From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Mike Gerwitz <mtg@gnu.org>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Running IceCat in a container
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 15:20:44 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180117232044.GA17805@jasmine.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lggwpapz.fsf@gnu.org>
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On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 02:05:28PM -0500, Mike Gerwitz wrote:
> With that said, I'm having trouble creating a package: it wants a
> `source' field, but this is a metapackage of sorts, and I didn't intend
> on having any source files; I can generate them using the builder and
> trivial-build-system. How can I work around this?
You can use (source #f) with the trivial build system for metapackages.
Check out the package definitions of 'gnome' and
'gnome-default-applications' in gnu/packages/gnome.scm for some
examples.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-17 23:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-16 1:56 Running IceCat in a container Mike Gerwitz
2018-01-16 16:30 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-17 2:25 ` Mike Gerwitz
2018-01-17 19:05 ` Mike Gerwitz
2018-01-17 23:20 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2018-01-18 1:53 ` Mike Gerwitz
2018-01-25 14:34 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-25 22:16 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-26 3:52 ` Mike Gerwitz
2018-01-29 16:47 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-30 2:19 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-01-30 17:21 ` Running code from packs in containers Ludovic Courtès
2018-03-19 17:42 ` Running IceCat in a container ng0
2018-01-29 16:48 ` Ludovic Courtès
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