Re: Testing small changes to upstream Guix repo

[David Wilson]

Hi Danny,

Thanks so much for these steps, they worked perfectly for me.  The manual has 
the necessary commands laid out a bit too sparsely; having them concisely 
presented like this got me over the hurdle.

David

On Tue, Oct 8, 2019, at 3:33 PM, Danny Milosavljevic wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > 2. Clone the Guix repo myself, change the file, and somehow replace the 
> > upstream channel with my local repo path
> 
> $ git clone -b master --depth 1 
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git guix-foobar
> $ cd guix-foobar
> $ guix environment --pure guix --ad-hoc git guile-readline guile-json 
> nano
> (env)$ ./bootstrap
> (env)$ ./configure --localstatedir=/var
> (env)$ make -j5
> # Make sure it succeeds.
> # Lately it was broken for unrelated reasons (po files)--you don't want 
> to
> # confuse those errors with errors your change could have caused.
> (env)$ nano gnu/packages/baz.scm
> # Edit your package or whatever it is
> (env)$ make -j5
> (env)$ exit
> $ ./pre-inst-env guix build -K blah
> # On build failure, examine /tmp/guix-build-blah* directory
> # If you want, install the new package into your profile:
> $ ./pre-inst-env guix package -i blah
>