Re: Help with packaging for fonts without a vcs repository

[Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>]

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On Sat, Jan 08, 2022 at 02:57:15PM +0530, Sai Karthik wrote:
> Hello guix!
> 
> I want to package a bunch of OFL license fonts for guix called
> teluguvijayam[1]. These fonts are not available on git repo. We have
> packaged these fonts for debian using a shell script[2] which downloads
> fonts from the source website & creates a tarball, Which is later used in
> packaging.
> 
> I need help about how to approach this in guix. I am new to guix & this
> would be my first packaging attempt :)
> 
> [1] https://salsa.debian.org/fonts-team/fonts-teluguvijayam
> [2] https://salsa.debian.org/fonts-team/fonts-teluguvijayam/-/blob/master/debian/create-orig-source
> 

I think the bigger problem is that they're not versioned.o

I think your best option is to either create a separate package for each
font and then a 'meta package' which pulls them all together (like xfce
does) or to add all the fonts as origins in the inputs (like
java-cisd-base in gnu/packages/java.scm) and then install them manually
in the correct directory.

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