Re: Please review blog post draft: powerpc64le-linux support

2021-04-07 Thread Chris Marusich
Hi Joshua, Joshua Branson writes: > Awesome! Great work! I read the below draft blog post like a Harry > Potter novel! It is superbly written. And it makes a lot of sense! Thank you for the kind words, and your feedback! >> +### Why Is This Important? >> + >> +This is important because it

Re: A new wip-emacs branch

2021-04-07 Thread Carlo Zancanaro
Hi Leo! Thanks so much for working to improve Emacs packaging in Guix! I have a question and a comment about your approach on the wip-emacs branch. On Tue, Apr 06 2021, Leo Prikler wrote: Emacs now gets its core lisp path from the wrapper rather than the search path and there's a new

Re: [PATCH 0/9] Add 32-bit powerpc support

2021-04-07 Thread Vincent Legoll
Hello, On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 2:26 PM Efraim Flashner wrote: > The wip-ppc branch on Savannah is currently in a good state. With the > recent rapid churn on core-updates I haven't been very quick about > rebasing on core-updates but I can confirm that building out to mesa > works. Building is

Pruning inactive committers

2021-04-07 Thread Leo Famulari
Hello, We recently formalized our policy regarding what to do about inactive committers [0]. Basically, after 1 year without activity using commit access, one's commit access will be disabled. In coordination with the Guix maintainer collective, I put this policy into practice and removed such

Re: GNOME 40

2021-04-07 Thread Raghav Gururajan
Hello Guix! Sorry for the delayed response. I also didn't receive emails as I am not subscribed to the list. @Mark Thanks for bringing up your concern, which is very valid. My hyper-focus on working on GNOME40 slightly made me to overlook certain things like mail-lists and reviews, even

Re: website: Building fails because of missing locales

2021-04-07 Thread Luis Felipe
On Wednesday, April 7, 2021 5:22 PM, Julien Lepiller wrote: > Here's v2. > > I checked that it sets GUIX_LOCPATH properly on my system (I had to add > the path specification for it to work). Thanks, Julien, with this new patch, the website builds. But I noticed other problems now: 1. It does

Re: A new wip-emacs branch

2021-04-07 Thread Leo Prikler
Am Dienstag, den 06.04.2021, 11:06 +0200 schrieb Leo Prikler: > Hello Guix, > > this is a small progress report on wip-emacs. Emacs now gets its > core > lisp path from the wrapper rather than the search path and there's a > new profile hook adding all top-level subdirectories to a subdirs.el, >

Re: website: Building fails because of missing locales

2021-04-07 Thread Julien Lepiller
Here's v2. I checked that it sets GUIX_LOCPATH properly on my system (I had to add the path specification for it to work). >From 70aa3b969e1830bce9e44b8dda0a97fcb27cce89 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Julien Lepiller Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2021 22:16:43 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] website: Add locales in

Re: website: Building fails because of missing locales

2021-04-07 Thread Luis Felipe
On Wednesday, April 7, 2021 3:10 PM, Julien Lepiller wrote: > Weird, is GUIX_LOCPATH not set at all maybe? I have this: $ echo $GUIX_LOCPATH /run/current-system/locale $ tree /run/current-system/locale /run/current-system/locale ├── 2.29 ->

Re: Initiating Guix System on Foriegn Distro

2021-04-07 Thread Joshua Branson
Katarina Rostova writes: > Hi, > > I was wondering if I can do `guix system init` with guix installed on top off > a foreign distro? > > Katarina. Hey Katarina! You've got a great first name! Actually I think you can do 'guix system reconfigure config.scm' on top of a foreign distro. That's

Re: Meta guix: making money with GNU Guix: slightly off topic

2021-04-07 Thread Joshua Branson
Leo Famulari writes: > On Tue, Apr 06, 2021 at 12:05:00PM -0400, Joshua Branson wrote: >> Aloha you lovely people! I personally believe that people should make >> business out of free software. Here are some of my business ideas >> involving GNU Guix. I invite you all to beat me to market! >

Re: Document our WIP

2021-04-07 Thread Vincent Legoll
Hello, On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 1:35 AM Léo Le Bouter wrote: > I am thinking we could establish policy so that the WIP wiki page is an > index to mailing list threads, git branches or other "updatable" > locations so that it is less likely to need updating and therefore > stays updated w.r.t. it's

Re: branch master updated: hydra: berlin: Accept new languages.

2021-04-07 Thread Julien Lepiller
Ah! Why did I add this set_from_accept_language line? Let me try again… Le 7 avril 2021 11:26:37 GMT-04:00, Mathieu Othacehe a écrit : > >Hello Julien, > >> * hydra/nginx/berlin.scm (%extra-content): Autoredirect 'eo', >'ko' and 'ru' >> to the translated website. > >I had to revert this

Re: Semi-automated patch review

2021-04-07 Thread Vincent Legoll
Hello, On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 5:03 PM Andreas Enge wrote: > posting messages to the issues looks like a feasible and good thing to me, > then all relevant information would be present in the same place. Yes, +1 to that -- Vincent Legoll

Re: branch master updated: hydra: berlin: Accept new languages.

2021-04-07 Thread Mathieu Othacehe
Hello Julien, > * hydra/nginx/berlin.scm (%extra-content): Autoredirect 'eo', 'ko' and > 'ru' > to the translated website. I had to revert this one that causes the following nginx error: 2021/04/07 17:05:08 [emerg] 94058#0: variable already defined: "lang" in

Re: website: Building fails because of missing locales

2021-04-07 Thread Julien Lepiller
Weird, is GUIX_LOCPATH not set at all maybe? Le 7 avril 2021 09:48:02 GMT-04:00, Luis Felipe a écrit : >On Wednesday, April 7, 2021 11:09 AM, Julien Lepiller > wrote: > >> Ah, don't pass -E GUIX_LOCPATH, I think it prevents guix from setting >it properly in the environment. > >It fails a bit

Re: Semi-automated patch review

2021-04-07 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, Am Mon, Apr 05, 2021 at 11:52:53PM +0200 schrieb Léo Le Bouter: > Cbaines already runs automated patch testing infra at > https://data.guix-patches.cbaines.net/ and > https://patches.guix-patches.cbaines.net/project/guix-patches/list/ > > Considering that posting robot messages with

Re: configure: error: A recent Guile-zlib could not be found; please install it.

2021-04-07 Thread Roel Janssen
On Wed, 2021-04-07 at 15:37 +0100, Paul Garlick wrote: > Hi Roel, > > > How can I get a working development environment to work on Guix? > > A 'guix pull' within your profile will update the guile-zlib version > that is used by 'guix environment ...'.  Then the configure script > requirement

Re: configure: error: A recent Guile-zlib could not be found; please install it.

2021-04-07 Thread Paul Garlick
Hi Roel, > How can I get a working development environment to work on Guix? A 'guix pull' within your profile will update the guile-zlib version that is used by 'guix environment ...'. Then the configure script requirement will be met. Best regards, Paul.

Re: website: Building fails because of missing locales

2021-04-07 Thread Luis Felipe
On Wednesday, April 7, 2021 11:09 AM, Julien Lepiller wrote: > Ah, don't pass -E GUIX_LOCPATH, I think it prevents guix from setting it > properly in the environment. It fails a bit differently now; it errors trying to set locale "de_DE.utf8": $ LANG=C

Feature request: hostname namespaces in guix environment

2021-04-07 Thread Vinícius dos Santos Oliveira
Some programs (e.g. xpra) create files based on the hostname and it'd be useful to have control of this parameter. There's another reason to have custom hostnames within the container as well. From the guix manual[1]: While this will limit the leaking of user identity through home paths and >

Feature request: Installatuon image for aarch64

2021-04-07 Thread Vitaliy Shatrov
I wish either a rootfs, or an installation.iso. Last year i failed to make one for myself, and used Armbian to install Guix System. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

Initiating Guix System on Foriegn Distro

2021-04-07 Thread Katarina Rostova
Hi, I was wondering if I can do `guix system init` with guix installed on top off a foreign distro? Katarina.

Re: Racket 8 and store references (was [security] Chunked store references in .zo files in Racket 8 #47614)

2021-04-07 Thread Philip McGrath
Indeed, I expect this is a more precise diagnosis of the same problem. My patch in https://issues.guix.gnu.org/47180 solves it by putting the store references (search paths for foreign libraries) in a configuration data file that isn't compiled, so they don't end up in .zo files in the first

Re: website: Building fails because of missing locales

2021-04-07 Thread Julien Lepiller
Ah, don't pass -E GUIX_LOCPATH, I think it prevents guix from setting it properly in the environment. Le 6 avril 2021 22:20:32 GMT-04:00, Luis Felipe a écrit : >On Tuesday, April 6, 2021 8:20 PM, Julien Lepiller >wrote: > >> Le Tue, 6 Apr 2021 14:11:03 -0400, >> Leo Famulari

Re: GCC: Canadian Cross + Dynamic linker issues

2021-04-07 Thread Ekaitz Zarraga
Let me please bump this thread a little bit, since I didn't get any answer > Hi, > > I've been struggling with GCC package definition for a while and I hope > someone > can help me solve or improve what I think are issues in its definition. > > I'm working on a R7RS-Small Scheme implementation

Re: A new wip-emacs branch

2021-04-07 Thread Xinglu Chen
On Tue, Apr 06 2021, Leo Prikler wrote: >> FYI Geiser has recently been slit up into multiple packages with one >> core Geiser package[1]. Should the Geiser package be updated in >> wip-emacs or directly on master? >> >> [1]: https://github.com/melpa/melpa/pull/7514 > That depends. If geiser

Re: guix home: Call for Early Adopters

2021-04-07 Thread Andrew Tropin
> Could you sign your rde channel? I am not at ease adding unsigned > channels since that's basically RCE into my system :-) It is not intended for use as a channel, at least yet, because `guix home` will not work without: export

configure: error: A recent Guile-zlib could not be found; please install it.

2021-04-07 Thread Roel Janssen
Hi Guix, I'm at version 2e5ac371e799cb91354ffafaf8af2da37d11fa3f, and when doing this: $ guix environment -C guix --ad-hoc guile-zlib [env]$ ./configure --localstatedir=/var .. then configure ends with: checking whether Guile-zlib is available and recent enough... no configure: error: A recent