Hello Tomas, Tomas Volf <~@wolfsden.cz> writes:
[...] > I believe you can use mixed-text-file for this purpose: Oh yes! I missed (to understand) mixed-text-file and text-file* in the G-exp manual section [1], in particular how it can be easily used in place of local-file and plain-file, because I missed (to understand) the given example. Now that I see, I think I'll use that in place of plain-file... everywhere :-O [...] > (use-modules (gnu packages base) > (guix gexp)) > > (define %my-file-object > (mixed-text-file "something.conf" "\ > SED_PATH = " sed "/bin/sed > ")) > > %my-file-object > > And here is the result: > > $ cat $(guix build -e '(load "/tmp/yy.scm")') > SED_PATH = > /gnu/store/6kkygybkxkzqy3lf6k5kzimk5mjasrvw-sed-4.8/bin/sed Cristal clear, also thank you for having pointed out a quick way to test the result by building it and cat(ing) it in a shell session This could be a nice section in the Cookbook :-) Thank you and happy hacking! > There are only two hard things in Computer Science: > cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors. P.S.: I'll steal the above sentence, _verbatim_ :-) [1] IMHO that manual section "talks" to experienced Guile programmers and not to Guix _users_... and actually is a subsection of "Programming interface". -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures
