From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: phodina <phodina@protonmail.com>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: GuixSD distro detection during configuration
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2021 11:52:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878rzwq249.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
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phodina via <help-guix@gnu.org> writes:
> Hi,
> what is the best way to detect the GuixSD OS during the build?
Why is distro detection desirable? I often found myself trying to
work around buggy distro detection.
(BTW: it’s called “Guix System”, not “GuixSD”.)
> I encountered the problem during build of realmd in the
> configure.ac [1].
>
> Some distros have special file in /etc. So my first idea was to
> use /etc/config.scm. However, this is not visible during the
> package build.
It is also not necessary to have /etc/config.scm. I, for example,
have all my system configurations in a different directory.
> Therefore I went with the /gnu/store. This works but I'm
> interested if there isn't even a better option.
> [1]
> https://github.com/freedesktop/realmd/blob/master/configure.ac
Guix is often used on top of other distros, so the presence of
/gnu/store is not enough to be sure that the distro is Guix
System.
--
Ricardo
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2021-09-16 7:54 GuixSD distro detection during configuration phodina via
2021-09-16 9:52 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2021-09-16 10:24 ` phodina
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