avoid Computing Guix derivation when not necessary

2023-02-10 Thread Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
Hi guix! I found an working solution to avoid waiting for the `Computing Guix derivation' part when pulling or else. Here's my snippet: ``` (use-modules (git) (guix profiles) (srfi srfi-1)) (reduce (lambda (x y) (and x y)) #f (map (lambda (x) (let* ((elts

Re: [RFC] refactoring extra-special-file; an /etc/tmpfiles/ equivalent

2023-02-10 Thread Attila Lendvai
> FTR, the "guixy way" currently is to add a service like this: as mirai kindly instructed me on IRC, even though it's a somewhat widely spread solution, this has issues, as documented in: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/60657 instead, the proper way is to add a full-fledged one-shot shepherd

[feature-request] patches on channels ?

2023-02-10 Thread Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
Hi! A few lines of context: I'm using guix and contribute for more than a year now, and I'm still perfecting my ability to contribute to it. I maintain my dotfiles open in a (more and more) minimalistic repo, while trying to work more and more directly in local copies of guix (and rde), to

Re: Google Summer of Code?

2023-02-10 Thread Gábor Boskovits
Hello, Ludovic Courtès ezt írta (időpont: 2023. febr. 8., Sze 10:03): > Hello Guix! > > Jose Marchesi applied to have GNU participate as an umbrella > organization in GSoC: > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/summer-of-code/2023-02/msg0.html > > Participation in internship programs was

Fwd: Google Summer of Code?

2023-02-10 Thread Gábor Boskovits
Hello, Sorry, guix-devel was left off CC. -- Forwarded message - Feladó: Gábor Boskovits Date: 2023. febr. 10., P 9:02 Subject: Re: Google Summer of Code? To: Simon Tournier Hello, Simon Tournier ezt írta (időpont: 2023. febr. 8., Sze 12:32): > Hi, > > On mer., 08 févr.

Re: Help adding a graph backend

2023-02-10 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello Kyle, Am Fri, Feb 10, 2023 at 03:10:02AM + schrieb Kyle Andrews: > configure: error: chosen localstatedir '/usr/local/var' does not match that > of the existing installation '/var' you should do exactly as suggested: Before running "make", configure the Guix source code not by

Re: Help adding a graph backend

2023-02-10 Thread Attila Lendvai
> Since I am not that excited about corrupting my /gnu/store given > that I don't know what I am doing, I didn't proceed further. you shouldn't worry until you actually install some packages that you have modified. a subsequent `guix gc` will delete anything you have produced into /gnu/store

Re: Google Summer of Code?

2023-02-10 Thread pukkamustard
pukkamustard writes: > I'll try and add some notes to the wiki page in the next few days. Added a project idea: https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/GSoC-2023 Comments, suggestions and co-mentors very welcome! -pukkamustard

Re: [RFC] refactoring extra-special-file; an /etc/tmpfiles/ equivalent

2023-02-10 Thread Attila Lendvai
> i want to write a string into a file at boot to disable wake-up by > my keyboard (so that it doesn't immediately wake up my laptop after > i suspend it). it requires doing this once per boot: > > echo XHC >/proc/acpi/wakeup > > the standard solution on systemd distros is to use a >

Re: Help adding a graph backend

2023-02-10 Thread Kyle
Thanks, Andreas! For my own education I just tried running ./configure with no arguments on Ubuntu and it ran without error. I wasnt actually able to run pre-inst-env afterwards though since I am not an administrator on that system. That behavior, though, seems consistent with what I think