On 25/05/16 11:29, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> Christopher Baines <mail@cbaines.net> writes:
>> The second issue was getting the data to the store, as first I tried a
>> relative path, but that did not work, and ended up having to expose the
>> repository using a HTTP server, and access it over the loopback
>> interface. This again is rather prohibitive to local development. To
>> improve on this, could guix build do the insertion in to the store, such
>> that relative paths would work? This would allow just writing a
>> "guix.scm" file, which just uses (git-reference (url "./") (commit "HEAD")).
> 
> Maybe I’m misunderstanding the problem, but do you know that you can use
> “file://” URIs?  I’m doing this for local copies of tarballs that I
> don’t plan to distribute.

I did try this, but it did not work. davexunit on IRC said that this was
due to the isolation in the build process. I was trying to reference
/tmp, where did you place the repository to make this work?