Re: Howto reference a custom package from a manifest

[Timothy Washington <twashing@gmail.com>]

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"*Hats off to Tobias Kortkamp for pinpointing the issue so confidently and
so quickly*"
Yes, that was impressive :)

"*Should 'rustscan' perhaps become part of Guix?*"
In fact I have that in mind, yes! Initially however, I did use this
pattern (see
"*Howto supply cargo-build-system dependency to guix package definition*
<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2023-05/msg00009.html>"). And
seemingly got a different package definition.

guix import crate -r rustscan
guix build -L ~/dotfiles/ rust-rustscan-2

RustScan/RustScan <https://github.com/RustScan/RustScan> versions haven't
changed since I first tried to do this.
So I'm happy to work with you to add rustscan to Guix.
As a part of that exercise,

   - is there a way to make that process repeatable?
   - Can we ensure the current package definition works on all systems?


Thanks
Tim

On Tue, 23 May 2023 at 12:54, Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com>
wrote:

> Hi Timothy,
>
> On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 12:31 AM Timothy Washington <twashing@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Yes that was it! I added "(native-inputs (list perl python))" to my
> package definition.
> >
> > $ guix build -L ~/dotfiles/ rust-rustscan   # A. Now builds again!
>
> Hats off to Tobias Kortkamp for pinpointing the issue so confidently
> and so quickly! We have a lot of amazing packaging talent on this
> list.
>
> > i. Using a direct "guix build" gives you a directory in "/gnu/store".
> And you can add that bin to your PATH.
>
> You may wish to have a look at 'guix shell'. It does something very
> similar via an intermediate collection of symlinks that look like an
> aggregate file tree, which we call a profile.
>
> > I'm attaching the full package definition to this email.
>
> Should 'rustscan' perhaps become part of Guix? I'd be happy to assist
> with preparing such a patch while preserving your authorship.
>
> Kind regards
> Felix
>

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