Robert Vollmert <r...@vllmrt.net> skribis:
> What I have working so far uses local-file, as below:
>
> (define-public puzzledb-tools
> (package
> (name "puzzledb-tools")
> (version "20190625-git")
> (source
> (local-file
> "/home/rob/puzzledb/tools"
> #:recursive? #t))
> …
FWIW that’s what ‘--with-source’ does.
> That’s a bit annoying because it includes stale files that happen
> to be in the directory, it doesn’t check the hash, etc.
Like Marius wrote, you could pass #:select?
(local-file …
#:select? (git-predicate "/home/rob/puzzledb/tools"))
> Using a git origin with a local path doesn’t work for reasons I don’t
> completely understand — I think it’s because the guix-daemon builds in
> a namespace without access to the local filesystem. Perhaps there’s a
> way to link the git repository into that namespace?
Build processes for origins work in the global namespaces, with access
to the network and to everything. So I think something like this should
work:
(origin
(method url-fetch)
(url "/home/rob/puzzledb/tools")
(sha256 …))
HTH!
Ludo’.
