From: ison <ison@airmail.cc>
To: 白い熊 <help-guix_gnu.org@sumou.com>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Building and installing packages with modifications
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2019 11:46:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190224184620.w2xqvaw5byjk7bnb@cf0> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <B4DF75A4-AF17-4082-AF29-36489B4719A4@sumou.com>
Since this hasn't received any replies I'll give my solution, although I
apologize in advance if this isn't the "best" way to do it.
When I want to modify a package that I install via "guix package -i" (as opposed
to using the GuixSD system configuration) I just create a new file for each such
package that inherits the default package and then override any options I need.
For example, in the case of curl you could make a file with the contents:
--------------------
(use-modules ((guix licences) #:prefix license:)
(gnu packages)
(gnu packages curl)
(guix packages)
(guix utils)))
(package
(inherit curl)
(substitute-keyword-arguments (package-arguments curl)
((#:tests? #f #f)
#f)))
--------------------
which will just inherit curl and only modify the flag "tests?" to disable tests.
Everything else will be kept the same. Then if you save that to a file called
my-curl.scm you could install it to your guix profile with
"guix package -f my-curl.scm"
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-24 18:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-16 15:12 Building and installing packages with modifications 白い熊
2019-02-24 18:46 ` ison [this message]
2019-02-24 19:06 ` 白い熊@相撲道
2019-02-24 23:17 ` ison
2019-02-26 9:34 ` Chris Marusich
2019-02-24 19:30 ` Wayne
2019-02-26 9:26 ` Chris Marusich
2019-03-12 3:37 ` Wayne
2019-02-24 20:01 ` Gábor Boskovits
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