Re: GNU Guix Video Documentation

2018-10-26 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
to cut out irrelevant parts > - separate treatment of audio and video portions; audio portions can be > recorded by native speakers. great, simply *great*: thank you for sharing this useful ideas! [...] ciao Giovanni -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Promoting the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines?

2018-10-29 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/CODE-OF-CONDUCT#n69 [3] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/CODE-OF-CONDUCT#n47 [4] https://web.archive.org/web/20151208143727/https://github.com/opal/opal/issues/941 [5] https://web.archive.org/web/20151105174639/https://twitter.com/krainboltgreene/status/611569515315507200 -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures signature.asc Description: PGP signature

plz is there a roadmap for a more resilient substitutes infrastructure?

2018-11-02 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
eronally I'm trying to install a bare-bones.scm machine in a VM and guix is compiling many many packages, including texlive... :-S (using berlin.guixsd.org as substitute URL) [3] https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-publish.html -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT I

Re: plz is there a roadmap for a more resilient substitutes infrastructure?

2018-11-11 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
/httpredir.debian.org/? (I looked on the web but did not find any >> reference to such plan) > > Like I wrote, there’s no concrete plan at this point, which means it’s > an opportunity for you and anyone else to chime in and give a hand! I have no experience in building such a service but it definitely fits in my professional enhancement plan, so I'm still not able to lead such a project but I can help ciao Giovanni -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: ‘sudo’ leaves PATH unchanged… so what?

2019-01-18 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Ricardo, Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Giovanni Biscuolo writes: > >> IMHO it should be explicitly stated that in general it's not >> advised/needed to install guix for the root user and that "guix system" >> must be run as a normal user via sudo (and the user m

Re: Trustworthiness of build farms (was Re: CDN performance)

2019-01-18 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
one can obtain a copy of this report? I did an > Internet search but couldn't find anything. me too Jeremiah: sorry if I insist (last time, promised!) but could you give us some more info about that report? Thanks! Giovanni -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: warning: failed to install locale

2019-01-18 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
nni [1] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/plain/etc/guix-install.sh -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: ‘sudo’ leaves PATH unchanged… so what?

2019-01-18 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
and user profiles using different versions of guix is a problem), should this be clearly stated in the manual? maybe I'm missing something, but I thought root and user profiles were isolated so I can have different binaries (guix included) and use them independently, am I wrong? Thanks! Giova

Re: KVM kernel module permission denied on foreign distro

2019-01-20 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
ipped or misunderstood that part of "(guix)Build Environment Setup" for any reason tomorrow I'm going to propose a couple of patches to address both of the above mentioned issues Thanks! Giovanni -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: ‘nss-certs’ missing in the installation image

2019-01-23 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
, certificates" in that node: do you think we need another one? do we need a guix-faq.texi ala "Emacs FAQ"? (IMHO we need it, I can help maintaining it but sorry I cannot "bootstrap" it since I still lack needed knowledge) WDYT? Ciao, Giovanni -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Communication and Design at Guix

2019-01-16 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
n-wishlist.org in maintenance/doc? (I'm still not sufficiently skilled to help with content, but can help keep such todo-lists) [...] happy hacking! Giovanni [1] AFAIK each documented mode or package is part of the official Emacs distribution while external packages are not documented --

Re: ‘sudo’ leaves PATH unchanged… so what?

2019-01-17 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
quot; must be run as a normal user via sudo (and the user must be allowed to do so by root via sudoers); then the example above [...] Thanks! Giovanni -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Using a CDN or some other mirror?

2018-12-11 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
al CDNs > or mirrors. did someone explored an haproxy (with geolocation) solution? is there a wip-haproxy attempt? [...] HTH Giovanni [1] in the next few weeks I'm going to test an haproxy instance with geolocated ACLs following this directions https:/www.haproxy.com/blog/use-geoip

Re: Using a CDN or some other mirror?

2018-12-13 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
52.93.58.1900.0%10 36.1 34.6 32.9 37.1 1.2 16.|-- ???100.0100.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 --8<---cut here---end--->8--- 100% loss? from here it seems Berlin is as performant as CloudFront HTH! Gi

Re: CDN performance

2018-12-13 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
an option... like a "last resort" in order to be able to use guixSD :-) we could also teach people how to setup their own caching servers and possibly share them with the rest of the local community (possibly with some coordination effort from the project sysadmins) for Milan I've plans to s

Re: 01/01: hydra: Increase image sizes for USB image and Flash image.

2018-12-12 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
hat class of hosts/containers it makes sense - semantically speaking - to move sound to %desktop-services since we only need sound on desktops thanks! Gio -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: GNU Guix & GuixSD 0.16.0 released

2018-12-16 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
/www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Running-GuixSD-in-a-VM.html#Running-GuixSD-in-a-VM what do you think about this? > Using the term “Guix system” is clearer for all but one case where the > “guix system” commands are used. I don't fully understand this: what is that one case, plz? thanks! Giovanni [1] often needed on a foregin distro for testing or migration purposes, like in my case -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures signature.asc Description: PGP signature

failed to compute the derivation for Guix, host version: "0.16.0-3.6ddc63e"

2018-12-14 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
d anything? 2. is it really useful I report this to bug-guix or it's just a spuriuos bug due to something I could have messed up? thanks! Gio -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: GNU Guix & GuixSD 0.16.0 released

2018-12-14 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/, the first may be "What is the difference between GuixSD and Guix"? thanks! Gio -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: GuixSD on librem phone?

2018-12-06 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
e bit cryptic but that was what I meant with "the very good work coming..." :-) and much more trustable communication is around the corner, soon on GNUnet :-D happy hacking! Giovanni -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: GuixSD on librem phone?

2018-12-06 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
ou, secushare https://secushare.org/ -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Question about Guix documentation

2018-12-01 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
er stuff, but if it is OK, then they are two lines, I can change > them and patch them. yes please, fix that template thanks! Gio -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: NPM importer

2018-11-22 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
ld-tools depend on what they build, there is just too > many dependencies and some packages don't declare a license properly. ACK, now I finally understand the problems [...] thany you for your patience ciao Giovanni -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures signature.asc Description: PGP signature

import libjs-*.deb from Debian? (was Re: NPM importer)

2018-11-22 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
ill be so happy to be guixified! :-) [...] ciao Giovanni [1] https://wiki.debian.org/Javascript [2] https://packages.debian.org/stretch/libjs-jquery [3] and bootstrappable? -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: NPM importer

2018-11-21 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
builds ala guix with a yarn importer and some amount of yarn packages downloading/automation and offline mirroring? Ciao Giovanni P.S.: why -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Preparing the reduced bootstrap tarballs

2018-11-19 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
y > conform. so, having the scientific proof that binary conforms to source, there will be noo need to trust (the untrastable) thank you! Ciao Giovanni [2] I still have not fully understood the relationship between stage0 and mes [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metre -- Giovanni Biscuolo

how to fix state-broken affected user services? (Re: GNOME 3.30: help needed!)

2019-01-11 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
asting to debug them) please Ricardo could you attach the relevant debug info? have you seen a related bug report upstream? (this is a seriuos bug, isn't it?) > in ~/.local/share/gnome-shell. do you mean ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/application_state? [...] Thanks for your work! Giovanni --

Re: how to fix state-broken affected user services? (Re: GNOME 3.30: help needed!)

2019-01-11 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
ubthread" concerning the (IMHO harmful) statefulnes of gnome-shell and similar user *servicies*... but then I changed my mind -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: CDN performance

2018-12-19 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hi Mark, sorry for the late reply Mark H Weaver writes: > Giovanni Biscuolo writes: >> with a solid infrastructure of "scientifically" trustable build farms, >> there are no reasons not to trust substitutes servers (this implies >> working towards 100% reproduci

Re: Software Heritage & Guix

2019-04-03 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
tent swh can store (I mean non-free sofware) anyway decentralized storage (IPFS/gnu:net)is already in Guix radar, could be in swh radar too :-) "decentralized software heritage" could even be an interesting application on top secushare :-O thanks! Gio -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures signature.asc Description: PGP signature

XDG_DATA_DIRS issue in execution environment on LTSP

2019-03-27 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
/share/gnome:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/" --8<---cut here---end--->8--- Now I should just "backport" this fix in my ~/.profile so it will be applied to my graphical login session, too WDYT? Thanks, Gio' -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Feature requests

2019-03-25 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
xternal customers who are still not able to use Guix to install them [2] https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Defining-Packages.html#Defining-Packages [...] HTH to better explain how development works in a Guix environment :-) Gio -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: XDG_DATA_DIRS issue in execution environment on LTSP

2019-03-28 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
hey are not set. > test "$XDG_CONFIG_DIRS" = "" && set -gx XDG_CONFIG_DIRS "/etc/xdg" > test "$XDG_DATA_DIRS" = "" && set -gx XDG_DATA_DIRS > "/usr/local/share:/usr/share" Got it: I have to port this

Re: Declarative containers

2019-03-26 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
would be the next (not so low) hanging fruit :-D uh, if only I was able to hack in guile... I'll get there but I'm so sorry I cannot help _now_ :-S Gio'. -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures signature.asc Description: PGP signature

guix weather issue? (was Re: guix package builds, subsitutes and --no-build)

2019-02-25 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
ous. do you think I should file a bug report or should I wait for more investigation in this list? Thanks! Giovanni [...] -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: ci.guix.info 504 gateway timeout (was Re: guix package builds, subsitutes and --no-build)

2019-02-25 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
swedebugia writes: > On 2019-02-21 16:14, Giovanni Biscuolo wrote: > snip > >> >> in my case (I'm on Debian with systemd) I have to add an "Environment=" >> parameter in /etc/systemd/system/guix-daemon.service, reload the systemd >> file and resta

Re: ci.guix.info 504 gateway timeout (was Re: guix package builds, subsitutes and --no-build)

2019-02-26 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
ed to patch Guix manual in this case Thanks! Giovanni -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: guix weather issue? (was Re: guix package builds, subsitutes and --no-build)

2019-02-26 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hi Chris, Chris Marusich writes: > Giovanni Biscuolo writes: > >> do you think I should file a bug report or should I wait for more >> investigation in this list? > > Let's confirm the issue by reproducing it, and then open a bug report. OK, thanks! > The possibl

Re: Guix video repository: First video script commited

2019-02-28 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
for the videos. there is no such directory in my checkout: have you committed and pushed it? > Still doesn't work. Also made some minor changes to the scripts, and > removed the Makefile comment. Laura frustrated mode, will go on > tomorrow looking how I can install the fonts, inside the envi

Re: Guix video repository: First video script commited

2019-03-01 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
s are *very* useful inside the container anyway this is non at all a priority, just my personal wishlist :-) Thanks! Giovanni -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Guix video repository: First video script commited

2019-03-01 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
back ASAP Thanks! Giovanni -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures signature.asc Description: PGP signature

ci.guix.info 504 gateway timeout (was Re: guix package builds, subsitutes and --no-build)

2019-02-21 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
sterday when I needed it :-S in my case (I'm on Debian with systemd) I have to add an "Environment=" parameter in /etc/systemd/system/guix-daemon.service, reload the systemd file and restart the service kudos Giovanni [1] because LVM is still not fully supported by Guix -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures signature.asc Description: PGP signature

hugo packaging

2019-02-20 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
(0.47.1 vs. 0.54.0 current release) Thanks! Giovanni -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: guix weather issue? (was Re: guix package builds, subsitutes and --no-build)

2019-02-27 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hi Chris, Chris Marusich writes: > Giovanni Biscuolo writes: > >> AFAIU the issue is "guix weather" reporting on the availability related >> to current master and not of user commit: am I wrong? > > I'm not sure. That would explain the issue you saw. I have

Re: Renewing certificates with certbot

2019-03-06 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
help fixing this Thanks! Giovanni -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: ci.guix.info 504 gateway timeout (was Re: guix package builds, subsitutes and --no-build)

2019-02-25 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hi Chris, thanks for looking into this issue! Chris Marusich writes: > Giovanni Biscuolo writes: [...] >> actually all https://ci.guix.info/ returns 504 "Gateway Time-out": >> AFAIU this mean I'm not able to install that package (possibly others) >> for some

Re: Guix video repository: First video script commited

2019-03-01 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
nd a way to scale all "cliyes" videos to 1920x1080 pixels no idea why colours are altered in the browser (our main target, I suppose) ..I have to stop for today HTH! Thanks! Giovanni -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: ci.guix.info 504 gateway timeout (was Re: guix package builds, subsitutes and --no-build)

2019-02-25 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Ricardo, thanks for your patience with users like me still not able to find substitutes availability info :-S Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Ricardo Wurmus writes: > >> Giovanni Biscuolo writes: >> >>> unfortunately I'm still having problems installing it since my c

Re: Guix direct checkout hacking

2019-03-16 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hi Danny, Danny Milosavljevic writes: > Hi, > > On Sat, 16 Mar 2019 12:24:27 +0100 > Giovanni Biscuolo wrote: > >> I regurarly "git pull" in $GUIX_CHECKOUT and then "guix environment >> guix": is it sufficient and necessary to "/.boo

Guix direct checkout hacking

2019-03-16 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
ill don't know what and how to solve (end of the first part) Thanks! Giovanni [1] https://guix.info/blog/2018/a-packaging-tutorial-for-guix/ [2] https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Contributing.html#Contributing [3] https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Running-Guix-Before-It-Is-Installed.html#Running-Guix-Before-It-Is-Installed -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: packaging - sentences in description

2019-03-18 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
it for all my packages :-)... but it's a little >> bit >> discouraging :-S > > I can sympathise, but it's not that much work compared to writing > code, and about as important. for sure! I'll meditate meanwhile :-D [...] Thanks! Gio -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures signature.asc Description: PGP signature

packaging - sentences in description

2019-03-18 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
two required spaces: any hint please? Thanks! Gio [1] it takes more than five minutes just for the description: I will diligently do it for all my packages :-)... but it's a little bit discouraging :-S [2] https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Synopses-and-Descriptions.html#Synopses-and-Descriptions -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: error running container: mingetty cannot find ttys

2019-02-06 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
unt-point "/") (type "ext4")) %base-file-systems)) ;; This is where user accounts are specified. The "root" ;; account is implicit, and is initially created with the ;; empty password. (users (cons (user-acc

Re: New videos: topic daily use.

2019-02-08 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
e this, but this distinguishing feature must stimulate each and every newbie to understand the underling concept of declarative stateless installation ...aka: Guix is very smart as a package manager (with rollbacks too!), but it'm much more than a package manager ...just my two cents :-) [...] Tha

Re: problem with dockerd service

2019-02-15 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
; services dependencies? > I wonder why it doesn't complain about 'elogind' missing, though. > > Please add elogind to your service definition. it works! "guix system container..." and "guix system vm..." now both completed the derivation Thanks a lot! Giovann

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add ungoogled-chromium.

2019-02-16 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
list via https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Incoming_distros#Endorsement_Process; Happy hacking! :-) Giovanni [1] https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.en.html -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: It's time to build "guix deploy"

2019-02-17 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
code on my own and if I'll be able to build some abstraction on it Thanks! Giovanni -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures signature.asc Description: PGP signature

virtual network interfaces in container

2019-02-13 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hello devel! please is there any wip on implementing virtual network interfaces in "guix system container"s? AFAIU now the only way to have a container with virtualized network interfaces is to use "guix system docker-image", right? Thanks! Giovanni -- Giova

Re: It's time to build "guix deploy"

2019-02-13 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
. IMHO your remote host configuration technique deserves a dedicated blog article... but I've already asked too much :-) Thanks! Giovanni -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: virtual network interfaces in container

2019-02-13 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
t of extra work and complexity. It > can certainly be added if someone were to put in the effort to figure > out what needs to be done. OK thank you for the information Giovanni [...] -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: virtual network interfaces in container

2019-02-14 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
greport.cgi?bug=28128#14 sorry but I'm still not able to test and adapt it to Guix, I cannot help here [...] Thanks! Giovanni [1] although I still miss the possibility to nest a container/VM declaration in the host configuration.scm... but we can work it out -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT

Re: Public key missing for Guix installation script?

2019-02-14 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
pg.org/T4163 for details AFAIU there is nothing Guix devels can do about this, just be patient about this keyserver issue ;-) HTH! Giovanni [...] -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Public key (and mailing list issue)

2019-02-14 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
;keyserver hkps://hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net" in my .gnupg/gpg.conf -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: It's time to build "guix deploy"

2019-02-14 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
ed too much :-) > > Good idea! given you understand most part of it, why don't you try to write an exegesis of that code yourself ;-) Thanks! Giovanni -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: It's time to build "guix deploy"

2019-02-14 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
pos with "stowable = true" for my dotfolders... but I'll _never_ use something like it's Drupal extension -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures signature.asc Description: PGP signature

problem with dockerd service

2019-02-14 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
o bug #34333 or it's a different issue? Thanks! Giovanni -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: bug#34211: error running container: mingetty cannot find ttys

2019-02-13 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hello, Giovanni Biscuolo writes: [...] > I'll try to remove term-tty[1..6] manually from services declaration, if > I manage to "manually" solve this I'll report here I tried but failed, I'm removing both mingetty and console-font from %base-services list: --8<

Re: bug#34211: error running container: mingetty cannot find ttys

2019-02-12 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
ghts? since mingetty does not make sense in a container I'd remove term-tty[1..6] (and console-font-tty[1..6]) automatically and by default when we create a container via "guix system container..." Thanks! Giovanni -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add ungoogled-chromium.

2019-02-19 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hi! Giovanni Biscuolo writes: [...] > first and foremost, IMHO guix-devel is not the place to discuss GNU FSDG > criteria; I'm going to subscribe gnu-linux-li...@nongnu.org to send > my comments - and I _have_ some - on the FSDG compliance process then I decided to "escalate&quo

Re: guix gc takes long in "deleting unused links ..."

2019-02-02 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
terminate, closing its connection to the daemon. I don't believe the > daemon uses asynchronous I/O [...] IMHO both this questions/anwsers should start a brand new "Guix FAQ" texinfo document :-) I'll try to bootstrap one if I can Thanks! Giovanni -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures signature.asc Description: PGP signature

guix pull fails for guix-packages.drv build failure (commit 7106671)

2019-02-02 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
ies couldn't be built cannot build derivation `/gnu/store/nl8lhird9s910c9x7pmhbv0bj7lkn59j-profile.drv': 1 dependencies couldn't be built guix pull: error: build of `/gnu/store/nl8lhird9s910c9x7pmhbv0bj7lkn59j-profile.drv' failed --8<---cut here---end--->8--- -- Giovanni

Re: guix pull fails for guix-packages.drv build failure (commit 7106671)

2019-02-02 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hi, Giovanni Biscuolo writes: > "guix pull" fails on commit 7106671 due to guix-packages.drv builder > failure already fixed in commit b2cb16133fd0f6a295ed2050562ce542d1bb7805 kudos to Clément Lassieur! Giovanni -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures signature

Re: guix package --search slow ?

2019-05-15 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
sure if it’s worth it. AFAIU it's worth it, at least in terms of disk space Thanks, Gio'. -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Installer: GUIX_IMAGE as /dev/sda on some hardware?

2019-05-25 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hi Tobias, thanks for sharing your experience, I'm cross posting to guix-devel since it's worth discussing a patch to the installer Tobias Geerinckx-Rice writes: > Giovanni Biscuolo wrote: >> This is **very** important when installing grub, in fact grub >> installat

[videos] patchset to fix https://audio-video.gnu.org URLs

2019-05-31 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
signature >From 8b8ea8f7e0251afaf364502db37ee9995e3a922a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Giovanni Biscuolo Date: Fri, 31 May 2019 08:06:24 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] 02-daily-use2: Fix audio-video.gnu.org URL --- 02-daily-use2/en_US/svgs/2.svg | 2 +- 02-daily-use2/transcriptDailyUse.txt

[videos] wrong playback order on https://archive.org/details/guix-videos/

2019-05-31 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
know if the video title is automatically built from video sources (folders are named 04-packaging2 and 04-packaging3 resp.) or manually edited on archive.org import HTH! Gio'. -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: glibc 2.29 needs Python

2019-05-30 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
rg/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=c6982f7efc1c70fe2d6160a87ee44d871ac85ab0 Before that commit «Python is (was) required to build the GNU C Library manual and to run some tests.» (and AFAIU tests was skipped if Python was not available in the build environment) [...] Viva Guix! Gio'. -- Giovanni Biscu

Re: Installer: GUIX_IMAGE as /dev/sda on some hardware?

2019-05-29 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
ng. Gio'. [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub/html_node/Device-syntax.html [2] https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub/html_node/Device-map.html -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures signature.asc Description: PGP signature

reproducibility and bootstrapping in mid 2019 (was Re: on cabal revisions)

2019-06-15 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
on this serious infrastrutcure problems, but it's too... distracted :-D Last but not least: a huge pile of deep gratitude to all the people around the world working to solve this sad sad situation! Happy Guix! Gio'. [...] -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Difference between Scintilla's license and ISC

2019-06-19 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
xt AFAIU I've added HPND to our gnu/licenses.scm and sent a patch, bug number #36295; give me a go/no go please :-) (I can push it if needed) Happy Guix! Gio'. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scintilla_(software) -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Difference between Scintilla's license and ISC

2019-06-20 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
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Re: “Bitcoin Build System Security” video

2019-06-15 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
ng Trust" To be transparent, this *could* also be a good *marketing* video: I just have some "self brainstorming" wandering in my head since a while, just food for thought Anyway: thank you for your work! Happy Guix! Gio'. [1] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix/videos.git --

Re: “Bitcoin Build System Security” video

2019-06-17 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
hould add/clarify that doesn't sacrifice the video's > simplicity, I'd be happy to make revisions! You have already done a great work, let's see how the community will elaborate on this :-) Thanks! Gio'. [...] -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Installer: howto remotely debug/report on bare-metal

2019-05-09 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hello, reply to myself: Giovanni Biscuolo writes: [...] > also: is there a way to start the Installer in a ssh remote session > (once I manually set up networking) so I can stay away from bare > metal? of course there is: switch to a console (CTRL-ALT-F3..F5), start ssh-daemon (h

Installer: howto remotely debug/report on bare-metal

2019-05-09 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
tput saved in some log file I can copy and send by email? also: is there a way to start the Installer in a ssh remote session (once I manually set up networking) so I can stay away from bare metal? :-) thanks! Gio' -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Installer: howto remotely debug/report on bare-metal

2019-05-09 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
sirgazil writes: [...] > Would it be this same problem by chance? > > https://multimedialib.files.wordpress.com/2019/05/guix-1.0.0-installer-unexpected-problem.jpg no, it's related to btrfs: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=35655 happy hacking! Gio' [...] -- Giovanni

Re: Update on 1.0.1

2019-05-09 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
hen installing i3 only) and hope to report soon Thanks! Gio' -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures

Re: X/GDM fails on linux 5.0.7 AMD Radeon RX 580 after system reconfigure

2019-05-11 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
ug=35683 happy hacking! Gio' -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Iridium Browser

2019-05-09 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
HTH! Gio' [1] removing all proprietary third party software [2] https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures signature.asc Description: PGP signature

postgresql vs sqlite for Cuirass (was Re: Hackathon: Mumi and Cuirass)

2019-05-16 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
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Re: Update on 1.0.1

2019-05-15 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hi Ludovic, Ludovic Courtès writes: > Giovanni Biscuolo skribis: [...] >> https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=35655 >> (Installer: mount error using btrfs on already formatted partition) > > Looks like this one should be fixed! If you want, you’re welcome

Re: FreeTube

2019-05-01 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Björn Höfling writes: [...] > Guix has the youtube-dl package, you can use that directly to download > the videos and watch them offline. there's youtube-viewer (also in Guix) I use to watch videos, downloading them only if desired we have mps-youtube also [...] happy Guix! -- Gi

problem installing on RAID partition and hot to rescue

2019-05-07 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
ally as a boot filesystem) so I tend to be conservative and use what I know (and is maybe more mature?) ...anyway: is btrfs formatting using raid1 (or raid10) mode supported using the Guix Graphical Installer? last but not least: should we add a guided RAID partitioning method to the Graphical Ins

graphical install, no network device found (HP EliteDesk 800 G1)

2019-05-08 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
g trick" please comment Thanks! Gio' [1] I rebooted the machine and tried again [2] https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/USB-Stick-and-DVD-Installation.html#USB-Stick-and-DVD-Installation -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructures signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: graphical install, no network device found (HP EliteDesk 800 G1)

2019-05-08 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hello Guix, actually I had a faulty USB media (details below): I've redone it but nothing changed, I'm still getting the "Internet access" dialog with an error message telling "no network device were found" Giovanni Biscuolo writes: [...] > The one and only tes

Re: bug#35630: graphical install, no network device found (HP EliteDesk 800 G1)

2019-05-08 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
networking --8<---cut here---end--->8--- after that I was able to restart the "Network interface" installer step (by choosing "Exit" and selecting it again in the proposed dialog) and was able to select the wired interface Thanks!

Re: problem installing on RAID partition and hot to rescue

2019-05-08 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hello! Ludovic Courtès writes: > Giovanni Biscuolo skribis: > >> I "manually" created a RAID 1 device /dev/md0 and used that device with >> the "guided partitioning" method: > > What did you do exactly? right before the partitioning phase in the

Guix UCI comparison (was Re: Guix beyond 1.0: let’s have a roadmap!)

2019-07-05 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
-system/uci [3] http://augeas.net/ [4] https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/base-system/notuci.config P.S.: I'd really like one day to be able to replace OpenWRT+UCI with a Guix generated (read-only?) system image deployed on my perimetral office router the usual way, configured via a (local) web

Re: Guix beyond 1.0: let’s have a roadmap!

2019-07-05 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hello! Ludovic Courtès writes: > Giovanni Biscuolo skribis: > >> * UI >> >> ** TODO: (local) web application to [re]configure a Guix System, possibly >> starting >>from an existing config file or user selectable templates [...] > That makes s

Re: BTRFS, LVM, LUKS

2019-07-05 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
rrently supported, you can combine them as you like to assemble a device to be used for your filesystems Filesystems can have dependencies on other filesystems or mapped-devices (see "dependencies" member of file-system) I hope this clarifies how Guix assemble its filesystems. [...]

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