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From: Alex Sassmannshausen <alex.sassmannshausen@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Making local development easy
Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 11:34:33 +0200
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Ricardo Wurmus writes:

> 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.

OMG, awesome.  Note to self: spend more time reading manuals.

Alex