guix_mirror_bot pushed a commit to branch gnome-team
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commit dcf6ce5835d4dac58aa80a7e378b946220b597d7
Author: Liliana Marie Prikler <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Tue Jan 13 20:43:47 2026 +0100
[WORKAROUND] gnu: Add dbus-next.
TODO for next iteration: Update dbus in-place.
* gnu/packages/glib.scm (dbus-next): New variable.
---
gnu/packages/glib.scm | 86 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 86 insertions(+)
diff --git a/gnu/packages/glib.scm b/gnu/packages/glib.scm
index ad4e955e22..43b1a57462 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/glib.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/glib.scm
@@ -185,6 +185,92 @@ helps coordinate process lifecycle; it makes it simple and
reliable to
code a \"single instance\" application or daemon, and to launch
applications and daemons on demand when their services are needed.
+D-Bus supplies both a system daemon (for events such as \"new hardware
+device added\" or \"printer queue changed\") and a
+per-user-login-session daemon (for general IPC needs among user
+applications). Also, the message bus is built on top of a general
+one-to-one message passing framework, which can be used by any two apps
+to communicate directly (without going through the message bus
+daemon). Currently the communicating applications are on one computer,
+or through unencrypted TCP/IP suitable for use behind a firewall with
+shared NFS home directories.")
+ (license license:gpl2+))) ; or Academic Free License
2.1
+
+(define-public dbus-next
+ (package
+ (name "dbus-next")
+ (version "1.16.2")
+ (source (origin
+ (method url-fetch)
+ (uri (string-append
+ "https://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/dbus/dbus-";
+ version ".tar.xz"))
+ (sha256
+ (base32
+ "1qmppvb4nf23nvdr1hnywl43ab4ckblrqzn0nb77pzkan6ja38hb"))
+ (patches (search-patches "dbus-helper-search-path.patch"))))
+ (build-system meson-build-system)
+ (arguments
+ (list
+ #:configure-flags
+ #~(list
+ ;; Install the system bus socket under /var.
+ "-Dlocalstatedir=/var"
+
+ ;; Install the session bus socket under /tmp.
+ "-Dsession_socket_dir=/tmp"
+
+ ;; Use /etc/dbus-1 for system-wide config.
+ ;; Look for configuration file under
+ ;; /etc/dbus-1. This is notably required by
+ ;; 'dbus-daemon-launch-helper', which looks for
+ ;; the 'system.conf' file in that place,
+ ;; regardless of what '--config-file' was
+ ;; passed to 'dbus-daemon' on the command line;
+ ;; see <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92458>.
+ "-Dsysconfdir=/etc")
+ #:phases
+ #~(modify-phases %standard-phases
+ (replace 'install
+ (lambda _
+ ;; Don't try to create /var and /etc.
+ (invoke "meson"
+ "install"
+ "--destdir=/tmp/dummy")
+ (copy-recursively (string-append "/tmp/dummy/" #$output)
+ #$output)
+ (mkdir-p (string-append #$output:doc "/share"))
+ (rename-file (string-append #$output "/share/doc")
+ (string-append #$output:doc "/share/doc")))))))
+ (native-inputs
+ ;; Some dependencies are required to generate the documentation. Also,
+ ;; quoting NEWS for 1.16.2: “Autotools-generated files are no longer
+ ;; included in the tarball release.”
+ (list docbook-xml-4.4
+ docbook-xsl
+ doxygen
+ libtool
+ libxslt
+ which
+ python
+ xmlto
+ yelp-tools
+ pkg-config))
+ (inputs
+ (list expat
+ ;; Add a dependency on libx11 so that 'dbus-launch' has support for
+ ;; '--autolaunch'.
+ libx11))
+ (outputs '("out" "doc")) ;22 MiB of HTML doc
+ (home-page "https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus/";)
+ (synopsis "Message bus for inter-process communication (IPC)")
+ (description
+ "D-Bus is a message bus system, a simple way for applications to
+talk to one another. In addition to interprocess communication, D-Bus
+helps coordinate process lifecycle; it makes it simple and reliable to
+code a \"single instance\" application or daemon, and to launch
+applications and daemons on demand when their services are needed.
+
D-Bus supplies both a system daemon (for events such as \"new hardware
device added\" or \"printer queue changed\") and a
per-user-login-session daemon (for general IPC needs among user
