Re: Automatically checking commit messages

2017-09-22 Thread Arun Isaac
> What parts of the commit message guidelines do you expect to be > verifiable, and which parts do you think will be too hard/restrictive > to automatically verify? I haven't thought too hard about this. I thought that, if we have a good parser for commit messages, we can later add any number of

Re: Ctrl-Alt-F1,F2,F3 ... can not start a console.

2017-09-22 Thread Feng Shu
Marius Bakke writes: > Feng Shu writes: > >> "Feng Shu" writes: >> >>> l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: >>> Hi, "Feng Shu" skribis: > Yestaday, I reinstall my guixsd, and install xfce4 as my

Re: Adopt a patch!

2017-09-22 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hi Thomas, Thomas Danckaert writes: > I don't mind the e-mail-based workflow in principle, and find it has > some advantages, but there are a few practical issues. I'll list my > frustrations, maybe there are concrete solutions for some of them: > > - I find that

Re: Status of "GuixOps"?

2017-09-22 Thread Thompson, David
On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 2:34 PM, Hartmut Goebel wrote: > Hi, > > in Ludo's presentation at GHM he presented "GuixOps" on a slide. What is > the status of this approach? I'm very interested in trying it out and > contributing. I made a wip-deploy branch years ago

Re: Do we really need our own installer?

2017-09-22 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Hartmut, I think your arguments hold, but it’s just one side of the story. The other side of the story is that having our own installer, while being an additional burden, also means we can adapt it more easily and offer better integration—for instance, the fact that it knows about

Re: Adopt a patch!

2017-09-22 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Thomas, I understand and sympathize with your arguments. In fact, this has been a long running theme, and we discussed it at last year’s FOSDEM at length. :-) Thomas Danckaert skribis: > So I do see the appeal of something like gitlab, but I also wonder how > it

Re: My experiences with partitioning according to the manual

2017-09-22 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Hartmut Goebel skribis: > Am 19.09.2017 um 13:47 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: >> “cfdisk” (without any arguments) pops up an ncurses interface that’s >> reasonably easy to use, at least for someone already familiar with >> partitioning. >> >> What makes you think

Re: QT install and search paths

2017-09-22 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Am 19.09.2017 um 18:30 schrieb Hartmut Goebel: > I found some things missing in may packages, so I suggest implementing > this first on the wip-qt-paths branch to avoid unnecessary rebuilds: > > - QCH > > - PythonModuleGeneration > > I will look at this and push further changes to the

Re: "font-wqy-microhei" installed but the font file can not be found by "fc-cache -f"

2017-09-22 Thread Feng Shu
"Feng Shu" writes: Now, it works again, I don know the reason, maybe I run "sudo fc-cache -fv". > Alex Kost writes: > >> Feng Shu (2017-09-22 06:45 +0800) wrote: >> >>> --- >>> 851d0m0xsz4v0hjw98rypisxn34rq012-font-wqy-microhei-0.2.0-beta: >>> 总用量

Re: Adopt a patch!

2017-09-22 Thread Kei Kebreau
Pjotr Prins writes: > On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 10:31:29PM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: >> FWIW, I didn’t mean to claim that there are no problems with the >> email-based workflow. I just think that we should improve upon it with >> deliberation instead of jumping to

Inconsistency between "guix system" and "guix package"

2017-09-22 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Hi, I just stepped into problems listing the generations of "system". Then I found out: "guix system" uses sub-commands guix system list-generations guix system roll-back guix system switch-generation Contrary to this "guix package" uses options: guix package

Re: Performance regression on NFS with new manifest version

2017-09-22 Thread Roel Janssen
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hello Roel, > > I’m finally going back to this issue… > > Roel Janssen skribis: > >> Ludovic Courtès writes: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Roel Janssen skribis: >>> Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Hi Roel, > >> Looking into the

Re: [bug#28453] [PATCH 5/5] gnu: openttd-opengfx: Change installation directory.

2017-09-22 Thread Kei Kebreau
Kei Kebreau writes: > Arun Isaac writes: > >> Please find attached an updated patchset. >> >> Changes are as follows: >> >> * Disabled parallel build. >> * Included a make-reproducible phase for openttd-opensfx. >> * Changed the license for

Re: "guix system vm": waiting for partition "my-home" to appear ...

2017-09-22 Thread Feng Shu
Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Feng Shu writes: > >> Yestaday, I guix pull, and run "guix system wm MYCONFIG.scm" >> >> which run success and generate a sh file >> >> >> when I launch qemu with this sh file, I can see >> >> "waiting for partition XXX to appear

Re: "font-wqy-microhei" installed but the font file can not be found by "fc-cache -f"

2017-09-22 Thread Feng Shu
Alex Kost writes: > Feng Shu (2017-09-22 06:45 +0800) wrote: > >> --- >> 851d0m0xsz4v0hjw98rypisxn34rq012-font-wqy-microhei-0.2.0-beta: >> 总用量 864 >> dr-xr-xr-x3 root root4096 1月 1 1970 . >> drwxrwxr-t 1726 root guixbuild 872448 9月 22 06:35 .. >>

Re: Adopt a patch!

2017-09-22 Thread Thomas Danckaert
From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: Adopt a patch! Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 22:31:29 +0200 It is not only the work load, but also the work-flow […] This means switching forth and back between mail, shell, and browser. >>> […] Compare it with an integrated workflow

Re: Performance regression on NFS with new manifest version

2017-09-22 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Roel, I’m finally going back to this issue… Roel Janssen skribis: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> Hi, >> >> Roel Janssen skribis: >> >>> Ricardo Wurmus writes: >>> Hi Roel, > Looking into the manifests ($GENERATION_15/manifest and >

Re: Adopt a patch!

2017-09-22 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Am 21.09.2017 um 16:08 schrieb Ricardo Wurmus: > How does even more reliance on a browser help here? Surely, we can > automate more things without imposing a web browser-based workflow to > everyone. Counter question; How does reliance on emacs help here? Regarding the browser. * It is much,

Re: "guix system vm": waiting for partition "my-home" to appear ...

2017-09-22 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Feng Shu writes: > Yestaday, I guix pull, and run "guix system wm MYCONFIG.scm" > > which run success and generate a sh file > > > when I launch qemu with this sh file, I can see > > "waiting for partition XXX to appear ..." > > and can not boot properly. Guix will not

Re: "font-wqy-microhei" installed but the font file can not be found by "fc-cache -f"

2017-09-22 Thread Alex Kost
Feng Shu (2017-09-22 06:45 +0800) wrote: > --- > 851d0m0xsz4v0hjw98rypisxn34rq012-font-wqy-microhei-0.2.0-beta: > 总用量 864 > dr-xr-xr-x3 root root4096 1月 1 1970 . > drwxrwxr-t 1726 root guixbuild 872448 9月 22 06:35 .. > dr-xr-xr-x3 root root4096 1月 1 1970 share