bug#47972: Add irods.

[Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>]

Ludovic Courtès <ludovic.courtes@inria.fr> writes:

> Hi Ricardo,
>
> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:
>
>> * gnu/packages/boost.scm (boost-for-irods): New variable.
>
> [...]
>
>> +;; Sadly, this is needed for irods.  It won't link with 1.69 
>> or later.
>> +(define-public boost-for-irods
>> +  (package
>> +    (name "boost-for-irods")
>> +    (version "1.68.0")
>
> For this and the other “for-irods” packages, how about:
>
>   1. Inheriting from the original package (‘boost’ in this 
>   case), to at
>      least avoid duplicating the synopsis, description, and 
>      license?
>
>   2. Adding the ‘hidden?’ property, because they are not meant 
>   to be
>      installed on their own?

Done.

I also addressed what I could of Maxime’s comments.  Thank you.

I split out the package variant of avro-cpp that is used by both 
irods packages and pushed the patch series to the “master” branch.


-- 
Ricardo