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--with-source=PACKAGE=REPLACEMENT-SOURCE doesn't work recursively

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: pkill9 <pkill9 <at> runbox.com>
Subject: bug#42155: closed (Re: bug#42155: --with-source=PACKAGE=REPLACEMENT-SOURCE
 doesn't work recursively)
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2023 13:19:01 +0000

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Your bug report

#42155: --with-source=PACKAGE=REPLACEMENT-SOURCE doesn't work recursively

which was filed against the guix package, has been closed.

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From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: pkill9 <pkill9 <at> runbox.com>, 42155-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Efraim Flashner <efraim <at> flashner.co.il>
Subject: Re: bug#42155: --with-source=PACKAGE=REPLACEMENT-SOURCE doesn't
 work recursively
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2023 08:18:46 -0500

Hi,

Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> writes:

> pkill9 <pkill9 <at> runbox.com> skribis:
>
>>> I think what you're looking for is more of:
>>> 
>>> guix build --no-grafts mpv --with-input=youtube-dl=$(guix build
>>> --no-grafts youtube-dl
>>> --with-source=https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/releases/download/2020.06.16/youtube-dl-2020.06.16.tar.gz)
>>> 
>>> This didn't work for me though, I got:
>>> guix build: error:
>>> /gnu/store/9ncacjhzwlchpr1y5fd8ahdq59dsya20-youtube-dl-2020.06.16:
>>> unknown package
>>
>> Even if that worked, it doesn't fix the issue of the --with-source flag
>> not working on the specified package's inputs.
>
> ‘--with-source’ is documented to be “shallow”: unlike ‘--with-input’ &
> co., it doesn’t apply recursively.
>
> I think we should change it though.

Closing, since that's been implemented per
28ade1bab207974cce6a014e7187968511fc5526 ("transformations:
'--with-source' now operates in depth.") last September.

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Thanks,
Maxim

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From: pkill9 <pkill9 <at> runbox.com>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: --with-source=PACKAGE=REPLACEMENT-SOURCE doesn't work recursively
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2020 17:53:31 +0100

For example, `guix build --with-source=youtube-dl=blahblah mpv` builds
mpv normally, after giving a message: guix build: warning:
transformation 'with-source' had no effect on mpv <at> 0.32.0

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