Re: Contribute or create a channel?

2024-03-05 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hartmut Goebel writes: > In both cases I need some tooling to fetch the current bug-fix version > of the series in question. This can not be done using "guix refresh" > only AFAIU, as this would use the next release-series if this is > already released while our packages are not yet updated.

Re: You're invited to the first patch review session!

2024-03-05 Thread Etienne B. Roesch
Anything we need to have prepared by Thursday? I imagine a ubuntu vm running with vanilla guix installed is installed? Etienne On Fri, Mar 1, 2024 at 7:12 PM Suhail wrote: > Tomas Volf <~@wolfsden.cz> writes: > > > On 2024-02-22 23:27:31 +, Steve George wrote: > >> Hi > >> > >> We're going

Re: Contribute or create a channel?

2024-03-05 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Am 04.03.24 um 09:32 schrieb Andreas Enge: I think that would be okay if you think it will be easier to maintain (not needing to "roll over" code from an old package at the inheritance root when it is deleted), assuming that the old packages are removed from time to time. This sounds like

Re: Supporting sssd, preparing for nscd sunset

2024-03-05 Thread Picnoir
Hi Ludo, Guix, > Can you confirm nsncd can load and run popular NSS plugins like > nss-mdns and sss? Nss-mdns works fine on IPv4. It won't work on IPv6 link-local addresses, but that's due to the Nscd protocol issue I was talking about in the previous email. I did not test sss but I'd assume it

Re: language-specific packages

2024-03-05 Thread Andrew Tropin
On 2024-03-02 23:20, Hartmut Goebel wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > a few days ago you planed (but canceled) to stream about management of > Elixir projects with Guix and why it's better not to package > language-specific packages with Guix. > > I still have ejabberd in my pipeline which would add

Re: Supporting sssd, preparing for nscd sunset

2024-03-05 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Maxim Cournoyer skribis: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> Hello Guix! >> >> Distros are increasingly relying on sssd, in particular Fedora and >> derivatives, as a replacement for nscd, which is either unavailable or >> deprecated. The documented interface of Guix binaries to the host’s >>

Re: [PATCH 2/2] gnu: grub: Modernize.

2024-03-05 Thread Fabio Natali
On 2024-03-03, 17:42 +0100, Josselin Poiret wrote: > From: Josselin Poiret > > * gnu/packages/bootloaders.scm (grub-minimal, grub-coreboot, grub-efi32, > grub-hybrid): Use G-Exps. > (grub-efi): Use G-Exps. Also use OVMF to test. Hi Josselin, This is brilliant, thanks. I'll see how far I can

Re: Supporting sssd, preparing for nscd sunset

2024-03-05 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Picnoir! Picnoir skribis: > Nsncd is already available in Debian[1] and Arch[2] (AUR). In reality, > some dowstreams, like Arch, are not distributing nscd anymore[3]. > Meaning the only way to run Nix/Guix binaries on Arch without breaking > PAM is to go through Nsncd at the moment. > > So,

Re: GSoC 2024

2024-03-05 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Gábor Boskovits writes: > Continue rewrite build daemon in Guile Scheme > Ludovic Courtès (civodul) Since this is an ongoing NLnet project I think we should not offer it as a GSoC project this time. -- Ricardo