GRUB fallback mechanism [was Re: Brain storming cool Guix features]

2019-01-11 Thread Leo Famulari
On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 05:48:39PM +0100, L p R n d n wrote: > - Currently, I think the only way for a GuixSD installation to break is > if something goes wrong with the bootloader. Might be nice to have a > tool (in the install image I suppose) to recover the bootloader. > Maybe 'guix

Re: New file "tests/docker-inception.scm" with small problem

2019-01-11 Thread Marius Bakke
Danny Milosavljevic writes: > Hi, > > there's a new branch "wip-docker-test" which has a new (non-system) test > tests/docker-inception.scm . > > You can run it via: > > make TESTS=tests/docker-inception.scm check > > Unfortunately, it fails with some inscrutable qemu error message: > >

Re: 07/07: gnu: emacs-ghub: Update to 3.2.0.

2019-01-11 Thread Mark H Weaver
Jelle Licht writes: > Mark H Weaver writes: > >> Hi Jelle, >> [...] >> >> In toplevel form: >> magit-reset.el:30:1:Error: Cannot open load file: No such file or directory, >> graphql >> make[1]: *** [Makefile:65: magit-reset.elc] Error 1 >> make[1]: Leaving directory >>

Re: Packaging FreeCAD

2019-01-11 Thread John Soo
Hey Paul, I did not know Debian changed their version of opencascade. I will have to double check that they are using OCCT for FreeCAD still. - John > On Jan 11, 2019, at 1:35 AM, Paul Garlick > wrote: > > Hi John, > > This is good news indeed for Guix-using engineers and architects. I >

Re: Packaging Jami (ex GNU Ring)

2019-01-11 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
And now both libringclient and ring-client-gnome build! Sadly gnome-ring fails to start: --8<---cut here---start->8--- > /gnu/store/6q1ysbyki4v1zidbcndvyrchm3jncs58-ring-client-gnome-20190108.1.8659b2c/bin/gnome-ring > --debug GLib-GIO-Message:

New file "tests/docker-inception.scm" with small problem

2019-01-11 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi, there's a new branch "wip-docker-test" which has a new (non-system) test tests/docker-inception.scm . You can run it via: make TESTS=tests/docker-inception.scm check Unfortunately, it fails with some inscrutable qemu error message: qemu-system-x86_64: -virtfs

Re: ASDF Builder (Common Lisp) & "package-inferred-system" Packages

2019-01-11 Thread Katherine Cox-Buday
Pierre Neidhardt writes: > I've packaged a lot of Lisp packages, none of which seem to suffer > from a naming issue. This is a newer style of ASDF system. I don't think any of the things we have packaged use this style (yet). > Do you have an example in mind? I have 41 packages almost ready

Re: Packaging Jami (ex GNU Ring)

2019-01-11 Thread swedebugia
Pierre Neidhardt skrev: (10 januari 2019 14:19:34 CET) > >swedebugia writes: >> I put it in messaging.scm. Is that suitable? > >Maybe not. From qaul.net: > >> qaul.net implements a redundant, open communication principle, in >which >> wireless-enabled computers and mobile devices can directly

Re: bug#34020: [PATCH 0/2] Re-purpose '--verbosity' to something useful

2019-01-11 Thread ng0
Would you be open for a patch which adds BSD familiar -v behavior? In other words, multiple v increase the verbosity level, like -vv is more verbose than -v. I'll have to check the actual changes first, haven't had access to something which runs plain Guix in a while. On Fri, 11 Jan 2019 12:15:41

Re: 07/07: gnu: emacs-ghub: Update to 3.2.0.

2019-01-11 Thread Jelle Licht
Mark H Weaver writes: > Hi Jelle, > [...] > > In toplevel form: > magit-reset.el:30:1:Error: Cannot open load file: No such file or directory, > graphql > make[1]: *** [Makefile:65: magit-reset.elc] Error 1 > make[1]: Leaving directory >

Re: how to fix state-broken affected user services? (Re: GNOME 3.30: help needed!)

2019-01-11 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Giovanni Biscuolo writes: > plz could you confirm what did you deleted to make GNOME run again? > application_state file or the whole directory? I deleted the whole directory. I *also* reset my dconf customizations, but this was not sufficient. I had to delete that directory. I’ll look for

Re: how to fix state-broken affected user services? (Re: GNOME 3.30: help needed!)

2019-01-11 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hi Ricardo, plz could you confirm what did you deleted to make GNOME run again? application_state file or the whole directory? Ricardo Wurmus writes: [...] >> please Ricardo could you attach the relevant debug info? > > I don’t have any debug info other than what I posted. I didn’t look at >

Video on reproducible genomics pipeline

2019-01-11 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Guix! For those of you interested in “reproducible science”, this presentation by Ricardo efficiently demonstrates the benefits of Guix and shortcomings of “containers” in this context:

Re: how to fix state-broken affected user services? (Re: GNOME 3.30: help needed!)

2019-01-11 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Giovanni, >> Success! GNOME 3.30 works just fine. The gnome-shell segfaulted(!) >> because of stale state > > this is one of the worst bugs a user can experience, and very few users > are able to debug it properly (and experienced users like me find it > very time wasting to debug them)

how to fix state-broken affected user services? (Re: GNOME 3.30: help needed!)

2019-01-11 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hi all, Ricardo Wurmus writes: [...] > Success! GNOME 3.30 works just fine. The gnome-shell segfaulted(!) > because of stale state this is one of the worst bugs a user can experience, and very few users are able to debug it properly (and experienced users like me find it very time wasting

Re: Packaging FreeCAD

2019-01-11 Thread Paul Garlick
Hi John, This is good news indeed for Guix-using engineers and architects. I shall follow developments with interest. I can look after the OpenCASCADE dependency too. This package is due an update but upstream development has been slow of late. Debian have switched to the OCCT version for