Re: Leaving the guix project

2017-02-21 Thread Mike Gerwitz
On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 14:13:45 +0100, David Craven wrote: > In most you can not. And I don't know of a way to tell if it is > possible without trying it. The card will either be soldered or be inserted into a slot much like a PCI card. It sometimes has its own area on the outside of the case; o

Re: ANNOUNCE: Guix on Aarch64 !!

2017-02-21 Thread Mark H Weaver
Efraim Flashner writes: > Its my pleasure to announce that guix now has all the code necessary to > support aarch64! This is great news! Thanks very much for taking this on :) Mark

[v2 1/1] services: Add agetty service.

2017-02-21 Thread Leo Famulari
* gnu/services/base.scm (): New record type. (agetty-shepherd-service, agetty-service): New procedures. (agetty-service-type): New variable. * doc/guix.texi (Base Services): Document it. [mingetty-configuration],[kmscon-configuration]: Specify the types of supported consoles. --- doc/guix.texi

[PATCH] gnu: Add dzen.

2017-02-21 Thread Mekeor Melire
From 33d25348eb60372120e95e3bb5afd19bdad64795 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mekeor Melire Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 00:02:25 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add dzen. * gnu/packages/xdisorg.scm (dzen): New variable. --- gnu/packages/xdisorg.scm | 53 1

Re: Icecat crash

2017-02-21 Thread Leo Famulari
On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 11:12:45PM +0100, Julien Lepiller wrote: > Hey, I'm also experiencing crashes with icecat since a few months. It > just seems to happen randomly. I've found a note about that on the LFS > website on the firefox page that says that using system cairo is > causing a crash when

Re: bug#25177: python-tests: python-oslosphinx fixed. Please evaluate.

2017-02-21 Thread Ben Woodcroft
Hi Ricardo, On 22/02/17 03:47, Leo Famulari wrote: On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 06:30:12PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: From 1ac5166df11766b47cd1ac723a464063a89afc96 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ricardo Wurmus Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 18:28:21 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] gnu: python-dendropy: Disable

Re: [PATCH] build: Fix errors in "make dist"

2017-02-21 Thread Leo Famulari
On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 09:52:21PM +0100, John Darrington wrote: > "guix environment guix" will create an environment with everything you need. I had tried `guix environment --pure guix`, and got this: GEN gen-ChangeLog ./build-aux/gitlog-to-changelog: line 1: exec: perl: not found GEN

Re: bug#25177: python-tests: python-oslosphinx fixed. Please evaluate.

2017-02-21 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Leo Famulari writes: > On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 06:30:12PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: >> From 1ac5166df11766b47cd1ac723a464063a89afc96 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 >> From: Ricardo Wurmus >> Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 18:28:21 +0100 >> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: python-dendropy: Disable failing tests. >>

[PATCH 1/1] gnu: lightweight-desktop.tmpl: Remove xmonad and complete i3-wm.

2017-02-21 Thread Leo Famulari
* gnu/system/examples/lightweight-desktop.tmpl (packages): Remove xmonad. Add i3status and dmenu. --- gnu/system/examples/lightweight-desktop.tmpl | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/gnu/system/examples/lightweight-desktop.tmpl b/gnu/system/examples/lightweight

[PATCH 0/1] improvements to the lightweight desktop example

2017-02-21 Thread Leo Famulari
I think we should remove xmonad from the lightweight-desktop OS declaration example. Xmonad is not "lightweight" in terms of disk space or bandwidth, since it requires GHC, which is 859 MiB uncompressed. Also, the i3 window manager is not very useful without dmenu and i3status, so I think we shoul

'guix build --target=' handling questions

2017-02-21 Thread Sergei Trofimovich
Hia! Before asking my questions I'll setup the scene first. The scene: I'm playing with cross-compiler support in guix. [ x86_64 -> alpha target as an example with this tiny patch: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=25799 ] I've stumbled upon the two cases: working[1] and non-worki

Re: [PATCH] build: Fix errors in "make dist"

2017-02-21 Thread Leo Famulari
On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 09:49:55PM +0100, John Darrington wrote: > On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 03:37:36PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote: > On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 08:29:18PM +0100, John Darrington wrote: > > * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Remove build-aux/hydra/demo-os.scm > > * gnu/packages/pa

Re: [PATCH] build: Fix errors in "make dist"

2017-02-21 Thread Leo Famulari
On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 09:46:19PM +0100, John Darrington wrote: > On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 03:37:36PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote: > On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 08:29:18PM +0100, John Darrington wrote: > > * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Remove build-aux/hydra/demo-os.scm > > * gnu/packages/pa

Re: [PATCH] build: Fix errors in "make dist"

2017-02-21 Thread John Darrington
On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 03:48:45PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote: On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 09:46:19PM +0100, John Darrington wrote: > On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 03:37:36PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote: > On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 08:29:18PM +0100, John Darrington wrote: > > * Makef

Re: [PATCH] build: Fix errors in "make dist"

2017-02-21 Thread John Darrington
On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 03:37:36PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote: On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 08:29:18PM +0100, John Darrington wrote: > * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Remove build-aux/hydra/demo-os.scm > * gnu/packages/patches/vdirsyncer-test-suite-slow-machines.patch: Remove > "/gnu/stor

Re: [PATCH] build: Fix errors in "make dist"

2017-02-21 Thread John Darrington
On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 03:37:36PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote: On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 08:29:18PM +0100, John Darrington wrote: > * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Remove build-aux/hydra/demo-os.scm > * gnu/packages/patches/vdirsyncer-test-suite-slow-machines.patch: Remove > "/gnu/stor

Re: [PATCH] build: Fix errors in "make dist"

2017-02-21 Thread Leo Famulari
On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 08:29:18PM +0100, John Darrington wrote: > * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Remove build-aux/hydra/demo-os.scm > * gnu/packages/patches/vdirsyncer-test-suite-slow-machines.patch: Remove > "/gnu/store/..." Interesting, what goes wrong?

[PATCH] build: Fix errors in "make dist"

2017-02-21 Thread John Darrington
* Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Remove build-aux/hydra/demo-os.scm * gnu/packages/patches/vdirsyncer-test-suite-slow-machines.patch: Remove "/gnu/store/..." --- Makefile.am| 1 - gnu/packages/patches/vdirsyncer-test-suite-slow-machines.patch | 2 +-

Re: [PATCH] gnu: xonsh: Update to 0.5.5.

2017-02-21 Thread Leo Famulari
On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 08:06:43PM +0100, Danny Milosavljevic wrote: > * gnu/packages/shells.scm (xonsh): Update to 0.5.5. LGTM, thanks!

Re: [PATCH] gnu: python-pygame: Update to 1.9.3.

2017-02-21 Thread Leo Famulari
On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 06:53:19PM +0100, Danny Milosavljevic wrote: > * gnu/packages/game-development.scm (python-pygame)[version]: Update to 1.9.3. > [source]: Use pypi-uri. These lines should start in the first column, not indented. > [inputs]: Add freetype. > [arguments]: Remove python-

[PATCH] gnu: xonsh: Update to 0.5.5.

2017-02-21 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
* gnu/packages/shells.scm (xonsh): Update to 0.5.5. --- gnu/packages/shells.scm | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/gnu/packages/shells.scm b/gnu/packages/shells.scm index 5aada5434..2ea23acd3 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/shells.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/shells.scm @@

Re: Let’s freeze and build ‘core-updates’!

2017-02-21 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 03:03:52PM +0100, Marius Bakke wrote: > I believe Efraim has pushed the remaining aarch64 patches, and I just > merged in the updates from staging, as well as an xorg and cmake update. > > I think we're ready to build the "core" package set now. thanks to all who h

[PATCH] gnu: python-pygame: Update to 1.9.3.

2017-02-21 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
* gnu/packages/game-development.scm (python-pygame)[version]: Update to 1.9.3. [source]: Use pypi-uri. [inputs]: Add freetype. [arguments]: Remove python-2. Substitute "FREETYPE". Remove "src/movie.c" dummy substitution. (python2-pygame): New variable. --- gnu/packages/game-development.s

Re: RFC: writable private scratch XDG_CACHE_HOME in build enviroment?

2017-02-21 Thread Mathieu Lirzin
Andy Wingo writes: > On Tue 21 Feb 2017 13:13, Mathieu Lirzin writes: > >> IIUC the problem you have is that in a Guix build environmnent, Guile >> tries but *fails* to autocompile ".scm" files because it doesn't find >> any directory that it can write on? > > Correct. > >> Since /tmp is writeab

Re: python-tests: python-oslosphinx fixed. Please evaluate.

2017-02-21 Thread Leo Famulari
On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 06:30:12PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > From 1ac5166df11766b47cd1ac723a464063a89afc96 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Ricardo Wurmus > Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 18:28:21 +0100 > Subject: [PATCH] gnu: python-dendropy: Disable failing tests. > > * gnu/packages/bioinformatics

Re: Let’s freeze and build ‘core-updates’!

2017-02-21 Thread Leo Famulari
On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 12:32:01PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote: > On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 03:03:52PM +0100, Marius Bakke wrote: > > I believe Efraim has pushed the remaining aarch64 patches, and I just > > merged in the updates from staging, as well as an xorg and cmake update. > > > > I think we're

Re: python-tests: python-oslosphinx fixed. Please evaluate.

2017-02-21 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Leo Famulari writes: > >> On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 12:00:21AM +0100, Marius Bakke wrote: >>> Danny Milosavljevic writes: >>> > @Leo: Can you please start a new evaluation of python-tests? >>> >>> I pushed some other fixes recently and built most of `guix package -A >>>

Re: Leaving the guix project

2017-02-21 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
David Craven writes: Hi David, > But I wish to leave the guix project and that my savannah account be > removed. This is not a decision I make lightly. The reason why I > decided it was time to move on is because I do not wish to be part of > GNU or the FSF. Sad to see you leave. There was a qu

Re: Let’s freeze and build ‘core-updates’!

2017-02-21 Thread Leo Famulari
On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 03:03:52PM +0100, Marius Bakke wrote: > I believe Efraim has pushed the remaining aarch64 patches, and I just > merged in the updates from staging, as well as an xorg and cmake update. > > I think we're ready to build the "core" package set now. Mark, Leo? I think we shoul

Re: Let’s freeze and build ‘core-updates’!

2017-02-21 Thread Marius Bakke
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hey Marius, > > Marius Bakke skribis: > >> Ludovic Courtès writes: >> >>> Hello Guix! >>> >>> Since I’m about to leave keyboard for a couple of weeks, here’s a to-do >>> list for those of you who’ll be around. :-) >>> >>> The last things I wanted to push for ‘core-upd

Re: RFC: writable private scratch XDG_CACHE_HOME in build enviroment?

2017-02-21 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi :) On Tue 21 Feb 2017 13:13, Mathieu Lirzin writes: > IIUC the problem you have is that in a Guix build environmnent, Guile > tries but *fails* to autocompile ".scm" files because it doesn't find > any directory that it can write on? Correct. > Since /tmp is writeable in a Guix build enviro

Re: Leaving the guix project

2017-02-21 Thread David Craven
> In some laptops, you can simply remove and replace the built-in wireless card. In most you can not. And I don't know of a way to tell if it is possible without trying it. What about laptops that don't have usb ports anymore? Are there any free USB-C wifi dongles yet? What about laptops that have

Re: default linux modules

2017-02-21 Thread Mathieu OTHACEHE
> Here is previous thread about this topic. > > https://www.mail-archive.com/guix-devel@gnu.org/msg23130.html Thanks Tomas. Did you give a try to Ludo proposal of splitting 'base-initd' into 'raw-initrd' and 'base-initrd' ? Would it be ok for you if I try this ? Thanks, Mathieu

Re: default linux modules

2017-02-21 Thread Tomas Cech
On Tue, 21 Feb 2017 13:36:27 +0100, Mathieu OTHACEHE wrote: > > > > Here is previous thread about this topic. > > > > https://www.mail-archive.com/guix-devel@gnu.org/msg23130.html > > Thanks Tomas. > > Did you give a try to Ludo proposal of splitting 'base-initd' into > 'raw-initrd' and 'base-i

Re: default linux modules

2017-02-21 Thread Tomas Cech
On Tue, 21 Feb 2017 10:39:46 +0100, Mathieu OTHACEHE wrote: > > > Hi Guix, > > I'm running GuixSD on top of a linux kernel with a custom conf. > > In "linux-modules" procedure of (gnu system linux-initrd), some modules > are searched by default ("ahci", "usb-storage", ..., "isci"). Those > modu

Re: RFC: writable private scratch XDG_CACHE_HOME in build enviroment?

2017-02-21 Thread Mathieu Lirzin
Hello Andy, Andy Wingo writes: > Guile will try to automatically compile .scm files and cache them in > XDG_CACHE_HOME. When building Guile itself, Guile sets XDG_CACHE_HOME > to ${top_builddir}/cache. What if we would set this ourselves for all > packages? That way all packages could benefit

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Free firmware - A redefinition of the term and a new metric for it's measurement.

2017-02-21 Thread David Craven
> While security is important, it's far from being the only reason that > makes free software important. > When security and freedom conflicts, I usually prefer freedom. I agree here too. While security and privacy are a factor for me it's far from the most important. To me the most important is i

RFC: writable private scratch XDG_CACHE_HOME in build enviroment?

2017-02-21 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi, Guile will try to automatically compile .scm files and cache them in XDG_CACHE_HOME. When building Guile itself, Guile sets XDG_CACHE_HOME to ${top_builddir}/cache. What if we would set this ourselves for all packages? That way all packages could benefit from a scratch location when buildin

Re: Leaving the guix project (rust question)

2017-02-21 Thread ng0
On 17-02-16 01:14:15, David Craven wrote: > Hello guixers! > > I am very grateful for all the things I could learn during my time > here and all the awesome work that you guys put in. > > But I wish to leave the guix project and that my savannah account be > removed. This is not a decision I make

default linux modules

2017-02-21 Thread Mathieu OTHACEHE
Hi Guix, I'm running GuixSD on top of a linux kernel with a custom conf. In "linux-modules" procedure of (gnu system linux-initrd), some modules are searched by default ("ahci", "usb-storage", ..., "isci"). Those modules are not present in my kernel because they are compiled as built-in. I thin

Re: Leaving the guix project

2017-02-21 Thread Alex Kost
Tomas Cech (2017-02-20 09:59 +0100) wrote: [...] > So, guys, where are your GIT repositories for GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH? There are several links here: https://gitlab.com/rain1/guix-wiki/wikis/Packaging -- Alex