Re: Come back and graphical installer

2018-11-18 Thread swedebugia
On 2018-11-18 04:21, Mathieu Othacehe wrote: Hey, Here they are: /gnu/store/xlsn612abqz25gl0bxdxdpax9z8ngaxn-module-import ├── gnu │ └── installer Ok, so its where the problem is, somehow scheme-modules in the 'modules' procedure of (gnu installer newt) fails to load most of the modules. I

Re: Preparing the reduced bootstrap tarballs

2018-11-18 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Jan Nieuwenhuizen writes: >> If you want, before pushing this patch, you can first push the one >> above. From there I (and possibly others!) will run “guix build >> bootstrap-tarballs” and make sure we get the same result as you did. > > Great, done. I missed > >

Re: 01/03: llvm: Build with RTTI by default.

2018-11-18 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi Eric, ericbav...@centurylink.net (Eric Bavier) writes: > bavier pushed a commit to branch master > in repository guix. > > commit fc9dbf41311d99d0fd8befc789ea7c0e35911890 > Author: Eric Bavier > Date: Fri Oct 5 22:58:43 2018 -0500 > > llvm: Build with RTTI by default. > >

Re: 01/03: llvm: Build with RTTI by default.

2018-11-18 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi Mark, Hi Eric, it might be a spurious failure, see https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/43402 . > I would suggest simply reverting both of these commits for now, and > building this change out on another branch, possibly 'core-updates'. I think that quite a few big important packages

Re: Preparing the reduced bootstrap tarballs

2018-11-18 Thread Jeremiah
> However, my impression (correct me if I'm wrong) is that we are not yet > able to bootstrap Guix exclusively from M2-Planet. That is correct as the step of bootstrapping MesCC from M2-Planet is not yet complete. However once that is done, we can leverage Mes.c and gash to complete the bootstrap

Re: Preparing the reduced bootstrap tarballs

2018-11-18 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi, jerem...@pdp10.guru writes: >> However, my impression (correct me if I'm wrong) is that we are not yet >> able to bootstrap Guix exclusively from M2-Planet. > That is correct as the step of bootstrapping MesCC from M2-Planet is not > yet complete. > However once that is done, we can leverage

Fixing LibreOffice on ‘core-updates’

2018-11-18 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Guix, As briefly discussed with Marius on IRC, we both tried to fix LibreOffice on ‘core-updates’. The initial problem is that some of the libraries it depends on fail to build with the new Boost. I started upgrading the whole shebang but eventually got stuck with LibreOffice itself,

Re: Come back and graphical installer

2018-11-18 Thread swedebugia
Hi On 2018-11-18 20:43, Thorsten Wilms wrote: snip +1 to all Thorstens suggestions. In addition I was reminded of the debian installer. Could we change the colors from blue/red to something more outstanding? black/yellow? :) GuixSD really stands out to me so having the colors reflect this

Re: Come back and graphical installer

2018-11-18 Thread Thorsten Wilms
Hi Guix! On 16/11/2018 14.20, Mathieu Othacehe wrote: I feel that now is a good time to gather remarks/ideas/patches before diving into the last part. Plus, I'm terrible UI design so any help tuning logo, colors and button placement would be much appreciated :) Ah, this reminds me of 2007,

Re: Come back and graphical installer

2018-11-18 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Mathieu, I gave the installer a try in ‘guix system vm’ from commit 2bc8f10a35f24ecfa9f0be6b1e26b4f7af0a275c: impressive piece of work! I agree with most of Thorsten’s suggestions, but I think we can address them incrementally. It’s already nice IMO. In ‘guix system vm’ the process stopped

Re: 01/03: llvm: Build with RTTI by default.

2018-11-18 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Mark H Weaver skribis: > ericbav...@centurylink.net (Eric Bavier) writes: > >> bavier pushed a commit to branch master >> in repository guix. >> >> commit fc9dbf41311d99d0fd8befc789ea7c0e35911890 >> Author: Eric Bavier >> Date: Fri Oct 5 22:58:43 2018 -0500 >> >> llvm: Build with

Re: Come back and graphical installer

2018-11-18 Thread Mathieu Othacehe
Hi swedebugia, Thanks for your feedback. > In addition I was reminded of the debian installer. Could we change > the colors from blue/red to something more outstanding? black/yellow? > :) Yes I use the same library (newt) so the look is really close. Yes it is totally possible to customize

Re: Come back and graphical installer

2018-11-18 Thread Mathieu Othacehe
Hi Ludo, > I gave the installer a try in ‘guix system vm’ from commit > 2bc8f10a35f24ecfa9f0be6b1e26b4f7af0a275c: impressive piece of work! Thanks a lot :) > In ‘guix system vm’ the process stopped after trying to use “wired” > network. At that point I realized I couldn’t switch to other VCs

Re: 01/03: llvm: Build with RTTI by default.

2018-11-18 Thread Eric Bavier
On Mon, 19 Nov 2018 00:05:18 +0100 l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote: > Hello, > > Mark H Weaver skribis: > > > ericbav...@centurylink.net (Eric Bavier) writes: > > > >> bavier pushed a commit to branch master > >> in repository guix. > >> > >> commit

Re: Come back and graphical installer

2018-11-18 Thread Mathieu Othacehe
Hi Thorsten, > I know what's there right now didn't fall from the sky and there's > effort to every little change. If any of the following reads like a > demand or demanding to you, please be assured that I just tried to get > straight to the point in what essentially are just suggestions.

Re: Preparing the reduced bootstrap tarballs

2018-11-18 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Mark H Weaver writes: > Anyway, I've answered my own question by looking at: > > > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/make-bootstrap.scm?h=core-updates-next=d9ed0a46301e259c3082fcc67678e72ceae19a2d#n778 > > which indicates to me that although gcc, binutils, and glibc