Re: Website development questions

[Luis Felipe López Acevedo]

On 2016-11-15 04:57, address@hidden wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Luis Felipe López Acevedo <address@hidden> skribis:
>
> > I cloned the website to try a fix for bug #22115, and wanted to ask
> > first what process do you follow to try out the whole website locally?
> > When I build and serve the website with Haunt, I face the following
> > problems:
> >
> > 1. Pages don't load static files because they are looking for the
> > "static" directory in "/software/guix/static". Do I need to set some
> > variable first?
>
> To test locally, you need to do:
>
>   $ GUIX_WEB_SITE_LOCAL=yes haunt build
>   $ haunt serve
>
> There should be no broken links, except for links to the manual or 
> other
> parts of gnu.org.
>
> I suppose this should go to README…
>
> > 2. The Packages and Packages Issues pages, which are defined in (www
> > packages) are commented out. How do you deal with those in
> > development?
>
> That’s on purpose, so that people don’t need to have Guix installed to
> hack on the web site.
>
> We build these pages separately using the ‘export-web-page’ procedure.
>
> HTH!
>
> Ludo’.

Yes, thanks. I'll put this information in the README.


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