Re: Building things other than Guix with Cuirass

[Christopher Baines]

On Wed, 20 Sep 2017 08:20:18 +0200
Jan Nieuwenhuizen <address@hidden> wrote:

> Christopher Baines writes:
> 
> > Providing these packages sit within the Guix repository,  
> 
> ...and if they don't you can set
> 
>     (#:load-path . "/your/packages/directory")
> 
> (It says path, but means directory I think).
> 
> > I think there are configuration examples for building a subset of
> > packages already (e.g. I think this is what the hello related
> > examples do).  
> 
> I have just[0] added, next to the hardcoded "hello", the option to
> build a list of packakges, to be used like so
> 
>     (#:arguments (subset . ("hello" "sed" "grep")))
> 
> Does that help?

Thanks Jan. I've had another look at this, and I've got something
working with my current guix environment approach.

However, I've done this by getting the proc passed to cuirass to
execute a command which outputs the job definitions (in the same format
as the evaluate command).

This isn't very elegant, as it means that the data goes through a
rather convoluted path.

I guess that the environment could be set at the point the
specifications are created, but I'm not sure how to do that yet.

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