Hey! On Wed, 2023-11-29 at 23:27 +0000, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > I looked [1], and I see some differences in packaging: > - I opted to put the libraries in /usr/lib64/nix/ and retain the > RUNPATH > so that they get loaded from there. My thinking was that the > libraries > are "private", i.e. they are used by the nix binaries and nothing > else. > But I see that you have a -devel subpackage… Is it actually useful > for anything? > > (If there is no known user, then I'd prefer to not add the -devel > package > initially. If it turns out to be useful later on, it can always be > added.) I think that's a better approach. I added the devel package because headers and the pkg-config file exist. Potential clients may be Nix Python or Go bindings. It's unlikely we would need them in Fedora anytime soon. I would also vote to add a devel package when requested. > - for the users, I'd prefer to create a sysusers file and submit it > upstream. Looks good to me! Until accepted upstream, we can keep userfile as an additional source. I think the multi-user mode[1] of Nix would better fit Fedroa. It's also how NixOS uses Nix. The multi-user mode requires the mentioned users and Nix daemon. > - I see you have aws-sdk-cpp-devel. The build seemed to work fine > without. Yes, we can build Nix without it. From AWS SDK for C++, the S3 and the transfer APIs are helpful. They allow access to the Nix binary cache via S3 "protocol". I find the AWS SDK for C++ easy to build but quite challenging to package. So maybe it is better to start without. > - I see you have '%undefine _hardened_build'. I didn't see any issues > without > that… Maybe it's not needed anymore? Probably, it's not needed. I'll try to build a newer version of Nix on a more recent version of Fedora. Regarding collaboration, we may prepare an initial SPEC file on a public GitHub/GitLab repository, where we can work via Pull/Merge Requests. I would happily test the outputs of our work. We have quite a strong Nix community at ESO :) Cheers, Piotr [1] https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/installation/multi-user -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
