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On Saturday, October 28th, 2023 at 8:05 AM, Clément Lassieur <clement@lassieur.org> wrote:


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> 
> On Sat, Oct 28 2023, Christopher Baines wrote:
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> > This passff-host package looks a bit odd to me, one thing to mention is
> > that guix show says it has no dependencies, but I don't think that's
> > correct:

I agree about this. When I packaged passff-host locally some time ago, I saw it has a runtime dependency on python and also needs to be able to find the pass binary. I've attached the bare (unfinished/unpolished) package definition extracted from my local channel and attached it, for if it is of assistance to folks. My definition tries to embed a sane path for finding pass with a default of the path to the password-store package it was built against, and also tries to copy the passff.json into the correct browser folder for Chromium, Firefox, and Icecat based on the packaged install_host_app.sh script (note: I have only used it with Icecat).

Cheers,
Kaelyn

> > 
> > ./pre-inst-env guix show passff-host
> > name: passff-host
> > version: 1.2.3
> > outputs:
> > + out: everything
> > systems: x86_64-linux mips64el-linux aarch64-linux powerpc64le-linux riscv64-linux
> > + i686-linux armhf-linux i586-gnu powerpc-linux
> > dependencies:
> 
> 
> I imagine it's a bug in `guix show`? As doc says:
> 
> • Gexps carry information about the packages or derivations they
> refer to, and these dependencies are automatically added as inputs
> to the build processes that use them.
> 
> > Was this change sent as a patch to guix-patches?
> 
> 
> No it wasn't.

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