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-rw-r--r--doc/guix.texi13
-rw-r--r--guix/channels.scm93
2 files changed, 65 insertions, 41 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index 5a8ad7ebda..458fca20af 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -3921,6 +3921,19 @@ For the sake of reliability and maintainability, you should avoid dependencies
on channels that you don't control, and you should aim to keep the number of
dependencies to a minimum.
+@cindex subdirectory, channels
+@subsection Package Modules in a Sub-directory
+
+As a channel author, you may want to keep your channel modules in a
+sub-directory. If your modules are in the sub-directory @file{guix}, you must
+add a meta-data file @file{.guix-channel} that contains:
+
+@lisp
+(channel
+ (version 0)
+ (directory "guix"))
+@end lisp
+
@subsection Replicating Guix
@cindex pinning, channels
diff --git a/guix/channels.scm b/guix/channels.scm
index e6bb9b891b..615ff14565 100644
--- a/guix/channels.scm
+++ b/guix/channels.scm
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
;;; Copyright © 2018, 2019 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
;;; Copyright © 2018 Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
+;;; Copyright © 2019 Jan (janneke) Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>
;;;
;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
;;;
@@ -107,9 +108,10 @@
(checkout channel-instance-checkout))
(define-record-type <channel-metadata>
- (channel-metadata version dependencies)
+ (channel-metadata version directory dependencies)
channel-metadata?
(version channel-metadata-version)
+ (directory channel-metadata-directory)
(dependencies channel-metadata-dependencies))
(define (channel-reference channel)
@@ -119,18 +121,18 @@
(#f `(branch . ,(channel-branch channel)))
(commit `(commit . ,(channel-commit channel)))))
-(define (read-channel-metadata instance)
- "Return a channel-metadata record read from the channel INSTANCE's
-description file, or return #F if the channel instance does not include the
-file."
- (let* ((source (channel-instance-checkout instance))
- (meta-file (string-append source "/.guix-channel")))
+(define (read-channel-metadata-from-source source)
+ "Return a channel-metadata record read from channel's SOURCE/.guix-channel
+description file, or return #F if SOURCE/.guix-channel does not exist."
+ (let ((meta-file (string-append source "/.guix-channel")))
(and (file-exists? meta-file)
- (and-let* ((raw (call-with-input-file meta-file read))
- (version (and=> (assoc-ref raw 'version) first))
- (dependencies (or (assoc-ref raw 'dependencies) '())))
+ (let* ((raw (call-with-input-file meta-file read))
+ (version (and=> (assoc-ref raw 'version) first))
+ (directory (and=> (assoc-ref raw 'directory) first))
+ (dependencies (or (assoc-ref raw 'dependencies) '())))
(channel-metadata
version
+ directory
(map (lambda (item)
(let ((get (lambda* (key #:optional default)
(or (and=> (assoc-ref item key) first) default))))
@@ -144,12 +146,18 @@ file."
(commit (get 'commit))))))
dependencies))))))
+(define (read-channel-metadata instance)
+ "Return a channel-metadata record read from the channel INSTANCE's
+description file, or return #F if the channel instance does not include the
+file."
+ (read-channel-metadata-from-source (channel-instance-checkout instance)))
+
(define (channel-instance-dependencies instance)
"Return the list of channels that are declared as dependencies for the given
channel INSTANCE."
(match (read-channel-metadata instance)
(#f '())
- (($ <channel-metadata> version dependencies)
+ (($ <channel-metadata> version directory dependencies)
dependencies)))
(define* (latest-channel-instances store channels #:optional (previous-channels '()))
@@ -230,36 +238,39 @@ of COMMIT at URL. Use NAME as the channel name."
modules in SOURCE and that depend on DEPENDENCIES, a list of lowerable
objects. The assumption is that SOURCE contains package modules to be added
to '%package-module-path'."
- ;; FIXME: We should load, say SOURCE/.guix-channel.scm, which would allow
- ;; channel publishers to specify things such as the sub-directory where .scm
- ;; files live, files to exclude from the channel, preferred substitute URLs,
- ;; etc.
-
- (define build
- ;; This is code that we'll run in CORE, a Guix instance, with its own
- ;; modules and so on. That way, we make sure these modules are built for
- ;; the right Guile version, with the right dependencies, and that they get
- ;; to see the right (gnu packages …) modules.
- (with-extensions dependencies
- #~(begin
- (use-modules (guix build compile)
- (guix build utils)
- (srfi srfi-26))
-
- (define go
- (string-append #$output "/lib/guile/" (effective-version)
- "/site-ccache"))
- (define scm
- (string-append #$output "/share/guile/site/"
- (effective-version)))
-
- (compile-files #$source go
- (find-files #$source "\\.scm$"))
- (mkdir-p (dirname scm))
- (symlink #$source scm)
- scm)))
-
- (gexp->derivation-in-inferior name build core))
+
+ (let* ((metadata (read-channel-metadata-from-source source))
+ (directory (and=> metadata channel-metadata-directory)))
+
+ (define build
+ ;; This is code that we'll run in CORE, a Guix instance, with its own
+ ;; modules and so on. That way, we make sure these modules are built for
+ ;; the right Guile version, with the right dependencies, and that they get
+ ;; to see the right (gnu packages …) modules.
+ (with-extensions dependencies
+ #~(begin
+ (use-modules (guix build compile)
+ (guix build utils)
+ (srfi srfi-26))
+
+ (define go
+ (string-append #$output "/lib/guile/" (effective-version)
+ "/site-ccache"))
+ (define scm
+ (string-append #$output "/share/guile/site/"
+ (effective-version)))
+
+ (let* ((subdir (if #$directory
+ (string-append "/" #$directory)
+ ""))
+ (source (string-append #$source subdir)))
+ (compile-files source go (find-files source "\\.scm$"))
+ (mkdir-p (dirname scm))
+ (symlink (string-append #$source subdir) scm))
+
+ scm)))
+
+ (gexp->derivation-in-inferior name build core)))
(define* (build-from-source name source
#:key core verbose? commit