Re: Linux-libre 5.8 and beyond

2020-08-23 Thread Alexandre Oliva
Hello, Mark, On Aug 15, 2020, Mark H Weaver wrote: > I was talking about my hope to enable users, *on their own > machines* and using *their own private build recipes*, to make a > best-effort deblobbing of a non-standard kernel variant that they need > to use for whatever reason. A non-free

Re: Linux-libre 5.8 and beyond

2020-08-23 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Aug 15, 2020, Mark H Weaver wrote: > Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> On Aug 12, 2020, Mark H Weaver wrote: >>> I also consider it unwise for all of us, as a matter of habit or policy, >>> to trust the integrity of the computer systems used by the Linux-libre >>> project to perform the

Re: Linux-libre 5.8 and beyond

2020-08-23 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Aug 15, 2020, Mark H Weaver wrote: > I only checked your claims regarding 5.4, and found that you're mistaken > about them being updated in 5.4.44. There was a change to scripts at 5.4.44, just not one you cared about, because you didn't use the (discontinued) deblob-main script to prepare a

Re: Linux-libre 5.8 and beyond

2020-08-23 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Aug 15, 2020, Mark H Weaver wrote: > Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> On Aug 12, 2020, Mark H Weaver wrote: >> > It may be useful for users with newer hardware devices, which are > not yet well supported by the latest stable release, to use an > arbitrary commit from either Linus'

Re: Linux-libre 5.8 and beyond

2020-08-23 Thread Alexandre Oliva
Hello, Mark, Apologies for the delay in responding. It's been an "interesting" week. I'm breaking up what turned out to be a very very long reply into multiple posts, so as to address the various issues in separate posts, that might very well turn into separate subthreads. On Aug 15, 2020,

Re: [OUTREACHY]: Integration of desktop environments into GNU Guix

2020-08-23 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Raghav Gururajan writes: > Hello Guix! > > As of today, my Outreachy Internship is over. I am very grateful to Guix > for giving me this amazing opportunity. > > My work were done in wip-desktop branch. Some of the work are already > being merged to master. Some more work in wip-desktop, require

Dependency cycle issues when using a Gexp-based snippet

2020-08-23 Thread maxim . cournoyer
Hello, While trying to move some of the patching done to qtbase into a snippet, with the goal of having at least the ./configure script runnable in a guix environment without having to manually run patching phases: --8<---cut here---start->8--- modified

Re: Questions about Git and workflow

2020-08-23 Thread HiPhish
On Friday, 21 August 2020 22:59:32 CEST Ekaitz Zarraga wrote: > Thanks for bringing the question btw. I was worried about my workflow being > correct and it happens to be! Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if there are more people who would like to contribute, but then stumble on these minor