Re: How to install prerelease package versions (particularly Emacs)

[Pierre Neidhardt]

Chris Marusich <address@hidden> writes:

> Pierre Neidhardt <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Is there a good reason not to allow local paths in git URLs?
>
> You might find the "local-file" procedure to be helpful here.  You can
> pass a local-file as the source of a package, which should allow you to
> define packages that use a local file path as the source.  See (guix)
> G-Expressions in the manual for details.

Thank you for this suggestion.  Mathieu Lirzin already mentioned it in
another branch of this thread and after trying it I ran into strange issues.
Do you have experience with local-file?

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Pierre Neidhardt

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