Re: Guix package steps

[Amirouche Boubekki <amirouche@hypermove.net>]

On 2015-06-22 15:42, Daniel Pimentel wrote:
> On 2015-06-22 03:09, Mark H Weaver wrote:
>> Daniel Pimentel <d4n1@openmailbox.org> writes:
>> 
>>> On 2015-06-17 00:57, Mark H Weaver wrote:
>>>> Daniel Pimentel <d4n1@openmailbox.org> writes:
>>>> 
>>>>> I tried create new packages (ipcalc, nmap, xfburn and others) but
>>>>> without success.
>>>>> 
>>>>> My steps (based on talk GNU Guix packaging by Andreas Enge):
>>>>> 0. Git clone guix repository by savannah;
>>>>> 1. Copy gnu/package/indent.scm to mypackage.scm in this same 
>>>>> folder;
>>>>> 2. Add module to gnu-system.am
>>>>> 3. Download mypackage;
>>>>> 4. Edit mypackage.scm and add hash, license and other information;
>>>>> 5. ./pre-inst-env guix build mypackage -K
>>>>> 6. Erro: bash: ./pre-inst-env: No such file or directory
>>>>> 
>>>>> But there is pre-inst-env.in only. The script pre-inst-env not 
>>>>> exist
>>>>> in repository. So where is pre-inst-env?
>>>> 
>>>> You have to build guix before you can run it.  See
>>>> doc/contributing.texi, especially the "Building from Git" section.
>>>> Also, you should pass --localstatedir=/var to ./configure.
>>>> 
>>>>      Mark
>>> 
>>> I tried again, follow README file but there's a error (dot command?)
>>> when I run "make":
>>> 
>>> /bin/sh /home/dani/Desktop/development/git/guix/build-aux/missing dot
>>> -Tpng -Gratio=.9 -Gnodesep=.005 -Granksep=.00005 -Nfontsize=9
>>> -Nheight=.1 -Nwidth=.1 < "doc/images/bootstrap-graph.dot" >
>>> "doc/images/bootstrap-graph.png.tmp"
>>> /home/dani/Desktop/development/git/guix/build-aux/missing: line 81:
>>> dot: command not found
>> 
>> 'dot' is part of the graphviz package, which is listed as a required
>> package in the "Building from Git" section that I cited above.
>> 
>>       Mark
> 
> Hi Guix,
> 
> After:
> -clone Guix repository -> ok
> -Read README and install requirements -> ok
> -guix environment guix -> ok
> -./configure --with-libgcrypt-prefix=$HOME/.guix-profile/ -> ok
> -make -> ok
> -make check -> error: FAIL: tests/lint.scm
> 
> I tried again build (./pre-inst-env guix build ipcalc -K): guix build:
> error: failed to connect to
> `/usr/local/var/guix/daemon-socket/socket': No such file or directory


You need to run the guix daemon [1], but before create as root the guix 
builders [2]:

# groupadd --system guix-builder
# for i in `seq 1 10`;
   do
     useradd -g guix-builder -G guix-builder           \
             -d /var/empty -s `which nologin`          \
             -c "Guix build user $i" --system          \
             guix-builder$i;
   done

The guix-daemon program may then be run as root with:

# guix-daemon --build-users-group=guix-builder

Also don't forget to add hydra pub key as discribed in [3]:

# guix archive --authorize < hydra.gnu.org.pub

[1] 
https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#Invoking-guix_002ddaemon
[2] 
https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#Build-Environment-Setup
[3] 
https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#Binary-Installation