Re: Linux-libre 5.8 and beyond

2020-08-24 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi Alexandre, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Aug 15, 2020, Mark H Weaver wrote: > >> If I were to implement this, what would you suggest I do if the patches >> fail to apply > > Look at the conflict presented by the rebase, and resolve the likely > freedom issue introduced at that point. > >> if th

Re: Verify validity of sudoers file when reconfiguring system.

2020-08-24 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi pkill9, pkill9 skribis: > Last time I tested, the sudoers file could be changed to anything in > the guix system configuration, whether it's valid or not. This could > result in someone being locked out of their system when root doesn't > have a password, and they rely on sudo. Ideally, `guix

Re: Dependency cycle issues when using a Gexp-based snippet

2020-08-24 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! maxim.courno...@gmail.com skribis: > 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: [...] > I encountered the following iss

Re: merge wip-haskell?

2020-08-24 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > >> Yes, and for the case of pandoc it’s significant. The closure of >> ghc-pandoc is >3GiB right now and with the changes it’s <200MiB. This >> affects lots of R packages that need Rmarkdown, and lots of bioinfo >> packages. > > Are those c

Re: merge wip-haskell?

2020-08-24 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > Yes, and for the case of pandoc it’s significant. The closure of > ghc-pandoc is >3GiB right now and with the changes it’s <200MiB. This > affects lots of R packages that need Rmarkdown, and lots of bioinfo > packages. Are those changes part of what was merged? I get

Re: merge wip-haskell?

2020-08-24 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > I just merged “wip-haskell” into “master” (after merging “master” into > “wip-haskell”). Awesome work, thank you! Ludo’.

Re: Improving CI throughput

2020-08-24 Thread John Soo
Hi Ludo and Guix, I am not sure how much I can devote to the problem, but bpf now works in guix. The bpftrace scripting language is there if it might help. Hope that helps a little, John

Re: Securing the software distribution chain

2020-08-24 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! Justus Winter skribis: > Ludovic Courtès writes: [...] >> The idea of storing cryptographic metadata directly in has been >> discussed a few times: >> >> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2016-08/msg00132.html >> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-10/msg001

Improving CI throughput

2020-08-24 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Mathieu Othacehe skribis: > The current situation is that due to Cuirass/offloading issues such as > [1], our build farm is most of the time idle. Given our computation > power, we should be able to bake much more substitutes I think. > > Maybe we could also take advantage of the build-coord

Re: File search progress: database review and question on triggers

2020-08-24 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
>> - You should use SQL prepared statements with sqlite-prepare, >> sqlite-bind, etc. That would correctly handle escaping special >> characters in the search string. Currently, searching for >> "transmission-gtk", "libm.so", etc. errors out. > > Thanks for pointing this out, I'll look into i