Re: Update Xonsh

[Carlo Zancanaro]

Hey Edison,

One easy way to do this is to just put your package definition in 
config.scm, above your operating system definition. I haven't 
tried it with a shell, but the basic idea would be to have 
something like this:

(define-public xonsh
 ... your package definition ...)

(operating-system
 ... other bits ...
 (users (cons (user-account
               ... other bits ...
               (shell (file-append xonsh "/bin/xonsh")))
              %base-user-accounts))
 ... other bits ...)

Another way to do it would be to submit a patch updating xonsh to 
be included in Guix, which would also benefit all other Guix 
users.

Carlo

On Wed, May 20 2020, Edison Ibáñez wrote:
>    Regards,
>
>    I currently use xonsh as my user's shell, but the default 
>    version in
>    GuixSD is 0.6.2 and the latest available is 0.9.18.
>
>    I wrote a file to install the latest version of this package 
>    but I
>    cannot set this version as my user's default shell.
>
>    There is a way to update xonsh in the config.scm file to the 
>    latest
>    available version.
>
>    Thank you
>
>    – Edison Ibáñez
>    One Emacs to rule them all