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Non-committers can't keep authenticated forks updated

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From: Tomas Volf <~@wolfsden.cz>
To: Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler <at> gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel <at> gnu.org, 75552 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 45mg <45mg.writes <at> gmail.com>, help-guix <at> gnu.org, Felix Lechner <felix.lechner <at> lease-up.com>
Subject: bug#75552: Non-committers can't keep authenticated forks updated
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 15:39:48 +0100

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Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler <at> gmail.com> writes:

> [..]
>
>> Then there is anything modifying any of the guix commands.  #74832 is
>> over month old, and as far as I know, I am not able to fix guix-copy
>> from a channel.  #72928 took over a month to merge, and again, not
>> sure how to patch guix-describe from a channel.
> Have you considered extensions?

Took me a while to figure out what you mean.  Apparently there is a
$GUIX_EXTENSIONS_PATH environment variables that can be used to add
sub-commands (does not seem to be documented at all in the manual?).
Maybe I am looking into wrong place.

If I understand it correctly, I could copy&paste the current code for
`guix describe' and add it as `guix describe*' with my modification.
However it feels bit convoluted.

All of these things discussed in this thread are technically possible.
But I think that we all agree that the friction involved, compared to
just using my own fork with the patch applied, is much larger, at least
in my opinion.

Tomas

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