Re: State of core-updates

On Wed, 15 Mar 2023 14:33:36 +0100 Andreas Enge wrote: > I more or less tried this by building things on berlin; however, big > packages (?, precisely: openjdk checkout (not even building!) OpenJDK@9 and @10 builds are fixed now on master. Björn pgpqnmLKJ8OMX.pgp Description: OpenPGP

Re: [bug#61894] [PATCH RFC] Team approval for patches

On Wed, 01 Mar 2023 17:15:26 + Christopher Baines wrote: > I guess I'm still a team sceptic, I think the idea is interesting and > I have added myself as a member of some teams. But the main impact on > me so far is that I've just been getting some unwanted personal email, > messages that

Re: Licence of the Guix blog posts

On Mon, 28 Nov 2022 18:22:15 +0100 Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hello Guix! > > You might remember that I started long ago asking people who had > contributed to the blog whether they would agree to licensing their > work under CC-BY-SA 4.0 and GFDL version 1.3 or later, with no > Invariant

Re: Would a Guix QA page be helpful?

Hi Chris, On Sat, 06 Feb 2021 20:20:04 + Christopher Baines wrote: > Hey, > > The Guix Data Service has been getting better at finding problems, but > getting that data requires knowing it exists, and where to find it, > and clicking all the relevant links. Absolutely yes! I already

Re: Testing the maven build system: Symlink error on duplicate inputs

On Sun, 20 Sep 2020 07:35:44 -0400 Julien Lepiller wrote: > >Does someone have plans to add real-world packages that make use of > >the maven-build-system? Next, an automated importer with > >dependency-resolution would be nice :-) > > The issue with the importer is that maven doesn't record

Testing the maven build system: Symlink error on duplicate inputs

Hi Julien, Hi Guix, thanks for adding the maven-build-system to Guix! This week I found the time to look over it and tested it. It works great! First I head a problem with symlinks when I tried out your example from your git: (define-public maven-test + (let ((commit

Re: icu4j, antlr4, source archives without a root path

Hi Michael, what is the central message of your email? Is it just to say "I gave up, sorry", or do you need help at specific points? :-) At least I can tell you that I have quite a bunch of work-in-progress branches lying around because I start with "Oh, let's _just_ update/fix/add this little

Re: GNU Guix maintainer collective update

On Mon, 04 May 2020 09:31:46 -0400 Maxim Cournoyer wrote: > Let's take a moment to thank Ricardo for his time as a Guix > co-maintainer. He's been immensely useful to the project and I hope > we'll continue to see him around. Thanks Ricardo for being a kind member of Guix and for really

Re: Cookbook translations

On Tue, 28 Apr 2020 14:23:32 -0400 Julien Lepiller wrote: > The translation project is already hosted outside the guix project, > so I don't see any issue if we're not able to package it just yet. > > hosted.weblate.org has some tracking in place (a matomo instance > hosted by the weblate

Re: Cookbook translations

Hi Florian, On Tue, 28 Apr 2020 01:42:31 +0200 "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" wrote: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 01:24:30AM +0200, Björn Höfling wrote: > > I wondered: do you know how the cookbook translations are > > organized? [..] > The cookbook is not available a

Cookbook translations

Hi, while looking at this bug: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=40803 I wondered: do you know how the cookbook translations are organized? I see there is only one initial commit by Florian Pelz for the German translation: commit f98e83a17fa30587520e858231ec9c61f3624ecd Author:

Re: Brainstorming features for issues.guix.gnu.org

On Wed, 01 Apr 2020 04:05:13 +0200 Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > Hi Björn, > > thanks for the list of suggestions! > > > * First of all, I find this mixture very confusing: Is this about > > bugs or is this about patches? I really don't know, and the start > > page is ambigious about it too: > > > >

Re: Brainstorming features for issues.guix.gnu.org

Hi Ricardo, On Thu, 26 Mar 2020 09:49:12 +0100 Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > Hello Guix! > > I want issues.guix.gnu.org to become more useful for all of us. It’s > easy to get lost in a deluge of bug reports and patch submissions, so > our tools should allow us to stay afloat. > > Do you use

Re: 'staging' branch is OPEN

On Tue, 08 Oct 2019 21:29:05 +0200 Marius Bakke wrote: > Guix, > > Now that 'core-updates' is merged (\o/), it's time to restart the > regular 'staging' cycles. > > Please push your patches before Monday, October 14th. After that the > branch will be 'frozen' and hopefully merged some days

Re: I don't understand the Curiass WebUI

On Wed, 2 Oct 2019 15:24:26 +0200 Hartmut Goebel wrote: > This would be helpful, esp. if it is placed somewhat prominently. > Another possibility would be improve the search-filters. You probably want something like this: python-sphinx system:x86_64-linux spec:guix-master I was also

Re: nss-certs: hash mismatch on berlin

Hi Ludo, On Thu, 25 Jul 2019 19:10:11 +0200 Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hello, > > Björn Höfling skribis: > > > Hi Ludo, > > Hi Guix, > > > > while trying to build a new installer-image, I encountered: > > > > nss-certs-3.44.1 > >

nss-certs: hash mismatch on berlin

Hi Ludo, Hi Guix, while trying to build a new installer-image, I encountered: nss-certs-3.44.1 150KiB 4.0MiB/s 00:00 [##] 100.0% sha256 hash mismatch for

Re: Video license

On Tue, 25 Jun 2019 19:40:35 -0300 Laura Lazzati wrote: > Have just pushed the README file and deleted environment.sh (it's no > longer needed). Thanks. I reformated the README with line-breaks at character 80, then added a license section and the CC-BY-SA-4.0 International license as a text

Re: Video license

On Mon, 24 Jun 2019 11:58:20 -0300 Laura Lazzati wrote: > Thank you, great work. I believe Ricardo should also appear in the > Makefile. Done. Björn pgpNnJqhbOPGu.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Cuirass enhancements

On Wed, 19 Jun 2019 21:49:50 +0200 Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > Danny Milosavljevic writes: > > > On Tue, 18 Jun 2019 19:50:25 +0200 > > Björn Höfling wrote: > > > >> * I would like to know that I'm on page k/n. > > > > That web interface is

Re: Cuirass enhancements

On Fri, 21 Jun 2019 17:18:38 +0200 Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hello! > > I’d just like to say that we should think not just in terms of a web > interface, but also in terms of an HTTP API + CLI/Emacs. +1 Would you like to formulate out a bug with what you are missing? > Things like ‘guix

Re: Video license

On Sat, 22 Jun 2019 10:41:27 -0300 Laura Lazzati wrote: > Hi!! > > Shall we define this so that we upload the videos :)? > > Regards :) > Laura Hi Laura, I pushed a commit to guix-video that added a COPYING file with the GPL v3 and added copyright/license headers to all source code files.

Re: Cuirass enhancements

On Wed, 19 Jun 2019 10:23:57 +0200 Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > Ricardo Wurmus writes: > > > Hi Björn, > > > >> * I'm really missing the tabs/filters like in Hydra: "succeding", > >> "newly succeding", "newly failing", ... > >> In having all jobs in one big list is annoying. I care usually only >

Cuirass enhancements

Hi Guix, I was a bit sad that Hydra is down now, because I really got used to its interface. Thanks to Mark and all others who made their fingers dirty on that machine. After a little chat on IRC, I decided to compare Cuirass with Hydra and wrote down what I'm missing or find uncomfortable in its

Re: Video license

Hi Gábor, On Wed, 12 Jun 2019 09:12:14 +0200 Gábor Boskovits wrote: > Hello, > > iirc this license discussion came about earlier, please have a look > at that also. > There were some problems regarding license compatibility. Otherwise I > ageree. I can't find the older discussions. Which are

Re: Video license

On Thu, 06 Jun 2019 11:29:26 +0100 Paul Garlick wrote: > Hello Björn, > > > For the code I would suggest GPL v3+, for the voices (currently > > Paul) and videos I would suggest CC-BY-SA 4.0 > > > > What do you think? Does every contributor agree to that? > > That looks good to me. > >

Video license

Hello, while looking at the videos and the video-repository, I noticed that we don't have any license attached to neither the videos nor the sources. I think we should really add one. For the code I would suggest GPL v3+, for the voices (currently Paul) and videos I would suggest CC-BY-SA 4.0

Re: Documentation videos are being uploaded!

On Wed, 22 May 2019 14:06:17 -0300 Laura Lazzati wrote: > Hi Guix! > > I have created the site: https://archive.org/details/guix-videos > where I will be pushing the documentation videos that I created > during my internship and that Paul helped a a lot sharing their voice > and knowledge

Re: Hackathon: Mumi and Cuirass

Hi Ricardo, do you mean by "Hackathon" a specific day where all participants will meet personally/virtual and work together on these project ideas? Or do you want to generally encourage people to work on these themes? On Fri, 03 May 2019 23:45:00 +0200 Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > 1) Mumi With

Re: FreeTube

On Tue, 30 Apr 2019 20:34:17 +0200 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: > Dexter Morgan wrote: > > OMG! Can someone please please pack this into Guix. > > I'd invite you to give it a try yourself, but I have disappointing > news. NPM programmes are a nightmare to properly package and we >

Re: java: How to patch a jar-sources

Patch sent out as: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=35312 Björn pgpp9BbPQxABd.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: java: How to patch a jar-sources

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'

Re: java: How to patch a jar-sources

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 default GNU unpack strategy." > (if (string-suffix? ".jar" source) > (begin >

Re: java: How to patch a jar-sources

On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 14:26:41 +0200 Gábor Boskovits wrote: > Hello Björn, > > > > Björn Höfling ezt írta (időpont: > 2019. ápr. 15., H 8:03): > > > Hi Guix, > > > > I have a problem combining ".jar" sources with patches. > > > > H

java: How to patch a jar-sources

Hi Guix, I have a problem combining ".jar" sources with patches. Here is my sources definition: (define-public java-ecj (package (inherit java-ecj-3) (version "4.6.3") (source (origin (method url-fetch) (uri (string-append

Re: Python: Error loading shared library in Guix

On Tue, 19 Mar 2019 15:52:41 +0100 Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > Using the full file name would work, for example: > > ./pre-inst-env guix environment --ad-hoc python zlib -- \ > python3 -c "import os; import ctypes; > libz=ctypes.CDLL(os.environ['GUIX_ENVIRONMENT']+'/lib/libz.so.1')" Right!

Python: Error loading shared library in Guix

I'm trying to package TaskCoach (https://www.taskcoach.org/) and stumble upon a problem when running it: It cannot load a shared library with ctypes. Here is the stacktrace: File

Re: [video repo] when making videos inside container images break

On Sun, 3 Mar 2019 20:30:51 +0100 Gábor Boskovits wrote: > Then I looked around the package definition of inkscape, where I found > no sign of cairo... > > I tried adding it to the container, and it seems to be working fine > here. Hi Gábor, thank you for that analysis! Do you think it would

Re: Guix video repository: First video script commited

On Fri, 01 Mar 2019 12:01:45 +0100 Giovanni Biscuolo wrote: > my personal workflow in this case is to use the [env] to build and > "outside env" for editing and analisys (e.g. with rmlint), BTW I agree > with you ls and less are *very* useful inside the container Gábor presented today another

Re: Guix video repository: First video script commited

On Thu, 28 Feb 2019 14:36:41 -0500 sirgazil wrote: > Hi, Laura, everyone, > > > El 28/02/19 a las 1:45 p. m., Laura Lazzati escribió: > > On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 2:54 PM Laura Lazzati > > wrote: > >> > >>> I “installed” the fonts by placing them in ~/.fonts, running > >>> “fc-cache -f” as

Re: Guix video repository: First video script commited

On Thu, 28 Feb 2019 11:47:26 +0100 Giovanni Biscuolo wrote: > also: could you please remove "USEFUL" and "NICE_TO_HAVE" from the > build environment since we do not strictly need them at build time? > > ...nevertheless, I agree they are useful and nice to have in our user > (or project)

Re: Guix video repository: First video script commited

On Wed, 27 Feb 2019 12:04:40 -0300 Laura Lazzati wrote: > > Laura, do you like that directory layout, the way of creating the > > full final video? Do you have any clue why my slides don't fit the > > screen? > No, but I installed other fonts, that could be maybe the reason? The > ones I added

Re: Guix video repository: First video script commited

On Wed, 27 Feb 2019 09:47:46 +0100 Gábor Boskovits wrote: > > 2. The same audio is played at every slide, something seems to be > > off with the association of the audio to the slide. Again, I did > > not check yet if the correct > > audios are supplied. > > Here the correct audios are

Re: guix weather issue? (was Re: guix package builds, subsitutes and --no-build)

On Tue, 26 Feb 2019 23:29:35 -0800 Chris Marusich wrote: > Hi Giovanni, > > Giovanni Biscuolo writes: [...] > > anyway even if that is not the issue, users should have some way > > to check if a substitute is available for their current commit, so > > they can decide if they are willing to

Guix video repository: First video script commited

Hi Laura, Hi Guix, the repository is now filled with the scripts for the first video: git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix/videos.git To try it out, there is a script to enter a Guix container containing all packages you need. After that, you can enter the video's directory and call

Re: Getting a copy of the Cuirass (berlin.guixsd.org) database

On Thu, 21 Feb 2019 21:30:39 +0100 Danny Milosavljevic wrote: > Hi Björn, > > On Wed, 13 Feb 2019 22:00:06 +0100 > Björn Höfling wrote: > > > I'm not sure if anybody else responded to you, but I have a database > > around. I got it last year from Clement Lassieur.

Re: guix-video repository, final 2 weeks of Outreachy intern

On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 07:29:56 +0100 Björn Höfling wrote: > I think I did all of my reviewing-homework and will now look at the > Makefile/repository. Just trying to rebuild the videos with the existing Makefiles/scripts takes me longer than expected, I'm making progress only slowly. I w

Re: guix-video repository, final 2 weeks of Outreachy intern

On Tue, 19 Feb 2019 23:59:04 -0300 Laura Lazzati wrote: > Hi! > > > I had the feeling that some of your answers sound a bit like a > > justification. That was maybe because my tone was a bit too > > demanding? > No, in fact sth funny is that when we say sound, we are not using our > voice, we

Hompage/place for the Guix documentation videos

Hi Ricardo, Laura needs a URL where all videos are placed and which is mentioned at least in the "getting help" video. We were discussing where to place the Guix videos and agreed to upload them to GNU Audio/Video: https://audio-video.gnu.org/video/ I think that is a good place for the video

Re: guix-video repository, final 2 weeks of Outreachy intern

Hi Laura, I had the feeling that some of your answers sound a bit like a justification. That was maybe because my tone was a bit too demanding? I want to say that you did and still do good work with the videos and you mastered several obstacles (including me :-)) and still are like Gábor said in

guix-video repository, final 2 weeks of Outreachy intern

Hi Laura, I'm pulling this again on guix-devel. We have only two weeks left in this Outreachy round and Gábor and I decided to focus on two things: 1) Get the videos-repository filled up with the general tools and Makefiles from your private repository. 2) Get as much as possible video-templates

Re: the upcoming Great Python2 Purge™

On Mon, 18 Feb 2019 11:56:19 +0200 Efraim Flashner wrote: > I checked 'guix refresh -l python2' and I got a list of the python2-* > packages which are leaf packages. I'm not suggesting that we right now > get rid of them, but it seems to me something worth keeping an eye on. > > 'guix package

Re: New topic: packaging

On Sun, 17 Feb 2019 10:02:26 +0100 swedebugia wrote: > Am I late to the party? Yes, you are :-) We decided to split once: We now put the whole "setup and build guix from git" part into one video. And then the real "packaging" part starts in a second video. It might be that we need to break

Re: [urgent] GNU Guix in Outreachy May 2019 round?

On Mon, 18 Feb 2019 11:53:04 +0100 Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > Ricardo Wurmus writes: > > [...] > > The application period begins today. So far nobody has come forward > to volunteer as a mentor, so I suppose Guix will not participate in > the upcoming Outreachy round of internships. Hi

Re: Getting a copy of the Cuirass (berlin.guixsd.org) database

On Sun, 10 Feb 2019 13:21:57 + Christopher Baines wrote: > Would someone be able to make a copy of the Cuirass database > available? It might be useful when tinkering with Cuirass, as it > contains some realistic data. Hi Chris, I'm not sure if anybody else responded to you, but I have a

Re: English Voice Wanted

On Tue, 12 Feb 2019 11:51:07 -0300 Laura Lazzati wrote: > Hi! > > > Good. Just a note for you: If you recently "guix pulled", you may > > have noticed that aegisub is broken since 2019-02-09 15:14:59. You > > can still use the old installed version. I will commit the final > > fix tonight, so

Re: New topic: packaging

On Mon, 11 Feb 2019 11:38:21 -0300 Laura Lazzati wrote: > Hi Guix again! > > Another topic is about showing how to package. > > Gábor suggested maybe using my experience about creating a new R > package. > > My idea is to show how to look for a package that is not packaged, > package it and

Re: New topic: asking for help

Hi Laura, On Mon, 11 Feb 2019 11:29:02 -0300 Laura Lazzati wrote: > Hi Guix! > > Another topic is about asking for help, that is very useful for people > even when reading the documentaiton. > > This should include this mailing-list (ie, how to fill the form, maybe > sth about the CoC?), and

Re: English Voice Wanted

Hi Paul, sounds great, thanks! On Tue, 12 Feb 2019 08:38:16 -0300 Laura Lazzati wrote: > Hi! > > >> Yes, I can be a candidate. I was born in London and I have a > >> native English voice. > > > > > > Thanks for the offer. > > I believe we can arrange to get the first video to you by friday.

Using GPG Subkeys with git/savannah

Hi Laura, you wanted to know how to use GPG subkeys. You want to use them for virtual machines. I found a very nice, practical explanation from the Debian wiki: https://wiki.debian.org/Subkeys What I haven't found out is how/if you can use multiple subkeys for savannah.gnu.org. Does anyone know

English Voice Wanted

For the upcoming Guix videos we are searching for a (near) native speaker to speak the transcript. Any candidates? I'm putting you Chris in CC because I personally enjoy your calm British accent :-) Björn pgp4ONNacR46T.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Asking Open Source Design for Videos?

Hi, Laura found on FOSDEM the stand of Open Source Design: https://opensourcedesign.net/ She asked if we should get in contact with them for the videos. Unfortunately, I missed to go to their stand and talk to them directly and make my own view. I'm a bit hesitating with it: First, we yet have

Re: libgtk3-nocsd and LD_PRELOAD

On Fri, 08 Feb 2019 22:58:01 +0100 Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Regardless of what this library does, if you need to preload it for > Guix-built applications, then this library should also be built from > Guix (otherwise you end up with several libcs, etc. in the same > process, which is never a

Re: New topic: configuration video

On Sat, 9 Feb 2019 20:50:47 -0300 Laura Lazzati wrote: > Hi Guix! > > Out next video will be about getting our system properly configured. > For instance, the troubleshooting with locales, source your profile, > and whatever you think it should be mentioned in a 3 min video about > having your

Re: Final discussion on the content of the Guix daily use video

Hi Gábor, On Sun, 10 Feb 2019 12:49:52 +0100 Gábor Boskovits wrote: > Hello guix, > > The final discussion of the content of the Guix daily use video will > be at: Monday, 12:00 UTC > > on IRC channel ##guix-outreachy at freenode. > > It is expected that it will last around 15 minutes. I'm

Re: ‘staging’ merged!

On Sat, 09 Feb 2019 15:57:53 +0100 Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hello Guix! > > I’ve just merged the ‘staging’ branch as ‘guix weather’ reported a > rather sunny day. > > If you stumble upon build issues or bugs, please do report them and > let’s address them together. > > Thanks to everyone who

Re: Inverting command line session colours

Hi Laura, this kept me awake, I had to open my laptop again :-) On Fri, 8 Feb 2019 19:53:50 -0300 Laura Lazzati wrote: > Hi! > > convert xyz.ps -background white -flatten -negate xyz.png > I had already tried the -negate before but didn't work, I only got > full white pngs (the text turned

Re: Patchwork + automated checking and testing of patches

On Fri, 08 Feb 2019 12:04:20 + Christopher Baines wrote: > Thanks, however, one thing I've noticed is that git apply seems to be > much more reliable at applying patches than git am. It often fails > with "Patch is empty". > > I'm not sure why, it seems to work for the patches I've sent

Re: New videos: topic daily use.

On Wed, 06 Feb 2019 23:17:21 +0100 Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > Hi Laura, > > > My next video will be about daily using of Guix. > > Neat! +1 > > I was thinking of daily use of guix package, mentioning profile, > > generations (both the concepts and commands to deal with them) > > Sounds

Re: News from the Guix Days!

On Thu, 07 Feb 2019 20:37:53 +0100 Ludovic Courtès wrote: > I’d like to invite the other participants :-) to either prepare a > Markdown-formatted summary of their session to publish on the blog¹ > (make sure it’s understandable by outsiders too!), or to send their > notes or memories of the

Re: Video documentation repository

On Thu, 07 Feb 2019 20:31:30 +0100 Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > In the current video-repository we at least save the input binaries > > (i.e speech recordings in several languages for several videos). > > From your comment it sounds like that is not intended for the > > savannah-repos, right? >

Re: Policy to remove obsolete packages

Hi simon, On Thu, 7 Feb 2019 13:40:53 +0100 zimoun wrote: > Hi, > > I understand but I am not sure to see the points and/or advantages > about a policy. > > From my opinion, obsolete package is not well-defined and define > cleanly what an obsolete package is will be bikeshedding. :-) > And

libgtk3-nocsd and LD_PRELOAD (Was: bug#33861: Problem building sources for guile-bash)

Hi Ludo, On Sat, 19 Jan 2019 11:21:56 +0100 Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Björn Höfling skribis: > > > $ guix build -S guile-bash > > ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgtk3-nocsd.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be > > preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored. > > Plu

Re: FOSDEM 2019: Thank you!

On Mon, 4 Feb 2019 07:13:47 +0100 Pjotr Prins wrote: > Thank you everyone for this great FOSDEM with the GNU Guix days: it > was just great to see everyone and all the interactions! I feel much > inspired to try GNU Hurd, new Guix features, the new Guile build > system and even Racket (oops).

Re: Policy to remove obsolete packages

On Tue, 5 Feb 2019 00:47:42 +0100 zimoun wrote: > To me the question is more about how to automatically detect that a > patch breaks another package than a policy to remove a broken package. > > I mean if we are able to automatically detect 6 months later that a > package is broken, why are we

Re: Policy to remove obsolete packages

On Mon, 04 Feb 2019 23:52:47 +0100 Ludovic Courtès wrote: > (Note that, IIUC, in openSuSE a package can be broken and yet remain > installable by users, because the last binary that was produced is > still around.) We have guix pull --commit=..., inferiors, channels and time-travel, so there

Re: Video documentation repository

Hi Ludo, On Tue, 05 Feb 2019 00:02:20 +0100 Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Great initiative! I can’t create it myself but I’ve filed a support > request: (the Savannah > hackers usually respond within a couple of days.) Thank you for filing the request.

Video documentation repository

Hi, during GuixDays we said that we want to start getting into production mode with video documentations. Ludo, would you please create a new git repository for that purpose? Must the commits to this repository be signed? That would then mean that Laura needs access to it: Laura, you need to

Policy to remove obsolete packages

Hi Guix, on Guix-Days we had no more time in the QA track to talk about obsolete packages. In the FOSDEM-talk by Frederic Crozat (SuSE) about Distributions, he mentioned their approach which I find good to adapt: If a package is broken for more than 6 months, we should just remove it from

Re: guix gc takes long in "deleting unused links ..."

On Fri, 01 Feb 2019 16:22:21 -0600 Caleb Ristvedt wrote: > Björn Höfling writes: > > > Why does that take soo long? > > Warning: technical overview follows. Thank you for that technical answer, I heard just yesterday your name in combination with the build daemon :-) Björn

guix gc takes long in "deleting unused links ..."

When I do a guix gc -d , it usually is quite fast, until I hit: $ guix gc -d /gnu/store/apnk0ibj6axl9f0x5qa7ixpfvqww77rv-ruby-contracts-0.16.0 finding garbage collector roots... deleting `/gnu/store/apnk0ibj6axl9f0x5qa7ixpfvqww77rv-ruby-contracts-0.16.0' deleting `/gnu/store/trash' deleting

Re: Meeting in Brussels on Wednesday evening?

On Tue, 29 Jan 2019 10:52:18 +0100 Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hello Guix! > > I’d be available tomorrow (Wed. 30th) at around 8PM in Brussels. > Would anyone be willing to join for a drink + dinner? > > We could meet at “Au Bon vieux temps”¹ (it’s a must!) and then head > to a neighboring

Re: GSoC 2019

Hi Gábor, On Fri, 25 Jan 2019 09:11:04 +0100 Gábor Boskovits wrote: > Hello, > > Ludo created the GSoC ideas page for this year: > https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/GSoC-2019 > > It is based on last year's page. There is also the Outreachy May-August 2019 period:

Re: GuixDays: Perfect Setup: Speaker wanted

On Fri, 25 Jan 2019 23:22:47 +0100 Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > "The Perfect Setup" sounds a bit exclusive in my opinion, there is a > whole world of possibilities out there... :) That's just what the manual writes about it :-) > That said, if it's only about Emacs+Geiser+Magit, I'd be happy to >

GuixDays: Perfect Setup: Speaker wanted

Hi, on the page for the Guix-Days I added this one: Demonstration and explanation of The Perfect Setup (Emacs, Geiser, Magit) The reason is that I failed working with the Perfect Setup. So, is there anyone who like to show what's so perfect about that setup and how to set it up? Thanks, Björn

Re: Better names for Guix versions from git?

On Sat, 29 Dec 2018 23:50:11 +0100 Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > swedebugia writes: > > > "Björn Höfling" skrev: (29 > > december 2018 12:53:04 CET) > >>On Thu, 27 Dec 2018 22:30:11 +0100 > >>Taylan Kammer wrote: > >> > >

Re: Better names for Guix versions from git?

On Thu, 27 Dec 2018 22:30:11 +0100 Taylan Kammer wrote: > I like dates in "rolling release" version strings because they > immediately tell you how old/new the version is, but I can certainly > live with that format too. Definitely better than what we have. I also would prefer a string

Re: Video of Talk: "Everyday Use of GNU Guix"

On Tue, 25 Dec 2018 10:38:50 -0500 bill-auger wrote: > On Fri, 07 Dec 2018 20:46:27 -0500 Mark wrote: > > I copied the video to audio-video.gnu.org. It's now available here: > > https://audio-video.gnu.org/video/misc/2018-11__Everyday_use_of_GNU_Guix__Chris_Marusich__SeaGL.webm > > > >

How I got stuck (and ways to resolve)

Hi Guix, the task for mentors in this Outreachy week #3 is to give an example of how one got stuck in a problem, and show ways to go on and finally succeed with your problem. So, I write a bit about my problems and encourage everyone else to tell their story of small or big stucks. Our intern

Re: Internet Archive APIs useful as fallback?

On Wed, 19 Dec 2018 15:57:04 +0100 Ludovic Courtès wrote: > We added support to retrieve Git checkouts (and some tarballs) from > Software Heritage recently: > > https://issues.guix.info/issue/33432 > > The Internet Archive is not in the business of archiving software, but > it’d be

Re: bioinformatics.scm vs bioconductor.scm ?

On Tue, 18 Dec 2018 06:31:44 -0500 zimoun wrote: > What is the convention about license ? > (license name) or (license license:name) Just about this point: This is not a "convention", this is part of the language definition of Guile, the underlying Scheme implementation: In the module

IPFS trouble

Hi Laura, I'm sending this also to guix-devel [and sorry for the previous, empty, private mail, I was too fast on the sending button]. Note: I'm also new to IPFS, so I hope everything is correct here, if someone knows better, please reply. On Tue, 18 Dec 2018 00:04:56 -0300 Laura Lazzati

Re: hg-fetch with subrepos

On Sun, 2 Dec 2018 18:38:35 + John Soo wrote: > Thanks! > > That patch looks familiar :D Looking forward to it. > > John > > On Sun, Dec 2, 2018 at 1:59 PM Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > Björn Höfling skribis: > > >

Re: hg-fetch with subrepos

On Sat, 1 Dec 2018 11:10:54 -0800 John Soo wrote: > Hi guix! > > Thanks and please bear with my first ever mailing list post. I was > trying to package coin3d > (https://bitbucket.org/Coin3D/coin/wiki/Home) as it is now under a > bsd3 license. The hash of the repo always changes. I think this

Re: Getting ‘core-updates’ merged

On Thu, 22 Nov 2018 10:41:59 +0100 l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote: > There are still failures out there! > > https://hydra.gnu.org/eval/110331?full=1#tabs-still-fail > > The above list is slightly outdated so I’m restarting an evaluation on > hydra.gnu.org. You can also compare it to

Re: Outreachy project infrastructure

On Sun, 25 Nov 2018 21:30:03 -0300 Laura Lazzati wrote: > > > > Laura, I saw you already have an account for libreplanet. Feel free > > to go on editing this page. I really just copy/pasted Ricardos > > email here. > > > > Great! Yes, I created it to edit the file about attending to > > FOSDEM,

Re: Outreachy project infrastructure

On Fri, 23 Nov 2018 10:04:02 +0100 Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > Björn Höfling writes: > > > On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 17:18:54 -0300 > > Laura Lazzati wrote: > > > >> Hi again! > >> > >> I went through past emails and this new ones. > >&

Re: FOSDEM 2019 stand applications

On Thu, 22 Nov 2018 23:16:47 -0600 Brett Gilio wrote: > Bummer, > > Did they provide any more feedback so that we can be more prepared > next year as more likely candidates? No. I think in general there is the problem of high demand and only a fixed size of stands. I'm not sure if there is

Fw: FOSDEM 2019 stand applications

Hi Guix, we do NOT have a stand at FOSDEM 2019, our application was not accepted. Thank you to everyone who helped in preparing it and who offered to spend their time at the stand. Björn Begin forwarded message: Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2018 20:58:21 + From: Alasdair G Kergon To: FOSDEM 2019

Re: Outreachy project infrastructure

On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 17:18:54 -0300 Laura Lazzati wrote: > Hi again! > > I went through past emails and this new ones. > > In a previous mail, Bjorn suggested using the wiki - > https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix - for my proposed timeline > and the decisions about the videos. Is it that

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