bug#26136: core-updates: python-minimal@2.7.13 fails due to missing zlib

2017-03-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis: > From 1cb73a54813136632553f03063abdd5cd105a760 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: =?UTF-8?q?Ludovic=20Court=C3=A8s?= > Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 22:10:12 +0100 > Subject: [PATCH] gnu: python-minimal@2: Add dependencies on libffi and zlib. > > *

bug#26136: core-updates: python-minimal@2.7.13 fails due to missing zlib

2017-03-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! Adding libffi and zlib solves the problem, similar to python-minimal@3. Go for it? :-) Ludo’. >From 1cb73a54813136632553f03063abdd5cd105a760 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Ludovic=20Court=C3=A8s?= Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 22:10:12 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] gnu:

bug#26176: What to do about unmaintained frameworks like webkitgtk@2.4 in Guix?

2017-03-19 Thread ng0
Leo Famulari transcribed 2.1K bytes: > We do a good job of deploying security updates to webkitgtk@2.14. > Typically, we push the update within 24 hours. > > However, several packages still depend on webkitgtk@2.4, which is > unmaintained upstream and surely contains many serious security >

bug#26176: What to do about unmaintained frameworks like webkitgtk@2.4 in Guix?

2017-03-19 Thread Leo Famulari
We do a good job of deploying security updates to webkitgtk@2.14. Typically, we push the update within 24 hours. However, several packages still depend on webkitgtk@2.4, which is unmaintained upstream and surely contains many serious security vulnerabilities. $ guix refresh -l webkitgtk@2.4

bug#26136: core-updates: python-minimal@2.7.13 fails due to missing zlib

2017-03-19 Thread Leo Famulari
On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 09:19:01PM +0100, Danny Milosavljevic wrote: > >There is also the question about zlib and the bundled pip: why is it > >failing now? > > The above doesn't fix the pip zlib problem. It's very strange: The > value of the environment variable C_INCLUDE_PATH includes bzip2

bug#26136: core-updates: python-minimal@2.7.13 fails due to missing zlib

2017-03-19 Thread Leo Famulari
On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 09:19:01PM +0100, Danny Milosavljevic wrote: > An alternative workaround is to use this instead: > > diff --git a/gnu/packages/python.scm b/gnu/packages/python.scm > index be452f062..04c944d84 100644 > --- a/gnu/packages/python.scm12/bin/shore-updates/guix$ >

bug#26175: guix download fails if filename contains "@"

2017-03-19 Thread Hartmut Goebel
guix download fails if filename contains "@":invalid character `@' in name $ guix download mirror://kde/stable/applications/16.12.3/src/kde-l10n/kde-l10n...@valencia-16.12.3.tar.xz [...] Starting download of /tmp/guix-file.oVF3qZ From

bug#26158: Gnome starts unreliably

2017-03-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" skribis: > Does > > guix package -i xf86-video-intel > > or > > guix package -i xf86-video-nouveau > > help (or whatever else your GPU is from `guix package -s xf86-video-`)? Xorg wouldn’t pick up video drivers installed in the user’s

bug#26170: documentation: Explanation of propagated-inputs unclear

2017-03-19 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
Hello, I presume the difference between a package’s `inputs` and `propagated-inputs` in Guix packages is that propagated inputs get installed to a Guix profile whenever the package is installed while inputs are dependencies that remain in the Store. I presume libraries the packaged program is