Re: [PATCH] gnu: i3status: Update to 2.10.

[Leo Famulari]

On Fri, May 06, 2016 at 02:01:08PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
> On Mon, May 02, 2016 at 04:07:19PM -0700, Al McElrath wrote:
> > 
> > Attached is a patch to update i3status to 2.10.
> 
> Thanks, it works! The changed library dependencies seem to be
> working for me. Applied as 766a22fb4d1, preceded by a switch to https
> URLs (I had to rebase your patch to adopt the changed home-page link
> text).

Oops, I didn't notice that the patch lacked a changelog entry, and
committed without it. We will both have to be more careful in the
future!

It should have been like this:

* gnu/packages/wm.scm (i3status): Update to 2.10.

> 
> > The Makefile runs "setcap cap_net_admin=ep
> > $(DESTDIR)$(PREFIX)/bin/i3status)", which wasn't working in the prior
> > version, either. It makes the "%speed" element of the "ethernet" module
> > functional. I'm not sure how to handle that one. The package is
> > otherwise functional.
> 
> I'm not sure what counts as "functional". For me, it shows the link
> speed: 1000 Mbits. Should it dynamically show the bandwidth usage?
> 
> In any case, I tried making it a setuid binary, but that didn't seem to
> create a change, and it's probably a bad idea anyways, since they only
> ask for the cap_net_admin. Is i3status designed to be setuid?
> 
> I don't know how to set just this capability in Guix.
> 
> Advice appreciated!