Package request: logiops

[hawkw]

Project description

An unofficial driver for Logitech mice and keyboards.

This allows things like setting keymappings for the additional buttons on Logitech mice, changing DPI, etc.

Metadata

• homepage URL: https://github.com/PixlOne/logiops
• source URL: https://github.com/PixlOne/logiops
• license: GPL-3.0
• platforms: linux

[hawkw]

I'm happy to try to package this myself, but I'm relatively new to writing Nix packages, so I might need some guidance.

It would also be nice if there were nixos options for this package --- it has a systemd service and a configuration file.

[zeorin]

I'm interested, too. I got a Logitec mouse last week and I've been trying to get this to build:

{ pkgs ? import <nixpkgs> {} }:

with pkgs; stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
  pname = "logiops";
  version = "0.2.3";
  src = fetchFromGitHub {
    owner = "PixlOne";
    repo = "logiops";
    rev = "v${version}";
    sha256 = "1wgv6m1kkxl0hppy8vmcj1237mr26ckfkaqznj1n6cy82vrgdznn";
  };
  nativeBuildInputs = [ cmake pkg-config ];
  buildInputs = [ libevdev libudev libconfig ];
}

is as far as I've gotten. When I try to build this it seems to compile just fine, but CMake tries to install the service file in a systemd directory, which isn't writeable. I don't know enough about how this ought to be handled to solve it myself.

[zeorin]

Actually, I've just figured out how to stop CMake from trying to install that file, need to apply this patch:

diff --git i/src/logid/CMakeLists.txt w/src/logid/CMakeLists.txt
index 00ee796..c8300a5 100644
--- i/src/logid/CMakeLists.txt
+++ w/src/logid/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -96,10 +96,6 @@ if (SYSTEMD_FOUND AND "${SYSTEMD_SERVICES_INSTALL_DIR}" STREQUAL "")
     string(REGEX REPLACE "[ \t\n]+" "" SYSTEMD_SERVICES_INSTALL_DIR
            "${SYSTEMD_SERVICES_INSTALL_DIR}")
     configure_file(logid.service.cmake ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/logid.service)
-    message(STATUS "systemd units will be installed at ${SYSTEMD_SERVICES_INSTALL_DIR}")
-    install(FILES ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/logid.service
-            DESTINATION ${SYSTEMD_SERVICES_INSTALL_DIR}
-            COMPONENT cp)
 elseif(NOT SYSTEMD_FOUND AND SYSTEMD_SERVICES_INSTALL_DIR)
     message(FATAL_ERROR "systemd is not found w/ pkg-config but SYSTEMD_SERVICES_INSTALL_DIR is defined.")
 endif()

[zeorin]

I managed to get everything working, even wrote a NixOS module. But, I'm a noob at writing packages and modules, and I may need some hand-holding to get this to production-quality (e.g. right now all of the config for the logiops service I created is all just one big extraConfig string).

I'll draft a proper PR for this in the next few days.

[hawkw]

I have a mostly working package for logiops on my machine, as well, also including a half-finished NixOS module. If you want to compare notes, let me know --- I'm also pretty new to packaging things for nix.

[hawkw]

(e.g. right now all of the config for the logiops service I created is all just one big extraConfig string).

FWIW, I started on defining the config in Nix, rather than a big string --- I could probably get it working fairly soon and we could add that to your change.

[zeorin]

Draft PR here: #124158

[anund]

See #167388, @ckiee has packaged logiops and is working on a module.

[ckiee]

The module is basically done and I've been using it for 4 months now. Just need someone to review.

[patka-123]

Hello @hawkw 👋

logiops seems to have been packaged by now. If this is satisfactory for you, would you be able to close this issue?

(I'm going through issues marked as stale to see what can be resolved.)