From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pierre Neidhardt Subject: Re: How to install prerelease package versions (particularly Emacs) Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:02:22 +0530 Message-ID: <878t9sq0yx.fsf@gmail.com> 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> <87k1trnhl6.fsf@gmail.com> <87r2nl3f88.fsf@gmail.com> <873700esm7.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54520) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f6Xeh-0003gt-Du for help-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Apr 2018 04:32:32 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f6Xed-0008Bc-B6 for help-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Apr 2018 04:32:31 -0400 Received: from mail-it0-x235.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4001:c0b::235]:51995) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f6Xed-0008Aw-6q for help-guix@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Apr 2018 04:32:27 -0400 Received: by mail-it0-x235.google.com with SMTP id b5-v6so6316998itj.1 for ; Thu, 12 Apr 2018 01:32:26 -0700 (PDT) In-reply-to: <873700esm7.fsf@gmail.com> 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: Chris Marusich Cc: help-guix@gnu.org --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Chris Marusich writes: > Pierre Neidhardt writes: > >> Is there a good reason not to allow local paths in git URLs? > > You might find the "local-file" procedure to be helpful here. You can > pass a local-file as the source of a package, which should allow you to > define packages that use a local file path as the source. See (guix) > G-Expressions in the manual for details. Thank you for this suggestion. Mathieu Lirzin already mentioned it in another branch of this thread and after trying it I ran into strange issues. Do you have experience with local-file? =2D-=20 Pierre Neidhardt job Placement, n.: Telling your boss what he can do with your job. --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCAAdFiEEUPM+LlsMPZAEJKvom9z0l6S7zH8FAlrPGZYACgkQm9z0l6S7 zH8g9QgApmy6UB0zUzhM4TeFfhAxW7mrku+9fosjiv/KJFbA4M10uzYI++i9ir0c Y93rvaeUya46eBH7Ffvo9lOgi10dS89fjZbHDi88HcrlaB+VrpGFh0D8+jUqz8D0 ujzPD/sy6cTbd2/hvH46LrljdP7WtkBjtm6qYI26txNg66Grbf4VHTQNmxMOrgSa 0W+hcoEuqIPn8RTeAjEyix+RxV75nHkxZrkte2axGmQfN+gD4maisc8V+Tq1syy+ 79Xlh8eQ2vsya+kiFDv0DohwQJAft9cE+iVVrDWSRRLIOzeKYSbItbsGwF2ep84h Ud7Q4rMRD/iDYcWPIhm/PML1pl0Etw== =hUgD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--