Re: Using Pipewire for PulseAudio and JACK in Guix

[divya]

On 2024-11-03 11:50, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
> Divya Ranjan via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System 
> distribution." <guix-devel@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:
> >
> > > Divya <divya@subvertising.org> writes:
> > >
> > > > Thanks for pointing it out, indeed its trying to write into
> > > > /etc/xdg.
> > > > How does one handle such a case when packaging in Guix?
> > >
> > > We'd patch the build system files to make it write to $output/etc/xdg
> > > instead.
> >
> > But wouldn’t that break with updates? Or, does one need to update the
> > build system files everytime with a release?
>
> No, you'd use a G-expression and refer to #$output in the build phase.
> #$output will always have the value of the output directory.
>
> > Do you think one should
> > send a patch for this to the source tree, to make it compatible with
> > both Guix and Non-Guix GNU/Linux distributions?
>
> No need.  Just patch it in a custom build phase.

Just for the record, jack-mixer has been added to the repository:

https://git.qa.guix.gnu.org/guix-patches/commit/gnu/packages?h=issue-74251&id=bf62681bf2fe7a61a07aa0ef05262a6dd39819c6

Regards,

Divya Ranjan