Re: Introducting myself

2019-04-16 Thread Chris Marusich
Hi Tanguy, Welcome! It's great to hear about your experience so far with Guix System (we've recently renamed GuixSD to Guix System). The more people who use it, share it, and contribute to it, the better it will become! See you around, -- Chris signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: ISO installer image: GPT versus MBR partitions

2019-04-16 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > A broken backup GPT is not supposed to stop EFI from finding its partition Florian Pelz wrote: > On the 2011 Macbook I am using, the boot process gets stuck before I > can select the drive to boot from, as long as a USB flash drive with > this GPT error is in a USB port. Did

Re: "guix system -u" and "guix system --list-packages"

2019-04-16 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! "Raghav Gururajan" skribis: > Idea of adding following features to Guix. > > 1) Dedicated "guix system -u" separated from "guix system reconfigure". So > the difference between "guix system reconfigure" and "guix system -u" would > be; the former does changes to system configuration

Re: ISO installer image: GPT versus MBR partitions

2019-04-16 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 09:55:10PM +0200, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > On the 2011 Macbook I am using, the boot process gets stuck before I > can select the drive to boot from, as long as a USB flash drive with > this GPT error is in a USB port. The few other computers I tried have > no

Re: Deliver important Guix changes to users, please

2019-04-16 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice skribis: > Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> I suppose we could use some specially-formatted Git commits to pass >> messages to users. I’m afraid it would be hard to get those >> messages >> translated. > > I beg you not to do this, even as fodder for a friendly front >

Re: Should we upgrade openssl?

2019-04-16 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Christopher Lemmer Webber skribis: > From the openssl website: > >> Note: The latest stable version is the 1.1.1 series. This is also our >> Long Term Support (LTS) version, supported until 11th September >> 2023. Our previous LTS version (1.0.2 series) will continue to be >> supported

Re: ‘staging’ and GNOME updates

2019-04-16 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Howdy, Timothy Sample skribis: > Ricardo Wurmus writes: > >> Ludovic Courtès writes: >>> I removed pretty both .cache directories, moved .config sub-directories >>> around, etc., and yet I am still unable to log in into the GNOME account >>> (logging in to a non-GNOME account from GDM is

Trouble getting 'fprintd-service-type' to work

2019-04-16 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi Danny, I see that you're the author of 'fprintd-service-type', added last May in the following commit: commit 7f93bbd5aadf0427190769fba8f478c29e37b4f4 Author: Danny Milosavljevic Date: Wed May 30 19:43:48 2018 +0200 services: Add fingerprint identification service.

Re: ISO installer image: GPT versus MBR partitions

2019-04-16 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 07:57:20PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Florian Pelz wrote: > > I would prefer an image that can be written just with dd, > > A broken backup GPT is not supposed to stop EFI from finding its partition > and running its architecture specific start-up program. >

Re: Deliver important Guix changes to users, please

2019-04-16 Thread Brett Gilio
Amin Bandali writes: > Hi Ludo’, all, > > On 2019-04-15 2:56 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > [...] > >> >> ‘guix pull’ already provides high-level “package news”, but I agree it’d >> be nice to have a way to convey “system news” and perhaps free-form >> messages like Debian’s change logs. >> >>

Re: Deliver important Guix changes to users, please

2019-04-16 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: As your friendly neighbourhood update bot, I read a lot of change logs. The worst are the one-log text file with ’lol use git now, change logs are obsolete!1’. Utterly clueless, distressingly common. (I know that's not exactly what you're suggesting, but we'd

Re: Deliver important Guix changes to users, please

2019-04-16 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Ludo', Guix, As your friendly neighbourhood update bot, I read a lot of change logs. The worst are the one-log text file with ’lol use git now, change logs are obsolete!1’. Utterly clueless, distressingly common. The best ones are usually called NEWS for some reason (go GNU!) and are

Re: java: How to patch a jar-sources

2019-04-16 Thread Björn Höfling
On Tue, 16 Apr 2019 11:50:45 +0200 Gábor Boskovits wrote: > Hello Björn, > > Björn Höfling ezt írta (időpont: > 2019. ápr. 16., K, 1:49): > > ERROR: In procedure memoize-variable-access!: > > ERROR: Unbound variable: decompression-type > > > > What's wrong here? > > > > I don't see the

Re: ISO installer image: GPT versus MBR partitions

2019-04-16 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Florian Pelz wrote: > I would prefer an image that can be written just with dd, A broken backup GPT is not supposed to stop EFI from finding its partition and running its architecture specific start-up program. But it becomes annoying when another partition shall be created for a read-write

Re: Deliver important Guix changes to users, please

2019-04-16 Thread znavko
Hello, Ludovic! If commit has important meaning for all Guix users, it must give a short news entry for the users that are now developers and do not really read git logs. How to perform this? There are git commit messages that may have some specific rule for containing news. For example, your

Re: ISO installer image: GPT versus MBR partitions (was bug#33639)

2019-04-16 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
I would prefer an image that can be written just with dd, because then it would also be easy to use another tool like gnome-multi-writer or to use a not UNIX-like OS to create the install USB and give GNU Guix System a try. Regards, Florian

ISO installer image: GPT versus MBR partitions (was bug#33639)

2019-04-16 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Gábor Boskovits wrote: > I removed the xorriso bug list, as I feel this does not belong there. As its admin i say that everything xorriso related belongs there. :)) But maybe we should remove 33...@debbugs.gnu.org from the Cc ? I herby give this a try. i wrote: > > The

Re: "guix system -u" and "guix system --list-packages"

2019-04-16 Thread znavko
Is it now possible to get list of all installed packages such as dependencies for installed packages and packages installed with system configuration? I really do not know yet. April 16, 2019 10:42 AM, "Raghav Gururajan" mailto:%22Raghav%20Gururajan%22%20)> wrote: Hello Guix! Idea of adding

"guix system -u" and "guix system --list-packages"

2019-04-16 Thread Raghav Gururajan
Hello Guix! Idea of adding following features to Guix. 1) Dedicated "guix system -u" separated from "guix system reconfigure". So the difference between "guix system reconfigure" and "guix system -u" would be; the former does changes to system configuration (including adding/upgrading system

Re: bug#33639: ISO installer image is broken on i686

2019-04-16 Thread Gábor Boskovits
Hello people, Thomas Schmitt ezt írta (időpont: 2019. ápr. 15., H, 19:54): > > Hi, > > Florian Pelz wrote: > > Well this is strange. I got fine ISO images each time (fine with no > > complaints from xorriso or fdisk and bootable in QEMU without errors), > > but after dd’ing them to different

Re: java: How to patch a jar-sources

2019-04-16 Thread Gábor Boskovits
Hello Björn, Björn Höfling ezt írta (időpont: 2019. ápr. 16., K, 1:49): > > On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 17:19:53 +0200 > Danny Milosavljevic wrote: > > > (define* (unpack #:key source #:allow-other-keys) > > "Unpack the jar archive SOURCE. When SOURCE is not a jar archive > > fall back to the

Re: ‘staging’ and GNOME updates

2019-04-16 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Timothy Sample writes: > Ricardo Wurmus writes: […] >> Do you have ~/.local? In my earlier tests this contained binary >> notification data that when loaded would lead to a crash. > > I’m testing GNOME on ‘staging’ now, and had the same problem (GDM worked > okay, but I could not login). I

GNOME Online Accounts and GNOME Files

2019-04-16 Thread The Philosopher
Hello Geeks! WebDAV (Nextcloud) added to GNOME Online Accounts is not showing up in GNOME Files, even after re-enabling "Files" option in the sync. Thank you!