Simon, well thanks as well, but sorry:
Neither do I understand this: it still has a guix core channel [?]: > (channel > (name 'guix) > (url "https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git";) > ;; (branch "master") > ... (which I wanted to avoid - as it takes ~ 53s), nor does it work for me (there may be issues with the finterprint/commit ids I don't want to dig any deeper here): --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- rx@dell ~/.config/guix$ guix pull Updating channel 'guix' from Git repository at 'https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git'... guix pull: error: aborting update of channel 'guix' to commit a8dd285d5a0670abf124a721e6ba94da045b24ba, which is not a descendant of 95c29d2746943733cbe8df7013854d45bb0df413 hint: Use `--allow-downgrades' to force this downgrade. rx@dell ~/.config/guix$ guix pull --allow-downgrades Updating channel 'guix' from Git repository at 'https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git'... guix pull: warning: rolling back channel 'guix' from 95c29d2746943733cbe8df7013854d45bb0df413 to a8dd285d5a0670abf124a721e6ba94da045b24ba Updating channel 'hacks' from Git repository at 'http://example.com/hacks.git'... guix pull: error: Git error: unexpected http status code: 404 rx@dell ~/.config/guix$ --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- I replying to the list, even thought I have received your mail only privately. Thanks in any case. -A Simon Streit <[email protected]> writes: > Hi Andreas, > > Andreas Reuleaux <[email protected]> writes: >> While working on those packages, I often do a >> >> guix pull > > Hey, do you just want to pull, say, from your own channel, but not Guix' > default? This is something I just figured out a couple of days ago! > > One way, and this is only one possibility, is to modify your > channels.scm in such a way that you directly pin your channels to the > commit, or if necessary, a branch, and basically pull whatever you want > to get your newest fix. > > This is how my channels.scm more or less looks like at the moment: > > (use-modules (guix ci)) > (list (channel-with-substitutes-available > %default-guix-channel > "https://ci.guix.gnu.org";)) > (list > (channel > (name 'guix) > (url "https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git";) > ;; (branch "master") > (commit "a8dd285d5a0670abf124a721e6ba94da045b24ba") > (introduction > (make-channel-introduction > "9edb3f66fd807b096b48283debdcddccfea34bad" > (openpgp-fingerprint > "BBB0 2DDF 2CEA F6A8 0D1D E643 A2A0 6DF2 A33A 54FA")))) > (channel > (name 'hacks) > (url "http://example.com/hacks.git";) > (branch "master") > (commit "e3fd7d9e4aa541f63133c4678f316b5239364c34"))) > > Be aware, that the downside is that anytime you want to go further, you > have to comment things out again, or go back to the default definition. > > > Kind regards > Simon
