On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 12:54:53PM -0500, anonymiss wrote: > Hi, > > I've read > https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Packaging-Guidelines.html > and I am done with the gnunet-gtk.scm, at least as far as I can go without > testing. > My question is, do I check out the guix.git for testing the package with > ./pre-inst-env guix build $pkg-name --keep-failed > or what is the general recommended process for this? > I know I can even setup VMs within guix with guix, but I just started and > need some pointers.
If you are just testing packages and not GuixSD / system stuff, try `guix environment --ad-hoc foo`, and maybe also the `--pure` option. This will put the packages in your environment as if they were installed in a profile, without actually making a profile generation. The only downside, to me, is that `guix gc` will delete foo unless you explicity register it as a garbage collector root with `guix build -r foo`. It has been discussed to add this option to `guix environment`, but I'm not sure if any decision was reached: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-10/msg00551.html > > > --anonymiss > ----------------------------------------------- > Email is public and violates our right for secrecy of correspondence. > Talk to me in private: > http://loupsycedyglgamf.onion/anonymiss/ > irc://loupsycedyglgamf.onion:67/anonymiss > https://psyced.org:34443/anonymiss/ > > If you want Email like communication which respects > your privacy and rights and is secure without requiring you to > learn complicated tools, use bitmessage: > (public) bitmessage: BM-2cSj8qEigE3CMaLU3CwPZf7T3LvzvnttsC > > my vcard (sort of): http://krosos.sdf.org