From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Oleg Pykhalov Subject: Re: How to install prerelease package versions (particularly Emacs) Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2018 17:09:57 +0300 Message-ID: <87k1trnhl6.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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58004) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f2dgN-0005Z6-IJ for help-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Apr 2018 10:10:08 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f2dgJ-0000vI-Ez for help-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Apr 2018 10:10:07 -0400 Received: from mail-lf0-x22e.google.com ([2a00:1450:4010:c07::22e]:39116) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f2dgJ-0000tx-5Y for help-guix@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Apr 2018 10:10:03 -0400 Received: by mail-lf0-x22e.google.com with SMTP id p142-v6so17698533lfd.6 for ; Sun, 01 Apr 2018 07:10:03 -0700 (PDT) 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 --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Pierre Neidhardt writes: > 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") I'm sorry for probably an obvious question. Does =E2=80=98git clone git://localhost/~ambrevar/projects/emacs=E2=80=99 work? [=E2=80=A6] > I'm not very familiar with the "git" protocol: does it require some > special configuration? It does, see https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Version-Con= trol-Services.html Be sure =E2=80=98user-path=E2=80=99 is setted correctly. > I also tried specifying a local path: > > (url "/home/ambrevar/projects/emacs") >=20 > [=E2=80=A6] >=20 > I think this is a bug: if git clone accepts local paths, then so should > git-reference. It would be a useful feature, but I don't know all pitfalls. We can do =E2=80=98guix pull --url=3D$PWD=E2=80=99 in =E2=80=9CGuix checkou= t=E2=80=9D though. Oleg. --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEEc+OyAXw1EaDPCmAPckbhHGm3lWkFAlrA6DUACgkQckbhHGm3 lWkupxAAqCaMj25odgztCXafOhE3DLh39+6PhOdCHT7f/raj29jLHKHp/GYdtfbx TUAfOLuOqa3KF6iz8iXmDBVNSX+aLx4FZatUnAeXiIDy7TNm4JKBZcOr/WvntpVU 1AQRxszC5cwk7vrIy67aXd4RSdV3PdEQZz/cwNjK21MgNvz0h0KH9lNioOP4BIOy 8qtZ35vTp/f3gM01SkJN/IoSJ2nAeVjvt0rPlGamLFp2chHWl1roNSKmJPt950Ll TkQlekFOj1R3h2Rptc0gGTeVkW5gTyjPyXCrQzuqGmI+5rTgdu80ADrX3qy84Dxr wESj99DD0MtoTe+lP7sYdRlQsdfXKQFQy6BpzH2kyHFXyglk6bWpNigmhaX1S1Wp g70Hw3EskVJoHq071CD406V/jH2XrYWnDnCAUonbwXYRbDTcsDWrhvUDPfSC9G2y lMr6tbIxpPbf8tuoaxaRfyXPbvcmp4XTUOxRzt2IpZRPnnAnTkW6ypoQuO1uYofb I6pk/cvECSUbYiVKDfnbAnhsRY4DkDg2G5VvRSLUuVyOIuUh3/Nl00oNyloqjdKW 7b9iKn2cft02GLJXKHo8e1QgNBeC8uxjmUt/hfdFf+34GZ3keMNlpGt8UFaKAyl9 TOxz8klrb8SEsrT4j15GYnGGSf8KHfRiDarB342go3egbkK5Sm8= =JLkI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--