Re: Cache eviction policy of ‘guix publish’

l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Mark H Weaver skribis: > >> How about simply adding an option to 'guix publish' that prevents any >> NAR/NARINFO from being expired from the cache as long as the >> corresponding item is present in the store? It could be called >>

Cache eviction policy of ‘guix publish’

Hello, (Continued from a thread on guix-sysadmin on how to make sure ‘guix publish’ does not remove from its own cache things that correspond to store items that are still valid.) Mark H Weaver skribis: > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > >> Mark H Weaver

Re: guix package: error: corrupt input while restoring archive from socket

l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Hello, > > Alex Vong skribis: > >> alexvong1995@debian:~/scm/guix$ ./pre-inst-env guix package -u >> substitute: Backtrace: >> substitute: 1 (primitive-load >> "/home/alexvong1995/scm/guix/scripts/gu…") >> substitute: In

Re: collaboration from students of a technical school

It could also be interesting to have the more software-engineering/devops focused students look at improving guix QA process. They could work on technical solutions for making things more robust, as to make sure `master' is broken less often ;-). I have no specific ideas on how to approach this

Re: A small documentational change to the contributing section

Hello, Joshua Branson skribis: > I've added a few lines to the contributing section of the manual. It > says that users actually have to clone the guix repo before running guix > environment guix. I actually made the mistake a week or two ago. > > #+BEGIN_SRC sh > guix

Re: Staging [was Re: core-updates failing packages]

Leo Famulari skribis: > On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 09:09:28AM +1000, Ben Woodcroft wrote: >> I was also thinking of updating ruby. Are we planning on merging the staging >> branch before core-updates? > > I wasn't aware people were working on the staging branch. If the changes >

Re: collaboration from students of a technical school

Hello, (Sorry for the late reply, Quiliro!) Alex Vong skribis: > I cannot speak for others on what are most needed in Guix. But here is a > page summurizing project ideas for Google Summer of Code 2017: > Yes, that’s

Re: guix package: error: corrupt input while restoring archive from socket

Hello, Alex Vong skribis: > alexvong1995@debian:~/scm/guix$ ./pre-inst-env guix package -u > substitute: Backtrace: > substitute:1 (primitive-load > "/home/alexvong1995/scm/guix/scripts/gu…") > substitute: In guix/ui.scm: > substitute: 1352:12 0

Re: cuirass evaluate

Hi Ludo, > Unfortunately, the current daemon protocol makes it hard to get such > notifications, unless you parse its output (the “@ build-succeeded” > lines) like I did in ‘wip-ui’. > > Perhaps we’ll have to do this parsing anyway, or just change the > protocol altogether and have a “channel”

Re: New build-system quest (premake4 t-engine)

Hi Oleg, > I try to package premake4 build-system and t-engine game. I have an > issue with "No such file or directory" "../bla/bla/bla/*.h". […] > > But building with guix build failed. Checkout patch and logs. Any > ideas appreciating :-) Have you tried using the “gnu-build-system” and

Staging [was Re: core-updates failing packages]

On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 09:09:28AM +1000, Ben Woodcroft wrote: > I was also thinking of updating ruby. Are we planning on merging the staging > branch before core-updates? I wasn't aware people were working on the staging branch. If the changes are not very disruptive, perhaps we could merge it

Re: Xorg tearing fix on Intel HD Graphics 4000

Chris Marusich writes: > Roel Janssen writes: > >> Chris Marusich writes: >> >>> Roel Janssen writes: >>> Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Hi Roel, > >> With the following patch to the Xorg configuration file, I have a >> tear-free GuixSD

Re: collaboration from students of a technical school

Hello, I cannot speak for others on what are most needed in Guix. But here is a page summurizing project ideas for Google Summer of Code 2017: Cheers, Alex Quiliro Ordonez Baca writes: > I spoke with the director of a

xcalc looks "incomplete" - dependencies missing?

Hello, thanks to pjotr's great notes about containers [1], I now know how to run a X-application in a guix container :-) Thanks pjotr! I tried this with xcalc and got a "incomplete" window, see screenshot (yes, is this tiny thing is the complete window). Now I'm wondering what the reason for

Re: core-updates failing packages

Ben Woodcroft writes: > I have a patch ready but will push this as a part of a series that > updates htslib to 1.5. Just to say that I'm working on it and noone else > should spend time on this, I'm almost there. Thanks for letting me know. I was working on this, too,