Guix Packager — Write a package definition in a breeze

Welcome! Guix Packager is a web interface that makes it easier to get started writing a Guix package definition. Guix Packager is written as a single-page application (SPA) that runs in the browser. It generates a package definition template based on the information provided in the interface that can be used as a starting point for the desired package.

User guide

Opening the webpage should be enough to understand how to use the application; you may also take a look at this help file.

Development

You basically just need nodejs; using guix you can:

guix shell -CPNF -m manifest.scm

But any other way will likely work; for instance the CI uses the node:18.17 image from dockerhub.

Then run the development server:

npm install
npm run dev

And open http://localhost:3000 with your browser to see the result.

Linting

You can run the linter on the code using:

npm run lint

And apply automatic fixes with:

npm run lint-fix

License information

The licenses JSON (used by the license menu of the interface) is generated with npm run gen-licenses, which runs a Scheme script that requires Guix.

Contributing

Contributions are much welcome! You can propose changes using one of these options:

1. By creating a merge request at https://gitlab.inria.fr/guix-hpc/guix-packager. Unfortunately, this requires creating an account first; please email Philippe Virouleau or Ludovic Courtès if you’d like to have one.
2. By emailing your changes to guix-patches@gnu.org, as is done for Guix, with “Guix Packager” in the subject.

Enjoy!