From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Quizon Subject: Re: installing and searching from custom channel Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 11:11:07 +1000 Message-ID: References: <0D03A94B-6DC2-4B36-A709-BD6A0AEC354A@lepiller.eu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:56920) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jRQOh-0003eX-Jy for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Apr 2020 21:11:24 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jRQOg-00064v-EO for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Apr 2020 21:11:23 -0400 Received: from mail-lj1-x22f.google.com ([2a00:1450:4864:20::22f]:34910) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jRQOf-00061u-W2 for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Apr 2020 21:11:22 -0400 Received: by mail-lj1-x22f.google.com with SMTP id g4so4479470ljl.2 for ; Wed, 22 Apr 2020 18:11:21 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <0D03A94B-6DC2-4B36-A709-BD6A0AEC354A@lepiller.eu> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: Julien Lepiller Cc: help-guix@gnu.org > 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 wrote= : > Le 22 avril 2020 02:23:56 GMT-04:00, Anthony Quizon > a =C3=A9crit : > >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? >