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Re: API for rewriting package fields ?


From: Ricardo Wurmus
Subject: Re: API for rewriting package fields ?
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2024 17:25:47 +0200
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Nicolas Graves via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." 
<guix-devel@gnu.org> writes:

> Is there an interface to rewrite / update a field from a series of
> packages easily?

We have "update-package-inputs" in (guix upstream), which defines a
local procedure "update-field".  Perhaps you can use that?

What it cannot do yet is *create* a field, e.g. add a native-inputs
field to add an input when the package currently doesn't have a
native-inputs field.

-- 
Ricardo



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