Trying to build v 8.0 getting missing common.py on Nixos

[jrgiacone]

Details about the problem

Trying to build the newest release for nixos. Previous version used a common,py which appears to no longer exist. Was this renamed by chance?

Code to compile

 postPatch = ''
    patchShebangs scripts
    substituteInPlace scripts/build-styles.sh \
      --replace '$(which sassc 2>/dev/null)' '${sassc}/bin/sassc' \
      --replace '$(which sass 2>/dev/null)' '${sassc}/bin/sass'
    substituteInPlace pylib/common.py \
      --replace "/usr/share/polychromatic" "$out/share/polychromatic"
  '';

Error on compile:

> substitute(): ERROR: file 'pylib/common.py' does not exist

[jrgiacone]

Oh i see, pylib was renamed to polychromatic earlier this year, I will give that a try and update

[lah7]

It did feel like something was missing from the release notes - that would be the reason, pylib is now polychromatic so the Python module namespace is consistent between the repository (development) and an installed build.

Is everything all good and up-to-date?

[jrgiacone]

Is everything all good and up-to-date?

Almost I’m getting an error regarding a data folder but this could be due to my lack of understanding with packaging on nixos.

Building 7.3 worked with the old build file.

It compiles with the polychromatic name change from pylib.

When launching polychromatic-controller it complains about “ cannot locate data directory” and to reinstall

[lah7]

The application expects its data directory either:

• Relative to the application - e.g. polychromatic-controller, data/
• or /usr/local/share/polychromatic
• or /usr/share/polychromatic

If NixOS needs some other location, it would need to be patched at a package level. Looking the links in #306, it's probably because the file where this was patched has changed from common.py to paths.py

-substituteInPlace pylib/common.py --replace "/usr/share/polychromatic" "$out/share/polychromatic"
+substituteInPlace polychromatic/paths.py --replace "/usr/share/polychromatic" "$out/share/polychromatic"