Hi Julien,
On Fri, 26 Jun 2020 at 06:17, Julien Lepiller <[email protected]> wrote:
> One way to do this with the guix API is to get the derivation, then build it:
>
> (use-modules (guix derivations) (guix store) (gnu packages bash))
> (define package bash-minimal)
> (define store (open-connection))
> (define der (package-derivation store package))
> (build-derivations store (list der))
>
> Is that what you want?
Yes, but provides something like:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(use-modules
(guix store)
(guix derivations)
(guix packages))
(define (build-packages packages)
(with-store store
(let ((builds (map (lambda (package)
(package-derivation store package))
packages)))
(build-derivations store builds))))
(define (build-package package)
(build-packages (list package)))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Because otherwise, you need to know "package-derivation" and
"build-derivation" and where they are (I run 'ag' or 'git-grep'
to find them which is not handy). And for example, I knew it was
possible but it was not "obvious". :-)
Cheers,
simon
