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Re: Making local development easy
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Ricardo Wurmus |
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Re: Making local development easy |
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Wed, 25 May 2016 11:29:13 +0200 |
Christopher Baines <address@hidden> writes:
> The second issue was getting the data to the store, as first I tried a
> relative path, but that did not work, and ended up having to expose the
> repository using a HTTP server, and access it over the loopback
> interface. This again is rather prohibitive to local development. To
> improve on this, could guix build do the insertion in to the store, such
> that relative paths would work? This would allow just writing a
> "guix.scm" file, which just uses (git-reference (url "./") (commit "HEAD")).
Maybe I’m misunderstanding the problem, but do you know that you can use
“file://” URIs? I’m doing this for local copies of tarballs that I
don’t plan to distribute.
~~ Ricardo
Re: Making local development easy, Andy Wingo, 2016/05/25