Hi, The manual page Defining Package Variants [0] gives an example translating command-line options into a Guix manifest. The full list of options is found in the source [1] (including with-git-url).
[0] https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Defining-Package-Variants.html [1] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/guix/transformations.scm?id=237d90a7808cfdced34b34595eba16632cbcb89e#n794 Greg On Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 8:18 AM SeerLite via Bug reports for GNU Guix < bug-guix@gnu.org> wrote: > Hi! > > I installed a package with --with-git-url and --with-branch to my profile: > > guix install kakoune > --with-git-url=kakoune=https://github.com/mawww/kakoune.git > --with-branch=kakoune=breaking-cleanups > > However, now I can't run `guix upgrade`. I get the following error: > > guix upgrade: error: the source of kakoune@2021.08.28 is not a Git > reference > > I also tried to add the same transformation options to `guix upgrade`, > but I got the same error. > > > Is installing packages with the --with-git-url transformation to > profiles not supported? Or is this a bug? > > Ideally I'd like `guix upgrade` to remember the way in which this > package was installed and update it accordingly. In this case by > fetching the latest changes from the breaking-cleanups branch. Is this > not how this transformation option works? > > Thanks :) > > > >
