From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Enge Subject: Re: guix package modif testing Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2016 15:25:25 +0200 Message-ID: <20160727132525.GB4819@solar> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39847) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bSOq6-0000h8-NR for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2016 09:25:36 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bSOq1-0006b5-If for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2016 09:25:33 -0400 Received: from mailrelay6.public.one.com ([91.198.169.200]:29992) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bSOq1-0006at-5k for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2016 09:25:29 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Vincent Legoll Cc: guix-devel On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 03:19:43PM +0200, Vincent Legoll wrote: > It looks like this : > https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#Building-from-Git > is intended for people willing to hack on guix itself, but I want to hack > at the package's definitions... This is all the same, everything is tightly integrated. > I want to test the pythondialog patch I posted in te other thread... > How do you try modifications to packages that are already in the repo ? Personally I just create another local git branch and make my modifications there, in gnu/packages/....scm. In case things work out, it is then trivial to create a patch (git commit + git format-patch) and to send it to the list (you may even use git send-email, which is in a separate output of the git package). Andreas