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From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Hartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: string-append plus package
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2016 14:56:47 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161208195647.GA23449@jasmine> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d7fabec3-9f43-e315-2ede-680a12c7ba59@crazy-compilers.com>

On Thu, Dec 08, 2016 at 06:01:37PM +0100, Hartmut Goebel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm confused about string-append working inconsistently:
> 
> In package definitions, I'm used to write '(string-append PKG "…")'. But
> when I use this for defining a service, I get an error:
> 
> In procedure string-append: Wrong type (expecting string): #<package
> nginx@1.11.6 gnu/packages/web.scm:124 42449c0>
> 
> What is going on here?
> 
> Here is the service-definition I use:
> 
>              (nginx-service #:vhost-list
>                (list (nginx-vhost-configuration     
>                       (root (string-append nginx "/share/nginx/html"))

I believe that file-append is intended for this use case.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-12-08 19:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-08 17:01 string-append plus package Hartmut Goebel
2016-12-08 17:28 ` Thompson, David
2016-12-08 17:46   ` Hartmut Goebel
2016-12-08 17:47     ` Thompson, David
2016-12-08 19:56 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2016-12-19  0:13   ` Hartmut Goebel
2016-12-19  9:47     ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-12-19 11:05       ` Hartmut Goebel
2016-12-19 13:31         ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-01-01 15:34           ` Hartmut Goebel
2017-01-02 23:05             ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-12-29 10:57       ` Hartmut Goebel
2016-12-29 13:06         ` Mathieu Lirzin
2016-12-29 14:21           ` Hartmut Goebel
2016-12-30 23:42         ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-12-31 12:56           ` Hartmut Goebel
2017-01-02 23:10             ` Ludovic Courtès

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