Re: Rethinking propagated inputs?

2021-09-04 Thread Sarah Morgensen
Hi Liliana, (Efraim, I've Cc'd you since you're working on re-doing Rust inputs.) Liliana Marie Prikler writes: > Does anyone have an idea how we should handle propagations for the sake > of pkg-config? Perhaps we could add "linked-inputs", which are added > when building packages and

Re: I just got my pinephone.

2021-09-04 Thread vidak
Yo all! Just put the latest nightly Mobian again on my pinephone--I am going to attempt to put Guix on it over the next couple days. I will keep everyone posted on how the process goes (: ~vidak On 2021-09-02 15:59, Christine Lemmer-Webber wrote: > Joshua Branson writes: > >> Hey Guix! >>

Re: What is a "mes-compatible Scheme"?

2021-09-04 Thread Ekaitz Zarraga
> From section 3.3.1 in the manual: > https://www.gnu.org/software/mes/manual/mes.html > > "Setting MES to a mes-compatible Scheme will run mescc using that" > > What is a "mes-compatible Scheme"? That term does not appear again in the > page. I'm not sure but I'd say that applies to Mes and

Re: Linux-libre source code will be taken offline

2021-09-04 Thread Jason Self
For some clarity on the situation: http://www.fsfla.org/pipermail/linux-libre/2021-August/003439.html The scripts are not being removed and my understanding is that Guix only uses the scripts anyway. > and their Git repo is also going to be rewritten to remove them. The tags for the kernel

Re: Can we find a better idiom for unversioned packages?

2021-09-04 Thread Leo Famulari
On Fri, Sep 03, 2021 at 10:03:47PM +0200, Xinglu Chen wrote: > ‘guix describe’ would show the commit of the guix.git repo used, > wouldn’t it? It shows the commit of currently effective revision of Guix, but it can't tell you what revision of Guix a built package came from. > If the date is not

What is a "mes-compatible Scheme"?

2021-09-04 Thread Sage Gerard
From section 3.3.1 in the manual: https://www.gnu.org/software/mes/manual/mes.html "Setting MES to a mes-compatible Scheme will run mescc using that" What is a "mes-compatible Scheme"? That term does not appear again in the page.

Rethinking propagated inputs?

2021-09-04 Thread Liliana Marie Prikler
Hi Guix, some while ago we made the decision to propagate inputs, that are mentioned in pkg-config files, the rationale being that those propagated inputs will be needed in packages in order to compile. This has saved us some typing, but at a cost. For instance, it is now no longer possible to

Linux-libre source code will be taken offline

2021-09-04 Thread Leo Famulari
According to the linux-libre team in the #gnu-linux-libre IRC channel on Libera.chat, all releases of linux-libre before 4.4.282, 4.9.281, 4.14.245, 4.19.205, 5.4.143, 5.10.61, and 5.13.13 will be deleted from their servers, and their Git repo is also going to be rewritten to remove them. So, if

Re: [bug#50347] [RFC PATCH] lint: Warn about kernel modules with a suspect license

2021-09-04 Thread raid5atemyhomework
Hi list, I hope this topic gets attention. As far as I can tell, this is a blocker against 45692 getting merged. I am already annoyed enough with 45692 (it has been about half a year or so since submitted) and will not prioritize updating the patch until I can expect the CDDL-GPL

Re: Can we find a better idiom for unversioned packages?

2021-09-04 Thread Taylan Kammer
On 04.09.2021 00:11, Liliana Marie Prikler wrote: > > Well, let #f or *unspecified* would also solve the git blame issue, [...] > Only partially on-topic but: I believe *unspecified* should not be used explicitly in code. It's an implementation detail, and by avoiding it in user code, we lessen