From fe634eaf93ba40862acdf62d7f197c6f19f0651c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ludovic Courtès Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2018 15:38:59 +0200 Subject: Add (guix describe) and use it to initialize '%package-search-path'. * guix/describe.scm: New file. * Makefile.am (MODULES): Add it. * gnu/packages.scm (%default-package-module-path): New variable. (%package-module-path): Honor 'package-path-entries'. * build-aux/update-NEWS.scm (main): Use %DEFAULT-PACKAGE-MODULE-PATH instead of (last (%package-module-path)). --- build-aux/update-NEWS.scm | 9 ++++----- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'build-aux') diff --git a/build-aux/update-NEWS.scm b/build-aux/update-NEWS.scm index 2e8f68c9a8..a9dffef1d2 100644 --- a/build-aux/update-NEWS.scm +++ b/build-aux/update-NEWS.scm @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU -;;; Copyright © 2017 Ludovic Courtès +;;; Copyright © 2017, 2018 Ludovic Courtès ;;; ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix. ;;; @@ -128,11 +128,10 @@ paragraph." (define (main . args) (match args ((news-file data-directory) - ;; Don't browse things listed in the user's $GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH. Here we - ;; assume that the last item in (%package-module-path) is the distro - ;; directory. + ;; Don't browse things listed in the user's $GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH and + ;; in external channels. (parameterize ((%package-module-path - (list (last (%package-module-path))))) + %default-package-module-path)) (define (package-file version) (string-append data-directory "/packages-" version ".txt")) -- cgit v1.2.3