Re: Installation: Load non-free wifi firmware (iwlwifi)

[Pierre Neidhardt <ambrevar@gmail.com>]

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Clément Lassieur <clement@lassieur.org> writes:

> Guix allows one to customize their packages through inheritance.  You
> could create a custom linux package that inherits Guix's linux-libre,
> with, say a differente source.  When linux-libre is updated, my-linux
> would be updated as well, since it inherits linux-libre.  Thus, you
> would have no maintainance to do.
>
> (define-public my-linux
>   (package
>     (inherit linux-libre)
>     (name "my-linux")
>     (source ...)))
>
> This custom package's definition needs to be within GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH.
> See
> https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Package-Modules.html#Package-Modules
> for more information.

Thanks for the tip, it seems to be working perfectly so far!

-- 
Pierre Neidhardt

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immigration is still the sincerest form of flattery.

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