Subject: Re: [bug#53828] [PATCH] guix: opam: Allow importing local files.

From: Maxime Devos <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2022 22:58:52 +0100

Julien Lepiller schreef op zo 06-02-2022 om 22:41 [+0100]:
> Now, if you have an OCaml package sources that provides an opam file
> (usually called opam, or with the .opam extension), you can import
> the
> package, recursively or not with something like:
> 
> guix import opam foo -f foo.opam -r
> 
> instead of fetching foo from the repositories, it will fetch the data
> directly from the given file. WDYT?

I don't know OCaml at all, but that seems potentially useful.
Can we have some tests for this in tests/opam.scm?

Greetings,
Maxime.