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Re: How to install prerelease package versions (particularly Emacs)
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Oleg Pykhalov |
Subject: |
Re: How to install prerelease package versions (particularly Emacs) |
Date: |
Sun, 01 Apr 2018 17:09:57 +0300 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.3 (gnu/linux) |
Pierre Neidhardt <address@hidden> writes:
> I tried reusing your package snippet from
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2017-09/msg00074.html by
> setting
>
> (url "git://localhost/~ambrevar/projects/emacs")
I'm sorry for probably an obvious question. Does ‘git clone
git://localhost/~ambrevar/projects/emacs’ work?
[…]
> I'm not very familiar with the "git" protocol: does it require some
> special configuration?
It does, see
https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Version-Control-Services.html
Be sure ‘user-path’ is setted correctly.
> I also tried specifying a local path:
>
> (url "/home/ambrevar/projects/emacs")
>
> […]
>
> I think this is a bug: if git clone accepts local paths, then so should
> git-reference.
It would be a useful feature, but I don't know all pitfalls.
We can do ‘guix pull --url=$PWD’ in “Guix checkout” though.
Oleg.
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