Re: Blog post about the upcoming FOSDEM + Guix Day

We start Monday at 5am UTC (6am AMS/Berlin, 7am Athens) to cater for some of Asia. The day ends when the last one switches off the lights :). Manolis, Efraim and Bonface have promised to be there. The bluebutton link will be announced a day ahead. Pj. On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 05:40:04PM -0500,

Re: Installing a wrapper guile script in /bin

Ludovic Courtès wrote: > I wrote about this topic in the past: > > https://hpc.guix.info/blog/2018/01/pre-built-binaries-vs-performance/ Very nice overview! Thanks for sharing (and writing!) that article. Definitely feeling the urge to jump down this rabbit hole and patch upstream now. Hehe.

Re: PowerShell core?

Hi everyone! Thank you all for replying, and especially because you explored many attributes, including my own autography of my sorry existence buried deep inside a bank some years ago, where I became a Powershell and Excel "expert" Ok, so all we need is time (which I don't have much at the

Re: PowerShell core?

Hi, Well, speaking about an >attempt to pull command > interpreters out of the 70s ads: :-) (I previewed the talk and it is worth watching! Even, I previewed all the talks of the «room» and they

Re: Blog post about the upcoming FOSDEM + Guix Day

On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 07:07:47PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Here we go! > > https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2021/meet-guix-at-fosdem-2021/ People in #guix were asking, "When exactly does it start?" Can we update the blog post to say?

Re: PowerShell core?

Leo Famulari 写道： I don't use Windows regularly, but Powershell seems *really* cool. It's a very different paradigm than the Unix shell. It seems like it was designed to solve a lot of the limitations and quirks that plague Unix shell scripting. It may be that Powershell won't catch on because

Re: PowerShell core?

On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 10:41:03PM +0100, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: > Still, we don't boycott malicious upstreams (ungoogled-chromium & worse) and > PowerShell looks like a welcome attempt to pull command interpreters out of > the 70s. > > Due to its (apparent) verbosity it looks better suited

Re: PowerShell core? off topic praise

This is why I love guix! Everyone is super respectful. I know I've asked some questionable (newbie) questions before, and everyone always treated me with dignity! We've got some kind people here! Thanks! February 2, 2021 2:52 PM, "Leo Famulari" wrote: > On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 06:35:14PM

Re: PowerShell core?

Hi! Yasuaki Kudo 写道： Just curious, is there any interest in making PowerShell core available for Guix? If you mean interest as in previous efforts to package it, I'm not aware of any. If you mean interest as in ‘would others accept this package in Guix’: I don't see why they wouldn't, as

Re: PowerShell core?

Hi, Leo Famulari writes: >> >> I was really wondering what was happening here. I mean, we are talking >> about a M$ product, right? I really can't see how this statement can >> hold true. If it means "when I'm _forced_ to work on windows, >> powershell is the lest worse thing", then fine.

Re: Unreproducible “guix pack -f docker” because config.scm-builder

Hi, On Tue, 02 Feb 2021 at 19:12, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > It turns out that, as is always the case with GNU Standards compliant > configure script, the default value for --prefix is /usr/local, and the > default for --sysconfdir is $prefix/etc. As discussed on IRC, it is not mentioned in the

Re: PowerShell core?

On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 06:35:14PM +0100, Nicolò Balzarotti wrote: > Bengt Richter writes: > > > Hi Yasu, > > > > "Just curious", what do you hope will be the effect of your post? > > > Hi Bengt Richter, thanks for asking the same things I had in mind. This > post seems just M$ propaganda, more

Re: PowerShell core?

On February 2, 2021, "Nicolò Balzarotti" wrote: > This post seems just M$ propaganda, more than a "Is anybody working on > the > inclusion of Powershell?" For what it's worth I didn't read it that way. I use PowerShell and have spent some time looking into what it would take to build .NET Core

Re: Staging branch

Leo Famulari skribis: > The staging branch has been merged to master in commit > 75b775e81b5a81a59656eeba8811b42f45d503da > > Hooray! > > Thanks to everyone that helped out with bug reports, fixes, CI > assistance, etc. Yay! And thank *you* for coordinating this effort and working to get the

Re: Unreproducible “guix pack -f docker” because config.scm-builder

Hi, zimoun skribis: > After inspecting the derivations, the issue is from the file > ’config.scm-builder’ which differs by: > > (define-public %sysconfdir "/usr/local/etc") > > vs > > (define-public %sysconfdir "/etc") > > > What did I do wrong? From where does this difference come?

Re: Blog post about the upcoming FOSDEM + Guix Day

Here we go! https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2021/meet-guix-at-fosdem-2021/ Ludo’.

Re: PowerShell core?

Bengt Richter writes: > Hi Yasu, > > "Just curious", what do you hope will be the effect of your post? > Hi Bengt Richter, thanks for asking the same things I had in mind. This post seems just M$ propaganda, more than a "Is anybody working on the inclusion of Powershell?" >From Yasu's mail,

Re: PowerShell core?

Hi Yasu, On +2021-02-02 18:29:25 +0900, Yasuaki Kudo wrote: > Hi, > > Just curious, is there any interest in making PowerShell core available for > Guix? > > I have become quite fond of Powershell over the years (I say Powershell is > almost synonymous with IT worker rights - gives poor

Re: Potential security weakness in Guix services

> I'll look into writing a concrete proposal for *at in guile. > I'll post a link to the guile mailing list message when it has > been composed and sent. Here it is: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=46258 I'm not familiar with guile's code base and conventions and my TODO list is

Re: PowerShell core?

Yasuaki Kudo writes: > Hi, > > Just curious, is there any interest in making PowerShell core available for > Guix? I don't know of any talented developers currently pushing to include it in guix. :( (I'm not one of those developers). > > I have become quite fond of Powershell over the years

Re: Unreproducible “guix pack -f docker” because config.scm-builder

Hi, In case someone reads and is interested by the fix. On Mon, 1 Feb 2021 at 23:42, zimoun wrote: > After inspecting the derivations, the issue is from the file > ’config.scm-builder’ which differs by: > > (define-public %sysconfdir "/usr/local/etc") > > vs > > (define-public

Re: Failure guix build --sources=all $(guix package -A...

Hi, Ludovic Courtès writes: [...] >> 1373:15 7 (_ # _ _) >>745:13 6 (process-stderr _ _) >> In unknown file: >>5 (display "://ci.guix.gnu.org/nar/lzip/5v2xxcrh0npbzn2m…" …) >> In guix/status.scm: >>703:16 4 (write! _ _ _) >>616:15 3 (_ (download-succeeded

Re: Potential security weakness in Guix services

On Tue, 2021-02-02 at 14:07 +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > OK, I see. Roughly, this symlink chown story would be a local exploit > that the attacker can take advantage of after exploiting the RCE to > potentially get root access. > > ‘mkdir-p/perms’ could check that the directory is not a

Re: Potential security weakness in Guix services

Hi, Maxime Devos skribis: >> > I’m not sure I understand the threat model. If Knot has a RCE >> > vulnerability, it can be exploited to run anything on behalf of the >> > ‘knot’ user. >> > >> > At that point, all the state associated with Knot in /var/lib should be >> > considered tainted;

Re: Failure guix build --sources=all $(guix package -A...

Hi, zimoun skribis: > With Guix 0f20b3f. > > run #1 > > guix build --sources=all $(guix package -A | cut -f1) --fallback > > download-progress > /gnu/store/960b2kch33maxjk7b6g5pp12rj2bagx6-SNPlocs.Hsapiens.dbSNP144.GRCh37_0.99.20.tar.gz >

PowerShell core?

Hi, Just curious, is there any interest in making PowerShell core available for Guix? I have become quite fond of Powershell over the years (I say Powershell is almost synonymous with IT worker rights - gives poor workers in sorry corners of corporate world [those who are abandoned without

Re: Blog post about the upcoming FOSDEM + Guix Day

It seems I can create rooms. I created a `Guix Day` one. https://guixbbb.fosshost.org/b/man-wtf-odj-91i Let's try to coordinate tomorrow through email/irc and join for a test. On 2/1/21 8:51 PM, Pjotr Prins wrote: > > Sure. Call a time tomorrow and anyone on IRC/mail/matrix can pop in. Are you

Re: Blog post about the upcoming FOSDEM + Guix Day

Maybe it would be a good idea to test big blue button tomorrow? How about a call? Sent from ProtonMail mobile Original Message On Feb 1, 2021, 19:49, zimoun wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 01 Feb 2021 at 17:30, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > >> Attendance to the workshop is free and open