That's great to hear - Indeed you're not the only one having trouble with akonadi. I just gave up before I could make anything useful of it. Den 8. maj 2016 01.24 skrev "Phil Wetzel" <p...@audido.com>:
> Greetings, > > I've just installed NixOS on my desktop with KDE. I had trouble getting > akonadi working (the data backend for kdepim). I found one other person > with > the same problem [1], though it is hard for me to believe I am the only > person > trying to run KMail on NixOS. > > The problem turned out to be akonadi starting an instance of mysqld > (mariadb) > that failed to find an error messages file because it didn't know where it > was. > Setting the --basedir prevents this problem from occurring, and that is > what > is done in the service module definition. kdepim users can solve the > problem > locally by setting basedir in their akonadi/mysql.cf config, but if we > would > like it to work out of the box it seemed to me that the way forward was to > use > wrapProgram on mysqld. You can't actually run mysqld from the commandline > without without the --basedir argument with it packaged the way it is now > anyway. > > This turned out to not work either because: > > - wrapProgram --add-flags *prepends* all the wrapped flags to the > argument list > - akonadi uses the --defaults-file argument > - mysqld requires --defaults-file to be the first argument if it is used > > This can certainly be solved with some hackery after the wrapProgram in > postInstall, but perhaps it would be better to include a --suffix-flags > feature > to make-wrapper.sh. > > What would you suggest as the better choice? I didn't want to submit a PR > with > a hack if that wasn't the way forward, and I definitely didn't want to > submit a > PR touching the build tools and documentation without at least saying hello > first. > > Thank you, > Phil Wetzel > > [1] - > http://lists.science.uu.nl/pipermail/nix-dev/2015-January/015575.html > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev >
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