From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: L p R n d n Subject: Re: Packaging Arcan Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2018 16:49:40 +0100 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35432) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gRICq-0000jZ-8z for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Nov 2018 09:49:48 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gRICl-0000pg-Bc for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Nov 2018 09:49:48 -0500 Received: from mout02.posteo.de ([185.67.36.142]:41251) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gRICl-0000nC-5W for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Nov 2018 09:49:43 -0500 Received: from submission (posteo.de [89.146.220.130]) by mout02.posteo.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F3D972400E5 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2018 15:49:37 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: (swedebugia's message of "Fri, 23 Nov 2018 19:09:55 +0100") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: swedebugia Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Hello, Thank you for the help. I decided to package appls on their own as they are not part of Arcan itself and can be written by anyone. My plan, if I understood correctly, is to copy appls file to '%out/share/arcan/appl' as the folder already exists in Arcan package so that everything is "merged" in a single folder in the user profile. I first thought that setting a search-path in the Arcan package would then let the user deal with the rest. (Are search-paths honored automatically under GuixSD?) But after installing Arcan, 'guix package --search-paths' doesn't output anything related to the variable I set. I don't have any hint telling me to set it myself during installation. Am I misunderstanding something about search-paths? Here is the piece of code I added to the Arcan definition: (search-paths '((search-path-specification (variable "ARCAN_APPLBASEPATH") (files '("share/arcan/appl"))))) Last question here, in a specific appl (Durden), there a little shell script which set some variables/folders and start arcan. Is it ok to put it in "%outbin"? Lprndn