Re: 01/01: hydra: Increase image sizes for USB image and Flash image.

2018-12-14 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Leo Famulari skribis: > On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 09:17:23AM +0100, Giovanni Biscuolo wrote: >> > I’m in favour of moving them elsewhere, such as %desktop-services. >> >> yes please: sound related services are not-so-base, we do not need them >> on installation/web/mail/DNS et. al servers

Re: French translation of manual

2018-12-14 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Salut Simon ! The top of the manual at contains instructions on how to join Julien on this cool endeavor. Bonne traduction ! :-) Ludo’.

Re: GC Warning: Out of Memory

2018-12-14 Thread Manolis Ragkousis
Hello Ludo, On 12/14/18 1:02 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > You must be using a personal branch, no? It seems that ‘master’ cannot > be used natively on GNU/Hurd because we lack binaries under > gnu/packages/bootstrap/i586-gnu: > > --8<---cut here---start->8---

Re: Using a CDN or some other mirror?

2018-12-14 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Talking about this, I recently discussed with Ludovic the idea of compressing nars in Lzip instead of gzip. http://lzip.nongnu.org/lzip.html (benchmark included) I can work on some Lzip guile-bindings, it should be quite easy, then we could save some 10-50% (!!!) disk usage. -- Pierre

Re: Golang programs keeping references [gnu: go: Update default to 1.11.]

2018-12-14 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Pierre Neidhardt skribis: > I've investigated the possible solutions to avoid including the paths into the > binaries. > > I've found this: > > https://github.com/golang/go/issues/16860 > > It's still unresolved and only planned for Go 1.13. > > In the meantime, I've played with the

Re: GuixSD on eoma68-a20?

2018-12-14 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Danny Milosavljevic skribis: > Ye! > > flash-image just successfully built on Hydra. > > Can I have the resulting file please? > > See https://hydra.gnu.org/build/3255541/log/raw I believe you can download it by running: guix build

ENOSPC upon offloading

2018-12-14 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Danny Milosavljevic skribis: > I've tried it now and I get: > > dannym@bayfront ~/src/guix$ ./pre-inst-env guix system disk-image > --system=armhf-linux gnu/system/install.scm > ... > importing file or directory > '/gnu/store/3qrkj5zqmhnkr953xznmy96fq8i55ia5-glibc-b > ootstrap-0'... >

Re: Using a CDN or some other mirror?

2018-12-14 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Am 09.12.2018 um 14:58 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: >> I could try and ask a few organizations in my area, but I would need >> figures for this. > What would you need to know? ‘guix weather’ can provide info about > storage size. I don't know yet, which info the admins need for a decision. FMPOV I'd

Re: Guix & IPFS

2018-12-14 Thread Pjotr Prins
IPFS is working like a charm. Thanks Pierre a.o! Pj.

Re: GNU Guix & GuixSD 0.16.0 released

2018-12-14 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! Pjotr Prins skribis: > Yesterday I gave a passionate 'I love Guix' lightning talk about Guix > packages at the biohackathon in Japan. Many people after approached me > and said that the website is confusing them because it looks like it > is promoting a Linux distribution... I know this is

Re: CDN performance

2018-12-14 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Chris Marusich skribis: > Ludovic Courtès writes: [...] > Judging by that email thread, one of the reasons why Debian considered > using a CDN was because they felt that the cost, in terms of people > power, of maintaining their own "proto-CDN" infrastructure had grown too > great.

Re: GC Warning: Out of Memory

2018-12-14 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Rene, Rene skribis: > $ ./pre-inst-env guix build hello -n --verbosity=100 > ... > madvise failed: Function not implemented > madvise failed: Function not implemented > GC Warning: Failed to expand heap by 8388608 bytes > GC Warning: Failed to expand heap by 2097152 bytes > GC Warning: Out

Re: Gash and Geesh together at last

2018-12-14 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Timothy! Timothy Sample skribis: > I am very happy to announce that Gash and Geesh are merging into a > single project. Jan and I discussed this earlier today, and decided > that the time has come. We worked out a list of goodies from each > project that we should be able to zip together

Re: Guix & IPFS

2018-12-14 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Ludo and Me have played with it at the Reproducible Build summit, and it works quite well indeed! Ludo is working Guile bindings. I'll implement the service later, but I'd really like to get the first contract money first. Alicia told me there were some issues with the University because they

guix.gnu.org sub-domain

2018-12-14 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Chris, Chris Marusich skribis: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> Regarding the GNU sub-domain, as I replied to Meiyo, I’m in favor of it, >> all we need is someone to champion setting it up. > > I could help with this. Whom should I contact? We discussed this over the last few days in Paris

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

2018-12-14 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Chris Marusich skribis: > Chris Marusich writes: > >> Hi Ludo, >> >> Ludovic Courtès writes: >> >>> Chris, if you want you can push a .md file to guix-artwork.git with a >>> link to the video (for example similar to >>> ) >>>

Re: Preparing the reduced bootstrap tarballs, take 3

2018-12-14 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Mark, Mark H Weaver skribis: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> Jan Nieuwenhuizen skribis: >> >>> Ludovic Courtès writes: >>> >>> Hi! >>> I’ve just uploaded these to :

Re: bug#33676: GuixSD on eoma68-a20?

2018-12-14 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi Andreas, can you check whether dirindex (hashtables for directory) is enabled? # tune2fs -l /dev/... | grep -o dir_index See also https://blog.merovius.de/2013/10/20/ext4-mysterious-no-space-left-on.html pgp6PbcZAEg70.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Preparing the reduced bootstrap tarballs, take 3

2018-12-14 Thread Mark H Weaver
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Mark H Weaver skribis: > >> Ludovic Courtès writes: >> >>> Jan Nieuwenhuizen skribis: >>> Ludovic Courtès writes: Hi! > I’ve just uploaded these to > : > >

Re: Preparing the reduced bootstrap tarballs, take 3

2018-12-14 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Ludovic Courtès writes: >> Does our documentation include instructions on how to reproducibly build >> these new bootstrap binaries, to independently verify them? > > The build procedure remains unchanged (info "(guix) Bootstrapping"): > > guix build bootstrap-tarballs > > To verify them, you

Re: Gash and Geesh together at last

2018-12-14 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Ludovic Courtès writes: Hi! > Timothy Sample skribis: > >> I am very happy to announce that Gash and Geesh are merging into a >> single project. Jan and I discussed this earlier today, and decided >> that the time has come. We worked out a list of goodies from each >> project that we should

failed to compute the derivation for Guix, host version: "0.16.0-3.6ddc63e"

2018-12-14 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hi, today I made a guix pull on a test machine (probably I messed up something?), from root account using this command: --8<---cut here---start->8--- root@guixsdtest ~# time guix pull --dry-run > guix-pull.log 2>&1 real16m6.518s user3m6.573s sys

Re: GNU Guix & GuixSD 0.16.0 released

2018-12-14 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hi! Ludovic Courtès writes: > Pjotr Prins skribis: > >> Yesterday I gave a passionate 'I love Guix' lightning talk about Guix >> packages at the biohackathon in Japan. Many people after approached me >> and said that the website is confusing them because it looks like it >> is promoting a

Re: Using a CDN or some other mirror?

2018-12-14 Thread Chris Marusich
Hi Giovanni, Thank you for sharing some data with us! Giovanni Biscuolo writes: > measures from my office network: Italy, 20Km north Milan, FTTC > (90Mbit/sec measured bandwidth) > > measure from Berlin: > > url_effective: >

Re: 01/01: gnu: mit-scheme: Update to 10.1.3.

2018-12-14 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi Kei, guix-comm...@gnu.org writes: > kkebreau pushed a commit to branch master > in repository guix. > > commit d870cc5e8acfed6fee318a66c3ffc7244aa376a1 > Author: Kei Kebreau > Date: Thu Dec 13 08:32:50 2018 -0500 > > gnu: mit-scheme: Update to 10.1.3. > > *

Re: 16/16: doc: Discourage the use of texlive as input

2018-12-14 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
> The text looks fine but I find it a bit long and m Yeah, it can probably be worked out a bit :p > more importantly it > partly duplicates an item that’s just above :-), which mentions ‘guix > size’ but not ‘texlive’. Just above? Do you mean this one: --8<---cut

Re: French translation of manual

2018-12-14 Thread zimoun
Bonsoir Julien, Voilà un premier tiers avec quelques coquilles que j'ai trouvé. Comme je n'ai pas encore recu pour traduc.org, voilà un patch (contre bd208a13e). Je remarque que parfois c'est pré-requis et parfois prérequis. Y-a-t-il une préférence ? D'ailleurs, est-ce que c'est sur guix-devel

Re: Coq native-inputs: Useless hevea / texlive?

2018-12-14 Thread Mark H Weaver
Julien Lepiller writes: > They must have been useful in older versions, but I didn't pay > attention. If they are not needed for anything, please go ahead and > remove them! Although I sometimes use Coq, I don't know much about the Guix packaging for it, so I'm glad to trust your judgment on

Re: CDN performance

2018-12-14 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi Giovanni, Giovanni Biscuolo writes: > with a solid infrastructure of "scientifically" trustable build farms, > there are no reasons not to trust substitutes servers (this implies > working towards 100% reproducibility of GuixSD) What does "scientifically trustable" mean? Mark

Re: Using a CDN or some other mirror?

2018-12-14 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Hartmut Goebel skribis: > Am 09.12.2018 um 14:58 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: >>> I could try and ask a few organizations in my area, but I would need >>> figures for this. >> What would you need to know? ‘guix weather’ can provide info about >> storage size. > > I don't know yet, which

Fwd: Re: quicklisp importer?

2018-12-14 Thread swedebugia
Hi people All details needed to create an importer should be available below. Pierre asked off-list: > Swedebugia, would you like to give it a shot? I can help of course. Yes :) I will look into it, this seems easier now that I already learned to handle git and branches and also studied the

Re: 01/01: python: Honor '--cores=...' in tests.

2018-12-14 Thread Christopher Baines
Christopher Baines writes: > Eric Bavier writes: > >> diff --git a/gnu/packages/python.scm b/gnu/packages/python.scm >> index 2b6a064..46ce0dd 100644 >> --- a/gnu/packages/python.scm >> +++ b/gnu/packages/python.scm >> @@ -190,6 +190,9 @@ >> "--enable-unicode=ucs4" >>

Re: 01/01: python: Honor '--cores=...' in tests.

2018-12-14 Thread Christopher Baines
Eric Bavier writes: > bavier pushed a commit to branch core-updates-next > in repository guix. > > commit 5b01b6034aeab32a5011c5757f18bd9772d3497d > Author: Eric Bavier > Date: Thu Nov 1 21:18:41 2018 -0500 > > python: Honor '--cores=...' in tests. > > * gnu/packages/python.scm

Re: Golang programs keeping references [gnu: go: Update default to 1.11.]

2018-12-14 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Pierre Neidhardt skribis: > go-ipfs is fine indeed, but that's because you've just looked at the lucky > package! go-ipfs vendors all the Go dependencies, which is why there is no > extra input there and go-ipfs closure size is optimal. Oh, we should really work towards unbundling things from

Compressing nars with lzip or similar

2018-12-14 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Pierre Neidhardt skribis: > Talking about this, I recently discussed with Ludovic the idea of compressing > nars in Lzip instead of gzip. > > http://lzip.nongnu.org/lzip.html (benchmark included) > > I can work on some Lzip guile-bindings, it should be quite easy, then we could > save some

Re: Compressing nars with lzip or similar

2018-12-14 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Absolutely, but once the bindings are up and running, it should be straightforward to update (guix scripts substitute), no? -- Pierre Neidhardt https://ambrevar.xyz/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: 16/16: doc: Discourage the use of texlive as input

2018-12-14 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Pierre! guix-comm...@gnu.org skribis: > commit dc56dc025df0b7ea6915ad1061f8d189d641fe35 > Author: Pierre Neidhardt > Date: Fri Dec 14 23:06:06 2018 +0100 > > doc: Discourage the use of texlive as input > > * doc/contributing.texi (Submitting Patches): Discourage the use of >

[GWL] (random) next steps?

2018-12-14 Thread zimoun
Dear Guixers, ... or at least some of them :-) Here, I would like to collect some discussions or ideas about the Guix Workflow Language (GWL) and the next steps of this awesome tool! For those who do not know. About workflow language, Wikipedia says:

Re: 01/01: python: Honor '--cores=...' in tests.

2018-12-14 Thread Eric Bavier
On Fri, 14 Dec 2018 15:50:37 + Christopher Baines wrote: > Christopher Baines writes: > > > Eric Bavier writes: > > > >> diff --git a/gnu/packages/python.scm b/gnu/packages/python.scm > >> index 2b6a064..46ce0dd 100644 > >> --- a/gnu/packages/python.scm > >> +++