Re: Golang mudules to follow common grouping

2023-10-09 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hi, Sharlatan Hellseher writes: > Hi Guix! > > I've noticed the number of Golang packages start growing. I expect more > packages > to be reviewed and merged by quick check of Issues. > > I think it's time to split (gnu packages golang) into some logical groups, see > Python, Lisp for example.

[PATCH] doc: Mention the responsibilities that blocking comes with.

2023-10-09 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hello! This is a heads-up regarding a modification to or contributing guidelines I am considering to make: Maxim Cournoyer writes: > * doc/contributing.texi (Commit Access): Mention that blocking comes with > extra responsibilities. > > Change-Id: I27cafcb351f68057b7882198e72e9bf66ccc1262 >

Re: Opportunity For Guix: RFI Areas of long-term focus and Prioritization

2023-10-09 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hi jgart, "jgart" writes: > Hi Guixers, > > Just reposting this chat message from Ryan Prior over #guix for anyone > interested: > >> The US Federal government has an RFI open on "Areas of long-term > focus and Prioritization". They're looking for 10 page briefing memos > on supporting

Golang mudules to follow common grouping

2023-10-09 Thread Sharlatan Hellseher
Hi Guix! I've noticed the number of Golang packages start growing. I expect more packages to be reviewed and merged by quick check of Issues. I think it's time to split (gnu packages golang) into some logical groups, see Python, Lisp for example. - golang-web - golang-check - golang-build -

Re: core-updates invites to an ungrafting party

2023-10-09 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hi John, John Kehayias writes: > Hi Maxim et al, > > On Sun, Oct 08, 2023 at 11:12 AM, Maxim Cournoyer wrote: > >> Hello Guix! >> >> The core-updates branch is still alive, and has accumulated (or plans >> to) a few changes that cause world-rebuilds, such as fixes to >> git-minimal (bug#65924)

Re: Guix Survey (follow up on "How can we decrease the cognitive overhead for contributors?")

2023-10-09 Thread Katherine Cox-Buday
On 10/2/23 5:24 AM, Wilko Meyer wrote: - Where solicitations to complete the survey are broadcast is very important. E.g. if we only send it to guix-dev, this skews the responses to questions like "where do you talk about Guix". Definitely, I'm not entirely sure on how to solve this;

Re: IDEA: missing-tests-pypi-error? condition

2023-10-09 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hi, "jgart" writes: >> You want `info -f doc/guix.info`. > > Ah yes, I actually used that flag once before and had forgotten it... FWIW, it works for me even without '-f'. -- Thanks, Maxim

Re: Need people to help with kernel updates

2023-10-09 Thread Wilko Meyer
Hi Leo, Leo Famulari writes: > Yes, the hashes of the kernel source code and linux-libre's "deblobbing" > scripts have to be updated. I have some scripts that fetch and calculate > the hashes (attached). Thanks for sharing these scripts with me, I've had a look into them to get familiar with

Re: Making linux-libre@6.5 the default kernel

2023-10-09 Thread Leo Famulari
On Mon, Oct 9, 2023, at 03:20, Ada Stevenson wrote: > So, to make things clear, the delay in making 6.5 the default kernel is > in part because you lack sufficient support in the case that things go > wrong or some urgent change needs to be pushed? There's almost never anything wrong, but I

Re: performance issue with TeX Live

2023-10-09 Thread Nicolas Goaziou
Hello, Emmanuel Beffara writes: > De Nicolas Goaziou le 13/09/2023 à 14:39: >> It may be interesting to compare location and contents of the ls-R files >> in both installations. > > I tried to explore this but I see no reason why the ls-R files would be > ignored I spent some time exploring

Re: IDEA: missing-tests-pypi-error? condition

2023-10-09 Thread jgart
> You want `info -f doc/guix.info`. Ah yes, I actually used that flag once before and had forgotten it... Thanks!

Re: Guix Survey (follow up on "How can we decrease the cognitive overhead for contributors?")

2023-10-09 Thread Lucy Coleclough
To counter this point: > But the present organisation looks defunct. There’s no strong leadership. A lack of central-ised leadership is a good thing If this is their only reason for calling the organisation defunct then this point is invalid however I am unsure if this is where the critique lies

Re: [guix_milan] Guix Milan first meetup

2023-10-09 Thread Andrea Rossi
Hello everyone, Just a quick reminder for tomorrow's Guix meetup at the LiQuido Rooftop Bar. Date: Tuesday, 10 October, 18:30 CEST Location: iQ Hotel, via Giovanni Battista Pirelli 5 - Milan Mobilizon page: https://mobilizon.fr/events/92c351df-66bb-4e81-9180-6e8ceec60196 How to find us: 1.

Re: IDEA: missing-tests-pypi-error? condition

2023-10-09 Thread Josselin Poiret
Hi jgart, > Is there a way to open the guix manual directly? > > Not sure why info opens a "main page" with all my texinfo manuals when > I give it doc/guix.info as an argument... 閭 You want `info -f doc/guix.info`. HTH, -- Josselin Poiret signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Need people to help with kernel updates

2023-10-09 Thread Luis Felipe
El 9/10/23 a las 1:22, John Kehayias escribió: Hi Leo, On Sat, Oct 07, 2023 at 02:04 PM, Leo Famulari wrote: Hello, For a few years, I've been handling updates of the linux-libre kernel by myself. Now I want some more people to help with this. Just wanted to say thanks for this work that

Re: Failed to build in QA

2023-10-09 Thread Reza Housseini
This is probably down to a top level circular dependency. In particular, trying to paraview to compute the version to form part of the native-search-path at the top level causes problems. I'm wondering why it builds fine locally but causes problems in QA have you any pointers what might be the

Re: How to properly package umbrella projects?

2023-10-09 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Side note: different subprojects have different licenses. That would not factor into my decision. Well, apart from adding a ‘license’ argument to the procedure, but there are other missing arguments (synopsis, description) from that rough example anyway. Kind regards, T G-R Sent from a

Re: How to properly package umbrella projects?

2023-10-09 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hi Horse, On 2023-10-08 7:52, Unstable Horse wrote: short question: a program I'm writing depends on gst-plugin-gtk4 which is a part of gst-plugins-rs[0]. What's the most appropriate way to package such a project: In the majority of cases, I would say: a single package (here,

[PATCH cuirass] doc: Fix evaluation hook URL example.

2023-10-09 Thread vicvbcun
* doc/cuirass.texi (Invocation): Fix URL in the example of the push hook. --- doc/cuirass.texi | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/cuirass.texi b/doc/cuirass.texi index 69c58f7..00f00c1 100644 --- a/doc/cuirass.texi +++ b/doc/cuirass.texi @@ -561,7 +561,7 @@

Re: Guix Survey (follow up on "How can we decrease the cognitive overhead for contributors?")

2023-10-09 Thread Tao Hansen
Hello, I hope it's ok I'm replying to this email as a follow-up to decreasing the cognitive overhead for new users. I'm also brand new to the Guix community and ecosystem. I wanted to share a perspective from a user on a Lemmy instance who wrote why the Guix ecosystem was not friendly enough to

How to properly package umbrella projects?

2023-10-09 Thread Unstable Horse
Hi Guix, short question: a program I'm writing depends on gst-plugin-gtk4 which is a part of gst-plugins-rs[0]. What's the most appropriate way to package such a project: 1. A package just for gst-plugin-gtk4, or 2. A package for gst-plugins-rs that installs all of its subprojects? Side note:

Re: performance issue with TeX Live

2023-10-09 Thread Emmanuel Beffara
Hello, De Nicolas Goaziou le 13/09/2023 à 14:39: > Emmanuel Beffara writes: > > > I am facing a severe performance issue with TeX Live: compilation of any > > document is an order of magnitude slower with a Guix installed system as > > compared to a manual installation. Is anyone confronted to

Re: Making linux-libre@6.5 the default kernel

2023-10-09 Thread Ada Stevenson
Hi! Hi Leo! :) The reason is that I haven't had enough time to make these changes lately, and for a while I have been the only person updating the kernel in Guix. That makes a lot of sense. I had no idea - the reason I came to the mailing list was to figure out what everyone's doing, and