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author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2013-08-30 23:30:31 +0200 |
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committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2013-08-30 23:47:22 +0200 |
commit | 67b1dd8dea0e291a55717c844a28113d83647eb6 (patch) | |
tree | ac014243ddcf1eb640e9fe562f73927bd4d66340 | |
parent | a827c623cad411a5a177ee23c1292dac914e441f (diff) | |
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doc: Remove "Adding new packages" from `HACKING'.
* HACKING (Adding new packages): Remove since it's now in the manual.
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@@ -78,50 +78,6 @@ addition to that, you must not miss [[http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ParEdit][Pa directly operate on the syntax tree, such as raising an s-expression or wrapping it, swallowing or rejecting the following s-expression, etc. -* Adding new packages - -Package recipes in Guix look like this: - -#+BEGIN_SRC scheme - (package - (name "nettle") - (version "2.5") - (source - (origin - (method url-fetch) - (uri (string-append "mirror://gnu/nettle/nettle-" - version ".tar.gz")) - (sha256 - (base32 - "0wicr7amx01l03rm0pzgr1qvw3f9blaw17vjsy1301dh13ll58aa")))) - (build-system gnu-build-system) - (inputs `(("m4" ,m4))) - (propagated-inputs `(("gmp" ,gmp))) - (home-page - "http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/") - (synopsis "GNU Nettle, a cryptographic library") - (description - "Nettle is a cryptographic library...") - (license gpl2+)) -#+END_SRC - -Such a recipe can be written by hand, and then tested by running -‘./pre-inst-env guix build nettle’. - -When writing the recipe, the base32-encoded SHA256 hash of the source -code tarball, which can be seen in the example above, can be obtained by -running: - - guix download http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/nettle/nettle-2.5.tar.gz - -Alternatively, it is possible to semi-automatically import recipes from -the [[http://nixos.org/nixpkgs/][Nixpkgs]] software distribution using this command: - - guix import /path/to/nixpkgs/checkout nettle - -The command automatically fetches and converts to Guix the “Nix -expression” of Nettle. - * Submitting Patches Development is done using the Git distributed version control system. Thus, |