Hi Kaelyn, On Sat, Oct 28 2023, Kaelyn wrote:
> I agree about this. When I packaged passff-host locally some time ago, I saw I'm happy I'm not alone packaging Icecat extensions :) > it has a runtime dependency on python and also needs to be able to find the > pass binary. My patch also has dependencies on python and password-store. You can have a look at documentation about G-Expressions to understand how. > 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. It's a bit late for passff-host because it's already there (and it works well), but if you need help for packaging other Icecat extensions, I'd be glad to help. > 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 [...] > ;; FIXME: The passff.json in etc/ needs to go into a browser-dependent > ;; location to work with that specific browser. How to install it to the > ;; right location needs to be figured out and documented. The Icecat browser-dependent location did not exist before https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=25043e01b6cb6696ffdc6cdedd9cdf8235bb695c. Now it is in /lib/icecat, e.g. /lib/icecat/native-messaging-hosts [...] > ;; NOTE: python-build-system is used instead of copy-build-system to > ;; automatically pick up the Python 3 dependency and to wrap the installed > ;; Python script. `trivial-build-system` is enough, most of the work is done by the Makefile and install_host_app.sh. Thanks, Clément
