Re: Packaging FreeCAD

[John Soo]

Hi guix,

Just a quick update. I have little to report on freecad. I am still stuck packaging pyside2. I have looked over the debian packaging rules but I am unfamiliar with their packaging process. I did some research and it looks as though they are using the normal pybuild process with some alterations to some paths afterward.  The package completely fails to compile for me and I am no expert on python build tooling. Here's what I have tried so far and the error: https://paste.debian.net/1072533. Any help would be very appreciated.

Thanks,

John

On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 6:33 PM John Soo <address@hidden> wrote:

Thanks so much Paul! This is really helpful!

> On Feb 15, 2019, at 9:20 AM, Paul Garlick <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi John,
>
>> I have been getting a little stuck building the pyside2 dependencies
>
> There has been an effort to package pyside2 for Debian.  This has been
> completed in the last six months.
>
> A good place to look for information is
> https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/pyside2
>
> You can browse the source code and follow the links to the 'debian'
> directory, which contains the files that govern the packaging process.
> In general for Debian packages, the 'rules' file is worth reading and
> the 'patches' directory has the changes to the upstream code. 
>
> One element that could be important in Guix is an update of patchelf to
> a recent commit (see 'update-patchelf.patch' in the patches directory).
>
> Best regards,
>
> Paul.
>