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

[Jorge]

March 3, 2018 7:24 AM, "Oleg Pykhalov" <address@hidden> wrote:
> Guix package collection provides only stable package releases for the
> most part.
That's a pity.

> You could write a package recipe with a new version based on original
> recipe, see [1].
> 
> Also you could try ‘--with-source’ [2], but in Emacs case the package
> recipe should be tweaked a little bit, so it will probably not work.
> 
> [1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2017-09/msg00074.html
> [2]
> https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Package-Transformation-Options.html#Package-Trans
> ormation-Options
Thank you for your tips!  For now I’ll keep building Emacs manually, but
when I become more knowledgeable about Guix I intend to follow your
instructions.

Regards

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