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

[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 <package>

To test runtime behavior I still have to pull which does mean pulling the 
default channel, too.  This so far has worked well. If pulling becomes too 
much, maybe specifying a commit of the default guix channel could work. What do 
you think?

- John



> On Feb 4, 2019, at 3:16 PM, Pierre Neidhardt <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> 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 Neidhardt
> https://ambrevar.xyz/