From: sirgazil <sirgazil@zoho.com>
To: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
Cc: Guix Devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: UI whishlist: guix pull channel name?
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2020 13:28:31 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <171b1867513.e89af56d11736.1360010637145815802@zoho.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ3okZ2UF80Y8ua5XQEvRQ9C3puVrtYrD3F=581uF5F3bkK6AA@mail.gmail.com>
---- On Sat, 25 Apr 2020 07:53:04 +0000 zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> wrote ----
> Dear,
>
> Maybe it is already possible and I miss the feature.
>
> Currently, I have a couple of channels described in
> '~/.config/guix/channels.scm'. So, "guix pull" fetch all of them in
> row. Nice!
>
> Time to time, I would like to only pull one specific channel, e.g.,
> only '%default-channels'.
>
> I added the file '~/.config/guix/default-channels.scm' containing only
> '%default-channels' and then I run "guix pull -C
> ~/.config/guix/default-channels.scm'". It is cumbersome.
>
> It seems even trickier to only pull one specific channel because of
> the configuration files.
>
>
> An UI such that "guix pull --channel-names=<name>" where <name> is the
> name give in the channel file. Without a short option because this
> kind of situation is infrequent.
>
> And with the convention "guix pull --channel-names=none" should pull
> only '%default-channels'.
>
> Moreover, time to to time, the channel is broken and I have no time to
> fix it but I need to pull for other reasons.
>
>
> What do you think?
+1
This has been requested before (not formally, I think).
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