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i3-gaps package is misbehaving

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From: Sergiu Marton <brown121407 <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Cc: brettg <at> gnu.org
Subject: i3-gaps package is misbehaving
Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2019 08:29:59 +0000

I submitted a patch to add i3-gaps a couple days ago:

https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=38721

After it got merged into master with the inheritance modification (see
patch), I installed it over the one I had installed from my original
script and it seemed to work fine. But I think that's just because I
didn't reboot to restart the i3 executable.

Now that I shutdown and opened my machine again, i3-gaps specific
commands don't work... To test this, write `i3-msg gaps` in a shell.
If it does NOT work, it will output something like:

brown <at> 121407 ~$ i3-msg gaps
ERROR: Your command: gaps
ERROR:               ^^^^
ERROR: Expected one of these tokens: <a long list of stuff that
represent valid commands>

However, it seems that gaps work if I remove the package, install it
from the original package definition (without Brett's (inherit i3-wm))
and reboot. The following output means that i3-gaps has been correctly
installed:

brown <at> 121407 ~$ i3-msg gaps
ERROR: Your command: gaps
ERROR:
ERROR: Expected one of these tokens: 'inner', 'outer', 'horizontal',
'vertical', 'top', 'right', 'bottom', 'left'

This is strange. I still don't know enough about the packaging API to
troubleshoot this all just by having a quick look at i3-gaps'
definition. I'll try to investigate this issue but I encourage someone
more knowledgeable than me too look into this too.

Message #8 received at 38739 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Brett Gilio <brettg <at> gnu.org>
To: Sergiu Marton <brown121407 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 38739 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#38739: i3-gaps package is misbehaving
Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2019 08:34:36 +0000 (UTC)

Dec 25, 2019 2:30:12 AM Sergiu Marton :

> I submitted a patch to add i3-gaps a couple days ago:
>
> https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=38721
>
> After it got merged into master with the inheritance modification (see
> patch), I installed it over the one I had installed from my original
> script and it seemed to work fine. But I think that's just because I
> didn't reboot to restart the i3 executable.
>
> Now that I shutdown and opened my machine again, i3-gaps specific
> commands don't work... To test this, write `i3-msg gaps` in a shell.
> If it does NOT work, it will output something like:
>
> brown <at> 121407 ~$ i3-msg gaps
> ERROR: Your command: gaps
> ERROR: ^^^^
> ERROR: Expected one of these tokens: > represent valid commands>
>
> However, it seems that gaps work if I remove the package, install it
> from the original package definition (without Brett's (inherit i3-wm))
> and reboot. The following output means that i3-gaps has been correctly
> installed:
>
> brown <at> 121407 ~$ i3-msg gaps
> ERROR: Your command: gaps
> ERROR:
> ERROR: Expected one of these tokens: 'inner', 'outer', 'horizontal',
> 'vertical', 'top', 'right', 'bottom', 'left'
>
> This is strange. I still don't know enough about the packaging API to
> troubleshoot this all just by having a quick look at i3-gaps'
> definition. I'll try to investigate this issue but I encourage someone
> more knowledgeable than me too look into this too.
>

Hi Sergiu,

Thank you for opening a new bug report at my request. As best as I can tell, the inherited arguments and your proposed package arguments without inheritance match 1:1. Tomorrow when I am at my computer I will introspect this further using the REPL.

If somebody else beats me to this, great! Hopefully we can get this figured out, it is probably some silly issue I just overlooked.

Thanks!

-- 
Brett M. Gilio
GNU Guix, Contributor | GNU Project, Webmaster
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Message #11 received at 38739 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Sergiu Marton <brown121407 <at> gmail.com>
To: 38739 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: brettg <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#38739: i3-gaps package is misbehaving
Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2019 15:40:44 +0000

Tried installing i3-gaps on a fresh VM with Guix. Still the same
problem when getting it from the official sources. Gaps aren't
working. When installing from a file that has the original definition
(without inheritance), gaps work. So it's exactly the same situation.
Wanted to be sure.

Message #16 received at 38739-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>
To: Sergiu Marton <brown121407 <at> gmail.com>, 38739-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#38739: i3-gaps package is misbehaving
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2019 15:50:27 +0100

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Sergiu Marton <brown121407 <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Tried installing i3-gaps on a fresh VM with Guix. Still the same
> problem when getting it from the official sources. Gaps aren't
> working. When installing from a file that has the original definition
> (without inheritance), gaps work. So it's exactly the same situation.
> Wanted to be sure.

I believe this is fixed with 3ebaa635f7a4e2178b321f949e533402e3cf2987.
The problem was that the original i3-wm checksum appears to have been
copy-pasted during the refactor.

Thanks!

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