From: phodina <phodina@protonmail.com>
To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: GuixSD distro detection during configuration
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2021 10:24:00 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ht2L8tmugJ8slHr48feembgqJNc4S3Kqq__2w4Yr7hByUCoXvimpVe0p3Ipv66famKaj_EjMDRMsYqNbVcD8FLsyW5LIfiPLenzW-bTxMrQ=@protonmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878rzwq249.fsf@elephly.net>
Hi Ricardo,
> 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”.)
>
Well it's not exactly desirable but the configure script wants to know in order to copy the correct files.
My idea was to create a patch with Guix System support and submit it upstream.
> > 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.
True, I also have there just a symlink but it's not mandatory.
>
> > 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.
>
Yes it can be the case it's installed on a foreign distro.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Ricardo
Well in that case I agree with you that it's not desirable to use buggy distro detection and the result will be therefore to keep the patch with the pkg definition.
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2021-09-16 7:54 GuixSD distro detection during configuration phodina via
2021-09-16 9:52 ` Ricardo Wurmus
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