Re: Guix home - 'pinning' ?

[Fenix Lopez <jordila@librebits.info>]

Hi !

   Thanks for the clarifiction, Robby.

In order to give some more context , may i add the fact that the package 
in question

is not being compiled/derived when entering the build phase ? In 
consquence, the whole 'guix home reconfigure' gets stopped...

That's the underlaying reason why i was wondering how to pin that 
'offending' package.

    Umh... leaving package version 'pinning' aside, umh...   Is there 
another way to prevent such described scenario ? how to get ' guix home 
reconfigure'

finish the whole process regardless the issue described ?


thanks, thanks , thnaks for your attention

F


On 12/6/23 18:16, Robby Zambito wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> when using guix-home, is there a way to pin a given package to its
>> current version, so that it stays as it is despite 'guix pull'
>> bringing new commits ?
> In your (home-environment (packages ...)) list, you should specify the
> package that has the correct version that you want. There are two ways
> to do this. You can either create an inferior channel, and specify the
> package by looking it up in that channel, or you can apply a
> transformation to the package to specify the version.
>
> Using an inferior package will pull the package from a previous version
> of Guix - including all of its package inputs. This will pin all of the
> transitive dependencies of the package as well. See: info guix Inferiors
> for information on how to define an inferior, and how to select a
> package from that inferior.
>
> If you want to pin a package to a specific commit, version, branch, etc
> of that package, you can use transformations. See: info guix "Defining
> Package Variants" for how to use options->transformation, and info guix
> "Package Transformation Options" for the available options you can set.
>
> Hope this helps :)
>
> Robby