installing a modified package

2014-09-23 Thread Carlos Carleos
Hi! I know I should be RTFM carefully, but... In Debian, I can follow these steps to customize a package (more or less): 1. # apt-get build-dep PACKAGE 2. $ apt-get source PACKAGE 3. $ cd PACKAGE-...; ...tweak...; dpkg-buildpackage... 4. # dpkg -i PACKAGE.deb What would be the similar

Re: installing a modified package

2014-09-23 Thread Jason Self
Carlos Carleos asked: What would be the similar sequence for GUIX? Edit the package definition as appropriate to accomplish what you need to do? Make a new package definition that uses the old one as an input with whatever changes are needed? If the changes you're making would be generally

Re: installing a modified package

2014-09-23 Thread Thompson, David
2014-09-23 12:51 GMT-04:00 Carlos Carleos carl...@uniovi.es: Hi! I know I should be RTFM carefully, but... In Debian, I can follow these steps to customize a package (more or less): 1. # apt-get build-dep PACKAGE 2. $ apt-get source PACKAGE 3. $ cd PACKAGE-...; ...tweak...;