Re: New ‘--list-generations’ and ‘--delete-generations’ options

2013-09-08 Thread Nikita Karetnikov
I’m asking because if we do that, ‘--list-generations’ may just as well print out *all* the generation records. Users who want to select only less than one-month old generations can do that with ‘recsel’, and we don’t have anything more to do. WDYT? I see recutils as an advanced option

Re: ‘--no-substitutes’ is ignored on i686

2013-09-08 Thread Nikita Karetnikov
I can confirm this bug on i686. The same happens with guix package --no-substitutes -i gnupg. On x86-64, everything works as expected. Does it mean that the daemon is the cause of the problem since the error is platform-specific? Also, note this line: The following derivations will be

Re: Python 3 binaries

2013-09-08 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, time to give a quick update! What I implemented in the python branch, following the discussions on the list, is the following: On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 08:24:48AM +0200, Brandon Invergo wrote: Then that means we don’t really have to worry, and just document that the python-3.x package

Re: MIPS64/N64 support

2013-09-08 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Nikita Karetnikov nik...@karetnikov.org skribis: 3. Created ‘mips64el-linux-gnuabi64’ in ‘gnu/packages/bootstrap/’. Hmm, I think we should just call it ‘mips64el-linux’ since the ABI is really something orthogonal. I’ve already tried that: $ ./pre-inst-env guix build -K -s

Re: Naming scheme for Python packages

2013-09-08 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Andreas Enge andr...@enge.fr skribis: On Sun, Sep 08, 2013 at 04:03:23PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: Andreas Enge andr...@enge.fr skribis: separate ‘package-with-name-prefix’ procedure, such that we would do: (define package-with-python-2 (compose (cut package-with-name-prefix

Re: Online hackathon ?

2013-09-08 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Andreas Enge andr...@enge.fr skribis: On Sat, Sep 07, 2013 at 02:35:01PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: Jason Self ja...@bluehome.net skribis: There will also be a hackathon going on at the GNU Project's 30th anniversary [0] in Boston if anyone's interested in meeting in person there. It

Re: New ‘--list-generations’ and ‘--delete-generations’ options

2013-09-08 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Nikita Karetnikov nik...@karetnikov.org skribis: I’m asking because if we do that, ‘--list-generations’ may just as well print out *all* the generation records. Users who want to select only less than one-month old generations can do that with ‘recsel’, and we don’t have anything more to do.

Re: MIPS64/N64 support

2013-09-08 Thread Nikita Karetnikov
I’ve already tried that: $ ./pre-inst-env guix build -K -s mips64el-linux-gnuabi64 hello […] ERROR: bootstrap binary not found tar mips64el-linux-gnuabi64 As I wrote, call it ‘mips64el-linux’, and put the binaries under the directory of that name. I did that but forgot to adjust ‘-s