Re: Generated patches change over time

2018-12-01 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Mark, Mark H Weaver skribis: > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: [...] >> Lesson learned: we should not rely at all on generated patches because >> they are bound to change frequently (version string at the end, length >> of commit hash prefixes, etc.) It’s probably worse than

Re: Generated patches change over time

2018-12-01 Thread Mark H Weaver
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Maxim Cournoyer skribis: > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: >> >>>Lesson learned: we should not rely at all on generated patches because >>>they are bound to change frequently (version string at the end, length >>>of commit hash prefixes, etc.)

Re: 01/01: gnu: ocaml@4.01: Remove aarch64-linux from supported-systems.

2018-12-01 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi Efraim, guix-comm...@gnu.org writes: > efraim pushed a commit to branch master > in repository guix. > > commit 454e7132d6fffb5c9a5ce086ffd1b687416feb83 > Author: Efraim Flashner > Date: Sat Dec 1 22:41:19 2018 +0200 > > gnu: ocaml@4.01: Remove aarch64-linux from supported-systems. >

hg-fetch with subrepos

2018-12-01 Thread John Soo
Hi guix! Thanks and please bear with my first ever mailing list post. I was trying to package coin3d (https://bitbucket.org/Coin3D/coin/wiki/Home) as it is now under a bsd3 license. The hash of the repo always changes. I think this is due to the .hg files not being recursively deleted for

Re: Generated patches change over time

2018-12-01 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Maxim Cournoyer skribis: >>> l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > >>Lesson learned: we should not rely at all on generated patches because >>they are bound to change frequently (version string at the end, length >>of commit hash prefixes, etc.) It’s probably worse than tarballs

Re: Merging core-updates

2018-12-01 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Ricardo Wurmus writes: >> Overall I’m in favor of merging. > > I agree. > > I’ve been using core-updates on my laptop (both system and user profile) > for about a week now without any problems. Me too. janneke

New French PO file for 'guix-manual' (version 0.16.0.1)

2018-12-01 Thread Translation Project Robot
Hello, gentle maintainer. This is a message from the Translation Project robot. A revised PO file for textual domain 'guix-manual' has been submitted by the French team of translators. The file is available at: https://translationproject.org/latest/guix-manual/fr.po (We can arrange things

Re: Merging core-updates

2018-12-01 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi, > ‘core-updates’ seems to be in a rather good shape. […] > On x86_64, LibreOffice, IceCat, etc. are available as substitutes; ‘guix > weather’ reports only 50% of coverage on berlin and 80% on > mirror.hydra.gnu.org (we’ll have to elucidate the bad number on berlin.) > I’m using

Re: Guile-JSON now seems to be a required dependency

2018-12-01 Thread Timothy Sample
Hi Eric, Eric Bavier writes: > On Fri, 30 Nov 2018 23:45:04 -0500 > Timothy Sample wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> I just tried to build Guix from source and got an error: >> >> ERROR: no code for module (json) >> >> It looks like the new “swh.scm” module (which is really cool!) makes >>

Merging core-updates

2018-12-01 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Guix! ‘core-updates’ seems to be in a rather good shape. Unfortunately, the web UI and APIs of hydra.gnu.org and berlin.guixsd.org make it difficult to have a clear view of the situation. “make assert-binaries-available” passes for all architectures, meaning we have Emacs/X11 among other

Re: Question about Guix documentation

2018-12-01 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hi Laura, Laura Lazzati writes: [...] > Yesterday I mentioned that I installed GuixSD on bare metal over IRC > channel, in my retroPC that in December this year will be 13 years old > :) happy birthday retroPC! a teenager :-) [...] > The example for desktop.scm has the line: > (device

Re: Guile-JSON now seems to be a required dependency

2018-12-01 Thread Eric Bavier
On Fri, 30 Nov 2018 23:45:04 -0500 Timothy Sample wrote: > Hello all, > > I just tried to build Guix from source and got an error: > > ERROR: no code for module (json) > > It looks like the new “swh.scm” module (which is really cool!) makes > Guile-JSON a required dependency. I’m not

Re: Guile-JSON now seems to be a required dependency

2018-12-01 Thread Joshua Branson
Timothy Sample writes: If it is as new dependency, ya'll can use this texinfo patch that adds guile-json as a dependency and alphabetizes the required packages: Thanks, Joshua >From 2d860d1889b6c4bafe3d605ee47f9c93c3e91091 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joshua Branson Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2018

Question about Guix documentation

2018-12-01 Thread Laura Lazzati
Hi everyone :) I have some questions as regards documentation: Yesterday I mentioned that I installed GuixSD on bare metal over IRC channel, in my retroPC that in December this year will be 13 years old :) I did a basic installation, almost followed the first example in: