Re: How to replace a system package with a patched version in system configuration?
I use a heavily customised keyboard layout (https://github.com/moesasji/xkeyboard-config/commit/23fdb4a6966fd65b98b1fd303cfaecf8fcae8556); as I result I need to add my customized layout to the system before I can use the existing keyboard configuration mechanism in guix for the system as a whole. The reason I want to patch xkeyboard-config is that is what is used in keyboard.scm to define the various keyboard formats used by Guix On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 12:26 PM John Soo wrote: > > Hello, > > The operating system and several services and bootloader configurations > already have keyboard-layouts as parameters. What keyboard configuration do > you need? > > Hth, > > John
How to replace a system package with a patched version in system configuration?
I want to add my custom keyboard layout by patching xkeyboard-config so that this layout can be used in the rest of the system configuration. >From the manual on defining package variants it is clear how to define such a patched variant. However it is not at all clear to me how to use the various package-rewrite options in that manual page to make my system configuration use the patched xkeyboard-config. The only related question (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2018-07/msg8.html) that I have been able to find managed to work around it. As I'm at a loss how to do this cleanly**: could someone give me a pointer on how to adapt the default desktop example (https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Using-the-Configuration-System.html) to add a patched system package such as xkeyboard-config? **) I can see that a work-around is to use a custom guix channel. However that seems a lot of additional work as it would require keeping the channel in sync. There must be a cleaner approach to achieve this.
