Hello,
I wish to share how I got this working:
I wanted to do command:
guix edit mutt
only that one could not edit the file, so I have saved the file locally.
Andreas Enge pointed that I have to do following:
From: Andreas Enge
To: Jean Louis
Cc: 22970-d...@debbugs.gnu.org, help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22970: guix edit mutt -- not working
On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 12:22:20AM +0100, Jean Louis wrote:
> And I could not save the file in my home directory, and do:
> guix package -i mutt -f mail.scm
As mentioned on IRC, modify the file mail.scm by adding a line
mutt
at the end. Then
guix package -f mail.scm
does "install the package that the code within FILE evaluates to" as
explained by "guix package --help". mail.scm itself does not evaluate
to anything, it just contains a number of variable definitions. By adding
the line, it "returns" the value of the variable mutt, which is your
package definition.
Better yet, use GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH, for instance as follows:
export GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH=$HOME/guix
Then create the same file layout in that directory as in the source code:
mkdir -p $HOME/guix/gnu/packages
Copy mail.scm there, modify mutt, then
guix package -i mutt
will first look for your modified package.
So, I have done that with file:
~/gnu/guix/packages/mutt.scm
which is attached.
And I have added, dependency "gdbm" for the option --enable-hcache to
have it working:
(inputs
`(("cyrus-sasl" ,cyrus-sasl)
("gpgme" ,gpgme)
("gdbm" ,gdbm)
and
`(#:configure-flags '("--enable-smtp"
"--enable-imap"
"--enable-pop"
"--enable-gpgme"
"--enable-hcache"
Jean Louis
