From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mathieu Lirzin Subject: Re: How to install prerelease package versions (particularly Emacs) Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2018 14:13:52 +0200 Message-ID: <87370hwykf.fsf@gnu.org> References: <871sh1pid1.fsf@gmail.com> <87o9jku2gt.fsf@gmail.com> <87lgeehe5g.fsf@gmail.com> <87lgedx2vn.fsf@gnu.org> <87k1txedot.fsf@gmail.com> <87in9huthf.fsf@gnu.org> <877epwn06z.fsf@gmail.com> <87d0zmhwkl.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50276) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f1sup-0006ri-Ta for help-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Mar 2018 08:13:56 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f1suo-0000PZ-RX for help-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Mar 2018 08:13:55 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87d0zmhwkl.fsf@gmail.com> (Pierre Neidhardt's message of "Fri, 30 Mar 2018 12:36:02 +0530") List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: Pierre Neidhardt Cc: help-guix@gnu.org Pierre Neidhardt writes: > Oleg, I tried reusing your package snippet from > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2017-09/msg00074.html > by setting > > (url "git://localhost/~ambrevar/projects/emacs") > > but it fails for me: [...] > I'm not very familiar with the "git" protocol: does it require some > special configuration? > > I also tried specifying a local path: > > (url "/home/ambrevar/projects/emacs") > > but it seems that Guix' `git-reference` does not like it: I think you have to use the =E2=80=98local-file=E2=80=99 procedure in place= of =E2=80=98origin=E2=80=99 in the =E2=80=98source=E2=80=99 field. Unless I am not up-to-date with current Guix practices, it is still not convenient since you still need to manually filter git related files and build results with the =E2=80=98#:select=E2=80=99 keyword argument of =E2= =80=98local-file=E2=80=99. HTH, --=20 Mathieu Lirzin GPG: F2A3 8D7E EB2B 6640 5761 070D 0ADE E100 9460 4D37