Re: Linux-Libre-LTS

2020-12-27 Thread Raghav Gururajan
Hi Mark! > > I have one concern. > > It seems to me that the main reason to specify an LTS kernel is to avoid > the unscheduled breakage that can occur when updating to a new kernel > release series (i.e. to a new major+minor version). Using > "linux-libre-lts" would fail to avoid these

Apply for commit access

2020-12-27 Thread Peng Mei Yu
Hi, Can I apply for commit access to guix-artwork.git? I may make changes to the Chinese translation and fix small bugs like this one: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/45416. Additional access to guix.git will also be great. I won't make frequent commits. My login name on Savannah is pmy. A PGP

Re: [bug#45252] [PATCH] gnu: libffi: Add unreleased patch to fix float128 on powerpc64le., [bug#45252] [PATCH] gnu: libffi: Add unreleased patch to fix float128 on powerpc64le., [bug#45252] [PATCH] gn

2020-12-27 Thread Chris Marusich
Hi, Efraim Flashner writes: > "regular powerpc", ie macppc/ppc32/powerpc-linux-gnu, does have some > bootstrap binaries built but isn't near ready for merging. Go ahead and > make any changes necessary. Mark H Weaver writes: > Hi Efraim, > > Efraim Flashner writes: >> "regular powerpc", ie

Re: Identical files across subsequent package revisions

2020-12-27 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas skribis: > Another idea that might fit well into that kind of protocol---with > harder impact on the design, and probably with a high cost on the > runtime---would be the "upgrade" of the deduplication process towards a > content-based file system as git does[2].

Re: Identical files across subsequent package revisions

2020-12-27 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! zimoun skribis: > What I wanted to illustrate is “revision” does not mean “new version“ > and I do not know what is the typical usage by people; aside Guix > dev. :-) > > How many times per week or month people are doing “guix pull && guix > upgrade” almost blindly without reviewing what is

Re: Word order in Guix l10n

2020-12-27 Thread Ludovic Courtès
¡Hola! Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas skribis: > From 2615934a2c377858dce2a0410982287faed754a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: =?UTF-8?q?Miguel=20=C3=81ngel=20Arruga=20Vivas?= > > Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2020 13:07:38 +0100 > Subject: [PATCH] nls: Add comment about format directives. > > * gnu.scm

Re: Linux-Libre-LTS

2020-12-27 Thread Bengt Richter
Hi Mark, et al, On +2020-12-24 21:24:17 -0500, Mark H Weaver wrote: > Hi Jonathan, > > Jonathan Brielmaier writes: > > > On 24.12.20 11:15, Mark H Weaver wrote: > >>> Thoughts? > >> > >> I have one concern. > >> I have several :) 1. Abuse of the english word "stable" ISTM the

Guile-zstd 0.1.0 released

2020-12-27 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! I’m pleased to announce the first release of Guile-zstd: git clone https://notabug.org/guile-zstd/guile-zstd cd guile-zstd git checkout v0.1.0 # or 0d830f53e2a2bb71799aeda4be7101a09d060f99 git tag -v v0.1.0 The ‘git tag -v’ command checks the authenticity of your checkout. You may

Guile-zstd 0.1.1 released

2020-12-27 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Ludovic Courtès skribis: > I’m pleased to announce the first release of Guile-zstd: Oops, a file was missing from the repo, so here’s a brand new release! git clone https://notabug.org/guile-zstd/guile-zstd cd guile-zstd git checkout v0.1.1 # or f853c8eb81088f8fbf33d38e62cddea9a4984180

Re: Guile-zstd 0.1.1 released

2020-12-27 Thread Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi Ludo, that’s pretty cool! Thank you! Looking at the readme I get the feeling that two little helpers could be useful: (call-with-zstd-output-file "compressed.zstd" (lambda (port) (define data ;; Read the input file in memory. (call-with-input-file