You did, thank you very much!
Wojtek Kosior <[email protected]> writes: > [[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]] > Thanks for the details, Moritz. I'll try to clarify everything for you. > Although you sent your response just to me, I'm adding the help-guix > mailing list back into the CC field of the email (so that others can > see and perhaps add some useful advice at some point). > > So, Guix uses its own repository for packages. Although it is a special > kind of package manager (a transactional one), in this specific regard > it is just as every conventional distro's package manager (e.g. APT, > RPM) — it needs given program to be packaged by someone and added to > its repository for it to be directly available to users. Apparently, > nobody has packaged WFDB yet, hence `guix search` gives you nothing. > > `guix import`, on the other hand, is a tool meant for people who want > to package stuff by themselves. Its target audience is both packagers > and advanced users who are able and willing to package the missing > software by themselves. In fact, those 2 roles can (and should) overlap > :) > > So, `guix import` is a tool that just aids in making a Guix package. It > tries to guess some things and it cannot guarantee it will guess > correctly (since sources like PyPI often lack all the information > required to automatically make a working package). The generated .scm > files are therefore meant to be reviewed and edited by the user. > > Once you get everything to work, you can (and are encouraged to) help > others by submitting the new package definition for inclusion in Guix. > This, of course, requires a bit more effort (cloning the Guix' git repo, > placing your package definition in the proper file under > `gnu/packages/`, etc. More information here[1]. Once you get through > this, others will be able to `guix search` the package :) > > Don't be surprised if many useful pieces of software are not yet in > Guix. You can look up the number of packages in Guix, Debian and NixOS. > Guix is a younger distro and therefore has way fewer packages ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ > > I hope I helped > > Wojtek > > [1] https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Contributing.html > > -- (sig_start) > website: https://koszko.org/koszko.html > PGP: https://koszko.org/key.gpg > fingerprint: E972 7060 E3C5 637C 8A4F 4B42 4BC5 221C 5A79 FD1A > > Meet Kraków saints! #42: blessed Rafał Chyliński > Poznaj świętych krakowskich! #42: błogosławiony Rafał Chyliński > https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafał_Chyliński > -- (sig_end) > > > On Tue, 3 Jan 2023 11:33:24 +0100 > Moritz Tacke <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Sure! >> I'm currently trying to install the WFDB python library. It is hosted on >> PyPI (pypi.org/project/wfdb/), but I can't find it using "guix search". >> What I did then was to use "guix import", which created a .scm-file. This >> file was not yet sufficient to use it directly for installation, therefore >> I had to modify the file (import some other files, change a problem in the >> license statement). This lead to a .scm-file I could use to install the >> module from the PyPi repository. Somehof I had the impression that I was >> not using the tools in the right way, e.g. why "guix import" returned a >> file that was not complete (but, instead, needed some quite mechanical >> modifications from my side). I was hoping that, somehow, there would be a >> way where I can packages from PyPi directly, with one single guix command. >> >> On Mon, Jan 2, 2023 at 10:50 PM Wojtek Kosior <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > > Hi, >> > > >> > > I am trying to use guix to install packages that debian does not >> > > offer. However, in most cases (python modules) the package can't be >> > > installed directly using guix as the package file is missing. What is the >> > > correct way to proceed for e.g. a pypi module? I am currently creating a >> > > package file myself, but is this the way it's meant to be? Is there a >> > > standard place to store such custom scm files? >> > > Greetings! >> > > >> > > Moritz >> > >> > I'm not sure I fully and correctly understand the question. Can you >> > clarify what you mean by "package file is missing"? Where is it missing >> > from? How are you creating the packages yourself? >> > >> > Wojtek >> > >> > -- (sig_start) >> > website: https://koszko.org/koszko.html >> > PGP: https://koszko.org/key.gpg >> > fingerprint: E972 7060 E3C5 637C 8A4F 4B42 4BC5 221C 5A79 FD1A >> > >> > Meet Kraków saints! #10: blessed Hilary Januszewski >> > Poznaj świętych krakowskich! #10: błogosławiony Hilary Januszewski >> > https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilary_Januszewski >> > -- (sig_end) >> > > > > [[End of PGP Signed Part]]
