bug#26353: TeX Live

2017-05-01 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Ludovic Courtès writes: > There are ways to turn it into a zillion packages from CTAN, which is > what Nixpkgs did. Ricardo (I think?) had some thoughts as to how to > achieve this and I would really like to see it happen. Yeah, it’s true, I wanted to work on this, but … it hasn’t happened yet

bug#26353: TeX Live

2017-05-01 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Marius Bakke skribis: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> Hi Danny! >> >> Danny Milosavljevic skribis: >> >>> 70 GiB non-home root partition seems also be too small for it all. I have >>> to do guix gc quite often - I'll have to repartition somewhen. >>> >>> texlive finally downloaded correctly *sh

bug#26407: test.dicod fails after ~20 hours of failed connection attempts

2017-05-01 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Mark H Weaver skribis: > Recently, test.dicod has started failing after taking ~20 hours of > build-slot time, mostly filled with "Connection refused" errors: > > https://hydra.gnu.org/job/gnu/master/test.dicod.x86_64-linux > > Here's a build that recently failed after 20 hours: > > http

bug#26353: GuixSD /tmp cleaner fails to clean when Umlauts like "ä" are used in filenames

2017-05-01 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Danny Milosavljevic skribis: > On Sun, 23 Apr 2017 01:30:56 +0200 > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote: > >> Did you have a chance to look at this patch? > > Hmm, guix system reconfigure finished with the patch, I rebooted, and I get > the same error message (No such file) and the file is

bug#26353: TeX Live

2017-05-01 Thread Marius Bakke
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hi Danny! > > Danny Milosavljevic skribis: > >> 70 GiB non-home root partition seems also be too small for it all. I have to >> do guix gc quite often - I'll have to repartition somewhen. >> >> texlive finally downloaded correctly *shrugs*. Texlive is really getting o

bug#26353: TeX Live

2017-05-01 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Danny! Danny Milosavljevic skribis: > 70 GiB non-home root partition seems also be too small for it all. I have to > do guix gc quite often - I'll have to repartition somewhen. > > texlive finally downloaded correctly *shrugs*. Texlive is really getting on > my nerves - isn't it possible t

bug#25988: [PATCH] bug#25988: python2-urwid tests fail

2017-05-01 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Maxim, Maxim Cournoyer skribis: > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > > [...] > >> >> I’ve seen the failure once and it succeeded on a subsequent rebuild, so >> I came to the conclusion that this is a non-deterministic failure. That >> would explain why the problem doesn’t show up on Hy

bug#26734: Snippets (even empty ones) of tar sources reset the timestamps of all files

2017-05-01 Thread Clément Lassieur
Please consider the following package: --8<---cut here---start->8--- (define-public hello (package (name "hello") (version "2.10") (source (origin (method url-fetch) (uri (string-append "mirror://gnu/hello/hello-" versio

bug#26732: add '--target=' option for 'guix environment' (similar to 'guix build')

2017-05-01 Thread Sergei Trofimovich
[ context: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2017-02/msg00966.html ] Currently 'guix build' supports '--target=' option to allow cross-compilation, but 'guix environment' doe not. Sometimes it would be nice to peek at the environment that 'guix build' creates. Concrete example: Whe