Hydra serving source tarballs

2014-02-12 Thread Sree Harsha Totakura
Hi, I just observed that `guix build' is downloading source tarballs from Hydra. Is this supposed to be a feature? If so, what is the rationale behind not trying to download the source ball from mirrors or upstream download addresses? Regards, Sree

Re: [PATCH 1/2] gnu: Add virtualenv.

2014-02-12 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Cyril Roelandt tipec...@gmail.com skribis: * gnu/packages/python.scm (python-virtualenv, python2-virtualenv): New variables. OK, please push. Ludo’.

Re: [PATCH 2/2] gnu: Add pip.

2014-02-12 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Cyril Roelandt tipec...@gmail.com skribis: * gnu/packages/python.scm (python-pip, python2-pip): New variables. Looks good to me. One question though: +(arguments + `(#:tests? #f)) ; The tests try to access the Internet. How hard would it be to either skip the tests that access the

Re: Hydra serving source tarballs

2014-02-12 Thread Andreas Enge
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 01:34:26PM +0100, Sree Harsha Totakura wrote: I just observed that `guix build' is downloading source tarballs from Hydra. Is this supposed to be a feature? If so, what is the rationale behind not trying to download the source ball from mirrors or upstream download

[PATCH] gnu: gnunet: Fix failing testcases.

2014-02-12 Thread Sree Harsha Totakura
* gnu/packages/gnunet.scm (gnurl): Add pkg-config. * gnu/packages/patches/gnunet-fix-tests.patch: Append fix for integration testcases. --- gnu/packages/gnunet.scm |8 +--- gnu/packages/patches/gnunet-fix-tests.patch | 12 2 files changed, 17

Re: Hydra serving source tarballs

2014-02-12 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Sree Harsha Totakura sreehar...@totakura.in skribis: I just observed that `guix build' is downloading source tarballs from Hydra. Is this supposed to be a feature? If so, what is the rationale behind not trying to download the source ball from mirrors or upstream download addresses?

Re: none

2014-02-12 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Sree Harsha Totakura sreehar...@totakura.in skribis: The reason why the transport tests are failing is that gnurl is not being built with HTTPS protocol support and these tests expect gnurl to have those. The HTTPS support was not built into gnurl because pkg-config was not available as

Re: none

2014-02-12 Thread Sree Harsha Totakura
On 02/12/2014 06:36 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: It would be nice if GNUnet’s ‘configure’ script would check whether gnurl has HTTPS support. It now does. :-) Sree

Re: Problems with handicapped 'bash' from glibc package

2014-02-12 Thread Mark H Weaver
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: Mark H Weaver m...@netris.org skribis: The 'bash' in the glibc package is handicapped in at least two ways: * It can't set the locale, because it looks for locales in /nix/store/-glibc-intermediate-2.18-locales * It

Guix under GNU’s umbrella for GSoC?

2014-02-12 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! So it is Summer of Code time again. If you have ideas, let’s discuss them, and then send an HTML fragment for http://www.gnu.org/software/soc-projects/ideas-2014.html. Looks like we have the GNUnet idea that we could copy/paste from last year. Anything else? If you are an eligible

Re: none

2014-02-12 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Andreas Enge andr...@enge.fr skribis: On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 06:36:13PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: It would be nice if GNUnet’s ‘configure’ script would check whether gnurl has HTTPS support. Concurred. Or maybe make pkg-config a mandatory input and stop when it is not found. Ever so

Re: Problems with handicapped 'bash' from glibc package

2014-02-12 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Andreas Enge andr...@enge.fr skribis: On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 05:39:35PM +, Mark H Weaver wrote: While we're on the subject of 'bash', should we be applying the patches in http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/bash-4.2-patches/ ? Is there a chance of convincing the bash people to release bash

Re: none

2014-02-12 Thread Andreas Enge
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 09:30:53PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: I think this is largely because the official PKG_CHECK_MODULES Autoconf macro doesn’t fail by default when pkg-config is not found (which may or may not be a good idea, depending on the package.) Then it is the authors'

[PATCH] gnu: ratpoison: Patch to use $SHELL instead of /bin/sh

2014-02-12 Thread Mark H Weaver
I'm not entirely sure this will be wanted, but it bugged me that ratpoison has /bin/sh hardcoded in its source code. WDYT? Mark From 2218f563424e4154ee24f5f9fdeb1b6e00ffae7f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark H Weaver m...@netris.org Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 00:42:41 -0500 Subject: