From: Mike Gerwitz <mtg@gnu.org>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Running IceCat in a container
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 14:05:28 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lggwpapz.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tvvlrzlc.fsf@gnu.org> (Mike Gerwitz's message of "Tue, 16 Jan 2018 21:25:19 -0500")
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On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 21:25:19 -0500, Mike Gerwitz wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 17:30:42 +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Perhaps you could define a package that simply runs “fc-cache” with the
>> fonts it has as inputs, and then pass that to ‘guix environment’.
>
> Oh, interesting; I wouldn't have thought of that.
Actually, I could use a little bit of help.
After hours of fontconf research and related stuff (more than I ever
cared to know), I think I'll be able to get away with running fc-cache
as you suggested using a package.
My ultimate goal I think is to still use the user's fonts, but I still
don't know a way to do that, since the /gnu symlinks are unavailable
within the container.[0] It _does_ work if the links are identical
between the host and cointainer---e.g. copying the font files into
~/.local/share/fonts, but that's obviously undesirable.
Unless you happen to know a good way to selectively expose those to a
container.
With that said, I'm having trouble creating a package: it wants a
`source' field, but this is a metapackage of sorts, and I didn't intend
on having any source files; I can generate them using the builder and
trivial-build-system. How can I work around this?
Thanks.
[0]: What seems to be the case---which is probably obvious to anyone who
knows about this stuff---is that X11 on the host (since we're sharing
the socket) needs access to the font in addition to the software running
in the container. I don't think this is the case for traditional X11
fonts (not using fontconf), but I'm not dealing with those.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-17 19:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-16 1:56 Running IceCat in a container Mike Gerwitz
2018-01-16 16:30 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-17 2:25 ` Mike Gerwitz
2018-01-17 19:05 ` Mike Gerwitz [this message]
2018-01-17 23:20 ` Leo Famulari
2018-01-18 1:53 ` Mike Gerwitz
2018-01-25 14:34 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-25 22:16 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-26 3:52 ` Mike Gerwitz
2018-01-29 16:47 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-30 2:19 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2018-01-30 17:21 ` Running code from packs in containers Ludovic Courtès
2018-03-19 17:42 ` Running IceCat in a container ng0
2018-01-29 16:48 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-26 3:29 ` [bug#30254] [PATCH 0/3] guix environment --user, --link-profile, --no-cwd Mike Gerwitz
2018-01-26 3:29 ` [bug#30255] [PATCH 1/3] scripts: environment: Add --link-profile Mike Gerwitz
2018-03-02 10:20 ` bug#30255: " Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-26 3:29 ` [bug#30257] [PATCH 2/3] scripts: environment: Add --user Mike Gerwitz
2018-03-02 10:33 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-01-26 3:29 ` [bug#30256] [PATCH 3/3] scripts: environment: Add --no-cwd Mike Gerwitz
2018-03-02 10:54 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-03-02 18:00 ` Mike Gerwitz
2018-03-03 14:44 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-03-04 18:03 ` Mike Gerwitz
2018-03-04 22:24 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-03-05 18:03 ` Mike Gerwitz
2018-03-06 10:20 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-03-06 18:07 ` Mike Gerwitz
2018-10-17 12:19 ` [bug#30254] " Ludovic Courtès
2018-11-08 1:56 ` Mike Gerwitz
2019-06-29 23:27 ` Carl Dong
2019-07-07 13:18 ` [bug#30254] " Ludovic Courtès
2019-07-07 14:24 ` Carl Dong
2019-07-08 9:41 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-07-14 13:18 ` [bug#30256] bug#30254: [PATCH 0/3] guix environment --user, --link-profile, --no-cwd Maxim Cournoyer
2019-07-07 13:45 ` [bug#30256] [PATCH 3/3] scripts: environment: Add --no-cwd Mike Gerwitz
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