From: Pierre Neidhardt <ambrevar@gmail.com>
To: Oleg Pykhalov <go.wigust@gmail.com>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to install prerelease package versions (particularly Emacs)
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 21:30:39 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r2nl3f88.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k1trnhl6.fsf@gmail.com>
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Oleg Pykhalov <go.wigust@gmail.com> writes:
> Pierre Neidhardt <ambrevar@gmail.com> 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 ‘git clone
> git://localhost/~ambrevar/projects/emacs’ work?
>
> […]
>
>> 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-Control-Services.html
>
> Be sure ‘user-path’ is setted correctly.
>
>> I also tried specifying a local path:
>>
>> (url "/home/ambrevar/projects/emacs")
>>
>> […]
>>
>> 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 ‘guix pull --url=$PWD’ in “Guix checkout” though.
Thank you for the hint. That said, I really don't want to set up a git
server for so little.
Is there a good reason not to allow local paths in git URLs?
--
Pierre Neidhardt
Every solution breeds new problems.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-11 16:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-03 0:00 How to install prerelease package versions (particularly Emacs) Jorge
2018-03-03 10:24 ` Oleg Pykhalov
2018-03-19 4:13 ` Chris Marusich
2018-03-26 18:42 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-03-27 9:51 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-03-27 12:24 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-03-27 15:33 ` Oleg Pykhalov
2018-03-27 17:46 ` Marius Bakke
2018-03-27 20:57 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-03-28 7:12 ` Oleg Pykhalov
2018-03-30 7:06 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-03-30 12:13 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2018-03-30 12:19 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-03-30 13:08 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2018-04-11 15:53 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-04-12 8:29 ` Chris Marusich
2018-04-12 9:12 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-04-12 12:57 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-04-12 13:21 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-04-13 5:27 ` Chris Marusich
2018-04-13 5:57 ` Carlo Zancanaro
2018-04-01 14:09 ` Oleg Pykhalov
2018-04-11 16:00 ` Pierre Neidhardt [this message]
2018-04-12 8:28 ` Chris Marusich
2018-04-12 8:32 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-04-11 15:57 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-04-12 6:06 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-04-05 15:53 ` Jorge
2018-04-05 19:36 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-03-03 13:46 ` Jorge
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