From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Debugging Guix packages? Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 21:58:38 +0100 Message-ID: <87zivywsxt.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20160119024256.GA21542@novena-choice-citizen.lan> <874me7x4zd.fsf@gnu.org> <20160121002134.GA14628@novena-choice-citizen.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52981) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aMMJY-00075Y-DT for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 15:58:44 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aMMJV-0005s4-8i for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jan 2016 15:58:44 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20160121002134.GA14628@novena-choice-citizen.lan> (Jookia's message of "Thu, 21 Jan 2016 11:21:34 +1100") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Jookia <166291@gmail.com> Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Jookia <166291@gmail.com> skribis: > This could be good enough for now but again this doesn't work with this l= ike > builds that don't fail. My concrete example is wanting to patch software = but not > knowing how to get to the pre-patch state so I can then work from that in > testing which patches apply and which don't, or make my own. To get the unpatched source, you can always comment out the =E2=80=98patche= s=E2=80=99 field, and then run, say: tar xf $(guix build -S my-package) Or do I misunderstand? Ludo=E2=80=99.