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From: Tim Lee <progscriptclone@gmail.com>
To: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH doesn't have priority over official guix packages
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2021 08:45:57 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211016084557.5quqd43ql4sckze4@localhost> (raw)

I have my own channel in a Git repository on my local computer.
This is what I do to search and install packages from my own channel:

$ cd /path/to/my-channel/
$ GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH=. guix search 'mypackage'
$ GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH=. guix install 'mypackage'

However, if there is a package with the same name in both my channel and
in the official guix channel, 'guix install' will install from the
official guix channel instead of my channel. Is this supposed to happen?
I thought that GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH is supposed to have priority over
the official guix channel?

I am currently working around this problem by specifying the version
number when installing. For example:

$ GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH=. guix install 'mypackage@1.2.3'


             reply	other threads:[~2021-10-16  8:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-16  8:45 Tim Lee [this message]
2021-10-16 21:03 ` GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH doesn't have priority over official guix packages Phil Beadling
2021-10-16 22:29   ` Tim Lee
2021-10-17  8:10     ` Phil
2021-10-17 11:36     ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2021-10-17 12:15       ` Phil
2021-10-17 12:31         ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2021-10-17 13:56         ` Tim Lee
2021-10-18 13:48   ` Paul Jewell

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