My recent appalling behaviour on this list.

Occasionally one makes mistakes. On this occasion I have made an enormous one. I hope this post will go some small way to put it right and explain how it came about. I don't seek to excuse anything I said or did. The entire ugly thread started last week when I replied to this message from

Re: Being excellent to one another

On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 12:17:08PM +, ng0 wrote: Word of advice: don't use 'transvestite'. It's a slur. Is it? I didn't know that. I thought it just came from the latin, (or greek or whatever): trans meaning "across" and "vestment" clothing. It certainly wasn't a slur when I first

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add LDFLAGS=-lpthread to configure-flags where needed.

On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 12:29:05PM +0100, Danny Milosavljevic wrote: Hi John, thanks for looking into the problem. On Tue, 21 Mar 2017 02:22:11 +0100 John Darrington <j...@darrington.wattle.id.au> wrote: > + (arguments `(#:configure-flags '("LDF

Re: Being excellent to one another

On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 10:14:45AM +0100, Alex Sassmannshausen wrote: I'm trying to draw this thread to a close as I genuinely believe that neither side intends malice: - John genuinely does not see how his statements can very easily be interpreted as highly disrespectful

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add LDFLAGS=-lpthread to configure-flags where needed.

On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 09:09:28AM +, Sergei Trofimovich wrote: On Tue, 21 Mar 2017 02:22:11 +0100 John Darrington <j...@darrington.wattle.id.au> wrote: > --- a/gnu/packages/image.scm > +++ b/gnu/packages/image.scm > @@ -80,6 +80,8 @@ >

Re: Install hook

On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 02:41:09PM +0100, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: No, normally gschemas.compiled is one file storing information about all GSettings application. It must thus be created from files provided by multiple packages. For example, gnome-calculator

For core-updates.

This patch fixes a number of failures in core-updates. I don't know if there is a better way of doing it, or why it is suddenly necessary. gnu: Add LDFLAGS=-lpthread to configure-flags where needed.

[PATCH] gnu: Add LDFLAGS=-lpthread to configure-flags where needed.

* gnu/packages/fontutils.scm (arguments)[configure-flags]: Add LDFLAGS=lpthread. * gnu/packages/image.scm (arguments)[configure-flags]: Add LDFLAGS=lpthread. --- gnu/packages/fontutils.scm | 1 + gnu/packages/image.scm | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git

Re: Being excellent to one another

On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 04:49:13PM +0100, Ludovic Court??s wrote: John, people have explained things at length already; you can re-read the project???s code of conduct if in doubt. This isn???t up for debate. Please stop playing this game right now. Ludo, * I am not

Re: Being excellent to one another

On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 10:09:33AM -0500, Christopher Allan Webber wrote: John Darrington writes: > On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 07:57:07PM -0700, dian_ce...@zoho.com wrote: > ... and yes. If an individual specifically requests to be referred to by > a part

Re: Being excellent to one another

On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 03:27:48PM +0100, Ludovic Court??s wrote: Howdy! John Darrington <j...@darrington.wattle.id.au> skribis: > As I recall, their request was that I always use "singular they" and never to > mention other possible alte

Re: 01/02: gnu: Add itpp.

On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 02:05:11PM +0300, Alex Kost wrote: You don't need any additional "plugins" for this, as Emacs couldn't miss it! To check it, run "emacs -Q", paste this: (source (origin (method url-fetch) (uri (string-append

Re: Being excellent to one another

On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 12:53:38PM +0100, Pjotr Prins wrote: Erm. Despite the obvious intelligence of all Guix participants I think we ought to stick to technical issues on this mailing list (i.e., guix-technical). Maybe we can fork these recent discussions to

Re: Being excellent to one another

On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 12:21:59PM +0100, Alex Sassmannshausen wrote: My intention was to call-back to my impression of other parts of this conversation where it seemed you were point-blank refusing to acknowledge ng0's request. As I recall, their request was that I always use

Re: Being excellent to one another

On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 11:17:28AM +0100, Alex Sassmannshausen wrote: Perhaps we have to agree to disagree on singular they, but I hope we can still agree on the following statements from my earlier email: I agree to a slightly edited version: - [...]

Re: Being excellent to one another

On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 09:57:04AM +0100, Alex Sassmannshausen wrote: > > ... and yes. If an individual specifically requests to be referred to by > a partcular set of pronouns I will attempt to do so, but may occasionally > forget if that person wants feminine pronouns and is

Re: 01/02: gnu: Add itpp.

On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 02:18:39AM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote: On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 07:03:03AM +0100, John Darrington wrote: > > +(source (origin > > + (method url-fetch) > > + (uri (string-append "mirror:

Re: Being excellent to one another

On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 08:47:17AM -0700, dian_ce...@zoho.com wrote: Are there any guidelines as to what parts of English one should avoid using in documentation? There are some such guidlines. See: https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Documentation

Re: Mass-packaging of 300 KDE application prepared - Help required

On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 05:00:55PM +0100, Ludovic Court??s wrote: Hi John, > So if there is going to be a joint effort at this I suggest that somehow we > decide in advance which packages are done by whom. > > I'm not sure how best to divide them up, since the lower

Re: Install hook

The problem as I understand it is as follows: Two (or more) packages both contain a file: /gnu/store/.../xyz/foo So long as those two packages are not both installed into the same profile at the same time, this is not a problem. However if the user chooses to install both packages

Re: Install hook

Hello Florian, I agree that this is a problem. It has been discussed before, and various solutions have been suggested, but I don't think install hooks was one of them. Can you elaborate on your idea? What would an install hook do, and how would it work? J' On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at

Re: Continuing the work on the recipes related to GNU Ring

On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 08:20:32PM -0300, Adonay Felipe Nogueira wrote: Here is a work-in-progress set of package definitions, the packages are upgraded to their latest version, except for: - pjproject(-sfl) :: Which I upgraded to 2.5.5 so as to respect the

Re: bug#26109: [PATCH 3/7] gnu: Add dcmtk.

[CC guix-devel@gnu.org] So we have to make a choice: 1. Package a released program with a known vulnerability; or 2. Package an unreleased git snapshot. Which is the lesser evil? J' On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 12:21:40PM -0400, Kei Kebreau wrote: > John Darrington <j...@darrington.wattle

Re: Mass-packaging of 300 KDE application prepared - Help required

On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 03:13:25PM +0100, Ludovic Court??s wrote: Hi Hartmut, Hartmut Goebel skribis: > as promised earlier, I prepared a repository inclusing patches for more > than 300 KDE packages. I will not have time to work on

Re: [PATCH 4/4] services: openssh: Add 'subsystems' option.

On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 11:52:16AM +, ng0 wrote: May I remind you that the first reaction of John is being rude to anyone who isn't a native speaker? That is absolutely not true. I have reviewed this current thread and I do not see any instance of rudeness on my part. As I have

Re: grammar usage (was: Re: [PATCH 4/4] services: openssh: Add 'subsystems' option.)

On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 05:13:49PM +0100, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: No. John, I find you very rude in this thread. Please stop dismissing as ???reproachful, judgemental, censorious, or sanctimonious??? anyone who dares correct your unsolicited incorrections. Yelling

Re: grammar usage

On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 02:58:43PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: Thank you, Andy. I agree with everything you wrote, in particular how this relates to our goal of creating a welcoming environment, which is a main task for maintainers. I am all for creating a welcoming

Re: [PATCH 0/8] WIP: Better support for non-grub bootloaders.

On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 01:43:19PM +0100, Mathieu Othacehe wrote: Hi, > Please let me know if you don???t want to be bothered about this. Problem > is there???s exciting stuff in this patch series and I???d probably have a > few questions for you if you want.

Re: grammar usage

On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 11:57:09AM +0100, Andy Wingo wrote: Hello John, Hello Andy, Misgendering a guix contributor is rude. If deliberate, I agree that misgendering anyone, guix contributor or not, would be rude. So I have never done so. On the grand scale of things it

Re: grammar usage (was: Re: [PATCH 4/4] services: openssh: Add 'subsystems' option.)

On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 10:42:10AM +, ng0 wrote: Respecting people is more important than correct grammar. I agree. So please afford me a little respect. My choice of pronoun for myself is they/them. I'm not picking strawman arguments here, all I wanted to express

Re: grammar usage (was: Re: [PATCH 4/4] services: openssh: Add 'subsystems' option.)

On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 11:08:04AM +, ng0 wrote: John Darrington transcribed 1.1K bytes: > On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 08:45:27PM +, ng0 wrote: > > ps Cl??ment: 'them'/'they' are pronouns if you don't know the gender and/or > prefered pronoun

Re: [PATCH 4/4] services: openssh: Add 'subsystems' option.

On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 08:45:27PM +, ng0 wrote: ps Cl??ment: 'them'/'they' are pronouns if you don't know the gender and/or prefered pronoun of a person :) ... according to some. - but most linguists, and many orators (the president of the Free Software Foundation being one of

Re: Should synopsis handle texinfo markup?

On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 10:27:57PM +0300, Alex Kost wrote: Hello, I've noticed that several packages contain "@code" structures in their synopses, but only 'description' field supports texinfo markup. For example, look at: guix package -s ruby-minitest-bonus-assertions

[PATCH] doc: Update the package count.

* doc/guix.texi: Update the number of packages available. --- doc/guix.texi | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 732f431..9b7460c 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -6807,7 +6807,7 @@ Few system services are

MMMMM

We now have 5001 !!

Re: Duplicate package variables

On Fri, Mar 03, 2017 at 01:10:04AM +0100, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: Guix, John, On 02/03/17 18:02, John Darrington wrote: > commit f1021afb41613f5eba3ea4f5225b9a4cd1c15ecb > Author: John Darrington <j...@gnu.org> > Date: Thu Mar 2 17:5

Re: Unrar package might contain proprietary code.

Also pertinent: This program is listed in https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Unrar-free J' On Thu, Mar 02, 2017 at 06:54:24AM +0100, John Darrington wrote: I don't have any strong opinions here. But if somebody feels that we really cannot have this program in Guix, then go ahead

Re: Unrar package might contain proprietary code.

I don't have any strong opinions here. But if somebody feels that we really cannot have this program in Guix, then go ahead and revert it. In the meantime I will try to contact the authors and ask for clarification. However since the project has been inactive for the last 13 years, I don't

Re: Unrar package might contain proprietary code.

On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 08:59:37PM +0100, Cl??ment Lassieur wrote: I had a look at the source of the recently commited "unrar" package, and I could not find neither "copyright" lines nor pointers to the full notice, except in unrarlib.h and unrarlib.c, which belong to a different

Re: gnu-patches back log

On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 08:17:39AM +, Pjotr Prins wrote: I would like to ask the Guix mailing list members whether it is *acceptable* that a good looking patch has not been touched for two weeks. Like this one https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=25725

Re: [PATCH 3/3] gnu: Add jacal.

On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 07:31:11PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote: > + (replace 'configure > + (lambda* (#:key inputs outputs #:allow-other-keys) > +(zero? (system* "./configure" > +(string-append

Re: Git-style aliases in Guix?

On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 09:30:07AM +0100, Mekeor Melire wrote: John Darrington <j...@darrington.wattle.id.au> writes: > On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 10:15:10PM +0100, Mekeor Melire wrote: > > Concerning how to implement this alias feature within G

Re: Git-style aliases in Guix?

On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 10:15:10PM +0100, Mekeor Melire wrote: Concerning how to implement this alias feature within Guix, I'd first like to pose a much broader question. So, on GuixSD you have a configuration, written in Scheme, for your operating system. Couldn't we make

[PATCH 1/3] gnu: Add slib.

+++ b/gnu/packages/scheme.scm @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ ;;; Copyright © 2016 Efraim Flashner <efr...@flashner.co.il> ;;; Copyright © 2016 Jan Nieuwenhuizen <jann...@gnu.org> ;;; Copyright © 2016, 2017 ng0 <contact@cryptolab.net> +;;; Copyright © 2017 John Darrington <j...@gnu.org

[PATCH 2/3] gnu: Add scm.

* gnu/packages/scheme.scm (scm): New variable. --- gnu/packages/scheme.scm | 61 + 1 file changed, 61 insertions(+) diff --git a/gnu/packages/scheme.scm b/gnu/packages/scheme.scm index 5134c24..cd3fb5b 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/scheme.scm +++

[PATCH 3/3] gnu: Add jacal.

* gnu/packages/maths.scm (jacal): New variable. * gnu/packages/patches/jacal.texi.patch: New file. --- gnu/packages/maths.scm| 50 +++ gnu/packages/patches/jacal.texi.patch | 90 +++ 2 files changed, 140 insertions(+) create mode

Re: [PATCH 1/2] build: Use an up to date copy of texinfo.tex

On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 09:54:57PM +0100, Mathieu Lirzin wrote: John Darrington <j...@darrington.wattle.id.au> writes: > On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 08:25:20PM +0100, Mathieu Lirzin wrote: > > John Darrington <j.

Re: [PATCH 1/2] build: Use an up to date copy of texinfo.tex

On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 08:25:20PM +0100, Mathieu Lirzin wrote: John Darrington <j...@gnu.org> writes: > * build-aux/texinfo.tex,ref: New file, copied from texlive-minimal > * bootstrap: Use it, if newer than the texinfo.tex from automake. > ---

Re: [PATCH 1/2] build: Use an up to date copy of texinfo.tex

On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 01:26:49PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote: On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 01:04:31PM +0100, John Darrington wrote: > * build-aux/texinfo.tex,ref: New file, copied from texlive-minimal > * bootstrap: Use it, if newer than the texinfo.tex from au

Re: 'guix build --target=' handling questions

On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 10:54:22PM +, Sergei Trofimovich wrote: (define-module (gnu packages regex) #:use-module ((guix licenses) #:prefix license:) #:use-module (guix packages) #:use-module (guix download) - #:use-module (guix build-system gnu))

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add gnushogi and xshogi

On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 04:58:07PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote: On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 08:15:04PM +0100, John Darrington wrote: > * gnu/packages/games.scm (gnushogi, xshogi): New variables. > +(define-public xshogi [...] > +;; Contains a copy

[PATCH] gnu: Add gnushogi and xshogi

* gnu/packages/games.scm (gnushogi, xshogi): New variables. --- gnu/packages/games.scm | 43 +++ 1 file changed, 43 insertions(+) diff --git a/gnu/packages/games.scm b/gnu/packages/games.scm index 1d6a12a..50315a6 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/games.scm +++

Re: [PATCH 0/1] improvements to the lightweight desktop example

On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 04:48:55PM +0100, Mathieu Lirzin wrote: Sure it is! What I meant is that Ratpoison is not the most "intuitive" WM for non GNU Emacs/Screen users. As a consequence adding it in an example configuration which is likely to be copy and paste, is

Re: Leaving the guix project

On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 02:54:32PM +0100, David Craven wrote: Exactly why I'm leaving. You prefer to spread and force your religion on to people, No we don't. One of the defining principles of free software is that nobody is forced into anything. And we never do it. In fact that

Re: Icecat crash

On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 05:44:43PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 11:12:45PM +0100, Julien Lepiller wrote: > Hey, I'm also experiencing crashes with icecat since a few months. It > just seems to happen randomly. I've found a note about that on the LFS >

Re: [PATCH] build: Fix errors in "make dist"

On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 03:48:45PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote: On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 09:46:19PM +0100, John Darrington wrote: > On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 03:37:36PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote: > On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 08:29:18PM +0100, John Darrington

Re: [PATCH] build: Fix errors in "make dist"

On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 03:37:36PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote: On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 08:29:18PM +0100, John Darrington wrote: > * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Remove build-aux/hydra/demo-os.scm > * gnu/packages/patches/vdirsyncer-test-suite-slow-machines.patch: Remove &

Re: [PATCH] build: Fix errors in "make dist"

On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 03:37:36PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote: On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 08:29:18PM +0100, John Darrington wrote: > * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Remove build-aux/hydra/demo-os.scm > * gnu/packages/patches/vdirsyncer-test-suite-slow-machines.patch: Remove &

[PATCH] build: Fix errors in "make dist"

* Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Remove build-aux/hydra/demo-os.scm * gnu/packages/patches/vdirsyncer-test-suite-slow-machines.patch: Remove "/gnu/store/..." --- Makefile.am| 1 - gnu/packages/patches/vdirsyncer-test-suite-slow-machines.patch | 2 +-

Re: [PATCH] installer: Only build if guile-ncurses is available.

It looks good to me. Feel free to push to wip-installer J' On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 05:43:18PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: Hi John, the following patch ensures that Guix can be built without the installer in case guile-ncurses is not available. This is primarily for the

Re: ANNOUNCE: Guix on Aarch64 !!

Great work! I'm looking forward to trying it. J' On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 04:32:18PM +0200, Efraim Flashner wrote: Its my pleasure to announce that guix now has all the code necessary to support aarch64! Currently support is limited to the core-updates branch, but that shouldn't be

Re: Leaving the guix project

On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 09:59:05AM +0100, Tomas Cech wrote: Running GuixSD on HW not fully supported by linux-libre is painful for me as well. I remember my first time success with GuixSD - after some coffee and sweating I managed to deploy and boot GuixSD on my notebook which

Re: Leaving the guix project

On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 01:56:04PM +0100, David Craven wrote: > I think if you posit a free software project that works in the way you > describe ("on its own"), it would work very much like Guile works > right now. An operating system has to work on all hardware. Asking

Re: Broken tests

On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 06:15:08PM +0100, David Craven wrote: Hi! > Revert "import: json: Explicitly ask for JSON data." > This reverts commit 81e0bc1834490a1a8092c75a0733b15c2b407285. I reverted this commit in my local repository for now, it breaks the pypi,

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Free firmware - A redefinition of the term and a new metric for it's measurement.

On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 11:02:29PM -0800, Maxim Cournoyer wrote: Hi, Christopher Howard writes: > On 02/10/2017 08:31 AM, David Craven wrote: >> Hi Maxim >> >>> +1. I don't see how having blobs helps security at all. >>

FAIL: tests/cpan.scm, tests/gem.scm, tests/pypi.scm, tests/crate.scm

After merging a very recent master, I get four test failures when running make check: FAIL: tests/pypi.scm FAIL: tests/cpan.scm FAIL: tests/gem.scm FAIL: tests/crate.scm Looking in test-suite.log there is the rather odd messge: actual-value: #f actual-error: + (wrong-number-of-args + #f +

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add tlp.

On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 01:49:07PM +0100, Ludovic Court??s wrote: John Darrington <j...@darrington.wattle.id.au> skribis: > On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 10:01:18PM +0100, Mathieu Othacehe wrote: > > +(home-page "http://linrunne

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add tlp.

On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 10:01:18PM +0100, Mathieu Othacehe wrote: +(home-page "http://linrunner.de/en/tlp/tlp.html;) +(synopsis "Power management tool for Linux") +(description "TLP is a power management tool for Linux. It comes with Shouldn't we changed "Linux" to

Re: Warning on using GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH

On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 01:30:48PM +, Pjotr Prins wrote: @FOSDEM we concluded that GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH does not necessarily work that wel. I added to my guix-notes the following: +Note that, even though GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH can be a feasible way of +adding and maintaining

Bug in Texlive ??

Yesterday I did "guix package --upgrade" and now, a simple latex file: \documentclass{article} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \begin {document} This is a test. \end {document} fails with /gnu/store/161gb51263qn8kydvdcd3jq6bcax3abf-texlive-texmf-minimal-2016/share/texmf-dist/web2c/mktexnam: Could

Re: [PATCH 1/2] gnu: Add openvswitch.

On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 09:56:15PM +0800, ? wrote: * gnu/packages/networking.scm (openvswitch): New variable. --- gnu/packages/networking.scm | 54 + 1 file changed, 54 insertions(+) diff --git

Re: A postinst equivalent in Guix?

On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 02:15:12PM +0100, Ludovic Court??s wrote: Christopher Allan Webber skribis: > Ludovic Court??s writes: > >> Georgi Kirilov skribis: >> >>> On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 04:34:55PM +0100,

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

It now supports btrfs. Feel free to give it a whirl. J' On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 02:24:53PM +0100, David Craven wrote: Hi John, I looked at adding btrfs support, -- Avoid eavesdropping. Send strong encrypted email. PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3 fingerprint = 8797 A26D

Not patching shebang in git hook samples ?

The git package ships with a number of sample hook files. These are shell scripts and therefore the #!/bin/sh line gets substituted at build time. However these files get installed into every git repostory that is created, and users are invited to use them as templates for their own hooks.

Re: FOSDEM social dinner

On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 02:27:11PM +0100, Alex Sassmannshausen wrote: Hello, To confirm, I've now placed a reservation for Saturday 4 February at 19:30 at a Lebanese restaurant called Al Jannah. I haven't been there before, but the menu looks diverse, the prices good and

Re: A postinst equivalent in Guix?

On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 08:30:26PM +0200, Georgi Kirilov wrote: Hi, is there anything in Guix that can do things at install time, like postinst scripts in Debian? A program in a package I created is trying to access /var, but has no permissions. (Well,

Re: ABI break!

On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 11:52:35PM +0100, Ludovic Court??s wrote: l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Court??s) skribis: > Pushed with tests as 384344198dcaa97847e66d3dd82f279ede08d690. And if you get a weird error when running ???make??? about ???file-system-needed-for-boot,

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 01:20:56AM -0800, Chris Marusich wrote: John Darrington <j...@darrington.wattle.id.au> writes: > * It would be great if you could try to find out why your wireless failed. I'll look into it. FWIW, the following DOES work for sett

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Mark /gnu/store as needed for boot.

On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 11:24:30PM +0100, Ludovic Court??s wrote: Then maybe this: (define (file-system-needed-for-boot? fs) (or (%file-system-needed-for-boot? fs) (and (file-prefix? (file-system-needed-for-boot? fs)

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 10:34:02AM +0100, Ludovic Court??s wrote: Hi! Regarding networking, would it make sense to use Connman (or NetworkManger? or Wicd?) and simply talk to it? I???ve never used it but it seems that Connman is a good middle ground. We can

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 01:20:56AM -0800, Chris Marusich wrote: --8<---cut here---start->8--- config_file="$(mktemp --tmpdir wireless-X.cfg)" trap "rm -f $config_file" EXIT cat > "$config_file" << EOM network={

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Mark /gnu/store as needed for boot.

On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 10:53:02AM +0100, David Craven wrote: > will erroneously return #t when (file-system-mount-point fs) evaluates > to "/gn" and (%store-directory) to "/gnu/store". Will it not??? The trick is to revert the arguments: (string-prefix?

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

Hi Chris, Thanks for this very comprehensive feedback. I hope you will forgive me if I don't respond to every point you have raised. I have however read them all, and they are all relevant and useful. So thanks very much. Some particular points however: * Currently there is no mouse support

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Mark /gnu/store as needed for boot.

On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 10:30:43PM +0100, Ludovic Court??s wrote: > * gnu/system/file-systems.scm (all-subpaths): New procedure. > (file-system-needed-for-boot?): Use it to check for ancestors > of %store-directory. I guess the idea is to have ???needed-for-boot

Re: [PATCH] gnu: services: Add redis-service

On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 09:22:01AM -0500, Thompson, David wrote: I'm seeing a trend where people write services with configuration types that don't cover nearly the amount of configuration options to make the service useful. MySQL, and now this Redis server, are examples of

Re: guix system reconfigure can not work.

On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 04:48:20PM +0800, tumashu wrote: "guix system reconfigure" can't work well in my machine now, the below is output: -- bash-4.4$ sudo guix system reconfigure guixsd-helper.scm

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Mark /gnu/store as needed for boot.

On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 12:59:20AM -0800, Chris Marusich wrote: Is this procedure supposed to work with relative paths? I get strange results for "foo/bar": No. It was not indended to be passed a relative path. I cannot see what meaning that would have - it raises the question

Re: Re: About flashplayer

On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 03:06:41PM +0800, tumashu wrote: If we can package Adobe Flash Player, can we package a installer-helper, like: https://packages.debian.org/stretch/flashplugin-nonfree But as Chris said, unfortunately we cannot. :( -- Avoid eavesdropping. Send strong

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 09:40:17PM -0800, Chris Marusich wrote: John Darrington <j...@darrington.wattle.id.au> writes: > The wip-installer branch is ready for testing and general review. > > This branch provides a curses based graphical interface to the dis

Re: [PATCH 0/2] ImageMagick 7

On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 05:11:03PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote: On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 03:18:38PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote: > So, I think we should carefully check each package that uses ImageMagick > directly to see if they are ready. We can check their commit logs and > bug

Re: [PATCH] gnu: ed: Replace with 1.14.1 [fixes security issues].

Why bother with the replacement? Why not just upgrade it? J' On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 09:13:53PM +0100, Marius Bakke wrote: * gnu/packages/ed.scm (ed-1.14.1): New variable. (ed)[replacement]: New field. --- gnu/packages/ed.scm | 13 + 1 file changed, 13

[PATCH 3/4] gnu: xfd: Remove wrapper.

* gnu/packages/xorg.scm (xfd): Remove wrapper. --- gnu/packages/xorg.scm | 12 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/gnu/packages/xorg.scm b/gnu/packages/xorg.scm index 16eb344..45ff4c9 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/xorg.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/xorg.scm @@ -4015,19

[PATCH 1/4] gnu: xfontsel: Simplify definition.

/packages/xorg.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/xorg.scm @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ ;;; Copyright © 2016 ng0 <n...@we.make.ritual.n0.is> ;;; Copyright © 2016 Alex Kost <alez...@gmail.com> ;;; Copyright © 2016 David Craven <da...@craven.ch> -;;; Copyright © 2016 John Darrington <j...@gnu.org> +;;

[PATCH 2/4] gnu: editres: Use %app-defaults-dir.

* gnu/packages/xorg.scm (editres): Replace string literal with %app-defaults-dir. --- gnu/packages/xorg.scm | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/gnu/packages/xorg.scm b/gnu/packages/xorg.scm index 556b9f4..16eb344 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/xorg.scm +++

[PATCH 4/4] gnu: xfig: Use modify-phases.

* gnu/packages/xfig.scm (xfig): Use modify-phases. --- gnu/packages/xfig.scm | 159 +- 1 file changed, 79 insertions(+), 80 deletions(-) diff --git a/gnu/packages/xfig.scm b/gnu/packages/xfig.scm index 6436e52..27d9cf9 100644 ---

[PATCH] gnu: Mark /gnu/store as needed for boot.

* gnu/system/file-systems.scm (all-subpaths): New procedure. (file-system-needed-for-boot?): Use it to check for ancestors of %store-directory. --- gnu/system/file-systems.scm | 25 ++--- 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git

[PATCH] gnu: Mark /gnu/store as needed for boot.

* gnu/system/file-systems.scm (all-subpaths): New procedure. (file-system-needed-for-boot?): Use it to check for ancestors of %store-directory. --- gnu/system/file-systems.scm | 25 ++--- 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git

network-interface-names-*

The procedures exported from guix/build/syscalls : network-interface-names network-interface-flags set-network-interface-flags network-interface-netmask .. and possibily a few others all take an argument called "sock" or "socket". In the case of network-interface-names this parameter is

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 09:39:01AM +0100, Ludovic Court??s wrote: John Darrington <j...@darrington.wattle.id.au> skribis: > On Sun, Jan 08, 2017 at 11:34:26PM +0100, Ludovic Court??s wrote: [...] >2. Pressing F9 (language) replaces line

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

On Sun, Jan 08, 2017 at 11:34:26PM +0100, Ludovic Court??s wrote: I did a quick test and I think it???s pretty cool. :-) Thanks. A few issues I noticed: 1. ???Go Back??? often doesn???t go back (for instance from the ???Choose the mount point for

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