On Fri, 22 Apr 2022, Maxim Cournoyer <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I require debugging symbols of multiple packages. Some of them
>> already have a debug output from the main guix channel, but others
>> don't. So I had in mind to make a channel and publish the
>> substitutes with the debug outputs.
>
> In general, if you need debug symbols for something, I think it's OK
> to contribute adding them to Guix proper (in a debug output), unless
> they make like >= 1 GiB (as I can imagine may be the case for IceCat).
Okay I will try. I'm not sure how easy it is so add debug symbols to some
packages e.g. git, nginx. In any case I need them, so I will contribute
back to the main channel if it works.
>> How could I make sure that Guix use my version of Firefox over the one
>> defined by the main channel? My guess is to change the name of my
>> package to something like "my-firefox". But it would be nicer if I
>> don't have to do so. Perhaps there's a way to force channel
>> preference?
>
> Channels can only extend, not override the default Guix channel (the
> world would be a bit of a mess if it did). So the easiest path is to
> use a different name; alternatively for graph rewriting you could use
> the various APIs to effect package transformations.
Would be nice to have some way to specify channel in a package
specification. I don't think that it would break things if we
considerer channels as namespaces, i.e. different graph. A
specification like:
{channel}package@version:output
would be useful. For now I will just rename them to "my/package".
Regards,
old
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Olivier Dion
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