Re: Disabling authentication checks for tests in local Guix checkouts

2024-06-17 Thread Suhail Singh
under > ~/.cache/guix/checkouts. Thank you for the detailed explanation. > Maybe a specific environment variable would do? Perhaps. What is the threat model of the attacker? -- Suhail

Re: Disabling authentication checks for tests in local Guix checkouts

2024-06-17 Thread Suhail Singh
it/config under guix "authentication") and the code updated to read the preference from there. -- Suhail

Re: doc: installation: fix ~root confusion (was Re: doc: Removing much of Binary Installation)

2024-03-10 Thread Suhail Singh
bian, correct? Or is that not the case? In other words, on Debian, does the systemd unit reference =/var/guix/profiles/per-user/root/current-guix/bin/guix-daemon= ? -- Suhail

Re: doc: Removing much of Binary Installation

2024-03-06 Thread Suhail Singh
Suhail Singh writes: > FWIW, as an openSUSE Tumbleweed user, I believe Tumbleweed users who > don't care if there is an easy way to uninstall Guix would be better > served by using =guix-install.sh= as opposed to =zypper=. Btw, for completeness, on Tumbleweed, the user needs to

Re: doc: Removing much of Binary Installation

2024-03-06 Thread Suhail Singh
h, in my opinion, is the lesser evil. On a related note, it would help if Guix would install manpages in addition to infopages. Not sure if this omission constitutes a bug or a missing feature. -- Suhail

Re: You're invited to the first patch review session!

2024-03-01 Thread Suhail
tsi. > > Will the Jitsi link be shared somewhere (here, irc, ...) for those of us who > are > not able to sign up on the page? Could the Jitsi link also be shared on the mailing list and/or noted on the libreplanet wiki? -- Suhail

Re: Guix Days: Patch flow discussion

2024-02-17 Thread Suhail
applied, either by the QA mechanism or a reviewer. Assuming there aren't any objections to these tags, what are the next steps? If my understanding of Debbugs Usertags is correct it seems we can simply start using them? Though noting the above in the manual would be helpful. However, that still leaves open the issue of how the automated setting of tags is accomplished. Thoughts? -- Suhail

Re: Debbugs update

2024-02-06 Thread Suhail
meone speaking on behalf of FSF) in it. -- Suhail

Re: Guix Days: Patch flow discussion

2024-02-06 Thread Suhail
Please let me know in case the issue persists, or you notice others (though, perhaps, off list). -- Suhail

Re: Guix Days: Patch flow discussion

2024-02-06 Thread Suhail
ing the above tools at present? Or are there some reasons (over and above their lack of familiarity with the above tools) that would prevent them from doing so? -- Suhail

Re: Guix Days: Patch flow discussion

2024-02-06 Thread Suhail
k to the bug with a > diff - showing what was done. I see. Thank you for sharing. I believe being more didactic with "new users" would be good for the community. -- Suhail

Re: Guix Days: Patch flow discussion

2024-02-06 Thread Suhail
ml_node/Debbugs-Usertags.html> > It would be great to agree those - try them for a bit - and document > them in a 'howto' so that everyone uses the same process. In addition to documenting the tags in the "Debbugs Usertags" section of the manual, it would help for there to be a "howto" which focuses more on the transition between the tags (i.e., the contribution workflow). -- Suhail

Re: Guix Days: Patch flow discussion

2024-02-05 Thread Suhail
e on <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/>. While "forges" provide both of the above in some form, they may not be the only way to accomplish the above. -- Suhail

Re: Guix Days: Patch flow discussion

2024-02-05 Thread Suhail
happen some times when warranted. Or that, 2. it happens far too rarely today, and should happen more often. Or that, 3. committers should never ask for revisions? -- Suhail

Re: Guix Days: Patch flow discussion

2024-02-05 Thread Suhail
ifficulties you encountered wrt the "current mail-based workflow" are summarized. Is the difficulty regd. checking out the code at the right commit and installing the patches, or something else? -- Suhail

Re: Guix Days: Patch flow discussion

2024-02-05 Thread Suhail
eir email) - patch *needs followup review* (automatically set if there's a revised patch) - patch has a *satisfied reviewer* (set explicitly by the reviewer, say, by using a specific keyword in their email) -- Suhail

Re: August/November update on qa.guix.gnu.org and related things

2023-11-03 Thread Suhail
"Tomas Volf" <~@wolfsden.cz> writes: > On 2023-11-02 16:38:29 +, Suhail wrote: >> [..] >> -- >> Suhail >> >> This email is not an offer capable of acceptance, does not evidence an >> intention to enter into an agreement, has no ope

Re: August/November update on qa.guix.gnu.org and related things

2023-11-02 Thread Suhail
vailable quite helpful. In case the intent is to make it easier for newcomers to the project (i.e., those who've not yet internalized this knowledge) to contribute, providing such prototypical examples by linking to commits, descriptions etc in the existing source tree would help. -- Suhail This e

Re: August/November update on qa.guix.gnu.org and related things

2023-11-02 Thread Suhail
s will really help speed up getting things reviewed > and merged. Is there a document that outlines how to get started and/or pre-requisites that one must have before reviewing certain aspects? -- Suhail This email is not an offer capable of acceptance, does not evidence an intention to enter i

Re: guix shell init

2023-10-28 Thread Suhail
"jgart" writes: > It would create a basic manifest.scm or guix.scm file for the user. what would the "basic" manifest.scm or guix.scm do? could you share a sample of what it would look like? -- Suhail This email is not an offer capable of acceptance, does not evidenc

Re: guix shell init

2023-10-28 Thread Suhail
-specific, and more generally "situation-specific", templates - [optional] allows the appropriate template to be automatically selected - allows the user to specify the template they desire cheers -- Suhail This email is not an offer capable of acceptance, does not evidence an intention to

Re: GUI for Guix

2023-10-05 Thread Suhail Singh
Ludovic Courtès writes: > The only thing broken for me is completion in shell-mode FWIW, as an alternative, emacs-bash-completion (<https://github.com/szermatt/emacs-bash-completion>) works quite well for completion in shell-mode. I unintern pcomplete/guix and use it in its stead. -- Suhail

Re: GUI for Guix

2023-10-04 Thread Suhail Singh
better than before. IMO it would help to document the minimal configuration that's needed to make emacs-guix work as intended. And for this to be testable via some "guix shell -C" invocation which is also documented. -- Suhail