Re: --with-source version not honored?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Phil <phil@beadling.co.uk> skribis:

> Any ideas if I can create a new package with --with-source and then
> substitute it in the same command for an input of another package? 

For historical reasons, ‘--with-source’ only applies to leaf packages,
unlike most (all?) other transformation inputs.  Concretely, this works:

  guix build guile --with-source=guile=…

but this has no effect (Guix depends on Guile, but that Guile is left
unchanged):

  guix build guix --with-source=guile=…

Could it be that it’s what you’re stumbling upon?

Jesse Gibbons provided a patch last year (!) to address that:

  https://issues.guix.gnu.org/43193

Maybe it’s time to pick it up where we left off.

Thanks,
Ludo’.