Re: A few questions about channels

2019-05-06 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
ison writes: >> This should work just like it would for GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH. Are you >> saying that the patch files you have created in your channel are not >> being found? > > Correct, they're not being found. But I do not have the variable > $GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH set, because I thought it was

Re: A few questions about channels

2019-05-06 Thread ison
> This should work just like it would for GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH. Are you > saying that the patch files you have created in your channel are not > being found? Correct, they're not being found. But I do not have the variable $GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH set, because I thought it was being deprecated. Do I need

Re: A few questions about channels

2019-05-05 Thread Chris Marusich
ison writes: > 3) How can a channel provide patch files which can be used with > "search-patches"? I attempted to look through the guix code in > gnu/packages.scm and from what I can tell it looks like search-patches > only looks in paths included from "%load-path". There is also a > comment

Re: A few questions about channels

2019-04-30 Thread Oleg Pykhalov
[…] >> 2) Is it possible to use private remote repositories as channels? >> The issue here seems to be one of authentication. I'm wonder if >> there is (or should be) an "authentication" field one would add to >> the channel definition in the channels.scm file. >> > I agree it would be nice to

Re: A few questions about channels

2019-04-25 Thread david . larsson
On Wed, 24 Apr 2019, ison wrote: Several questions about channels have been on my mind which I haven't been able to find any documentation on. So I figured I would ask them all in one place since they seem like fairly standard questions that could help others setting up channels in the

A few questions about channels

2019-04-24 Thread ison
Several questions about channels have been on my mind which I haven't been able to find any documentation on. So I figured I would ask them all in one place since they seem like fairly standard questions that could help others setting up channels in the future as well. 1) Is it possible to