Re: API for rewriting package fields ?

[Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>]

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On Fri, Apr 26, 2024 at 05:25:47PM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> Nicolas Graves via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." <guix-devel@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Is there an interface to rewrite / update a field from a series of
> > packages easily?
> 
> We have "update-package-inputs" in (guix upstream), which defines a
> local procedure "update-field".  Perhaps you can use that?
> 
> What it cannot do yet is *create* a field, e.g. add a native-inputs
> field to add an input when the package currently doesn't have a
> native-inputs field.

There's also the package property updater-extra-{native-,propagated-,}inputs
to add a package even if it's not shown as required by the importer.

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