Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Christopher Baines <m...@cbaines.net> writes: > >> The second issue was getting the data to the store, as first I tried a >> relative path, but that did not work, and ended up having to expose the >> repository using a HTTP server, and access it over the loopback >> interface. This again is rather prohibitive to local development. To >> improve on this, could guix build do the insertion in to the store, such >> that relative paths would work? This would allow just writing a >> "guix.scm" file, which just uses (git-reference (url "./") (commit "HEAD")). > > Maybe I’m misunderstanding the problem, but do you know that you can use > “file://” URIs? I’m doing this for local copies of tarballs that I > don’t plan to distribute.
OMG, awesome. Note to self: spend more time reading manuals. Alex
