Re: Request: build package with source tarball

[Olivier Dion via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." <guix-devel@gnu.org>]

On Mon, 12 Sep 2022, Ryan Prior <rprior@protonmail.com> wrote:
> Hi there! Lately I've been testing distribution tarballs with a workflow like this:
>
> - update some software in my source directory
> - create a distribution tarball
> - untar to a directory like /tmp/mypkg-src
> - run: guix build --with-source=mypkg=/tmp/mypkg-src​
>
> It would be nice to skip step 3 there and just run: guix build --with-source=mypkg.tar.gz​
> Guix should then untar and use the result as the source directory for
> the build.

It already can.

I use this in my Makefiles:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
libpatch.tar.gz:
	@git archive --format=tar.gz --prefix=libpatch/ \
	--output $@ HEAD

guix-build: libpatch.tar.gz
	@guix build --keep-failed --rounds=2 \
	--with-source=libpatch=$^ libpatch
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

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Olivier Dion
oldiob.dev