Re: [PATCH 3/3] system: Add iproute to '%base-packages'.

[Alex Kost]

Efraim Flashner (2016-02-11 14:15 +0300) wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Feb 2016 14:03:19 +0300
> Alex Kost <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> * gnu/system.scm (%base-packages): Add iproute.
>> ---
>>  gnu/system.scm | 3 ++-
>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/gnu/system.scm b/gnu/system.scm
>> index 9540324..14fea93 100644
>> --- a/gnu/system.scm
>> +++ b/gnu/system.scm
>> @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
>>  ;;; GNU Guix --- Functional package management for GNU
>>  ;;; Copyright © 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden>
>>  ;;; Copyright © 2015 Mark H Weaver <address@hidden>
>> -;;; Copyright © 2015 Alex Kost <address@hidden>
>> +;;; Copyright © 2015, 2016 Alex Kost <address@hidden>
>>  ;;;
>>  ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
>>  ;;;
>> @@ -362,6 +362,7 @@ explicitly appear in OS."
>>           ;; many people are familiar with, so keep it around.
>>           iw wireless-tools
>>  
>> +         iproute
>>           net-tools                        ; XXX: remove when Inetutils 
>> suffices
>>           man-db
>>           texinfo                               ;for the standalone Info 
>> reader
>
> Should this be iproute2? I ran `guix size iproute` to see if it might pull in
> too much other stuff and got back "guix size: error: iproute: package not
> found"

No it shouldn't as it is a variable not a package name (Ludovic did
this mistake once¹; fixed by Mark²).  I'm currently using a system with
this change.

¹ 
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=d43002f64599fb80294d4c00e3a682a2776c885c
² 
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=f8facc18eddbcf31700214fe224cbbf3add6fede

-- 
Alex