Re: Package request: ZFS
Hi Pierre, Pierre Neidhardt writes: > Now that we have support for linux module packages (thanks to Danny), > can we get ZFS to work on Guix? > > https://zfsonlinux.org/ Probably not, because ZFS and Linux use incompatible licenses. IANAL, but my understanding is that they impose conflicting requirements on distributors of derived works. Here are some relevant links to explain the details: https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2016/feb/25/zfs-and-linux/ https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2016/apr/11/fsf-zfs/ https://www.fsf.org/licensing/zfs-and-linux Mark
[PATCH 0/2] Removal of generated files (was Re: Let’s translate!)
Hello everybody! I'm currently working on the Spanish translation for the manual, although I will send the guix domain translation as soon as TP coordinators change the assignation. Regarding the translation process, I think we should remove, at least, the generated files from the repository. AFAIK the only show-stopper is automake. It reads the translated files before make invocation, so the manual .texi files are needed for the bootstrap, even though they are listed in BUILT_SOURCES. guix/self.scm scan their content too in order to generate version-LL.texi. Stubs could be generated before calling autoreconf inside bootstrap script. After that change, adding the spanish (or any new) translation should be only matter of applying a patch like the second one, but with more translated content... WDYT? Any ideas about automated synchronization with translationproject.org as make update-po does? Best regards, Miguel
[PATCH 1/2] bootstrap: Break automake dependency on generated files. (was Re: Let’s translate!)
>From c5ed65b04c412a97674dd9129a0cac10500fdf7a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Miguel=20=C3=81ngel=20Arruga=20Vivas?=
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2019 00:21:44 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] bootstrap: Break automake dependency on generated files.
* bootstrap: Generate stub files for the manual translations whose
generated files are not included in the VCS.
---
bootstrap | 12
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
diff --git a/bootstrap b/bootstrap
index cb774bc737..62f6cb0fab 100755
--- a/bootstrap
+++ b/bootstrap
@@ -2,4 +2,16 @@
# Create the build system.
set -e -x
+
+# Generate stubs for translations.
+langs=`find po/doc -type f -name '*.po' \
+| sed -e 's,guix-manual\.,,' \
+| xargs -n 1 -I{} basename {} .po`
+for lang in ${langs}; do
+if [ ! -e "doc/guix.${lang}.texi" ]; then
+ echo "@setfilename guix.${lang}.info" > "doc/guix.${lang}.texi"
+ echo "@include version-${lang}.texi" >> "doc/guix.${lang}.texi"
+fi
+done
+
exec autoreconf -vfi
--
2.21.0
Re: 01/05: build-self: Avoid deprecated bindings.
Ludovic Courtès writes: > guix-comm...@gnu.org skribis: > >> commit fa9e6e8b676ca920a894cf3b48bfcb670077144f >> Author: Mark H Weaver >> Date: Sun Apr 21 13:58:08 2019 -0400 >> >> build-self: Avoid deprecated bindings. >> >> * build-aux/build-self.scm (build): Replace references to nix-server-* >> with store-connection-*. > > I reverted this commit because by using the new bindings, we would > prevent users of Guix prior to de9fbe9cdcf5f8deb08becfc54b523084fd67bda, > such as version 0.16.0, to upgrade to current master. Ah, okay, sorry for the mistake. It might be worth adding a comment to the code, explaining why the deprecated names must be used. > Note that commit 3a8c4860fbccc840b28227dbe44cfffb128a91e0 took care of > silencing deprecation warnings coming from build-self.scm for this > reason. Sounds good. Thanks! Mark
Re: 01/05: build-self: Avoid deprecated bindings.
Hi Mark, guix-comm...@gnu.org skribis: > commit fa9e6e8b676ca920a894cf3b48bfcb670077144f > Author: Mark H Weaver > Date: Sun Apr 21 13:58:08 2019 -0400 > > build-self: Avoid deprecated bindings. > > * build-aux/build-self.scm (build): Replace references to nix-server-* > with store-connection-*. I reverted this commit because by using the new bindings, we would prevent users of Guix prior to de9fbe9cdcf5f8deb08becfc54b523084fd67bda, such as version 0.16.0, to upgrade to current master. We will have to keep using the old names in this file for a while. This file is a bit special in that we have to assume that it can be evaluated by an old Guix. Note that commit 3a8c4860fbccc840b28227dbe44cfffb128a91e0 took care of silencing deprecation warnings coming from build-self.scm for this reason. Thanks, Ludo’.
Re: Video narration
Hi Laura, > I deleted all the videos and made them again > and now I don't see that issue anymore. Ah, good news! > For this, what I could do is generate the cli sesison video with the > "silence1.mp3" to have duration1, and then compare it with the > duration of cli1.mp3 (for instance). Then, run a script comparing > the durations while duration2 < duration1 append silence1.mp3 to > cli1.mp3. And finally use the generated cli1.mp3 as the input > matching the video stream. > I find a little bit manual, but I don't mind doing it if you find it > OK. > WDYT? We may have to experiment a little to solve the question of combining the cli and nocli videos in a manner than can be replayed by Firefox/Icecat. One test I can try tomorrow is to concatenate the nocli videos on their own. Will the combined video play in Firefox? If so, it would suggest that the mismatch of the audio and video stream durations is the cause of the stoppage. There is a way to concatenate audio files with ffmpeg. So if we know we need an extra seconds of silence, say, we can generate the file with the command I previously posted and join the silence to the end of the narration. This would be a script-free alternative method. Best regards, Paul.
QEmu image configuration
Hello, I've been trying to find the system config.scm used to generate the QEmu image (0.16.0 from the download page). I searched inside the booted VM, and tried to get clues from the documentation. I couldn't find it. What am I missing ? Shouldn't it be put in the VM image at /etc/config.scm ? I finally managed to get the image working, but had to guess a bit how to do it, I think the doc could be enhanced, so that newbies like me won't get lost. I tried to have a look at where is the source for : "6.2.14 Running GuixSD in a Virtual Machine" But the guix/doc/guix.texi text I found in the git repo looked different from what I read on the web site: https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Running-GuixSD-in-a-VM.html Are they out of sync ? Or is the web manual rendered from an older version of that file ? Thanks -- Vincent Legoll
Re: Video narration
Hi Paul! > This plays at the right speed for me in Videos/Totem (version 3.26). Don't know what happened. I deleted all the videos and made them again and now I don't see that issue anymore. > > duration1 (video stream): 1 minute 29 seconds > duration2 (audio stream): 1 minute 18 seconds > > This difference may be treated in a different manner by different > players. It may be necessary to add silence to the audio stream to > equalize the durations and allow reliable concatenation without re- > encoding. For this, what I could do is generate the cli sesison video with the "silence1.mp3" to have duration1, and then compare it with the duration of cli1.mp3 (for instance). Then, run a script comparing the durations while duration2 < duration1 append silence1.mp3 to cli1.mp3. And finally use the generated cli1.mp3 as the input matching the video stream. I find a little bit manual, but I don't mind doing it if you find it OK. WDYT? Regards :) Laura
Re: KMScon vs. AMD Radeon
On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 01:48:52PM +0200, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > As before, when I do not specify modprobe.blacklist=radeon, the > display gets stuck with > > [ 8.679377] fb0: switching to radeondrmfb from EFI VGA > > Before, I could add modprobe.blacklist=radeon to boot to a console. > When I boot the Debian 9.8.0 live ISO, I get a working fbdev with these messages in /var/log/Xorg.0.log [11.795] (**) FBDEV(2): claimed PCI slot 1@0:0:0 […] [11.795] (II) FBDEV(0): hardware: EFI VGA (video memory: 1984kB) These messages are missing on Guix (instead, I get [45.884] (EE) Screen 0 deleted because of no matching config section. where Debian has successfully found a screen. Before these messages, I see on Guix: [43.781] (--) PCI:*(1@0:0:0) 1002:6613:1043:0541 rev 0, Mem @ 0xe000/268435456, 0xf7e0/262144, I/O @ 0xe000/256, BIOS @ 0x/131072 On Debian, I see: [11.702] (--) PCI:*(0:1:0:0) 1002:6613:1043:0541 rev 0, Mem @ 0xe000/268435456, 0xf7e0/262144, I/O @ 0xe000/256, BIOS @ 0x/131072 I wonder, where does this difference in the PCI message come from?
New Spanish PO file for 'shepherd' (version 0.6.0-pre1)
Hello, gentle maintainer. This is a message from the Translation Project robot. A revised PO file for textual domain 'shepherd' has been submitted by the Spanish team of translators. The file is available at: https://translationproject.org/latest/shepherd/es.po (We can arrange things so that in the future such files are automatically e-mailed to you when they arrive. Ask at the address below if you want this.) All other PO files for your package are available in: https://translationproject.org/latest/shepherd/ Please consider including all of these in your next release, whether official or a pretest. Whenever you have a new distribution with a new version number ready, containing a newer POT file, please send the URL of that distribution tarball to the address below. The tarball may be just a pretest or a snapshot, it does not even have to compile. It is just used by the translators when they need some extra translation context. The following HTML page has been updated: https://translationproject.org/domain/shepherd.html If any question arises, please contact the translation coordinator. Thank you for all your work, The Translation Project robot, in the name of your translation coordinator.
New Spanish PO file for 'guix-manual' (version 1.0.0-pre1)
Hello, gentle maintainer. This is a message from the Translation Project robot. A revised PO file for textual domain 'guix-manual' has been submitted by the Spanish team of translators. The file is available at: https://translationproject.org/latest/guix-manual/es.po (We can arrange things so that in the future such files are automatically e-mailed to you when they arrive. Ask at the address below if you want this.) All other PO files for your package are available in: https://translationproject.org/latest/guix-manual/ Please consider including all of these in your next release, whether official or a pretest. Whenever you have a new distribution with a new version number ready, containing a newer POT file, please send the URL of that distribution tarball to the address below. The tarball may be just a pretest or a snapshot, it does not even have to compile. It is just used by the translators when they need some extra translation context. The following HTML page has been updated: https://translationproject.org/domain/guix-manual.html If any question arises, please contact the translation coordinator. Thank you for all your work, The Translation Project robot, in the name of your translation coordinator.
Re: ISO installer image: GPT versus MBR partitions
Hi, Ady Ady gave me a hint about why the EFI partition in Guix 0.16.0 ISO has 1.4 MB of size, despite grub-mkrescue asks mformat for 2.8 MB. Obviously Guix uses mtools 4.0.21 (image OEM-ID "MTOO4021") which is one version before this bug fix: "Fixed -f flag for mformat (size is KBytes, rather than sectors)" http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2018-12/msg0.html (Actually this size is quite some waste. Even 1.4 MB is generously oversized for the three directories and one or two boot*.efi.) Have a nice day :) Thomas
Re: Video narration
Hi Laura, > Now, as regards the colours, it works with totem too :) > But the cli sessions are at kind of super speed now, it happens > watching the full video, or the separate cli session videos. I've > tried it with totem, mvp and vlc. Any clue about it? I have not seen this effect on the playback speed. I am using the first video for testing. I do: $ make clean VIDEO=01-installation-from-script then, $ ./build-video.sh 01-installation-from-script This plays at the right speed for me in Videos/Totem (version 3.26). However, the concatenation question (for Firefox) may also be related to the speed question. Is super-speed very different from the expected speed? In the case of the first cli session for the first video there is a difference between the duration of the audio and video streams: duration1 (video stream): 1 minute 29 seconds duration2 (audio stream): 1 minute 18 seconds This difference may be treated in a different manner by different players. It may be necessary to add silence to the audio stream to equalize the durations and allow reliable concatenation without re- encoding. Best regards, Paul.
Package request: ZFS
Hi, Now that we have support for linux module packages (thanks to Danny), can we get ZFS to work on Guix? https://zfsonlinux.org/ Any taker? -- Pierre Neidhardt https://ambrevar.xyz/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: KMScon vs. AMD Radeon
On Sat, Apr 20, 2019 at 02:37:00PM +0200, Pierre Neidhardt wrote:
> OK, apparently it's possible to force AMDGPU onto Southern Island / Sea
> Island:
>
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AMDGPU#Enable_Southern_Islands_(SI)_and_Sea_Islands_(CIK)_support
>
It seems like this does not help.
> We'd need to things:
>
> - enable the following in linux-libre
>
> --8<---cut here---start->8---
> # CONFIG_DRM_AMDGPU_SI is not set
> # CONFIG_DRM_AMDGPU_CIK is not set
> --8<---cut here---end--->8---
>
> - Make sure amdgpu is loaded before radeon. Can we do that in the
> operating-system declaration?
>
I added the above definitions
---
gnu/packages/linux.scm | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/gnu/packages/linux.scm b/gnu/packages/linux.scm
index b562a23b2f..0173176be3 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/linux.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/linux.scm
@@ -275,7 +275,9 @@ for ARCH and optionally VARIANT, or #f if there is no such
configuration."
("CONFIG_VIRTIO_MMIO" . m)
("CONFIG_FUSE_FS" . m)
("CONFIG_CIFS" . m)
-("CONFIG_9P_FS" . m)))
+("CONFIG_9P_FS" . m)
+("CONFIG_DRM_AMDGPU_SI" . #t)
+("CONFIG_DRM_AMDGPU_CIK" . #t)))
(define (config->string options)
(string-join (map (match-lambda
--
2.21.0
and changed nothing about the modules and their ordering. Then I
reconfigured.
As before, when I do not specify modprobe.blacklist=radeon, the
display gets stuck with
[ 8.679377] fb0: switching to radeondrmfb from EFI VGA
Before, I could add modprobe.blacklist=radeon to boot to a console.
Now I add modprobe.blacklist=radeon and get
[ 9.507629] fb0: switching to amdgpudrmfb from EFI VGA
It seems like now it is still broken just with amdgpu instead.
Regards,
Florian
Re: ‘staging’ and GNOME updates
Hello, Ludovic Courtès skribis: > Timothy Sample skribis: > >> Ricardo Wurmus writes: >> >>> Ludovic Courtès writes: I removed pretty both .cache directories, moved .config sub-directories around, etc., and yet I am still unable to log in into the GNOME account (logging in to a non-GNOME account from GDM is fine.) I even tried upgrading the user’s profile just in case is contained incompatible schemas or who knows what, but that didn’t help. What extra bit of state am I missing? >>> >>> Do you have ~/.local? In my earlier tests this contained binary >>> notification data that when loaded would lead to a crash. >> >> I’m testing GNOME on ‘staging’ now, and had the same problem (GDM worked >> okay, but I could not login). I fixed it by deleting >> “~/.local/share/gnome-shell/notifications”. I left everything else in >> my home directory as it was. > > That’s the one! I moved ~/.local/share/gnome-shell out of the way and > after that I could log in. \o/ So I’d really like to merge that branch, but this GNOME upgrade issue is holding us back. Does anyone have ideas on how to address it? Thanks, Ludo’.
Re: KMScon vs. AMD Radeon
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Pierre Neidhardt skribis: >> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AMDGPU#Enable_Southern_Islands_(SI)_and_Sea_Islands_(CIK)_support > ... > No, how would you achieve that? No clue, I just know that on Arch Linux there is a mechanism for loading modules with a specific order (see previous link). -- Pierre Neidhardt https://ambrevar.xyz/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature
