bug#23094: icecat is missing a desktop file

2016-06-01 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi Ludo, On Tue, 31 May 2016 15:47:35 +0200 l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote: > I tested the attached one. It works as expected, but there remain > “%%ifdef” things in it (see attached file), and I’m guessing GNOME & > co. will barf upon them, though I don’t know how to test. I think the ea

bug#22883: Discussion of TUF in the context of Git checkout authentication

2016-06-01 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Here are some (somewhat unstructured!) thoughts about what it means to deliver secure updates to Guix users, and how The Update Framework (TUF) and related ideas can help us. To summarize, the problem we’re trying to solve is the “secure” update of Git checkouts. That’s because Guix is a

bug#23666: guix download fails for large files

2016-06-01 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Andreas Enge skribis: > On my Novena with a 32 bit processor and 4 GB of main memory, this fails with >guix download: error: sendfile: Broken pipe > > The file itself has 1,8 GB. This is implemented using the ‘add-to-store’ RPC, which, after all these years, is still implemented like this (n