Re: What should go in our NEWS file?

Ludovic Courtès writes: > Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > >>> The Guix source tree contains a NEWS file in its root directory. What >>> is supposed to go into this NEWS file? When should we update it? >> >> It’s updated prior to making a release. > > Committers

Re: Cross-compiling bootstrap tarballs fails on core-updates

Hello Marius, Marius Bakke skribis: > There seems to be a couple of different problems here. > > 'patch' fails to build due to a conflicting declaration of > '__mktime_internal': > > CCLD patch >

Re: Proposed environment variable to skip running tests

Hello, ra...@airmail.cc skribis: > I would like to propose an environment variable that can be used to > skip tests, e.g. export GUIX_SKIP_TESTS=1 > > This could be implemented by changing line 297 of > guix/guix/build/gnu-build-system.scm: > > (define* (check #:key target (make-flags '())

Re: What should go in our NEWS file?

Hello, Ricardo Wurmus skribis: >> The Guix source tree contains a NEWS file in its root directory. What >> is supposed to go into this NEWS file? When should we update it? > > It’s updated prior to making a release. Committers following along should feel empowered to add

Re: Detecting duplicate field initializers in guix record constructors

Hello! Mark H Weaver skribis: > Recently, when doing a merge of 'master' into 'core-updates', I noticed > that git's automatic merging sometimes results in duplicate field > initializers being introduced, without any merge conflict being > reported. This happens when a field

Re: Successfully running GNOME on core-updates + staging

Hi Mark, Mark H Weaver skribis: > I've successfully updated my x86_64 GuixSD system to my private branch > based on 'core-updates' with recent 'master' and 'staging' merged into > it. This system includes a full GNOME desktop environment plus a few > programs based on Qt. It

Proposed environment variable to skip running tests

Hello! I would like to propose an environment variable that can be used to skip tests, e.g. export GUIX_SKIP_TESTS=1 This could be implemented by changing line 297 of guix/guix/build/gnu-build-system.scm: (define* (check #:key target (make-flags '()) (tests? (not target))

Re: Preferred blog format - Markdown or SXML?

Hi, Pierre Neidhardt writes: > What about Org-mode? > Rationale: > > http://karl-voit.at/2017/09/23/orgmode-as-markup-only The website uses the haunt [1] static site generator which does not currently support direct reading of org files. However, you could easily

Re: What should go in our NEWS file?

Hi Chris, > The Guix source tree contains a NEWS file in its root directory. What > is supposed to go into this NEWS file? When should we update it? It’s updated prior to making a release. > I'm curious to know what sort of changes should be included in our NEWS > file, and what sort of

Re: Preferred blog format - Markdown or SXML?

Hi Chris, > I'd like to write a couple blog posts for the Guix blog [1]. The > guix-artwork Git repository [2] appears to contain the existing posts. > Most are written using SXML [3], but some are written using Markdown[…] Generally, the older ones are written in SXML because earlier Haunt

Re: Preferred blog format - Markdown or SXML?

What about Org-mode? Rationale: http://karl-voit.at/2017/09/23/orgmode-as-markup-only -- Pierre Neidhardt Everything ends badly. Otherwise it wouldn't end. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

New Brazilian Portuguese PO file for 'shepherd' (version 0.3.3-pre1)

Hello, gentle maintainer. This is a message from the Translation Project robot. A revised PO file for textual domain 'shepherd' has been submitted by the Brazilian Portuguese team of translators. The file is available at: http://translationproject.org/latest/shepherd/pt_BR.po (We can

Preferred blog format - Markdown or SXML?

Hi, I'd like to write a couple blog posts for the Guix blog [1]. The guix-artwork Git repository [2] appears to contain the existing posts. Most are written using SXML [3], but some are written using Markdown [4]. Is there a preferred format? Is there any reason why one might be better than

What should go in our NEWS file?

Hi Guix! The Guix source tree contains a NEWS file in its root directory. What is supposed to go into this NEWS file? When should we update it? The GNU Standards just says that it should contain "a list of user-visible changes worth mentioning" ((standards) NEWS File): 6.7 The NEWS File