Introduction

It is been a while since I got time to contribute. In this entry, I will report about some progress that I got about two months ago.

Docker

I succeeded to skip the failing test that I commented in my last journal entry. The problem was in the parameter BUILDFLAGS in the unit test file that referenced libsystemd. A simple substitution, as shown below, fixes the problem.

(substitute* "hack/test/unit"
                (("BUILDFLAGS=.*")
                 (string-append "BUILDFLAGS=(-tags 'netgo')\n")))

I then reported my progress to the related issue. After some days, Hellseher replied to me and suggested that I collaborate on codesberg, the new git web instance used by Guix’s community.

Hellseher also suggested to ‘devendor’ Docker. Some Golang projects, such as Docker, store all dependencies in a folder called vendor. This folder “hides” the dependencies from the Guix package system, so it is a good practice to remove this folder and declare all dependencies as inputs in the packages’s recipe.

The problem is that Docker contains a lot of dependencies, so it is a lot of work to devendor it. I intend to start adding these dependecies in the next week.