Re: Channel patches proposal

[Ashish SHUKLA]

El 2025-12-26 15:49, Jakob Kirsch escribió:

Hello everyone,
I have a rather simple but pretty useful proposal.
I propose to add a patches field to the channel record that takes a list of 
patches to be applied on top of the channel's checkout.
From what I can see, the general infrastructure to apply patches exists already 
as it's used for the (guix quirks) module.

I've had many situations where I had an open merge request for upstream Guix or 
some other channel and wanted to use it already.
While I could just rebase my patch onto the HEAD manually and then pull from my local 
checkout, it would be easier and cleaner to be able to specify a list of patches (e.g. a 
list of store items or local file paths) that are then applied since this automatically 
"rebases" them on top of the HEAD.

I'm happy to hear your thoughts on this.

Thanks!
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I think this will be amazing when wanting to use a guix fork (guix pristine + patches) without having to disable authentication of commits. For locally updating some packages while waiting for them to be committed to guix repository, this could be a great alternative where simple package/inherit wouldn't suffice or is way too complex (akin to copying the whole package locally).

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