Dear, On Tue, 25 Feb 2020 at 18:29, Martin Flack <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think the problem was I had copied gnu/packages/databases.scm to a custom > GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH in order to apply a patch from the mailing lists, without > keeping it up-to-date with the rest of the contents of the file as guix had > further commits over time. I know there must be a way to do that more cleanly > where (a) you only override the necessary packages and (b) somehow it becomes > moot or you get notified when that package is upgraded in mainline; but I > have not yet learned how to do that! (Any tutorial?) Maybe what you are looking for is channel and manifest. Please ask on help-guix or IRC more details. :-) And I do not know any tutorial yet, perhaps once you solved your problem, you could write one. ;-) All the best, simon
