Re: branch master updated: gnu: Add passff.

[Clément Lassieur]

On Mon, Oct 30 2023, Clément Lassieur wrote:

> Hi Kaelyn,
>
> On Sat, Oct 28 2023, Kaelyn wrote:
>
>> I agree about this. When I packaged passff-host locally some time ago, I saw

> I'm happy I'm not alone packaging Icecat extensions :)
>
>> it has a runtime dependency on python and also needs to be able to find the
>> pass binary.
>
> My patch also has dependencies on python and password-store.  You can
> have a look at documentation about G-Expressions to understand how.

It's indeed better if the inputs are explicit (see conversation with
John) so I amended my patch again to change a few things.  Now it has
fewer dependencies (password-store and python, as you rightfully said
above), and they all are explicit.

>> I've attached the bare (unfinished/unpolished) package definition
>> extracted from my local channel and attached it, for if it is of assistance 
>> to
>> folks.
>
> It's a bit late for passff-host because it's already there (and it works
> well), but if you need help for packaging other Icecat extensions, I'd
> be glad to help.
>
>> My definition tries to embed a sane path for finding pass with a
>> default of the path to the password-store package it was built against, and
>> also tries to copy the passff.json into the correct browser folder for
>
> [...]
>
>>     ;; FIXME: The passff.json in etc/ needs to go into a browser-dependent
>>     ;; location to work with that specific browser. How to install it to the
>>     ;; right location needs to be figured out and documented.
>
> The Icecat browser-dependent location did not exist before
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=25043e01b6cb6696ffdc6cdedd9cdf8235bb695c.
>
> Now it is in /lib/icecat, e.g. /lib/icecat/native-messaging-hosts
>
> [...]
>
>>     ;; NOTE: python-build-system is used instead of copy-build-system to
>>     ;; automatically pick up the Python 3 dependency and to wrap the 
>> installed
>>     ;; Python script.
>
> `trivial-build-system` is enough, most of the work is done by the
> Makefile and install_host_app.sh.

Well this was wrong :) See my updated patch where I use
copy-build-system and don't use Makefile and install_host_app.sh
anymore...

Thanks,
Clément