Re: postgres 9.6.2 update breakage

Christopher Allan Webber writes: > Roel Janssen writes: > >> Jan Nieuwenhuizen writes: >> >>> Hi! >>> >>> I reconfigured my system and pulled in the postgres 9.6.2 update. Now >>> postgres does not start, /var/log/messages has >>> >>> May 12 13:02:52 localhost postgres[451]: [1-1] FATAL:

Re: postgres 9.6.2 update breakage

Roel Janssen writes: > Jan Nieuwenhuizen writes: > >> Hi! >> >> I reconfigured my system and pulled in the postgres 9.6.2 update. Now >> postgres does not start, /var/log/messages has >> >> May 12 13:02:52 localhost postgres[451]: [1-1] FATAL: database files >> are incompatible with server

Re: how to create and test a new service definition

Vincent Legoll skribis: >> The best way to test your code is to write an ‘operating-system’ >> declaration that uses the new service and to instantiate it in a VM with >> ‘guix system vm’. > > Should that be working properly (out-of-the-box) when you're already in > a

Re: postgres 9.6.2 update breakage

Hi there! Jan Nieuwenhuizen writes: > Hi! > > I reconfigured my system and pulled in the postgres 9.6.2 update. Now > postgres does not start, /var/log/messages has > > May 12 13:02:52 localhost postgres[451]: [1-1] FATAL: database files are > incompatible with server > May 12

Re: postgres 9.6.2 update breakage

Jan Nieuwenhuizen writes: > Hi! > > I reconfigured my system and pulled in the postgres 9.6.2 update. Now > postgres does not start, /var/log/messages has > > May 12 13:02:52 localhost postgres[451]: [1-1] FATAL: database files are > incompatible with server > May 12 13:02:52

alpine website is stuck in moving, is the build already failing?

Hi, I was wondering if the build for alpine is invalid at this point. I dropped the hoster a bug ticket to inform their customer, but I hope the maintainer of alpine will notice soon enough that at least the web view of the website is not displaying anymore. Just a heads up, in case this fails

Re: reepca joins Guix for GSoC 2017!

On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 04:19:50PM -0500, Caleb Ristvedt wrote: > Hello everyone. I'm the aforementioned reepca (pronounced reep-kay). Nice > to meet you all, and I look forward to working on this project! Welcome! Good to know how to pronounce reepca :)

Re: how to create and test a new service definition

> The best way to test your code is to write an ‘operating-system’ > declaration that uses the new service and to instantiate it in a VM with > ‘guix system vm’. Should that be working properly (out-of-the-box) when you're already in a qemu VM (recursive virtualization) ? I ask because I'm

Re: how to create and test a new service definition

Hello, Vincent Legoll skribis: > I want to define a new shepherd service, I've read the doc > and wonder how I can test my new code. Is this documented > somewhere ? The best way to test your code is to write an ‘operating-system’ declaration that uses the new service

Re: Building a secure communications server

Hi, Arun Isaac skribis: >> What I want achieve is that we can fire up an image on a VPS with safe >> communications. > > VPSs may be a start. But, I'm not comfortable with them long term. We > should push for users to self-host their own infrastructure. It should >

Re: Planning for the next release

On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 3:59 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Leo Famulari skribis: > >> If possible, I would appreciate if the release included a QEMU image >> that we could offer to VPS hosters like serveraptor.com, as discussed in >> this thread: +1 >> If the

postgres 9.6.2 update breakage

Hi! I reconfigured my system and pulled in the postgres 9.6.2 update. Now postgres does not start, /var/log/messages has May 12 13:02:52 localhost postgres[451]: [1-1] FATAL: database files are incompatible with server May 12 13:02:52 localhost postgres[451]: [1-2] DETAIL: The data

Re: Unprivileged /gnu/store with PRoot - or relocate

Hello! Pjotr Prins skribis: > I explored this and actually built Nix/Guix on proot in the past for the > same reasons > > https://github.com/pjotrp/nix-no-root Right, thanks for the reminder! Back then the target was mostly to run a full Nix/Guix under PRoot,

Re: Unprivileged /gnu/store with PRoot

Hi! Maxim Cournoyer skribis: > Which essentially means when the proot'd software is first loaded from disk? > Am I right to think that the performance would be the same after the > prooted program is all mapped in memory? No, every syscall is going to take much

Re: Planning for the next release

Hello! Leo Famulari skribis: > If possible, I would appreciate if the release included a QEMU image > that we could offer to VPS hosters like serveraptor.com, as discussed in > this thread: > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2017-03/msg00772.html > > This

Re: reepca joins Guix for GSoC 2017!

Caleb Ristvedt writes: > Hello everyone. I'm the aforementioned reepca (pronounced > reep-kay). Nice to meet you all, and I look forward to working on this > project! Congratulations, and a very warm welcome :) -- Katherine

Re: Building a secure communications server

On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 05:04:38PM +0530, Arun Isaac wrote: > VPSs may be a start. But, I'm not comfortable with them long term. We > should push for users to self-host their own infrastructure. It should > be something like the FreedomBox project. > > https://freedomboxfoundation.org/ > > The

Re: Building a secure communications server

On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 11:31:28AM +, ng0 wrote: > do you want people with prior knowledge in system administration to > use the 'spawn a VM' system, or do want to people without any prior > interest or knowledge in system administration to use this? > I tend towards the last option, but it

Re: Building a secure communications server

> What I want achieve is that we can fire up an image on a VPS with safe > communications. VPSs may be a start. But, I'm not comfortable with them long term. We should push for users to self-host their own infrastructure. It should be something like the FreedomBox project.

Re: Services can now have a default value

On Fri, Apr 21 2017, Carlo Zancanaro wrote: > I'll have a go at it later today and see what I can come up with. (I'm > not very familiar with guile/scheme libraries, but I have played around > a fair bit with macros.) Well, it's been a lot longer than "later today", but better late than never, I

how to create and test a new service definition

Hello, I want to define a new shepherd service, I've read the doc and wonder how I can test my new code. Is this documented somewhere ? I'm on guixsd in a qemu VM. Thanks -- Vincent Legoll

Re: reepca joins Guix for GSoC 2017!

Hello everyone. I'm the aforementioned reepca (pronounced reep-kay). Nice to meet you all, and I look forward to working on this project! On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 3:50 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hello Guix! > > I’m happy to announce that reepca (Cc’d) will join us for the Google >

Re: store reference detection (was Re: JARs and reference scanning)

Am 12.05.2017 um 23:51 schrieb Mark H Weaver: > What's the motivation for this proposal, if not to allow the scanner to > see references that would otherwise be obfuscated? The motivation is to have references at all. See for an

Re: Fwd: Re: Planning for the next release

Manolis Ragkousis writes: > We also need to fix the glibc on hurd (the patch for i686 should not be > applied there), but I haven’t been able to reproduce the failure on > hydra. https://hydra.gnu.org/build/2036383/nixlog/1/raw Yes, I’m working on it. I wasn’t able to

Re: Unprivileged /gnu/store with PRoot

Hi Ludovic! ludovic.cour...@inria.fr (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Hello Guix! > > In hostile environments (read: machines that lack Guix and where you’re > not root, such as HPC clusters), it can be hard to manage software with > Guix. > [...] > > One way to work around the problem is to use

Re: Building a secure communications server

What would be a good webmail service to run over https? Should be simple and secure (these go together, as you know). And should it run over imap? I think we'll need to provide imap anyway. Pj.

Building a secure communications server

In light of recent political attacks on E-mail servers in France and the USA and in light of the current worm attack I think it is very clear we need communication servers we can trust. I am running my own E-mail server and with the progress we are making in GNU Guix (system configuration, image