From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Konrad Hinsen Subject: Building from a local source code checkout Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2017 12:34:46 +0100 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53104) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eRGAI-0001aS-6m for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Dec 2017 06:34:30 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eRGAE-000076-9F for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Dec 2017 06:34:30 -0500 Received: from smtp.synchrotron.fr ([195.221.0.33]:60876 helo=brouette.synchrotron-soleil.fr) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eRGAE-0008WD-0j for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Dec 2017 06:34:26 -0500 Content-Language: en-US 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" To: guix-devel Hi everyone, For debugging package definitions, it would be really nice to be able to build a package from a checkout of the original project source code, rather than having to make a tarball for each modification of that source code. Is this possible somehow? The manual suggests that a package source could be something else than an origin object, such as a local-file, but I cannot get even local-file to work. Konrad