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Re: How to install prerelease package versions (particularly Emacs)


From: Mathieu Lirzin
Subject: Re: How to install prerelease package versions (particularly Emacs)
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2018 14:13:52 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.3 (gnu/linux)

Pierre Neidhardt <address@hidden> writes:

> Oleg, I tried reusing your package snippet from
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2017-09/msg00074.html
> by setting
>
>                (url "git://localhost/~ambrevar/projects/emacs")
>
> but it fails for me:
[...]
> I'm not very familiar with the "git" protocol: does it require some
> special configuration?
>
> I also tried specifying a local path:
>
>                (url "/home/ambrevar/projects/emacs")
>
> but it seems that Guix' `git-reference` does not like it:

I think you have to use the ‘local-file’ procedure in place of ‘origin’
in the ‘source’ field.

Unless I am not up-to-date with current Guix practices, it is still not
convenient since you still need to manually filter git related files and
build results with the ‘#:select’ keyword argument of ‘local-file’.

HTH,

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Mathieu Lirzin
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