On Mon, 24 May 2021 13:22:23 -0400 Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> wrote:
> On Sat, May 22, 2021 at 12:19:30PM -0800, Christopher Howard wrote: > > However, the command I am running to > > rebuild ugrep without grafts or substitutes is rebuilding everything > > all the way back to bootstrap, so it probably will not be completed > > for a day or two: > > > > guix gc -D $(guix build --no-grafts ugrep); guix build > > --no-substitutes ugrep > > Do this instead: > > $ guix environment --no-grafts ugrep -- guix build --no-grafts > --no-substitutes ugrep > > That way, you can use substitutes for ugrep's dependencies, but then > build ugrep from source. > > I hope it helps! > > > TIL about that. There really ought to be a more obvious way to do that.