Re: enchant hash, fail to upgrade

[Catriel]

Julien Lepiller <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Sorry I'm too tired to answer properly. Their is a section about contributing 
> in the manual. Have you read that?
>

yes, but I was asking a way or methodology to modify packages from guix
and using them even when they are dependencies. Because just defining a
package doesn't seem to handle that situation very well. As opose to
inheriting emacs package definition, calling it
awesome-mario-bros-emacs, patching it, and installing it. I was not
interested so much on the details of contributing.

> As a workaround, you can try guix package -u
> --with-source=enchant=`guix download …` where … is the url of the
> sources you want to use. Iirc, it applies to dependencies recursively.
>

mmm the problem remaings the same. The source is accesible and downloads
just fine, the issue here is with the package definition: it have a
wrong sha256 (asuming that is the case and not a sec. vulnerability in
upstream).

So even if I download it manually and write:

$guix upgrade --fallback --with-source=enchant=path-to-downloaded-file

it's equivalent to let guix download the package by itself. When it
tries to build the derivation the sha256 mismatch aborts the upgrade.

> Good night, and good luck :)

Have a good sleep!
and really thank you for answering!