Iso image size

I don't know what we are currently doing to get the installer iso image sized down, but I caught some discussion yesterday on irc, that the image is actually very well compressible, and checking the sizes it really is. Might that be possible to do something like compressing the root filesystem

Re: java: switch to icedtea-8 as default JDK

Ok, hopefully that will work out. However there was a hint yesterday, that newest core-updates is broken again after a recent merge... It might worth to have a look around to see if it's woth to do on an older revision... I will wait for your results for now... Maybe later this weekend I can

Re: java: switch to icedtea-8 as default JDK

Gábor Boskovits writes: > sra-tools2.8.2-1 builds with no problem. Now that things are hopefully fixed up a bit more in core-updates I am trying again to build the "covering" of icedtea to see what still needs to be fixed. I'll let you know how that goes. -- Chris

Re: java: switch to icedtea-8 as default JDK

sra-tools2.8.2-1 builds with no problem. 2017-12-07 18:50 GMT+01:00 Gábor Boskovits : > Hello! > > The gtk+ patch is now in core-updates. > > > 2017-12-05 8:07 GMT+01:00 Gábor Boskovits : > >> FAIL: abicheck.sh >> PASS: pltcheck.sh >>

Re: 01/01: gnu: bedtools: Update to 2.27.0.

Hi, rek...@elephly.net (Ricardo Wurmus) writes: > rekado pushed a commit to branch master > in repository guix. > > commit 0d9824cc127f045d32c22d0c75df46d97cb61624 > Author: Ricardo Wurmus > Date: Wed Dec 6 19:12:16 2017 +0100 > > gnu: bedtools: Update to 2.27.0. >

Is it necessary to run "make" before "make check"?

Hi, Is it necessary to run "make" before "make check", or is it good enough to just run "make check" and rely on Make to build whatever needs to be built to run "make check"? -- Chris signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Why do we not cross-compile bootstrap binaries?

l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Hello, > > In practice, apart from x86_64-linux which was bootstrapped on NixOS, we > always cross-compile to bootstrap new architectures: > > https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Porting.html > > That was the case for all the non-Intel

Re: Seeding the Linux RNG at first boot

On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 10:07:38PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Leo Famulari skribis: > > On the guest side, we would extend urandom-seed-service to also draw on > > /dev/hwrng, which is where virtio-rng-pci makes the data from the host > > available. > > Maybe

Re: Installing some packages results in "incomplete deployment"

Hi Ludo, > Perhaps we could offer an option for packages to display hints at > installation time. Like > > (package > (name "xscreensaver") > ;; … > (properties > `((installation-notice > . ,(G_ "Please see the documentation of > @code{screen-locker-service-type} in

Re: ISO image available for testing!

Hello Chris, Christopher Baines skribis: > Thanks for fixing this Ludo, and congratulations on the release. I'm > glad to say that I've now managed to install GuixSD using the 0.14.0 > x86_64 ISO, however I did encounter some difficulties. > > I tried a few times with both the

Re: Seeding the Linux RNG at first boot

Leo Famulari skribis: > On Wed, Dec 06, 2017 at 12:11:36AM +0100, Marius Bakke wrote: >> FWIW if you control the hypervisor, you can send something along the >> lines of: >> >> qemu -device virtio-rng-pci,bus=pci.0,addr=0x1e,max-bytes=1024,period=1000 >> >> to feed the

Re: the importance of rust-build-system [Fwd: [tor-dev] Tor in a safer language: Network team update from Amsterdam]

Hi, my apologies. Occasionally I have a tendency for very late replies in some threads, as you might have noticed. Danny Milosavljevic transcribed 1.9K bytes: > Hi ng0, > > On Sat, 1 Apr 2017 07:58:41 + > ng0 wrote: > > > Danny, could you list what's left for

Re: ISO image available for testing!

Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hi Chris, > > Christopher Baines skribis: > >> I've attempted to use this to install GuixSD on a Bytemark >> VM. Unfortunately I haven't succeeded yet. I managed to get as far as >> running guix system init, but when I did, it started downloading the

Re: Problems with setting up prosody with IPv6 and certbot

Thanks a bunch for your answers! Am 07.12.2017 um 01:32 schrieb Clément Lassieur: > Could you please display the output of "ip addr"? > root@tomato ~# ip addr 1: lo: mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000 link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd

Re: java: switch to icedtea-8 as default JDK

Hello! The gtk+ patch is now in core-updates. 2017-12-05 8:07 GMT+01:00 Gábor Boskovits : > FAIL: abicheck.sh > PASS: pltcheck.sh > > > Testsuite summary for gtk+ 2.24.31 >

Re: GNU Guix & GuixSD 0.14.0 released

On 07/12/2017 13:45, Ludovic Courtès wrote: We are pleased to announce the release of GNU Guix & GuixSD 0.14.0, representing 5,192 commits by 88 people over 6 months. Congratulations and thanks to all contributors! The more I use Guix, the more I appreciate its qualities, but also the

Re: anyone going to 34c3 / Chaos Congress?

Am 07.12.2017 um 15:03 schrieb ng0: > GNUnet eV meeting We'll meed there. And chances are high to find me at the Digitalcourage booth. -- Regards Hartmut Goebel | Hartmut Goebel | h.goe...@crazy-compilers.com | | www.crazy-compilers.com | compilers which you thought are

Re: anyone going to 34c3 / Chaos Congress?

Hi, I will be there too :) Count me in for a small meetup (maybe some hours or so). Jonathan On 07/12/17 15:03, ng0 wrote: > Hi, > > I'm going to be in Leipzig for the 34c3 at the end of this month. > > Is there anyone else of us who will be there and would like to > meetup? > As far as I

anyone going to 34c3 / Chaos Congress?

Hi, I'm going to be in Leipzig for the 34c3 at the end of this month. Is there anyone else of us who will be there and would like to meetup? As far as I know the Fahrplan is not ready yet, so I don't even know which talks I'll attend in addition to our GNUnet eV meeting. -- GnuPG:

GNU Guix & GuixSD 0.14.0 released

We are pleased to announce the release of GNU Guix & GuixSD 0.14.0, representing 5,192 commits by 88 people over 6 months. • About GNU Guix is a transactional package manager for the GNU system. The Guix System Distribution, GuixSD, is an advanced distribution of the GNU system. In

meetup in Boston?

Hi Guix, I’m going to visit Boston, MA for a conference on the 15th of May 2018. Would some of you be interested to meet my colleague and myself on the 14th for lunch or dinner? -- Ricardo

Re: Building Docker images of GuixSD

Hi, Christopher Baines writes: > Awesome stuff Chris, I've tried this myself, on a Debian machine with > Docker installed. Great! It's heartening to know that I'm not the only one tinkering with this. :-) > I changed the %base-file-systems in the very-bare-bones system