And thanks to Ludo' too. I didn't see your mail because the thread view doesn't seam to be able to span from one month to the next, and also I think I got unsubscribed after getting messages saying "Your membership in the mailing list Help-Guix has been disabled due to excessive bounces". Myles
On Mon, 3 Jun 2019 at 23:30, Myles English <mylesengl...@gmail.com> wrote: > on [2019-05-28] at 14:18 I wrote: > > > I am trying to build this package that uses git submodules but the > > (recursive? #t) doesn't seem to have any effect. > > Thanks to bavier and reepca on IRC #guix who figured out this happens > when the package definition is changed (by e.g., adding "(recursive? > #t)") but the hash is not updated. This causes guix to think, > reasonably, that it already has the source in /gnu/store/the_hash-etc > because the_hash hasn't changed since the last time it was fetched. > > To fix, just remove the source from the store before trying again: > > $ guix gc -d /gnu/store/the_hash-etc > > (N.B. the "-d" above might have changed to "-D") > > Additionally, when developing a package, reepca suggested making a > random change to the hash just so guix knows it needs to get the source > again, and it will suggested the real hash to put in the package > definition. > > Myles >
