Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add openfwwf-firmware.

[Eric Bavier <ericbavier@centurylink.net>]

On Fri, 18 Nov 2016 16:04:30 -0500
Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 09:29:18PM -0600, Eric Bavier wrote:
> > Hello Guix,
> > 
> > We've had at least one person on IRC confirm that this firmware package
> > worked for them, allowing them to use their wireless hardware.
> > 
> > Would it be appropriate to add this to %base-firmware?  The output is
> > rather small.  
> 
> How small?

36K

> Since they seem to work, I'd say they should be added.
> 
> > From c397f73d69326db24c211e4e2bda46e647d0e751 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Eric Bavier <bavier@member.fsf.org>
> > Date: Thu, 12 May 2016 13:57:01 -0500
> > Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add openfwwf-firmware.
> > 
> > * gnu/packages/firmware.scm (b43-tools, openfwwf-firmware): New
> > variables.  
> 
> > +(define-public b43-tools
> > +  (let ((commit "8dce53297966b31b6c70a7a03c2433978dd9f288")
> > +        (rev "1"))  
> 
> How do we choose a commit?

This was the latest commit at the time of packaging.  There have been
new commits since, but they affect only the debugging tools, which we
do not build here.

> > +    (package
> > +      (name "b43-tools")
> > +      (version (string-append "20140625-" rev "." (string-take commit 7)))  
> 
> Is the timestamp some kind of upstream version string? If not, and there
> is no upstream version naming, we should use 0.0.0, right?

This package contains a collections of tools, only one of which
declares any sort of version (fwcutter).  I had gathered that the
date-string approach was acceptable for VCS checkouts when versions are
otherwise not available.  We have 34 other packages whose version begin
with such a date-string (e.g. guile-minikanren, scmutils,
guile-for-guile-emacs, guile-emacs, woff2, font-google-noto, ...).

> > +         #:phases
> > +         (let ((subdirs '("assembler" "disassembler"))) ;TODO: fwcutter  
> 
> Can you expand the TODO comment?

I may just remove it.  If someone needs the other tools, they should
know what to do.

`~Eric