Re: Making local development easy

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Christopher Baines <address@hidden> writes:

> On 25/05/16 11:29, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
>> 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.
>
> I did try this, but it did not work. davexunit on IRC said that this was
> due to the isolation in the build process. I was trying to reference
> /tmp, where did you place the repository to make this work?

I’m using something like this and it works just right:

(source (origin
          (method url-fetch)
          (uri (string-append "file:///srv/some/tarball-v"
                              version ".tar.gz"))
          (sha256
           (base32
            "..."))))

I used /srv but also /gnu and other locations.

~~ Ricardo