From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pierre Neidhardt Subject: Re: How to install prerelease package versions (particularly Emacs) Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 21:30:39 +0530 Message-ID: <87r2nl3f88.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> 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]:47586) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f6IAw-0007oE-LN for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Apr 2018 12:00:47 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f6IAt-0006p5-Hp for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Apr 2018 12:00:46 -0400 Received: from mail-pl0-x22e.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400e:c01::22e]:46419) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f6IAt-0006oh-Cm for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Apr 2018 12:00:43 -0400 Received: by mail-pl0-x22e.google.com with SMTP id 59-v6so1706064plc.13 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2018 09:00:43 -0700 (PDT) In-reply-to: <87k1trnhl6.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: Oleg Pykhalov Cc: help-guix@gnu.org --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Oleg Pykhalov writes: > 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-C= ontrol-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 check= out=E2=80=9D 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? =2D-=20 Pierre Neidhardt Every solution breeds new problems. --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCAAdFiEEUPM+LlsMPZAEJKvom9z0l6S7zH8FAlrOMScACgkQm9z0l6S7 zH/bfAf9F+JqbNxXKnW1yQkPRzQ1QvB0zBaT0/vqbWhjPgJjI2t7XzylIy5MEMBA CYfRjiElcT6HKXVqyqcOI7awct5BcJ7W+gD1pnG86DZgDFu2uG4DzZU8Tk994a4h Zmyn2PdD9jgG3uRA6Mgaxvmv/hE435n0VSB0R0dGrSXBsFSRTNH8wLeWf5nJB49e 344Gv8gKJeLvmO6Ik4m2cBya0n4a+ihaFHrN5M0qhFVBAIWYjZkLafFkQCHLxsai G80lewJiDoUmpUZody+j3p9x9bLHu6FJcZiR31iDMzfegyy5yBn89fONUgZrs6N5 YZPbWd/JJQIQ2z/Lvux/xh7UUKdEuw== =DJOn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--