From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: Divya Ranjan via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System
distribution." <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Cc: Divya Ranjan <divya@subvertising.org>
Subject: Re: Using Pipewire for PulseAudio and JACK in Guix
Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2024 12:50:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ed3silil.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fro8rgbp.fsf@subvertising.org> (Divya Ranjan via's message of "Sun, 03 Nov 2024 06:18:02 +0000")
Divya Ranjan via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System
distribution." <guix-devel@gnu.org> writes:
> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:
>
>> Divya <divya@subvertising.org> writes:
>>
>>> Thanks for pointing it out, indeed its trying to write into
>>> /etc/xdg.
>>> How does one handle such a case when packaging in Guix?
>>
>> We'd patch the build system files to make it write to
>> $output/etc/xdg
>> instead.
>
> But wouldn’t that break with updates? Or, does one need to
> update the
> build system files everytime with a release?
No, you'd use a G-expression and refer to #$output in the build
phase.
#$output will always have the value of the output directory.
> Do you think one should
> send a patch for this to the source tree, to make it compatible
> with
> both Guix and Non-Guix GNU/Linux distributions?
No need. Just patch it in a custom build phase.
--
Ricardo
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-10-28 13:27 Using Pipewire for PulseAudio and JACK in Guix Divya Ranjan via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2024-10-28 13:46 ` Divya Ranjan via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2024-11-01 7:31 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2024-11-02 13:36 ` Divya Ranjan via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2024-11-02 16:08 ` Kaelyn via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2024-11-02 17:18 ` Divya
2024-11-02 23:00 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2024-11-03 6:18 ` Divya Ranjan via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2024-11-03 11:50 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2024-11-13 13:10 ` divya
2024-12-15 11:26 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2024-11-07 9:41 ` Divya Ranjan via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2024-10-31 18:19 ` Divya
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2024-11-01 13:11 Noé Lopez via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2024-11-03 6:21 ` Divya Ranjan via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
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