Re: Meltdown / Spectre

2018-01-06 Thread Mark H Weaver
Mark H Weaver writes: > Leo Famulari writes: > >> The Spectre bugs have to be fixed per-application for now. As far as I >> know, we haven't made any related changes to packages besides >> linux-libre. >> >> Mozilla has released an update that is supposed to

Re: Meltdown / Spectre

2018-01-06 Thread Chris Marusich
Leo Famulari writes: > ### Guix status ### > > The CPU makers are issuing microcode updates as a hardware-level > mitigation, but I don't think we'll be providing those in Guix. It seems some (but not all) mitigations may require firmware/microcode updates. For details,

Re: 01/01: gnu: python-pygpgme: Use GnuPG 1 for the test suite.

2018-01-06 Thread Chris Marusich
Leo Famulari writes: > On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 07:57:17PM -0500, Mark H Weaver wrote: >> Alas, your most recent changes seem to have now broken qgpgme: >> >> https://hydra.gnu.org/eval/109869#tabs-now-fail >> https://hydra.gnu.org/job/gnu/master/qgpgme-1.9.0.x86_64-linux

Re: wrong type of agument... where ?

2018-01-06 Thread Chris Marusich
Danny Milosavljevic writes: > Try this: > > diff --git a/gnu/build/linux-boot.scm b/gnu/build/linux-boot.scm > index 4dd740174..810a0d63f 100644 > --- a/gnu/build/linux-boot.scm > +++ b/gnu/build/linux-boot.scm > @@ -507,7 +507,14 @@ to it are lost." >

Re: workflow

2018-01-06 Thread ng0
Chris Marusich transcribed 1.6K bytes: > ng0 writes: > > > You can stash those po/* files, it's the first thing I do if I ever > > happen to work on a complete new checkout. > > Do you stash JUST the po files? Yep. And I never stash apply them back. There's a stash of the po that I

Re: workflow

2018-01-06 Thread Chris Marusich
ng0 writes: > You can stash those po/* files, it's the first thing I do if I ever > happen to work on a complete new checkout. Do you stash JUST the po files? I have often found these po files very annoying while trying to make changes to Guix and test locally. I think that if I

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

2018-01-06 Thread Gábor Boskovits
Actually we still have a couple of build failures, some test failures, and the commit messages are not conformant to the policy. Currently making the few remainig failures work should be the primary task. I will check the details. I already have an integration branch where I reorder commits and

Re: Meltdown / Spectre

2018-01-06 Thread Mark H Weaver
Leo Famulari writes: > The Spectre bugs have to be fixed per-application for now. As far as I > know, we haven't made any related changes to packages besides > linux-libre. > > Mozilla has released an update that is supposed to mitigate the > vulnerability but I don't if

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

2018-01-06 Thread Chris Marusich
Gábor Boskovits writes: > 2018-01-05 16:44 GMT+01:00 Ricardo Wurmus : > >> >> Gábor Boskovits writes: >> >> > If I understand well, then the check phase in ant-build-system >> > runs without make-flags. >> > In the definition of

Meltdown / Spectre

2018-01-06 Thread Leo Famulari
On Sat, Jan 06, 2018 at 09:20:50PM +0800, Alex Vong wrote: > I hope this is on topic. Recently, 2 critical vulnerabilities (see > https://meltdownattack.com/) affecting virtually all intel cpus are > discovered. I am running libreboot x200 (see > https://www.fsf.org/ryf). > What should I do right

Re: What do Meltdown and Spectre mean for libreboot x200 user?

2018-01-06 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi Alex, Alex Vong writes: > I hope this is on topic. Recently, 2 critical vulnerabilities (see > https://meltdownattack.com/) affecting virtually all intel cpus are > discovered. I am running libreboot x200 (see > https://www.fsf.org/ryf). What should I do right now to

Re: Let’s meet before FOSDEM!

2018-01-06 Thread Catonano
2017-11-07 22:49 GMT+01:00 Pjotr Prins : > With regard to talks we should limit the total time for that - say 2-3 > hours total. And have the rest of the day free flowing discussion and > hacking. Talks are useful, but I think the real impact will be to be > together

Re: Change defaults of 'define-record-type*' need invalidate auto-compilation caches

2018-01-06 Thread 宋文武
> Hello, Send it by mistake... For example, in the current directory, I have 'foo.scm': --8<---cut here---start->8--- (define-module (foo) #:use-module (guix records) #:export (foo foo-x)) (define-record-type* foo make-foo foo? (x foo-x (default

Change defaults of 'define-record-type*' need invalidate auto-compilation caches

2018-01-06 Thread 宋文武
Hello,

What do Meltdown and Spectre mean for libreboot x200 user?

2018-01-06 Thread Alex Vong
Hello, I hope this is on topic. Recently, 2 critical vulnerabilities (see https://meltdownattack.com/) affecting virtually all intel cpus are discovered. I am running libreboot x200 (see https://www.fsf.org/ryf). What should I do right now to patch my laptop? Cheers, Alex

Re: Using Guix archive (Help!)

2018-01-06 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Pjotr, > somehow propagated-inputs don't go into the archive. You'd think they are > critical > dependencies. > > Q1: is that to be expected? I’m not sure, but it seems wrong. What I used to do is to create a profile and export that recursively: guix archive --export --recursive \