--suffix-flags sounds ok, but perhaps a custom wrapper is better. On Sun, May 8, 2016, 11:02 AM Philip Carlsen <[email protected]> wrote:
> That's great to hear - Indeed you're not the only one having trouble with > akonadi. I just gave up before I could make anything useful of it. > Den 8. maj 2016 01.24 skrev "Phil Wetzel" <[email protected]>: > >> Greetings, >> >> I've just installed NixOS on my desktop with KDE. I had trouble getting >> akonadi working (the data backend for kdepim). I found one other person >> with >> the same problem [1], though it is hard for me to believe I am the only >> person >> trying to run KMail on NixOS. >> >> The problem turned out to be akonadi starting an instance of mysqld >> (mariadb) >> that failed to find an error messages file because it didn't know where >> it was. >> Setting the --basedir prevents this problem from occurring, and that is >> what >> is done in the service module definition. kdepim users can solve the >> problem >> locally by setting basedir in their akonadi/mysql.cf config, but if we >> would >> like it to work out of the box it seemed to me that the way forward was >> to use >> wrapProgram on mysqld. You can't actually run mysqld from the commandline >> without without the --basedir argument with it packaged the way it is now >> anyway. >> >> This turned out to not work either because: >> >> - wrapProgram --add-flags *prepends* all the wrapped flags to the >> argument list >> - akonadi uses the --defaults-file argument >> - mysqld requires --defaults-file to be the first argument if it is used >> >> This can certainly be solved with some hackery after the wrapProgram in >> postInstall, but perhaps it would be better to include a --suffix-flags >> feature >> to make-wrapper.sh. >> >> What would you suggest as the better choice? I didn't want to submit a PR >> with >> a hack if that wasn't the way forward, and I definitely didn't want to >> submit a >> PR touching the build tools and documentation without at least saying >> hello >> first. >> >> Thank you, >> Phil Wetzel >> >> [1] - >> http://lists.science.uu.nl/pipermail/nix-dev/2015-January/015575.html >> _______________________________________________ >> nix-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev >> > _______________________________________________ > nix-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev > -- Wout. (typed on mobile, excuse terseness)
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