all messages for Guix-related lists mirrored at yhetil.org
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
From: <pkill9@runbox.com>
To: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Change syntax of '--with-source' flag to match syntax of '--with-commit' flag?
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2019 07:36:34 +0000 (GMT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1greEc-0007OZ-DK@rmmprod07.runbox> (raw)

The '--with-commit' flag changes the source used to build a package, the syntax takes the form of '--with-commit=<package>=<commit>'.

The '--with-source' flag also changes the source, but uses the syntax '--with-source=<url or file>', but only transforms the top-level package (e.g. `guix build <top-level package>` or `guix environment --ad-hoc `<top-level package>`). It also only works if the new source file has the form '<package name>-<package version>.<extension>', which means if a package source URL isn't named in that way, then you have to first download it, rename it to fit that template, then use --with-source with that file.

I propose changing the syntax of '--with-source=' to match the syntax of '--with-commit='. This would have the following benefits:

 - No need to download and rename files that don't fit the '<package name>-<package version>.<extension>' format.
 - Able to change the source file of a package input of any package in the package graph.
 - Makes the syntax consistent with '--with-commit='.

What do other people think?

                 reply	other threads:[~2019-02-07  7:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: [no followups] expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=E1greEc-0007OZ-DK@rmmprod07.runbox \
    --to=pkill9@runbox.com \
    --cc=guix-devel@gnu.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index

	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git

This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.