Subject: bug#23409: unable to load free firmware

From: Alex Kost <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 05 May 2016 00:33:09 +0300

Quilro Ordonez (2016-05-04 21:30 +0300) wrote:

> Thank you very much for your help Alex. Below is my report.
>
> El 2016-05-04 04:10, Alex Kost escribió:
>> you can create
>> "/any/directory/you/want/my-guix-packages.scm" file
>
> Downloaded the file and saved it on directory
> /home/quiliro/guix/packages
>
>> After that the following command should build the package:
>>
>>   $ GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH=/any/directory/you/want guix build
>> openfwwf-firmware
>
> This is the output:
>
> $ GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH=/home/quiliro/guix/packages guix build
> openfwwf-firmware
> /gnu/store/xcxhd2r2h3iz0721vn6c5wfqkd0r4xc0-openfwwf-firmware-5.2
> $

Great, so as "guix build openfwwf-firmware" succeeds now, you can return
to answering Ludovic's message about modifying
"/sys/module/firmware_class/parameters/path".

>> Also if you add this directory to GUILE_LOAD_PATH, you could use
>> (my-guix-packages) module in any guile code, particularly in your
>> system
>> config
>
> Downloaded quiliro-os.scm and placed it in /home/quiliro/guix
>
>> So add the following to your ~/.bash_profile:
>>
>>   export GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH=/any/directory/you/want
>>   export GUILE_LOAD_PATH=/any/directory/you/want
>
> Did that.
>
> This is the output of reconfiguring the whole system:
>
> # guix system reconfigure /home/quiliro/guix/quiliro-os.scm
> guix system: error: failed to load 'quilro-os.scm':
> ice-9/boot-9.scm:2867:6: In procedure resolve-interface:
> ice-9/boot-9.scm:2867:6: no code for module (my-guix-packages)

Ahem, did you try "echo $GUILE_LOAD_PATH" before this?  I bet it will be
empty, because you export this variable as user, but run "guix system"
command as root.

-- 
Alex