2014-09-23 12:51 GMT-04:00 Carlos Carleos <carl...@uniovi.es>:
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> Hi!
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> I know I should be RTFM carefully, but...
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> In Debian, I can follow these steps to customize a package (more or less):
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> 1. # apt-get build-dep PACKAGE
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> 2. $ apt-get source PACKAGE
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> 3. $ cd PACKAGE-...; ...tweak...; dpkg-buildpackage...
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> 4. # dpkg -i PACKAGE.deb
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> What would be the similar sequence for GUIX? Thank you very much.
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Since packages are Scheme expressions, you can simpley create a new
package object that inherits from the package you want to modify.
Untested code below:
(use-modules (guix packages) (gnu packages emacs))
(package (inherit emacs) ...)
To install, I believe you need to use something like:
guix package -e '(load "my-custom-emacs.scm")'
Where my-custom-emacs.scm is a file that contains the code above.
Having the 'package' form at the end of the file makes it the return
value of 'load'.
I'm writing this hastily, but I hope this helps.
- Dave
