Splitting up packages, targeting smaller/older devices

I've been pondering installing Guix onto some of my devices that have tiny amounts of storage. I have an old desktop PC that had an old version of Uhu Linux on it on a mere 4 gigs of HDD space. Full graphical desktop, office suite, etc. A minimal Guix install can just barely fit on it, but can't

Re: [Outreachy] - Guix Data Service - Set a more informative page title

Thanks for your quick response. >Why's the @ being removed here? It interprets like an HTML code when I use the page-header like `,page-header, so I removed it. According to your comment, I reverted to the original version. " 'GET repository..." which includes package/package-name in the URL has

Re: bug#47867: [1.2.1 pre-release testing] substitute downloading and TLS errors

On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 11:48:47AM +0200, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 11:44:25AM +0200, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > > But now after maybe 10 minutes it finally continued and died with the > > same TLS error about write_to_session_record_port and Resource not

Re: wip-ungrafting builds stuck

Hello, > Any idea what could be wrong, Mathieu? What would you suggest to do > when investigating such issues? Yes I noticed it. The main problem here is that almost all workers are stuck building Rust. I see two possible actions here. 1. Understand why Rust is taking so long to build. 2.

Re: Outreachy - Guix Data Service: implementing basic json output for derivation comparison page

Hi, On Sat, 17 Apr 2021 18:45:14 +0100 Christopher Baines wrote: > Some more things to think about: > > - Variable naming, what does the "matched" in matched outputs mean? >(same goes for the other "matched" things) The name matched would refer to the match function, but I changed to

Re: Outreachy - Guix Data Service: implementing basic json output for derivation comparison page

On Sun, 18 Apr 2021 13:12:07 + Luciana Lima Brito wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, 17 Apr 2021 18:45:14 +0100 > Christopher Baines wrote: > > > Some more things to think about: > > > > - Variable naming, what does the "matched" in matched outputs mean? > >(same goes for the other "matched"

Re: bug#47867: [1.2.1 pre-release testing] substitute downloading and TLS errors

On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 11:44:25AM +0200, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > But now after maybe 10 minutes it finally continued and died with the > same TLS error about write_to_session_record_port and Resource not > available. The error happened while substitute: updating substitutes from […]

Re: bug#47867: [1.2.1 pre-release testing] substitute downloading and TLS errors

Hi Florian, "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" skribis: > On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 10:40:55PM -0500, jcguu95 wrote: >>2.2. Unexpected failure >> >>After running `guix system init /mnt/etc/config.scm /mnt' for 5 to 10 >>minutes, I got the error >> >>, >>|substitute:

Re: wip-ungrafting builds stuck

Hello, > Any idea what could be wrong, Mathieu? What would you suggest to do > when investigating such issues? Yes I noticed it. The main problem here is that almost all workers are stuck building Rust. I see two actions here: 1. Understand why Rust is taking so long to build. 2. Implement

Re: 1.2.1 pre-release testing

Not sure if it's appropriate to say here.. but when I was installing, there was non-free kernel in my machine. And that's why my wifi was working. My machine is Lenovo's b50-80, which isn't on the site. >

Re: New 'version-1.3.0' branch and lifting string freeze on master

Hi Ludovic, Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hi, > > Maxim Cournoyer skribis: > >> With the remaining issues to be tackled for the current release (v1.3.0) >> due tomorrow, I think we may need a bit of extra time to fix them and do >> more testing. These are the remaining issues (obtained by

go-build-system possible improvments

Hello, I come back to public guix-devel as I think it can be of interest to others too. On Sat, Apr 17, 2021 at 08:57:03PM -0400, Maxim Cournoyer wrote: > JOULAUD François writes: > > > I am still unsure of what to do with versions and Go but the ability to > > pin version will surely be useful

Re: 1.2.1 pre-release testing

On Sat, Apr 17, 2021 at 07:09:59PM -0500, Guu, Jin-Cheng wrote: > Not sure if it's appropriate to say here.. but when I was installing, > there was non-free kernel in my machine. And that's why my wifi was > working. If I remember correctly, on some machines the wifi only works after a reboot

[1.2.1 pre-release testing] substitute downloading and TLS errors

On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 10:40:55PM -0500, jcguu95 wrote: >2.2. Unexpected failure > >After running `guix system init /mnt/etc/config.scm /mnt' for 5 to 10 >minutes, I got the error > >, >|substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.gnu.org'... > 0.0%guix

Re: bug#47867: [1.2.1 pre-release testing] substitute downloading and TLS errors

On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 11:38:56AM +0200, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > I needed to restart the installer at the last step, this stopped while > downloading enlightenment with no error but it does not continue. Note: The last message was enlightenment-0.24.2 27.0MiB

Re: bug#47867: [1.2.1 pre-release testing] substitute downloading and TLS errors

On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 12:15:47PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Was this in a VM? No, an Asrock Beebox (real x86_64 hardware). > Could it be that networking was unstable (e.g., you > were running this over a flaky WiFi connection)? It is a stable Ethernet connection. > How reproducible is

Re: [Outreachy] - Guix Data Service - Set a more informative page title

Hi Chris, I've updated the patch that contains all the suggestions. I think the patch is ready to merge. One thing that I would like to ask you about the package and package-name in web/repository/controller.scm. When I test the URL below I'm getting this error. (

Re: bug#47615: [PATCH 0/9] Add 32-bit powerpc support

On Sat, Apr 17, 2021 at 12:51:01PM -0700, Chris Marusich wrote: > Efraim Flashner writes: > > > * gnu/packages/base.scm (binutils)[arguments]: Add phase on > > powerpc-linux to adjust the test suite. > > * gnu/packages/commencement.scm (binutils-boot0)[arguments]: Move custom > > phases after

wip-ungrafting builds stuck

Hi! The ‘wip-ungrafting’ branch that Leo set up has been building for ~36h. It was at 26% 24h hours ago and it’s now stuck at 33%, even though all but two workers are idle. shows that many x86_64 builds are missing. Any idea what could be wrong,

Re: New 'version-1.3.0' branch and lifting string freeze on master

Hi, Maxim Cournoyer skribis: > With the remaining issues to be tackled for the current release (v1.3.0) > due tomorrow, I think we may need a bit of extra time to fix them and do > more testing. These are the remaining issues (obtained by pressing the > 'b' key in Emacs Debbugs while visiting

Re: bug#47867: [1.2.1 pre-release testing] substitute downloading and TLS errors

On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 01:33:37PM +0200, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > (well with an unrelated error by > grub-install that it could not determine the canonical path of > /boot/efi). Probably > I will try reproducing, but Jin and me both had this > error. I got the error again with

Re: wip-ungrafting builds stuck

Mathieu Othacehe writes: >> Any idea what could be wrong, Mathieu? What would you suggest to do >> when investigating such issues? > > Yes I noticed it. The main problem here is that almost all workers are > stuck building Rust. > > I see two actions here: > > 1. Understand why Rust is taking

Guix Packaging Meetup - Saturday, April 24, 2021 from 14:00 EST (18:00 PM UTC)

Hi Guix! LibreMiami is hosting a guix packaging meetup next Saturday, April 24 at 14:00 EST. The format for the meetup will involve talking over mumble while pair programming over tmate. Feel free to package with us, watch via the livestream, or just chat with over mumble. Here's the

Re: [Outreachy] - Guix Data Service - Set a more informative page title

Canan Talayhan writes: > I've updated the patch that contains all the suggestions. I think the patch > is ready to merge. > > One thing that I would like to ask you about the package and package-name > in web/repository/controller.scm. > > When I test the URL below I'm getting this error. ( >

Re: Outreachy - Guix Data Service: implementing basic json output for derivation comparison page

Hi, On Sun, 18 Apr 2021 17:34:13 +0100 Christopher Baines wrote: > I think it might be good to do something, just to narrow the scope. > The outputs binding is valid for the whole let*, and all the code in > it, but is only used on three lines, in one single place. Maybe there > could be a let

Re: Outreachy - Guix Data Service: implementing basic json output for derivation comparison page

Luciana Lima Brito writes: > Hi, > > On Sat, 17 Apr 2021 18:45:14 +0100 > Christopher Baines wrote: > >> Some more things to think about: >> >> - Variable naming, what does the "matched" in matched outputs mean? >>(same goes for the other "matched" things) > > The name matched would refer

Guix help page

Hello, I think we could add a link to the devel doc [1] (with the appropriate warnings) to the "all help" page. WDYT ? [1] https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/ -- Vincent Legoll