Re: Building and installing packages with modifications

2019-03-11 Thread Wayne
Quoting Chris Marusich : Wayne writes: my follow up question is whether there is (or a plan for) any support for sharing these derived custom build binaries with other users Yes! For starters, see (guix) Channels in the manual. Here's an online copy: https://www.gnu.org/software/guix

Re: Building and installing packages with modifications

2019-02-26 Thread Chris Marusich
ison writes: > Although it seems like this can get very ugly very quickly, so I'm also > curious > now if anyone else knows a better way to handle this. It's almost as if you > need > to make "curl" a global (and then modify it) so that all packages will use > your > modified curl instead of t

Re: Building and installing packages with modifications

2019-02-26 Thread Chris Marusich
Hi, ison writes: > Since this hasn't received any replies I'll give my solution, although I > apologize in advance if this isn't the "best" way to do it. No need to apologize! There are many ways to solve problems, and often I find it very helpful to see the different ways others have solved t

Re: Building and installing packages with modifications

2019-02-24 Thread ison
So basically you're saying curl is a dependency of other packages and it's failing to build due to the tests? That makes it more complicated. You could always try renaming it to "curl.scm" and testing it, but I'm failry certain it won't work. Again, I'm really not sure if my way is the best way. I

Re: Building and installing packages with modifications

2019-02-24 Thread Gábor Boskovits
Hello, 白い熊 ezt írta (időpont: 2019. febr. 16., Szo, 16:12): > > Hi Guix: > > This is a question derived from my current trouble with running Guix on > Android, as seen in: > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2019-02/msg00151.html > > Basically: > — I have Guix running on an armhf Andr

Re: Building and installing packages with modifications

2019-02-24 Thread 白い熊@相撲道
On February 24, 2019 6:46:20 PM UTC, ison wrote: >Since this hasn't received any replies I'll give my solution, although >I >apologize in advance if this isn't the "best" way to do it. > … >which will just inherit curl and only modify the flag "tests?" to >disable tests. >Everything else will

Re: Building and installing packages with modifications

2019-02-24 Thread ison
Since this hasn't received any replies I'll give my solution, although I apologize in advance if this isn't the "best" way to do it. When I want to modify a package that I install via "guix package -i" (as opposed to using the GuixSD system configuration) I just create a new file for each such pac

Building and installing packages with modifications

2019-02-16 Thread 白い熊
Hi Guix: This is a question derived from my current trouble with running Guix on Android, as seen in: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2019-02/msg00151.html Basically: — I have Guix running on an armhf Android phone — “guix pull” won't complete as it needs to build curl locally, s