On Fri, May 06, 2016 at 02:01:08PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote: > On Mon, May 02, 2016 at 04:07:19PM -0700, Al McElrath wrote: > > > > Attached is a patch to update i3status to 2.10. > > Thanks, it works! The changed library dependencies seem to be > working for me. Applied as 766a22fb4d1, preceded by a switch to https > URLs (I had to rebase your patch to adopt the changed home-page link > text).
Oops, I didn't notice that the patch lacked a changelog entry, and committed without it. We will both have to be more careful in the future! It should have been like this: * gnu/packages/wm.scm (i3status): Update to 2.10. > > > The Makefile runs "setcap cap_net_admin=ep > > $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/bin/i3status)", which wasn't working in the prior > > version, either. It makes the "%speed" element of the "ethernet" module > > functional. I'm not sure how to handle that one. The package is > > otherwise functional. > > I'm not sure what counts as "functional". For me, it shows the link > speed: 1000 Mbits. Should it dynamically show the bandwidth usage? > > In any case, I tried making it a setuid binary, but that didn't seem to > create a change, and it's probably a bad idea anyways, since they only > ask for the cap_net_admin. Is i3status designed to be setuid? > > I don't know how to set just this capability in Guix. > > Advice appreciated!
