Hi Arun, Am 6. Juli 2023 16:35:06 MESZ schrieb Arun Isaac <arunis...@systemreboot.net>: > > Hi, > > This is with reference to the "Level 2: The repository as a channel" > section in the Guix blog post "From development environments to > continuous integration—the ultimate guide to software development with > Guix"[1]. This section describes how to convert a project repository > into a Guix channel so that the repository can double as a way to > distribute packages. I have been trying to follow the instructions and > have hit a little snag. > > The post says the source field of the package definition should be a > local-file file-like object. This is fine as long as we are using `guix > build' to build packages in the repository. But, when the repository is > distributed as a channel, the local-file becomes meaningless. The > channel only has access to the sources under the .guix/modules directory > and none of the sources required to build the package itself. > > It seems to me that it is not possible to distribute project > repositories as Guix channels. But hopefully, I'm missing something > simple. Could anybody please clarify?
I have recently followed the instructions from this blog post as well and indeed you are right that it does not work as advertised. There's however only a small mistake in the changes for Level 2. You have to replace the relative path in the local-file form with "../.." as that gives you the root of your source tree relative to the new location of the Scheme file. Then everything works nicely. Even building the package with `guix build -f guix.scm' works from the root of the tree. Somehow Guile computes the directory relative to real file and not the symlink. Didn't expect. Bonus: I have even setup CI via Cuirass which was surprisingly easy on a Guix system and now it rebuilds my package every time one of its inputs in Guix changes ❤️ This is awesome! Thanks for this blog post, it was inspiring. Hope that helps Best -- Daniel
