Re: How to bump a package version locally?

[Hiep Pham <hiepph9@proton.me>]

On 10/18/23 21:00, wolf wrote:
> On 2023-10-18 18:24:48 +0000, Hiep Pham wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I want to bump `jsonnet` version from 0.17.0 to 0.20.0 from the master
>> branch of the `guix` repository. I edited the version in
>> `gnu/packages/cpp.scm`:
>>
>> (define-public jsonnet
>>     (package
>>       (name "jsonnet")
>>       (version "0.20.0")
>>       [snip]
>>     ))
> [trim]
>>
>> 2. Followed the contributing guide [1], I created a shell instead:
> 
> I believe this is the preferred way.
> 
>>
>> guix shell -C -D guix git help2man strace
>> ./bootstrap
>> ./configure --localstatedir=/var
> 
> I would recommend to use
> 
>      ./configure --localstatedir=/var --sysconfdir=/etc
> 
> as described in the latest version of the manual:
> 
> https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Building-from-Git.html
> 
> (notice the /devel/ in the path).  Your version is from 1.4.0 version of the
> manual and it has some limitations.

Okay, so I followed exactly this, and ...

>>
>> This generated `pre-inst-env`, but `make` step failed with:
>>
>> ```
>>     MAKEINFO doc/guix.de.info
>> contributing.de.texi:1659: @menu reference to nonexistent node
>> `Configuring Git'
>> contributing.de.texi:1660: @menu reference to nonexistent node `Sending
>> a Patch Series'
>> make[2]: *** [Makefile:5003: doc/guix.de.info] Error 1
>> ```
> 
> Yes, this happens when you try to build guix source using too old guix version.
> So try to run `guix pull' first and then attempt to compile it again.  It should
> succeed.


I ran `guix pull` but no luck for me. I still met the same error when I 
was running `make`:

```
contributing.de.texi:1659: @menu reference to nonexistent node 
`Configuring Git'
contributing.de.texi:1660: @menu reference to nonexistent node `Sending 
a Patch Series'
```

My `guix describe` (on my Fedora machine):

```
   guix c065da0
     repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
     branch: master
     commit: c065da01ff956d3c2bdfc45a33d910e509a211d9
```

c065da01ff956d3c2bdfc45a33d910e509a211d9 is the latest commit on Oct 19, 
2023.

And my `which guix` is:

/home/[username]/.config/guix/current/bin/guix

>>
>> So I was blocked to progress further :(
>>
> 
> After that the pre-inst-env should work.
> 
>>
>> [1] https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/guix.html#Contributing
>>
>> -- 
>> Hiep
>>
>>
> 
> W.
> 

-- 
Hiep