Re: A Suggestion about guix-devel-mode

[Ludovic Courtès]

Chris Marusich <address@hidden> skribis:

> Alex Kost <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> To make it clear, this is a question about Emacs-Guix.
>>
>> Feng Shu (2017-04-12 07:10 +0800) wrote:
>>
>>> Maybe we should add three addition keybinding:
>>>
>>> 1. Force rebuild the package defined by the current variable definition.
>>
>> What do you mean?  What is the analogous guix shell command?
>
> I could be wrong, but I don't think you can in general force a rebuild.
> The only way to force a rebuild that I know of is to GC the store path
> and then rebuild the package or derivation.  If I'm wrong, someone
> please correct me!

You can also force a rebuild with “guix build foo --check”, whose main
purpose is to check for bit-reproducibility.

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