Re: Frequent locales problems for new users

2020-03-18 Thread Leo Famulari
On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 04:07:22PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > As for ‘glibc-utf8-locales’ vs. ‘glibc-locales’: the reason for choosing > the former by default over the latter is size (14 MiB vs. 917 MiB). Oof! I was going by the manual, which says 110 MiB. That does change things...

Re: Plan for a release!

2020-03-18 Thread Mathieu Othacehe
Hey! >>> • More testing of the guided installer and related issues: >>> >>> https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/39729 >>> https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/39712 > > Done, but it’d be nice to add more test of the installer! I can help on that. Maybe adding: * More partitioning

Re: Plan for a release!

2020-03-18 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Ludovic Courtès writes: >>> • Address as many of the bugs marked “important” or “serious” as >>> possible. Should we organize a bug-squashing week? :-) > > We should really do that! > > You can view them here: > > https://issues.guix.gnu.org/search?query=is%3Aserious+is%3Aopen >

Re: Plan for a release!

2020-03-18 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi there! Ludovic Courtès skribis: [...] > (That also means we could switch to Guile 3.0 on core-updates.) Done! :-) >> • More testing of the guided installer and related issues: >> >> https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/39729 >> https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/39712 Done, but

Re: Frequent locales problems for new users

2020-03-18 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Ludo', Thorsten, Leo, Ludovic Courtès 写道: Well, we still need to be able to install locales somehow, right? :-) This isn't about removing all locale packages, just the poorly-named -utf8- variant. Thorsten Wilms 写道: smaller than glibc-locales, but still sufficient for many cases. Is that

Re: Potential for a race condition with latest-repository-commit

2020-03-18 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Christopher Baines skribis: > So one of the things that's currently restricted to doing by one job at > a time in the Guix Data Service is running latest-repository-commit from > the (guix git) module. > > Previously this was more of a problem for the Guix Data Service, as a > large section

Re: Frequent locales problems for new users

2020-03-18 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Leo Famulari skribis: > Warning! Locales! New users seem to have trouble with Guix locales every > day. > > I think we can improve the situation. > > First, we can deprecate the glibc-utf8-locales package and not mention > it in the manual section Application Setup. I've seen users think

Re: guix publish wrt foreign arch

2020-03-18 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Vincent Legoll skribis: > I'm wondering if guix publish (or something else) could act as local > network substitute cache for foreign arch ? > > I.e. using a x86_64 host as a substitute server for, say, arm64 hosts... > > Would it only serve as a local cache of source downloads ? > > How

Re: Guix System for embedded systems roadmap.

2020-03-18 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! Danny Milosavljevic skribis: > On Tue, 17 Mar 2020 10:44:25 +0100 > Ludovic Courtès wrote: > >> Speaking of which, I’d love to get my A20 OLinuXino running Guix >> System. :-) > > What is the latest state of it? On my side the latest state is: I gave up and installed Debian + Guix. :-)

Re: Working on network-manager-l2tp

2020-03-18 Thread Nicolò Balzarotti
Jelle Licht writes: > Hey guix, > Hi! > Seeing as a lot of people might be working from home at the moment, it > seems a good moment to look at issues that might prevent us from using > guix for that exact purpose. Right now, I can not connect to my company > vpn, which make several processes

Working on network-manager-l2tp

2020-03-18 Thread Jelle Licht
Hey guix, Seeing as a lot of people might be working from home at the moment, it seems a good moment to look at issues that might prevent us from using guix for that exact purpose. Right now, I can not connect to my company vpn, which make several processes much more difficult than they need to

Re: Frequent locales problems for new users

2020-03-18 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On Tue, 17 Mar 2020 16:28:43 -0400 Leo Famulari wrote: > First, we can deprecate the glibc-utf8-locales package and not mention > it in the manual section Application Setup. I've seen users think they > had to install it in order to get UTF-8 support. Everyone should be > using glibc-locales. I

Re: Frequent locales problems for new users

2020-03-18 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 04:28:43PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote: > Warning! Locales! New users seem to have trouble with Guix locales every > day. > > I think we can improve the situation. > > First, we can deprecate the glibc-utf8-locales package and not mention > it in the manual section

Re: guix publish wrt foreign arch

2020-03-18 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 03:25:24PM +0100, Vincent Legoll wrote: > Hello, > > I'm wondering if guix publish (or something else) could act as local > network substitute cache for foreign arch ? > > I.e. using a x86_64 host as a substitute server for, say, arm64 hosts... > > Would it only serve as