Hi Andy, Andy Tai <[email protected]> writes:
> Hi, this is more a developer question: > > Guix patches are posted to guix-patches mailing list. Is there any > tool that makes it easy to download a particular patch series from the > mailing list archive or the Guix issue web site so it is easy to apply > a patch series to a local checkout of the guix git repo? > > This is to mainly easily test guix package definition patches. > > (There seems to be tool like b4 or patchworks for Linux kernel > developers and their mailing lists but not sure if similar tools exist > for GNU (or Guix specific) development mailing lists) I know it was already mentioned, but some features were recently added to piem (patch waiting over at https://issues.guix.gnu.org/64155) to integrate it with debbugs.el, the Emacs debbugs interface. This makes it (IMHO) a fairly easy to apply some patches locally. I have this set up with (something similar to) the following: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- (setq piem-inboxes (("guix-patches" :coderepo ("/home/jlicht/Documents/guix") :url "https://yhetil.org/guix-patches"; :listid "guix-patches.gnu.org" :address "[email protected]" :gnu-package "guix-patches"))) (require 'piem) (piem-gnus-mode 1) (piem-debbugs-mode 1) (require 'debbugs) (defun debbugs-gnu-guix () "List Guix issues." (interactive) (debbugs-gnu '("serious" "important" "normal") '("guix-patches") nil t)) --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- With the configuration taken care of, just `M-x debbugs-gnu-guix', navigate to any issue (just put point on an issue you are interested in) and run `M-x piem-b4-am'. It should pull down all needed messages (from yhetil's public inbox mirror), and use some heuristics to apply the most recent patch revision, taking into account either 'git send-email' or attachment-based patch series. Hope this additional data point is useful. - Jelle
