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Re: Best practice when dealing with a broken package for guix home?
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Fredrik Salomonsson |
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Re: Best practice when dealing with a broken package for guix home? |
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Tue, 16 Jan 2024 17:53:07 +0000 |
Hi,
Carlo Zancanaro <carlo@zancanaro.id.au> writes:
> On Sun, Jan 14 2024, Fredrik Salomonsson wrote:
>> 3) Copy an older definition that works to my custom channel, add a
>> prefix and use that until it is fixed.
>
> This is what I do. Or, more accurately, I copy it into my home.scm file
> and use the package object directly. That way it's clear why it exists,
> and it's easier to remove when I no longer need it.
>
>> My question what is the best practice for this? ... Maybe something
>> with the time-machine?
>
> I don't know about best practice, but I think at one point I did use
> inferiors for this (which is what time machine users under the hood).
> Unfortunately I can't remember why I stopped.
>
> If you'd like to go this way, the documentation in "(guix) Inferiors"
> has a short example of getting a package out of a different Guix
> version. It's pretty straightforward.
I'll check out Inferiors, thanks for the link. It sounds like there are
some dragons going that route though. So step 3 might be the happy
medium.
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s/Fred[re]+i[ck]+/Fredrik/g
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