Re: How to install prerelease package versions (particularly Emacs)

[Mathieu Lirzin]

Pierre Neidhardt <address@hidden> writes:

> Mathieu Lirzin <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I think you have to use the ‘local-file’ procedure in place of ‘origin’
>> in the ‘source’ field.
>
> Unless I'm mistaken, local-file does not work on folders.  In the case
> of a Git repo, that would mean extracting the archive and overwriting
> the destination on each build.  It's not a solution then.

With the ‘#:recursive?’ keyword option set to #t, ‘local-file’ should
work for directories.

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