From: Anthony Quizon <anthoq88@gmail.com>
To: Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: installing and searching from custom channel
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 11:11:07 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPHgq+JhNB4ze3hL80Nk9iSPXdiagojb4+hmJfFeFCiOicrFdw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0D03A94B-6DC2-4B36-A709-BD6A0AEC354A@lepiller.eu>
> In your case you don't need a .guix-channel because your package modules
are named correctly:
Ah good to know thanks.
RE: "guix search hello-foo" and "guix install hello-foo" not working for
me, this turned out to be an issue with my PATH variable. So its working
now.
Thanks,
Anthony
On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 11:56 PM Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu> wrote:
> Le 22 avril 2020 02:23:56 GMT-04:00, Anthony Quizon <anthoq88@gmail.com>
> a écrit :
> >I'm trying to experiment with my own channel packages.
> >
> >Here is my current channel code:
> >https://github.com/anthonyquizon/guix-channel
> >
> >The docs in https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Channels.html
> >mentions
> >that if I have packages in a subdirectory, I need to specify its
> >location
> >in .guix-channel.
> >
> >However, doing this, 'guix pull' does not work and giving me an error:
> >
> >
> >*|builder for
> >`/gnu/store/04xj2y92320w5jd2rs3kqcdd4wxg0w78-anthonyquizon-packages.drv'
> >failed to produce output path
> >`/gnu/store/ky6097zcynxvwdkmgk5vw7p2qrqwyby8-anthonyquizon-packages'
> >
> > build of
> >/gnu/store/04xj2y92320w5jd2rs3kqcdd4wxg0w78-anthonyquizon-packages.drv
> >failed *
> >
> >(I've renamed .guix-channel to _guix-channel for now)
> >
> >I tried to add a package in the root folder and was not able to search
> >or
> >install it via "guix search hello-foo" and "guix install hello-foo"
> >after a
> >"guix pull".
> >
> >The package builds fine with "guix build -L . anthony-hello".
> >
> >Is there something I'm missing?
>
> In your case you don't need a .guix-channel because your package modules
> are named correctly:
>
> In a/b/c.scm is module (a b c), no need for a .guix-channel
>
> If in a/b/c.scm is module (b c), you'll need to specify a as thc
> subdirectory where modules are located. Does it make sense?
>
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2020-04-22 6:23 installing and searching from custom channel Anthony Quizon
2020-04-22 13:29 ` Julien Lepiller
2020-04-23 1:11 ` Anthony Quizon [this message]
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