* install --with-version?
@ 2019-05-02 15:44 pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2019-05-03 0:56 ` ison
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From: pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) @ 2019-05-02 15:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-guix
Hello!
I wanted to install biber 2.10 but Guix has and never had a package
for it (I think). So I think of rewriting the existing package.
I see no --with-version option for `guix build`.
I tried
guix environment --ad-hoc -e '(begin (use-modules (guix packages) (gnu packages tex)) (package (inherit biber) (version "2.10")))'
but it still uses the source for the current biber 2.12 instead of
biber 2.10. I suppose Guix’ record implementation is “hygienic” and
never refers to a changed version.
What to do?
Regards,
Florian
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* Re: install --with-version?
2019-05-02 15:44 install --with-version? pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
@ 2019-05-03 0:56 ` ison
2019-05-04 18:18 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
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From: ison @ 2019-05-03 0:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: pelzflorian (Florian Pelz); +Cc: help-guix
There is a --with-source option. So you could actually specify the download location to the 2.10 version
https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Package-Transformation-Options.html
Also have you tried building it by specifying "biber@2.10" instead of just "biber"?
Sorry I can't say much about the environment command, other than it looks correct to me.
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* Re: install --with-version?
2019-05-03 0:56 ` ison
@ 2019-05-04 18:18 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
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From: pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) @ 2019-05-04 18:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ison; +Cc: help-guix
On Thu, May 02, 2019 at 06:56:18PM -0600, ison wrote:
> There is a --with-source option. So you could actually specify the download location to the 2.10 version
> https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Package-Transformation-Options.html
>
I use --with-commit instead of --with-source because biber is defined
using a git-reference like
(define-public biber
(package
(name "biber")
(version "2.12")
(source (origin
(method git-fetch)
(uri (git-reference
(url "https://github.com/plk/biber/")
(commit (string-append "v" version))))
(file-name (git-file-name name version))
florian@florianmacbook ~$ guix build --with-commit=biber=v2.10 biber
updating checkout of 'https://github.com/plk/biber/'...
guix build: error: cannot fetch commit v2.10 from https://github.com/plk/biber/: unable to parse OID - contains invalid characters
I looked up the commit ID on GitHub.
florian@florianmacbook ~$ guix build --with-commit=biber=e00ee55ced863d3c2938fe03c2da2d629842b7f1 biber
updating checkout of 'https://github.com/plk/biber/'...
retrieved commit e00ee55ced863d3c2938fe03c2da2d629842b7f1
substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.gnu.org'... 100.0%
[…]
This fails to build because tests fail, but looking at
`guix build -n …` I believe it is basically the right command. Thank
you!
> Also have you tried building it by specifying "biber@2.10" instead of just "biber"?
>
florian@florianmacbook ~$ guix environment --ad-hoc biber@2.10
guix environment: error: biber: package not found for version 2.10
I believe all packages where the @2.10 notation works have multiple
package definitions, one for each version.
Thank you. --with-commit helps, but it is ugly. I had hoped there
were better options. I will file a wishlist bug for
--with-commit=v2.10 and for --with-version=2.10. (As for biber, I
gave up installing it because tests fail.)
Regards,
Florian
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