Re: installing a package not from GNU

[Gottfried]

Hi,

 "We could do this together if you want."

For me it's like to learn Chinese. I don't know where to start and where 
to finish. Almost everything is strange to me, if I look at the github 
repository.
So I am wondering that You are asking me for building it together.
The question would also be how long would it take, because I would have 
to learn programming. You would have to do almost all and I would need a 
lot of explanation, and I don't know if you have time for it.

gottfried


Am 23.02.22 um 23:36 schrieb Ricardo Wurmus:
> Hi Gottfried,
>
> > I wanted to install a package "gtkhash" which I could not find in GNU
> > packages.
> > How can I install it?
> > After downloading it and trying to install it, it said: unknown package
> >
> > guix install gtkhash-1.4
> > guix install: Fehler: gtkhash-1.4: Unbekanntes Paket
>
> Guix only knows of packages for which there is a package definition.
> There is no package definition for gtkhash.
>
> Guix unfortunately cannot just take any tarball and build it.
>
> The good news is that writing a package definition (and optionally
> adding it to Guix) can be straight forward.  This is the build system
> file:
>
>     https://github.com/tristanheaven/gtkhash/blob/master/meson.build
>
> There we see that it needs a bunch of things (like nettle, blake2, zlib,
> mbedtls, openssl, etc) for which we should have packages.  Packaging it
> may be a little tricky because of the many dependencies, but it looks
> doable.  We could do this together if you want.
>
> Another thing I felt the need to clarify: Guix has thousands of packages
> that are not GNU packages.  I think you meant that there is no package
> definition for gtkhash in gnu/packages/*.scm, which is correct.