Re: Search path for patches

[Ekaitz Zarraga]

On 2024-09-13 19:33, Konrad Hinsen wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have been searching for a while, without much success, so I am trying
> to tap into your collective wisdom: What's the search path used by
> search-patches?
>
> More precisely, where do I have to put patches
>   1. In a channel?
>   2. In a directory added to GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH/GUILE_LOAD_PATH?
>
> The main Guix channel has a "patches" directory inside "packages".  The
> channel guix-science has it at the root. For my own channel that I am
> trying to set up, neither seems to work so far.
>
> Cheers,
>    Konrad.

In your own channel it is the root folder of the channel if I'm not 
mistaken. Pretty annoying, honestly.

In Guix it's defaulted to the patches/ directory in packages/

It would be great if they were coherent.

Cheers,
Ekaitz