Re: Debugging Guix packages?

[Pjotr Prins]

On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 09:55:32PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> > I wonder how this could be implemented, any ideas?
> 
> Roughly, we could generate a Scheme file containing the list of phases
> (the generated build script contains them, but it immediately passes
> them to ‘gnu-build’ or similar), which could be loaded into Guile.  From
> there we could explicitly manipulate the list of phases and run them.
> 
> There are complications though, such as the fact that build systems can
> lack the notion of phases altogether (this is the case of
> ‘trivial-build-system’, but it may be the only one.)  I wonder if we
> should move phases from the build side to the host side at some point…

How about extending the -K switch with a build phase option where it
should stop? 

I think the container thing is nice, but not really suitable for
fixing stuff (as Chris notes, it ends up read-only in the store). I am
pretty happy with -K.

Pj.
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