Thanks for your feedback. I just edited the wrapper in postInstall. Inspired by Mr. Qiu, it's in PR 15421 which is about a week old without any interaction.
On Sunday, May 08, 2016 12:39:20 PM Domen Kožar wrote: > I wanted that feature a few times also, but I ended up using --run or two > wrappers. > > On Sun, May 8, 2016 at 12:32 PM, Wout Mertens <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > --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) > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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
