Re: Single channel update (or channels vs. GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH)

2019-02-12 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Pierre Neidhardt skribis: > Ricardo Wurmus writes: >> It’s just a list. You can cons onto it. > > What I meant is that it does not seem possible to > > (list (channel >(inherit %default-channels >(commit "..." > > Or even > > (set-channel-commit %default-ch

Re: Single channel update (or channels vs. GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH)

2019-02-09 Thread Chris Marusich
John Soo writes: > I’ve been working a lot on some packages in a private channels and my > workflow is usually focused on building properly which is a matter of: > > guix build -L /path/to/channel FYI, I believe you can also specify local paths in the channel description file, itself, either by

Re: Single channel update (or channels vs. GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH)

2019-02-05 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Ricardo Wurmus writes: > It’s just a list. You can cons onto it. What I meant is that it does not seem possible to --8<---cut here---start->8--- (list (channel (inherit %default-channels (commit "..." --8<---cu

Re: Single channel update (or channels vs. GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH)

2019-02-05 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Pierre Neidhardt writes: > Is there a way to inherit or modify %default-channels to avoid all the > copy-pasting? It’s just a list. You can cons onto it. -- Ricardo

Re: Single channel update (or channels vs. GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH)

2019-02-04 Thread John Soo
Hello Pierre, I’ve been working a lot on some packages in a private channels and my workflow is usually focused on building properly which is a matter of: guix build -L /path/to/channel To test runtime behavior I still have to pull which does mean pulling the default channel, too. This so fa

Single channel update (or channels vs. GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH)

2019-02-04 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Hi again :) I was discussing "channels in practice" with Zimoun and we were asking ourselves: Can we pull a specific channel without pulling %default-channels? If not, is there a convenient way to edit+test the package definitions in local channels? Maybe I'm missing the obvious? -- Pierre Neid