   ` Pierre Neidhardt [this message]
2018-03-30 13:08                     ` Mathieu Lirzin
2018-04-11 15:53                       ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-04-12  8:29                         ` Chris Marusich
2018-04-12  9:12                           ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-04-12 12:57                             ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-04-12 13:21                               ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-04-13  5:27                             ` Chris Marusich
2018-04-13  5:57                         ` Carlo Zancanaro
2018-04-01 14:09                 ` Oleg Pykhalov
2018-04-11 16:00                   ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-04-12  8:28                     ` Chris Marusich
2018-04-12  8:32                       ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-04-11 15:57               ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-04-12  6:06                 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-04-05 15:53       ` Jorge
2018-04-05 19:36         ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-03-03 13:46 ` Jorge

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