Re: libvirt: A potential problem in the package and looking for guidance

2022-05-23 Thread Allan Adair
Thanks! Looks like I was on a good track. The only reference that I could find to /usr/libexec/qemu-bridge-helper was in the meson.build file of the libvirt package. I wrote a package variant that looks like this, to test: (define-public libvirt-with-qemu-bridge-helper (package (inherit libv

libvirt: A potential problem in the package and looking for guidance

2022-05-18 Thread Allan Adair
Hi Guix! I am using a libvirt-service-type in my system configuration and it seems to be working. I can launch VMs using virt-manager, for example. However I have run into a potential problem, and I think it has to do with the libvirt package. Additionally, I would like to present a plea to other

Re: How to find binaries in libexec dir?

2022-04-20 Thread Allan Adair
Hi! I'm not sure if the following suggestion is a canonical way of doing things (I'm a scheme newb), but it is possible to define a package variant of diffoscope with a G-expression that uses wrap-program (see guix/build/utils.scm) to include paths to dependencies as part of an environment variabl