tags 35633 moreinfo thanks Hi swedebugia! It seems this had fallen into the cracks; apologies! swedebugia writes: > From 6250680633cec1752519c37301890d71fe56e874 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: swedebugia > Date: Wed, 8 May 2019 15:03:51 +0200 > Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add dolibarr. > > * gnu/packages/web.scm (dolibarr): New public variable. Without a service; this doesn't seem to be readily usable. In its current form, the package description could be simplified to use the copy build system, like so: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- modified gnu/packages/web.scm @@ -5686,22 +5686,10 @@ (define-public dolibarr (sha256 (base32 "0505r6q84b0q7qx0fxcp0rklm2kw3d4qakwmlcgi0a3d04qzdvg6")))) - (build-system gnu-build-system) + (build-system copy-build-system) (arguments - `(#:phases - (modify-phases %standard-phases - ;; No configure, build or tests - (delete 'configure) - (delete 'build) - (delete 'check) - (replace 'install - ;; There's no ‘install’ target. Install files manually. - (lambda* (#:key outputs #:allow-other-keys) - (let* ((out (assoc-ref outputs "out")) - (dol (string-append out "/lib/" ,name)) - (htdocs "htdocs")) - (copy-recursively htdocs (string-append dol "/" htdocs)) - #t)))))) + `(#:install-plan + (list `("htdocs" ,(string-append "lib/" ,name "/htdocs"))))) (inputs `(("php" ,php) ("mariadb" ,mariadb))) --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Another thing: bundled dependencies. The htdocs directory installed contains various bundled PHP/JavaScript libraries such as JQuery as well as fonts. These should ideally all be un-bundled, but that's a big endeavor. There are some packaging recipes in the upstream repo for RPM for example, that does some of that unbundling (for fonts an JQuery). This would be a good start; see: https://github.com/Dolibarr/dolibarr/blob/develop/build/rpm/dolibarr_fedora.spec#L106 and https://github.com/Dolibarr/dolibarr/blob/develop/build/rpm/dolibarr_fedora.spec#L275. A service and a system test would also be ideal; otherwise the usefulness of this package in Guix is very limited. If you are up to the challenge, please send an update! Otherwise, I'll close it in a few weeks to avoid having it languish here eternally. Thank you! Maxim