Hi,
"We could do this together if you want."
For me it's like to learn Chinese. I don't know where to start and where
to finish. Almost everything is strange to me, if I look at the github
repository.
So I am wondering that You are asking me for building it together.
The question would also be how long would it take, because I would have
to learn programming. You would have to do almost all and I would need a
lot of explanation, and I don't know if you have time for it.
gottfried
Am 23.02.22 um 23:36 schrieb Ricardo Wurmus:
Hi Gottfried,
I wanted to install a package "gtkhash" which I could not find in GNU
packages.
How can I install it?
After downloading it and trying to install it, it said: unknown package
guix install gtkhash-1.4
guix install: Fehler: gtkhash-1.4: Unbekanntes Paket
Guix only knows of packages for which there is a package definition.
There is no package definition for gtkhash.
Guix unfortunately cannot just take any tarball and build it.
The good news is that writing a package definition (and optionally
adding it to Guix) can be straight forward. This is the build system
file:
https://github.com/tristanheaven/gtkhash/blob/master/meson.build
There we see that it needs a bunch of things (like nettle, blake2, zlib,
mbedtls, openssl, etc) for which we should have packages. Packaging it
may be a little tricky because of the many dependencies, but it looks
doable. We could do this together if you want.
Another thing I felt the need to clarify: Guix has thousands of packages
that are not GNU packages. I think you meant that there is no package
definition for gtkhash in gnu/packages/*.scm, which is correct.
