Re: Disabling authentication checks for tests in local Guix checkouts

2024-06-18 Thread Ada Stevenson
Hi Ludo' On 17/06/2024 1:05 pm, Ludovic Courtès wrote: Hi Ada, Ada Stevenson skribis: I'm currently trying to help test the changes to GRUB submitted in issue #71348[1]. Unfortunately, `make check`, whilst building the local Guix channel, authenticates every commit. That means commits

Re: Google Summer of Code Inquiry

2024-06-12 Thread Ada Stevenson
Hi all, On 10/04/2024 6:33 am, Efraim Flashner wrote: On Tue, Apr 09, 2024 at 05:25:35PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: Hi Sebastian, Sebastian Dümcke skribis: just wanted to chime in. Since last week I have some working code to generate AppImages with guix pack. I was planning on tidying

Disabling authentication checks for tests in local Guix checkouts

2024-06-10 Thread Ada Stevenson
Hi Guix, I'm currently trying to help test the changes to GRUB submitted in issue #71348[1]. Unfortunately, `make check`, whilst building the local Guix channel, authenticates every commit. That means commits not signed by people in `guix-authorizations` will stop the channel from building

SageMath packaging work

2024-05-22 Thread Ada Stevenson
Hi Guix, science team! I was reaching for SageMath today and couldn't find it in the package repository. I notice there's a sagemath.scm file, but no actual SageMath package proper. Is there any work being done on packaging it at the moment? Are there any particular blockers preventing its

Re: Guix bios installation: Grub error: unknown filesystem

2024-04-22 Thread Ada Stevenson
Hi Attila, On 4/22/24 9:04 PM, Attila Lendvai wrote: This should allow grub to recognise your filesystem during the installation process. I think using a later version of grub would fix this, but that hasn't happened yet. I think there's a patch to upgrade it in `core-updates` somewhere, but

Re: Guix bios installation: Grub error: unknown filesystem

2024-04-21 Thread Ada Stevenson
Hi Franz, On 4/19/24 2:24 PM, Franz Geffke wrote: I'm having trouble installing guix in qemu, using a "fresh" guix ISO. ``` building /gnu/store/byjlc85abyjc3fjj9z982677skmda7ib-module-import-compiled.drv... building /gnu/store/psw8xn9qpsjjnrqmjrfv0v3jj9fphq5m-module-import-compiled.drv...

Re: Error handling when 'guix substitute' dies

2024-04-02 Thread Ada Stevenson
yesterday after the gnome-team merge and it was happening a lot! I wonder if it's something to do with the server? I don't know enough about networking to really theorise, haha. On 29 Mar 2024, at 16:10, Ludovic Courtès wrote: Hello, Ada Stevenson mailto:adansk...@gmail.com>> s

Re: Error handling when 'guix substitute' dies

2024-03-25 Thread Ada Stevenson
Hi Ludo', On 3/24/24 11:15 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: Hi Ada, Ada Stevenson skribis: Sometimes, usually when I'm on an enterprise network like my university's of library's wifi, the `guix substitute` process dies with a "TLS error in procedure 'write_to_session_record_port':

Error handling when 'guix substitute' dies

2024-03-17 Thread Ada Stevenson
Hi Guix, I have this gripe with usability regarding using substitutes. Sometimes, usually when I'm on an enterprise network like my university's of library's wifi, the `guix substitute` process dies with a "TLS error in procedure 'write_to_session_record_port': Error in the push function"

Re: GNU and GSoC

2024-02-22 Thread Ada Stevenson
Hi, Having Guix be part of GSoC would be fantastic! I'd love to have the opportunity to be mentored. It would be exciting for Guix to receive some more attention, as well as showing people how fun it is to hack on :) Thanks, Ada On 2/23/24 7:38 AM, Pjotr Prins wrote: The GNU project is

Re: status of (future of) Guix QA

2023-12-25 Thread Ada Stevenson
Hi, On 12/22/23 8:11 PM, Andy Tai wrote: Curious of the status of the future of Guix QA as package definition contributors rely on it for updating packages (sending patches to get accepted/committed) in guix... I'm curious too. Did anything come of the discussion a few weeks ago? Ada

Re: RFI: Guix XMPP service. paid service?

2023-12-14 Thread Ada Stevenson
Hi, On 12/14/23 7:36 AM, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: jbra...@dismail.de writes: I would like to pay $5 a month to have an xmpp account coolawesomeusern...@guix.gnu.org Are there other interested parties? It might be a possible way to generate $$ to continue developing guix. I’d rather not

Re: RFI: Guix XMPP service.

2023-12-10 Thread Ada Stevenson
Hi, On 12/10/23 4:04 PM, MSavoritias wrote: On 12/10/23 17:56, Vivien Kraus wrote: Le dimanche 10 décembre 2023 à 17:45 +0200, MSavoritias a écrit : There is also a trust issue. For acceptance, we need bridging. For bridging, we need policing. And for policing, we need people with time. I

Re: Add xmpp room to the list of group chats.

2023-12-07 Thread Ada Stevenson
Hi, On 12/7/23 11:25 AM, MSavoritias wrote: On 12/7/23 09:42, Ada Stevenson wrote: Hi, On 12/2/23 8:20 AM, MSavoritias wrote: Hey, I thought this mailing list is the most fitting for the request feel free to point out if its better somewhere else. Is the community open to have group

Re: Add xmpp room to the list of group chats.

2023-12-06 Thread Ada Stevenson
Hi, On 12/2/23 8:20 AM, MSavoritias wrote: Hey, I thought this mailing list is the most fitting for the request feel free to point out if its better somewhere else. Is the community open to have group chats listed in other networks than IRC assuming they are free software? Having chat

Re: Questions about packages because of license and other

2023-12-06 Thread Ada Stevenson
Hi, On 12/6/23 8:36 PM, Christian Miller wrote: Hi, 1. PrismLauncher[0]: The software itself is licensed as GPL3 but it is used to download and launch a proprietary videogame called "Minecraft". Since it is itself GPL3 licensed but used for a proprietary videogame, would it be allowed for

Re: Making linux-libre@6.5 the default kernel

2023-10-09 Thread Ada Stevenson
) On 10/8/23 6:17 PM, Leo Famulari wrote: On Tue, Oct 03, 2023 at 11:05:40AM +, Ada Stevenson wrote: Hi Guix! Hi! I understand why that may be; the commit is quite new, and pushing new kernel versions on everyone is a pretty big thing. I just want to know what the timeline on this sort

Making linux-libre@6.5 the default kernel

2023-10-04 Thread Ada Stevenson
Hi Guix! I saw that linux-libre@6.5 was merged upstream today - however, it hasn't been made the default yet. I understand why that may be; the commit is quite new, and pushing new kernel versions on everyone is a pretty big thing. I just want to know what the timeline on this sort of thing