Re: Tracker & Gnome

[Björn Höfling]

On Mon, 08 Oct 2018 14:42:31 -0500
Brett Gilio <address@hidden> wrote:

> Ludovic Courtès writes:
> 
> > Hello Brett,
> >
> > To complete what Nils wrote, Tracker is indeed lagging behind on 
> > master:
> >
> > --8<---------------cut 
> > here---------------start------------->8---
> > $ guix refresh tracker
> > gnu/packages/gnome.scm:5715:13: tracker would be upgraded from 
> > 1.12.3 to 2.0.4
> > --8<---------------cut 
> > here---------------end--------------->8---
> >
> > You could try upgrading it and see what happens.
> >
> > In fact, I see that Ricardo upgraded Tracker in 
> > ‘wip-gnome-updates’:
> >
> >   
> > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?h=wip-gnome-upgrades&id=dd9110df3ad1efaf5cf716f6be5b710b5d348400
> >
> > Ricardo, do you think we could cherry-pick it on ‘master’? 
> > ‘guix
> > refresh -l tracker’ shows only 4 dependent packages.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ludo’.  
> 
> Hi Ludo,
> 
> Thank you for your insight.
> 
> I tried passing guix refresh -u tracker to the terminal and am 
> getting
> this output
> 
> guix refresh: error: mkstemp!: Read-only file system
> 

Hi Brett,

it looks like you are trying this with the "installed" guix. But you
need to go from the checked out git repository. You will find
instructions here:

https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Building-from-Git.html#Building-from-Git

Basicly, you git clone the sources. Then with

guix environment guix

you enter an environment with all dev dependencies for Guix.

Then you can build it with

./bootstrap && ./configure --localstatedir=/var && make

Finally, execute guix from source:

./pre-inst-env guix refresh -u

After that, you will find local changes and you can check and prepare
the patch.

Björn

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