bug#39775: guix pull - error: lmdbxx: unbound variable

[zimoun]

Dear,

On Tue, 25 Feb 2020 at 18:29, Martin Flack <address@hidden> wrote:

> I think the problem was I had copied gnu/packages/databases.scm to a custom 
> GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH in order to apply a patch from the mailing lists, without 
> keeping it up-to-date with the rest of the contents of the file as guix had 
> further commits over time. I know there must be a way to do that more cleanly 
> where (a) you only override the necessary packages and (b) somehow it becomes 
> moot or you get notified when that package is upgraded in mainline; but I 
> have not yet learned how to do that! (Any tutorial?)

Maybe what you are looking for is channel and manifest.
Please ask on help-guix or IRC more details. :-)
And I do not know any tutorial yet, perhaps once you solved your
problem, you could write one. ;-)


All the best,
simon