Re: Debugging Guix packages?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Jookia <address@hidden> skribis:

> This could be good enough for now but again this doesn't work with this like
> builds that don't fail. My concrete example is wanting to patch software but 
> not
> knowing how to get to the pre-patch state so I can then work from that in
> testing which patches apply and which don't, or make my own.

To get the unpatched source, you can always comment out the ‘patches’
field, and then run, say:

  tar xf $(guix build -S my-package)

Or do I misunderstand?

Ludo’.