GNU bug report logs - #42735
[PATCH] pre-inst-env: don't use GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH

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Package: guix-patches;

Reported by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo <at> cyberdimension.org>

Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2020 02:28:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Done: Oleg Pykhalov <go.wigust <at> gmail.com>

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From: Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe <at> gnu.org>
To: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo <at> cyberdimension.org>
Cc: 42735 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#42735] [PATCH] pre-inst-env: don't use GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2020 10:41:52 +0200

Hello Denis,

> ./pre-inst-env is supposed to use only the packages definitions that are in
> the guix source tree and not the host packages.
>
> However if GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH is set, it will use host packages as well.

Let say you have a custom my-hello package inheriting from hello, and
you want to build it on top of a recent Guix checkout, then you probably
want GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH to cooperate with pre-inst-env.

Same goes if you have a manifest mixing Guix packages and custom
packages accessed by GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH, and you want to test your
manifest on top of a Guix checkout using pre-inst-env.

Thanks,

Mathieu
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