Am 18. März 2023 06:02:27 MEZ schrieb Rodrigo Morales
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>Table of Contents
>_
>
>1. What I'm trying to do
>2. What I've tried
>3. The problem
>4. The question
>
>
>Newbie: How to define a package that creates files in ~/.config?
>
>
>1 What I'm trying to do
>===
>
> I want to define a package that downloads a file from a git repository
> and puts the file under a directory in `~/.config/' (specifically,
> `~/.config/ibus/rime/')
>
>
>2 What I've tried
>=
>
> I've defined a module containing the definition of a package that
> tries to accomplish that goal. It uses `install-file' to copy the
> downloaded files to the desired location (please see code block below)
>
> ,
> | cat ~/my/packages/rime.scm
> `
>
> ,
> | (define-module (rime)
> | #:use-module (guix licenses)
> | #:use-module (guix packages)
> | #:use-module (guix gexp)
> | #:use-module (guix build-system trivial)
> | #:use-module (guix git-download))
> |
> | (define-public rime-wubi
> | (package
> |(name "rime-wubi")
> |(version "1.0")
> |(source (origin
> | (method git-fetch)
> | (uri (git-reference
> | (url "https://github.com/rime/rime-wubi;)
> | (commit "f1876f08f1d4a9696395be0070c0e8e4353c44cb")))
> | (file-name (git-file-name name version))
> | (sha256
> | (base32
> | "1d9y9rqssacria9d0hla96czsqv2wkfm6z926m1x269ryv96zxvk"
> |(build-system trivial-build-system)
> |(arguments
> | (list
> | #:modules `((guix build utils))
> | #:builder
> | #~(begin
> | (use-modules (guix build utils))
> | (chdir (assoc-ref %build-inputs "source"))
> | (install-file "wubi86.dict.yaml" (string-append #$output
>"/.config/ibus/rime"))
> | (install-file "wubi86.schema.yaml" (string-append #$output
>"/.config/ibus/rime")
> |(synopsis "Wubi86 schema and dictionary for RIME")
> |(description "This package contains a dictionary and a schema
>definition for the 86
> | version of Wubi, a shape-based input method for Chinese characters.")
> |(home-page "https://github.com/rime/rime-wubi;)
> |(license lgpl3)))
> `
>
> The package is installed without no problems.
>
> ,
> | export GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH="$HOME/my/packages"
> | guix package -i rime-wubi
> `
>
> ,
> | The following package will be installed:
> |rime-wubi 1.0
> |
> `
>
> ,
> | echo $?
> `
>
> ,
> | 0
> `
>
>
>3 The problem
>=
>
> However, the files `wubi86.dict.yaml' and `wubi86.schema.yaml' are
> installed in `~/.guix-profile/.config/ibus/rime' (see code block
> below)
>
> ,
> | find -L /home/rdrg/.guix-profile/.config
> `
>
> ,
> | /home/rdrg/.guix-profile/.config
> | /home/rdrg/.guix-profile/.config/ibus
> | /home/rdrg/.guix-profile/.config/ibus/rime
> | /home/rdrg/.guix-profile/.config/ibus/rime/wubi86.dict.yaml
> | /home/rdrg/.guix-profile/.config/ibus/rime/wubi86.schema.yaml
> `
>
> Those files don't appear in `~/.config/ibus/rime' (the location I want
> them to exist in)
>
> ,
> | find ~/.config/ibus/rime
> `
>
> ,
> | /home/rdrg/.config/ibus/rime
> | /home/rdrg/.config/ibus/rime/default.custom.yaml
> `
>
>
>4 The question
>==
>
> How to define a package that install files to any directory under
> `~/.config/'?
Hi,
I think packages cannot install files outside the store.
Maybe you could try and see, whether ibus looks at a special environment
variable to find configs in another directory, too. Then you could define that
environment variable in your package and it will be added to your guix profile.
I dont know ibus, but:
Otherwise you may need to adjust the system-wide installed ibus package and add
that configuration that you want to it.
Martin
