Re: bug#22970: guix edit mutt -- not working

2016-03-13 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 11:47:04 +0100 Jean Louis wrote: > Hello Alex, > > I have followed your recommendation, and mutt is working modified. > However, now I get useless error messages. And I can imagine, if I have > modified 10 packages, that I would get 10x that much of error messages. > > warni

Re: bug#22970: guix edit mutt -- not working

2016-03-13 Thread Jean Louis
Hello Alex, I have followed your recommendation, and mutt is working modified. However, now I get useless error messages. And I can imagine, if I have modified 10 packages, that I would get 10x that much of error messages. warning: collision encountered: /gnu/store/xxzgai9khdfhk70p06vs6akrarzph9r

Re: bug#22970: guix edit mutt -- not working

2016-03-12 Thread Jean Louis
Hello Alex, Thank you much, it is working like this very good: guix package -i my-mutt by using this file: my-guix-packages.scm in ~/gnu/guix/packages: (define-module (my-guix-packages) #:use-module (guix packages) #:use-module (guix download) #:use-module (guix utils) #:use-module

Re: bug#22970: guix edit mutt -- not working

2016-03-12 Thread Alex Kost
Jean Louis (2016-03-11 21:48 +0300) wrote: > Hello Alex, > > I got your mutt file, for my-guix-packages, but now I see I > need to learn Guile commands, I will do this somewhat later > when I have working system. Please help me until then, as > your style to make a modified package is excellent fo

Re: bug#22970: guix edit mutt -- not working

2016-03-11 Thread Jean Louis
Hello Alex, I got your mutt file, for my-guix-packages, but now I see I need to learn Guile commands, I will do this somewhat later when I have working system. Please help me until then, as your style to make a modified package is excellent for me. I guess you forgot the dependency gdbm, where to

Re: bug#22970: guix edit mutt -- not working

2016-03-11 Thread Jean Louis
Hello Alex, Thank you much. That looks like a solution that is valuable, and I would like to see that in future documentation. The info documentation and guix package --help now provide the option to read the file and evaluate from file, and I guess that this solution you provided is better for f

Re: bug#22970: guix edit mutt -- not working

2016-03-11 Thread Alex Kost
Jean Louis (2016-03-10 22:34 +0300) wrote: > Hello Andreas, > > I have now 2 files in gnu/guix/packages/*.scm, for mutt and postgresql: > and now I get each time on running guix, following: > > guix package: warning: failed to load '(databases)': > ERROR: no code for module (databases) > guix pack

Re: bug#22970: guix edit mutt -- not working

2016-03-10 Thread Jean Louis
Hello Andreas, I have now 2 files in gnu/guix/packages/*.scm, for mutt and postgresql: and now I get each time on running guix, following: guix package: warning: failed to load '(databases)': ERROR: no code for module (databases) guix package: warning: failed to load '(mutt)': ERROR: no code for

Re: bug#22970: guix edit mutt -- not working

2016-03-09 Thread Andreas Enge
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