Re: Is there a way to use raco to insall packages offline?

[Christopher Lemmer Webber]

Bonface M. K. writes:

> Hi Racket!
>
> I've been exploring ways of creating a build
> system for racket in Guix, which essentially means
> providing a way for having racket packages
> directly packaged defined in an *.scm file and
> letting guix handle the rest for you. From my
> research so far, I see that you have to do most of
> the steps of installing the collections, libs, and
> updating the links manually. However, I wonder if
> you could use raco(sorry if that comes off naive)
> to do that work for you, but offline. Is that
> possible, if you provide source files locally,
> could you let raco do the installations for you?
> If that's possible, are thery any weird
> limitations to that?

Hi Bonface,

As I've already told you, I'm very excited that you're taking on this
work. :)

You can usually install raco packages offline, yes, in that you can go
to the source directory (usually wherever the info.rkt file is) and type:

raco pkg install

This will "set up" that directory as the official place of install.
Does that make sense or answer your question at all?

- Chris