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From: Pierre Neidhardt <ambrevar@gmail.com>
To: "Clément Lassieur" <clement@lassieur.org>
Cc: help-guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Installation: Load non-free wifi firmware (iwlwifi)
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 18:59:59 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tvt62a3s.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878tb6zkom.fsf@lassieur.org>

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Clément Lassieur <clement@lassieur.org> writes:

> Guix allows one to customize their packages through inheritance.  You
> could create a custom linux package that inherits Guix's linux-libre,
> with, say a differente source.  When linux-libre is updated, my-linux
> would be updated as well, since it inherits linux-libre.  Thus, you
> would have no maintainance to do.
>
> (define-public my-linux
>   (package
>     (inherit linux-libre)
>     (name "my-linux")
>     (source ...)))
>
> This custom package's definition needs to be within GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH.
> See
> https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Package-Modules.html#Package-Modules
> for more information.

Thanks for the tip, it seems to be working perfectly so far!

-- 
Pierre Neidhardt

No matter what other nations may say about the United States,
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  reply	other threads:[~2018-03-23 13:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-02 17:25 Installation: Load non-free wifi firmware (iwlwifi) Pierre Neidhardt
2018-03-02 17:41 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-03-02 20:13   ` Carlo Zancanaro
2018-03-02 18:04 ` Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2018-03-05 12:32 ` Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2018-03-05 14:00 ` Clément Lassieur
2018-03-23 13:29   ` Pierre Neidhardt [this message]
2018-03-25  5:34 ` Chris Marusich
2018-03-25  6:14   ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-03-25 10:21   ` Hartmut Goebel
2018-03-27  9:45     ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-03-27 22:05     ` Mark H Weaver
2018-04-13 11:55       ` Hartmut Goebel
2018-03-25 10:57   ` Marius Bakke
2018-03-29  5:11     ` Chris Marusich
2018-05-01 19:30   ` Librem (was: Installation: Load non-free wifi firmware (iwlwifi)) Pierre Neidhardt
2018-05-02 18:07     ` Librem Joshua Branson
2018-05-03  6:47       ` Librem Chris Marusich
2018-05-03  7:44         ` Librem Pierre Neidhardt
2018-05-09  6:07           ` Librem Chris Marusich
2018-05-09 16:58             ` Librem Nils Gillmann
2018-05-04 20:56         ` Librem Joshua Branson
2018-05-04 15:15     ` Librem (was: Installation: Load non-free wifi firmware (iwlwifi)) Christopher Lemmer Webber
2018-05-04 15:17       ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-05-04 16:32       ` Librem Mike Gerwitz
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-05-11 12:19 Installation: Load non-free wifi firmware (iwlwifi) 白い熊
2022-05-11 12:31 ` yasu
2022-05-12  7:37   ` 白い熊@相撲道
2022-05-12 16:00     ` zimoun
2022-05-12 20:19       ` David Lecompte
2022-05-12 23:53         ` Yasuaki Kudo
2022-05-13 11:59       ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2022-05-13  1:33     ` Maxim Cournoyer

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