From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Thompson, David" Subject: Re: General Question: Execution of binaries not built for GuixSD Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 09:53:34 -0400 Message-ID: References: <576A6D73.3070104@gmx.net> <576A925E.20107@gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44242) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bFib3-0006zC-Os for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jun 2016 09:53:38 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bFib1-0005qH-Vv for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jun 2016 09:53:36 -0400 Received: from mail-vk0-x230.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400c:c05::230]:34175) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bFib1-0005pr-Qb for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 22 Jun 2016 09:53:35 -0400 Received: by mail-vk0-x230.google.com with SMTP id c2so32421180vkg.1 for ; Wed, 22 Jun 2016 06:53:35 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <576A925E.20107@gmx.net> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: Florian Paul Schmidt Cc: help-guix On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 9:27 AM, Florian Paul Schmidt wrote: > See the attached file for reference. Put it into a guix checkout under > > nonfree/packages/ > > Does that help as a starting point? Do the upstream Firefox and/or Thunderbird contain nonfree components? If so, please do not promote such software on this list. I really really really cannot recommend this approach to packaging, because it goes against one of the core properties of Guix: reproducibility. Taking someone else's binary and hacking it until it works isn't a real solution. The proper way to do this is to build binaries from source that are compatible with Guix. Thanks, - Dave