Re: Patching the default PATH of `su`

2018-04-06 Thread Leo Famulari
On Fri, Apr 06, 2018 at 10:01:57AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Probably, yes. It would be good to check how this affects > mingetty/login, sshd, etc. Okay. I can test the change. > Note that libc also has its own default PATH value in : > > /* Default search path. */ > #define _PATH

Re: [PATCHES] gnu: linux-libre: Update to 4.16

2018-04-07 Thread Leo Famulari
On Sat, Apr 07, 2018 at 02:36:04PM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote: > One more thing: I had to add 'flex' and 'bison' as native-inputs because > the build system in 4.16 now concludes that they need to be re-run for > some reason. This could perhaps be avoided by adding a phase to touch > the generated

Re: Rebasing guile-daemon branch onto master

2018-04-28 Thread Leo Famulari
On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 07:10:00PM +, Sandeep Subramanian wrote: > Shall I now rebase by picking only these 30 commits? > > I don't know if what I am doing is right. I could use some guidance and > criticism now. Yes, I think that picking only those 30 commits is the right thing to do. Pleas

Re: 01/05: gnu: rhash: Update to 1.3.6.

2018-04-30 Thread Leo Famulari
On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 08:57:56PM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote: > On core-updates, "guix refresh -l rhash" reports that 2739 rebuilds will > be needed. How many rebuilds are required on master? If it's a similar > number, then I think this commit should be reverted. > > What do you think? On mas

Re: Starting 'core-updates'

2018-05-01 Thread Leo Famulari
On Tue, May 01, 2018 at 04:12:42PM +0200, Marius Bakke wrote: > I was running a bit late with my patches and pushed them to a separate > branch before noticing the 'rhash' update on 'master'. Now there have > been a couple of world-rebuilding commits on the 'core-updates-next' > branch since, so I

Re: [PATCH 0/1] Go importer

2018-05-02 Thread Leo Famulari
On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 06:22:38PM +0200, Rouby Pierre-Antoine wrote: > This patch is a importer for go packages, it's use git repository and the > 'Gopkg.toml' file (https://golang.github.io/dep/docs/Gopkg.toml.html). Neat! I didn't have a chance to review the code yet but I'm happy to see progre

Re: Redefining the maximum path length [Fwd: Re: [GNUnet-developers] using $TMPDIR instead of /tmp]

2018-05-06 Thread Leo Famulari
On Sun, May 06, 2018 at 06:59:23PM +, Nils Gillmann wrote: > we did some changes in GNUnet where my part of the job reminded me again > of the path length Linux has as default. > > I know there's at least (only?) 1 file in the Linux kernel which defines > the path length. Where else would we n

Re: Redefining the maximum path length [Fwd: Re: [GNUnet-developers] using $TMPDIR instead of /tmp]

2018-05-06 Thread Leo Famulari
On Sun, May 06, 2018 at 07:27:46PM +, Nils Gillmann wrote: > I have inserted a build log of a failing test from > GNUnet commit f13af7e7281064380def70d0b4392b4351211655 [...] > TEST: Viewing all stats...FAIL: unexpected output: > osystem othe

Re: Libreoffice source disappeared

2018-05-16 Thread Leo Famulari
On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 10:22:27PM -0700, Chris Marusich wrote: > The LibreOffice version scheme is described here: > > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan#Version_scheme > > It looks like version 5.4.7.2 is supposed to be the 2nd release > candidate of the 7th bugfix release in the 5

Re: new guix on Debian builder is amnesic about its builder group

2018-05-21 Thread Leo Famulari
On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 04:06:30PM +, Nils Gillmann wrote: > Hi, > > this is the 3rd reinstall of Guix I'm doing because every reboot the daemon, > run with the defaul values, no changes, keeps forgetting about its group: > > build machine: > > root@cult ~ # guix build --verbosity=10 hello >

Re: Libreoffice source disappeared

2018-05-21 Thread Leo Famulari
On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 12:13:56AM -0700, Chris Marusich wrote: > * For a given version X.Y.Z, the release cycle behaves like this: > > * Before the release is announced, any number of X.Y.Z.N release > candidates may be published. Based on what we saw just recently, as > new releases a

Re: Code of Conduct and Diversity Statement

2018-05-24 Thread Leo Famulari
On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 11:26:07PM -0700, Chris Marusich wrote: > These all seem like good improvements to me. I think we should upgrade > to 1.4! +1 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: ndctl: I/O error : Attempt to load network entity http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/manpages/docbook.xsl (xmlto?)

2018-05-29 Thread Leo Famulari
On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 04:56:31PM +0200, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: [...] > compilation error: file /tmp/guix-build-ndctl-60.3.drv-0/xmlto-xsl.1OgxRr > line 4 element import > xsl:import : unable to load > http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/manpages/docbook.xsl [...] > --8<-

Git 2.17.1 security update CVE-2018-{11234,11235}

2018-05-29 Thread Leo Famulari
I just pushed commit b50196c3a4275bc51a614f6c1945b2272c595ab8 which updates Git to 2.17.1, fixing some serious security vulnerabilities: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/devops/2018/05/29/announcing-the-may-2018-git-security-vulnerability/ https://marc.info/?l=git&m=152761328506724&w=2 https://cve

Re: Git 2.17.1 security update CVE-2018-{11234,11235}

2018-05-29 Thread Leo Famulari
On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 04:07:48PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote: > https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-11234 > https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-11235 For anyone who is confused, the original announcement on MSDN mistakenly mentioned CVE-2018-11234, wh

Re: Update KDE frameworks to 5.46: trivial test-case fails

2018-05-30 Thread Leo Famulari
On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 02:54:02PM +0200, Hartmut Goebel wrote: > Hi, > > I'm just about to update KDE Framekworks to 5.46, when I find a quite > trivial test-case to fail. Since this test-case is about detecting > "file" URLs, I'm afraid of pushing the update. > > May I push it to a WIP-branch i

Python 2 retirement — what should Guix do?

2018-06-16 Thread Leo Famulari
In 2020, Python 2 will no longer be supported by the Python team. [0] To quote Guido van Rossum, "The way I see the situation for 2.7 is that EOL is January 1st, 2020, and there will be no updates, not even source-only security patches, after that date. Support (from the core devs, the PSF, and py

Re: /dev/urandom

2018-07-10 Thread Leo Famulari
On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 06:22:11PM +0200, Danny Milosavljevic wrote: > Hi, > > u-boot tools/sunxi-spl-image-builder.c reads from /dev/urandom . > > For reproducibility I'd like this to be a static file. Do we already have one > for this purpose? You could use /dev/zero. What does the program do

Re: /dev/urandom

2018-07-10 Thread Leo Famulari
On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 08:58:43PM +0200, Danny Milosavljevic wrote: > It writes an image file. Since that image is later written to flash storage > (by the user), the program randomizes the data in order to increase longevity. > Then it stores the random data used as well. I see. Like Ludo and M

Re: [PATCH 0/1] Go importer

2018-07-11 Thread Leo Famulari
ntoine Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 15:05:23 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] import: Add gopkg importer. * guix/import/gopkg.scm: New file. * guix/scripts/import/gopkg.scm: New file. * guix/scripts/import.scm: Add 'gopkg'. * Makefile.am: Add 'gopkg' importer in modules list. Co-authored

linux 4.17.7 not suitable for i386

2018-07-17 Thread Leo Famulari
FYI, the latest stable Linux release (4.17.7) is not suitable for i386 (i686-linux) systems. Quoting Greg Kroah-Hartman: "NOTE, this kernel release is broken for i386 systems. If you are running such a machine, do NOT update to this release, you will not be able to boot properly. I did this rele

Re: linux 4.17.7 not suitable for i386

2018-07-17 Thread Leo Famulari
On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 11:36:08AM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote: > Quoting Greg Kroah-Hartman: > > "I did this release anyway with this known problem as there is a fix in > here for x86-64 systems that was nasty to track down and was affecting > people. Given that the huge maj

Re: Running the full MariaDB test suite

2018-07-17 Thread Leo Famulari
On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 10:04:42PM +0200, Marius Bakke wrote: > Hello! > > So far our MariaDB package has only run some very lightweight tests. > 10.1.34 flipped a switch that runs the entire "MTR" test suite. > > After patching /bin/ls and /bin/sh, and fixing a couple of failures that > showed u

Re: [PATCH 0/1] Go importer

2018-07-18 Thread Leo Famulari
On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 03:11:36PM +0200, Pierre-Antoine Rouby wrote: > I thinks the modifications doesn't works on my computer. > > --- > Backtrace: > 13 (apply-smob/1 #) > In ice-9/boot-9.scm: > 705:2 12 (call-

Re: %desktop-services now depends on Qt 5, via colord

2018-07-19 Thread Leo Famulari
On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 01:57:51PM -0500, Brett Gilio wrote: > I really think that having Qt in %desktop-services creates an issue > regarding not only the necessary dependencies, but also the fact that Qt > has a propensity to issue non-free or semi-free components in relevant > updates to their l

Re: [PATCH 0/1] Go importer

2018-07-19 Thread Leo Famulari
On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 08:56:03AM +0200, Pierre-Antoine Rouby wrote: > I trying to import 'gitlab-runner' > (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner) > with tag 'v10.6.0'. Okay, thanks. I can reproduce the error: -- $ ./pre-inst-env guix import gopkg https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab

Ghostscript / ImageMagick / GraphicsMagick vulnerability mitigation?

2018-08-23 Thread Leo Famulari
For the last couple years, people have been finding exploitable bugs in the image processing system based on Ghostscript and ImageMagick / GraphicsMagick: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q3/142 http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/29 Despite these issues, these programs are still the best way to

Re: Ghostscript / ImageMagick / GraphicsMagick vulnerability mitigation?

2018-08-24 Thread Leo Famulari
On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 03:04:53PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > In this week’s discussions, it’s unclear to me why people are focusing > so much on ImageMagick and Evince when the real issue is in > Ghostscript’s ability to run arbitrary commands from PostScript code. I > rarely run ‘convert’ o

Re: Guix on aarch64

2018-08-26 Thread Leo Famulari
On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 12:13:44PM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote: > Regardless, I think we should seriously consider moving the Aarch64 > build slave(s) to Hydra for now, until Cuirass is more mature. I agree with your points about why berlin.guixsd.org makes it harder to maintain the aarch64 port. I

Re: Guix on aarch64

2018-08-27 Thread Leo Famulari
On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 10:04:12AM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > I think our use of Hydra is not sustainable. It requires regular manual > intervention by Mark, careful tuning of SQL queries, conscientious > clean up of old substitutes, and we have not a single person familiar > with the Perl cod

Re: Guix on aarch64

2018-08-28 Thread Leo Famulari
On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 09:57:49AM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > I commented specifically on Leo’s statement about build debugging on > Cuirass: > > “I don't actually do any build debugging with Berlin yet because I > don't know how to use the interface effectively.” > > This did not so

Re: Firefox 52's end of life, packaging Chromium

2018-08-29 Thread Leo Famulari
On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 11:03:07AM +0200, Clément Lassieur wrote: > Firefox 52 isn't supported anymore upstream[1] and we don't have a > package for Firefox 60. Currently the only alternative is Epiphany but > it's close to unusable (it crashes every 5 minutes, and sometimes > freezes my computer)

Re: Firefox 52's end of life, packaging Chromium

2018-09-01 Thread Leo Famulari
On Sun, Sep 02, 2018 at 01:33:40AM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote: > Ricardo Wurmus writes: > > 1 There is still some data transmitted when starting the browser for the > > first time. It seems related to the "domain_reliability" component. > > 3 Opening settings transmits a bunch of data, the next

Re: What ARM hardware should we buy and where should we host it?

2018-09-04 Thread Leo Famulari
On Mon, Sep 03, 2018 at 10:59:38AM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > One of the most promising seems to be the SynQuacer: > > https://www.96boards.org/product/developerbox/ > > With a 24-core processor, SATA, PCIe, USB 3.0, micro-atx form-factor, > and 4 ram slots (up to 64GB, in theory, but ma

Re: Heads-up: New dependency on Guile-Gcrypt

2018-09-04 Thread Leo Famulari
On Wed, Sep 05, 2018 at 04:07:41AM +0800, Alex Vong wrote: > Is master FTBFS because of this update? I get the following error when > running make: It works for me after I did `make clean` and made sure that guile-gcrypt was available. Basically: $ guix environment --pure guix --ad-hoc guile-gcr

Re: FOSDEM 2019 - stand

2018-09-10 Thread Leo Famulari
On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 09:08:02AM +0200, Gábor Boskovits wrote: > Björn Höfling ezt írta (időpont: 2018. > szept. 9., V 1:13): > > I would suggest at least three timeslots for each day, so we would have > > 12 slots in total. Who will spend his time at the stand? Of cause, I'm > > volunteering fo

Re: [Next browser] Common Lisp: mgl-pax: Package SWANK-BACKEND does not exist.

2018-09-11 Thread Leo Famulari
On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 11:01:08PM +0200, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > By the way, I could not rebase+push, upstream complains that I cannot push > non-fast-forward commits and that I should pull first. How am I supposed to > rebase my branch? For wip-* branches [0], please delete the branch remotel

Re: Tracker & Gnome

2018-10-08 Thread Leo Famulari
On Mon, Oct 08, 2018 at 02:42:31PM -0500, Brett Gilio wrote: > I tried passing guix refresh -u tracker to the terminal and am getting > this output > > guix refresh: error: mkstemp!: Read-only file system > > I am going to try and dissect this from the documentation, but I wanted > to pass it alo

Re: glib-compiler-resources

2018-10-10 Thread Leo Famulari
On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 02:46:10PM -0500, Brett Gilio wrote: > How about update-desktop-database? Try the 'desktop-file-utils' package. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [outreachy] am I in the right track to contribute

2018-10-11 Thread Leo Famulari
Laura Lazzati ezt írta (időpont: 2018. okt. 11., Cs, 16:32): > Yes, for me it is OK. I have an account in bitbucket, but because it > allows me to have private repos without having to pay extra for that - > most people here use github. Is it ok to use it even it is not FOSS? I > was reading what

Re: Gradio attempt

2018-10-11 Thread Leo Famulari
On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 03:56:42PM -0500, Brett Gilio wrote: > 1) The description is virtually null, because I am not quite sure I > understand fully what to put there. The documentation helped, but it > still feels ambiguous to this specific project. The description is sometimes the hardest part

Re: Gradio attempt

2018-10-11 Thread Leo Famulari
On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 04:33:31PM -0500, Brett Gilio wrote: > Thank you for your feedback on the description. As for whether or not > the application works, yes. I click on "Add stations to library". It > takes a few seconds for it to populate, but I am eventually shown > several choices and somet

Re: Gradio attempt

2018-10-13 Thread Leo Famulari
On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 12:36:27PM -0500, Brett Gilio wrote: > I tried the same thing after I sent the initial email and looking at the > build process more closely. But, I am in the same position as you, no > luck. I am not sure how it is verifying the presence of the codec, if it > is looking in

Re: Using 'λ'

2018-10-13 Thread Leo Famulari
On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 04:51:48PM +0800, Alex Vong wrote: > Hello guix, > > Should we allow the use of 'λ' in guix? I think we have discussed it > before, but I forget why it was rejected. Running 'rgrep' on source > shows 7 uses of it. I think it is syntactically more pleasant and it > encourges

Re: move "source /etc/profile" from .zlogin to .zprofile

2018-10-13 Thread Leo Famulari
On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 06:33:59PM -0700, Chris Marusich wrote: > The same documentation you linked says: > > `.zprofile' is meant as an alternative to `.zlogin' for ksh fans; > the two are not intended to be used together, although this could > certainly be done if desired. > > Is th

Re: move "source /etc/profile" from .zlogin to .zprofile

2018-10-15 Thread Leo Famulari
On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 11:48:01AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hello, > > Chris Marusich skribis: > > > I see. I'm not a zsh user, but I agree it would make sense to rename > > .zlogin to .zprofile. I've attached a patch that does this in our > > /etc/skel. I haven't tested it, though. W

Re: Guix & IPFS

2018-10-16 Thread Leo Famulari
On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 12:40:18PM +0200, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > No, Go programs typically refer only to repositories, not to their commit. > This > is precisely why it's a problem. Golang's dependency management was not very > well designed I'm afraid. > > Misunderstanding? I think you and

Re: openssh vulnerability

2018-10-16 Thread Leo Famulari
On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 12:47:26AM -0400, Mike Gerwitz wrote: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 21:20:30 -0400, Christopher Lemmer Webber wrote: > > https://www.libssh.org/2018/10/16/libssh-0-8-4-and-0-7-6-security-and-bugfix-release/ > > > > seems serious? > > Very... Fortunately that's libssh and not Op

libssh vulnerability

2018-10-21 Thread Leo Famulari
On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 01:17:48PM -0700, Chris Marusich wrote: > Will this change trigger many rebuilds? It has many dependents: > > --8<---cut here---start->8--- > $ guix refresh -l libssh2 > Building the following 1321 packages would ensure 3307 dependent >

Re: FOSDEM 2019 (ACTION: please register or mail)

2018-10-21 Thread Leo Famulari
On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 11:23:43AM +0200, Pjotr Prins wrote: > If you intend to come and/or want to speak please add your name and > proposed title to the new page at > > https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/FOSDEM2018 > > Alternatively, reply here or mail me privately so we can keep a tally

Re: FOSDEM 2019 - stand

2018-10-21 Thread Leo Famulari
On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 11:29:53AM +0300, Efraim Flashner wrote: > * Alex Sassmannshausen > * Tonton > * Andreas Enge > * Ludovic > * Gabor Boskovits > * Leo Famulari > * Tobias G-R > * Björn Höfling > * Christopher Baines > * Julien Lepiller > * Efraim Flashner

Re: New Guix reference card

2018-10-21 Thread Leo Famulari
On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 01:05:18PM -0700, Chris Marusich wrote: > I see that the second page is mostly blank. Is that intended? I think it's meant to be the back of a printed card. It would be great to have a stack of these for FOSDEM :) signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: FOSDEM 2019 (ACTION: please register or mail)

2018-10-21 Thread Leo Famulari
On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 05:34:49AM +0200, Björn Höfling wrote: > as 2018 is already over, I suppose it was in your interest I added you > to the 2019 list: > > https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/FOSDEM2019#Attendees Haha, yes, I would like to be on the list for 2019. And for 2018, too, but t

Re: Trying to crosscompile for POWER9

2018-10-22 Thread Leo Famulari
On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 08:30:03AM +0200, Tobias Platen wrote: > On 10/20/2018 09:09 PM, Tobias Platen wrote: > Here are the build logs from guix. I have tried building the toolchain > twice, but in both cases glibc failed to build. [...] > running configure fragment for sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64

Re: Packaging gx (for IPFS): Need to update default Go to 1.11?

2018-10-24 Thread Leo Famulari
On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 01:40:26PM +0200, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > Is there a good reason for sticking to 1.9 or should we update to 1.11? There are two reasons. First, the implementation of go-build-system is really inefficient for Go 1.11, especially since things compiled with Go 1.11 keep a h

Re: Packaging gx (for IPFS): Need to update default Go to 1.11?

2018-10-24 Thread Leo Famulari
On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 04:02:46PM +0200, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > > > First, the implementation of go-build-system is really inefficient for > > Go 1.11, especially since things compiled with Go 1.11 keep a huge > > run-time dependency graph: > > Is it _only_ inefficient because of issue 32949

Re: mismatch of source tar ball hash

2018-10-29 Thread Leo Famulari
On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 12:23:33PM +0100, Marco van Hulten wrote: > substitution of /gnu/store/a77ap0vw0fnsz138paby8w55rlcd58zi-calcurse-4.3.0 > failed > building > /gnu/store/ya1v2nv0mq8dzkcik64inlyxxk3skz3h-calcurse-4.3.0.tar.gz.drv... > downloading from http://calcurse.org/files/calcurse-4.3.0

Re: Stop it. Formerly - Re: Promoting the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines?

2018-10-31 Thread Leo Famulari
On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 04:41:53PM +0100, Pjotr Prins wrote: > I suggest to end this thread. HiPhish, come and discuss your points at > FOSDEM. We'll set up a working group for those who care about these > things. I agree. The subject has been discussed ad nauseam across the internet, and even off

Re: Packaging gx (for IPFS): Need to update default Go to 1.11?

2018-11-06 Thread Leo Famulari
On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 06:04:54PM +0100, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > Actually bug 32919 matters, it breaks Demlo and all packages that depend on > packages that need special compilation flags (e.g. -tags "xyz"). > > Concretely, say A depends on B and B must be built with "-tags xyz". > When packagi

Re: Trying to make texinfo patch

2018-11-06 Thread Leo Famulari
On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 06:53:59PM +0100, Thorsten Wilms wrote: > AWS is rather complex. Several services make things easier if all one is > looking for is off-site backup, but some would make you use > Non-Free-Software, the very thing this community can never recommend. There are packages in GNU

Re: Packaging gx (for IPFS): Need to update default Go to 1.11?

2018-11-06 Thread Leo Famulari
On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 06:33:53PM +0100, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > > If most of the Go packages are ready for Go 1.11, we could make it the > > dfeault and then use Go 1.9 for the packages that are lagging behind. Or > > vice versa. > > How do you do that? The default Go is defined in ((guix bui

Re: Nano: disable hard wrapping by default

2018-11-07 Thread Leo Famulari
On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 07:43:21PM +0100, swedebugia wrote: > Could we disable it by default? > > According to the FAQ this exist: > > "With --disable-wrapping-as-root you can disable any hard-wrapping by > default when the user is root, useful to prevent accidentally changing long > lines in sys

Re: Packaging gx (for IPFS): Need to update default Go to 1.11?

2018-11-07 Thread Leo Famulari
On Wed, Nov 07, 2018 at 05:22:44PM +0100, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > Hmm, actually it seems that go1.9 is not able to build a package against > dependencies built with go1.11. Yeah, I don't think there is any notion of backwards compatibility there. > For Demlo, that would mean that I need to add

Re: Packaging gx (for IPFS): Need to update default Go to 1.11?

2018-11-07 Thread Leo Famulari
On Wed, Nov 07, 2018 at 09:09:24PM +0100, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > Sure, but isn't this too much a hassle (and more pollution added to the > package > namespace) for a temporary workaround? It's a matter of taste :) > Shouldn't we focus on fixing the cache bug in the build system instead? Yes,

Re: Packaging gx (for IPFS): Need to update default Go to 1.11?

2018-11-07 Thread Leo Famulari
On Wed, Nov 07, 2018 at 09:48:50PM +0100, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > In my patchset, there are 2 kinds of fixes: > > - Disabling tests because Go 1.11 test policies are stricter and some lax code > from before does not pass anymore. > For this issue, upstream should fix their packages. As far

Substituting in parallel to save time?

2018-11-07 Thread Leo Famulari
Substitution honors the --max-jobs argument to the guix-daemon, which means that, by default, substitutes are downloaded in sequence, one at a time. I noticed that in many cases, it takes longer to set up the substitution than to actually download the substitute on my 30 Mbps downlink. The effect

Re: more space on berlin.guixsd.org

2018-11-12 Thread Leo Famulari
On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 08:11:36PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > Hey Guix, > > today we finally succeeded in attaching an external storage array to the > server known as berlin.guixsd.org. I relocated the /gnu/store directory > from the local 1TB disk to the external storage. The result is that

Golang programs keeping references [gnu: go: Update default to 1.11.]

2018-11-12 Thread Leo Famulari
On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 04:32:46AM -0500, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > commit 9a65a052016572b61e3c4247fcdf9e0478656f71 > Author: Pierre Neidhardt > Date: Sun Nov 11 22:02:18 2018 +0100 > > gnu: go: Update default to 1.11. > > * gnu/packages/golang.scm (go): Update default to 1.11. I

Re: Packaging gx (for IPFS): Need to update default Go to 1.11?

2018-11-12 Thread Leo Famulari
On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 10:45:07AM +0100, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > Alright, I've applied the changes and updated to go-1.11. > Should we remove go-1.9 now? If all of our Go packages are still working with Go 1.11, then it should be safe to remove Go 1.9. We should take care to handle the inherit

Re: Golang programs keeping references [gnu: go: Update default to 1.11.]

2018-11-12 Thread Leo Famulari
On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 12:48:20PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote: > way, then it's time to finally move the Boyer-Moore implementation in > (guix grafts) to its own module so we can use it easily. Mistake — it's in (guix build grafts). signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Golang programs keeping references [gnu: go: Update default to 1.11.]

2018-11-12 Thread Leo Famulari
On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 06:38:53PM +0100, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > Yes, it should be statically linked. Isn't it the same issue as we recently > had > with go-1.11 itself? > > The fix was > > --8<---cut here---start->8--- >;; Prevent installation

Re: Golang programs keeping references [gnu: go: Update default to 1.11.]

2018-11-12 Thread Leo Famulari
On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 06:38:53PM +0100, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > Yes, it should be statically linked. Isn't it the same issue as we recently > had > with go-1.11 itself? > > The fix was > > --8<---cut here---start->8--- >;; Prevent installation

Re: push right for trivial commits

2018-11-13 Thread Leo Famulari
On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 09:58:32AM +0800, Alex Vong wrote: > In the discussion, it was mentioned that the GnuPG version installed on > Savannah is 1.4.16. Therefore, savannah cannot send encrypted messages > to me using my ECC key. However, I am not sure about signing commits > with ECC key. Does i

Re: GNOME & Tracker-Sparql

2018-11-13 Thread Leo Famulari
On Sat, Nov 10, 2018 at 06:59:55PM -0600, Brett Gilio wrote: > I hate to be a nuissance: I remember about a month ago wondering when we > could get Tracker-Sparql upgraded, and there was some great input. There > seemed to be a delay in the GNOME channel carrying many updates to our > GNOME environ

Re: Proposal: rename sshfs-fuse -> sshfs

2018-11-14 Thread Leo Famulari
On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 12:41:59PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > I have no objections to renaming the package, though you’ll need to keep > a definition for “sshfs-fuse” to indicate to users that the package has > been renamed. Right. See the definition of 'letsencrypt' in (gnu packages tls) for

Re: [bug#33347] [PATCH 4/4] gnu: teeworlds: Update to 0.7.0 [fixes CVE-2018-18541].

2018-11-21 Thread Leo Famulari
On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 10:41:08PM +0800, Alex Vong wrote: > I think Leo may be busy since he hasn't reply yet. Should I just push > given the CVE fix? Yes, please push :) signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: push right for trivial commits

2018-11-22 Thread Leo Famulari
On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 04:07:33AM +0800, Alex Vong wrote: > I think ECC key works with commit signing precisely because commit > signing simply requires Savannah to store the key. However, for > functionalities provided by Savannah (e.g. sending email to your address > encrypted with your ECC publ

Re: Guix receives donation from the Hanshake project!

2018-12-03 Thread Leo Famulari
On Mon, Dec 03, 2018 at 10:34:23PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hello Guix! > > We have some good news: the Hanshake project donated to GNU and the FSF, > and part of that goes to us! > > > https://gnu.org/s/guix/blog/2018/gnu-guix-receives-donation-from-the-handshake-project/ > > Concrete

Re: My new signing key

2018-12-04 Thread Leo Famulari
On Wed, Dec 05, 2018 at 03:49:42AM +0300, Oleg Pykhalov wrote: > Hello Guix, > > Recently I've changed my signing subkey, here is it: > > 7238 7123 8EAC EB63 4548 5857 167F 8EA5 001A FA9C Thanks for letting us know. Please remember to update the key on your Savannah user page: https://savannah

Re: Using a CDN or some other mirror?

2018-12-04 Thread Leo Famulari
On Wed, Dec 05, 2018 at 10:32:02AM +0800, Meiyo Peng wrote: > If at some point we need to setup traditional mirrors like other major > Gnu/Linux distros, I can contact my friends in China to setup mirrors in > several universities. I was a member of LUG@USTC, which provides the > largest FLOSS mirr

Boost support for Python 3

2018-12-05 Thread Leo Famulari
On Wed, Dec 05, 2018 at 04:14:19PM +0100, Marius Bakke wrote: > On a side note, it would be good to enable Python 3 support in Boost > too. Do you know what is required? Just adding python-3 to Boost's inputs? Is it low-risk or should we do it in core-updates or its own branch? signature.asc Des

Re: GuixSD on librem phone?

2018-12-06 Thread Leo Famulari
On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 04:24:38PM +0100, Giovanni Biscuolo wrote: > callular (baseband) merits a dedicated chapter, since it seems > practically impossible *forever* to trust that chips... and that chips > are an important attack vector (Purism will use USB bus to separate > baseband from CPU) I

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

2018-12-09 Thread Leo Famulari
On Sun, Dec 09, 2018 at 05:16:58PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > > Ludovic Courtès writes: > > > One problem with the installation OS is that it’s pulling ALSA and all > > sorts of sound-related libraries (libsamplerate, etc.), which clearly is > > unnecessary in the installation image. That c

Re: The mirrors of hydra are down

2018-12-11 Thread Leo Famulari
On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 11:48:04PM -0600, Brett Gilio wrote: > I had a similar issue, I just substituted the hydra.gnu.org url rather > than the mirror, and it worked. If you haven't done so yet, please switch back to the mirror. cannot handle many users at a time, so we need to use the mirror wh

Re: 01/01: gnu: Add rclone.

2018-12-11 Thread Leo Famulari
On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 03:50:14PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Longer-term I think we should all push to a dedicated branch and have > server-side automation apply to ‘master’ patches that pass a few tests > (commit signed by an authorized key, ‘guix lint’, things like that.) Some Ubuntu peopl

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

2018-12-13 Thread Leo Famulari
On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 09:17:23AM +0100, Giovanni Biscuolo wrote: > > I’m in favour of moving them elsewhere, such as %desktop-services. > > yes please: sound related services are not-so-base, we do not need them > on installation/web/mail/DNS et. al servers (and containers) and it does > not make

Re: Golang programs keeping references [gnu: go: Update default to 1.11.]

2018-12-15 Thread Leo Famulari
On Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 07:19:49PM +0100, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > > > So hmm, you’re right! I’m sure I saw go packages somewhere, dunno… > > Just looked at the source: after my Go 1.11 update, Syncthing was updated to > use > vendored dependencies, just like go-ipfs. This is why it does not

Re: Golang programs keeping references [gnu: go: Update default to 1.11.]

2018-12-15 Thread Leo Famulari
On Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 07:19:49PM +0100, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > > > So hmm, you’re right! I’m sure I saw go packages somewhere, dunno… > > Just looked at the source: after my Go 1.11 update, Syncthing was updated to > use > vendored dependencies, just like go-ipfs. This is why it does not

Re: the upcoming Great Python2 Purge™

2018-12-26 Thread Leo Famulari
On Wed, Dec 26, 2018 at 11:38:12AM +0200, Efraim Flashner wrote: > We're now about a year out from the official EOL for python2 (Jan 1, > 2020). So far we've been not adding python2 variants of packages that > are new unless they're actually needed for something. Do we want to > start removing pyth

Re: add DEPRECATION grace period: the upcoming Great Python2 Purge™

2018-12-26 Thread Leo Famulari
On Wed, Dec 26, 2018 at 02:33:55PM +0100, Pjotr Prins wrote: > A lot of software outside Guix still depends on Python2, for better or > worse. I don't believe EOL means they are going to drop security > updates. Leaf packages may well be in use today. I do think it means that the current Python te

Re: the upcoming Great Python2 Purge™

2018-12-26 Thread Leo Famulari
On Wed, Dec 26, 2018 at 01:30:53PM +0100, Marius Bakke wrote: > Efraim Flashner writes: > > We're now about a year out from the official EOL for python2 (Jan 1, > > 2020). So far we've been not adding python2 variants of packages that > > are new unless they're actually needed for something. Do we

Re: [bug#33933] [PATCH 0/4] gnu: libextractor: Fix CVE-2018-{20430, 20431}.

2019-01-03 Thread Leo Famulari
On Thu, Jan 03, 2019 at 09:12:35PM +0800, Alex Vong wrote: > Btw, for security fixes, how long should I wait before I ping here? If you are confident in the fix, it's fine to go ahead and commit if there is no review. Otherwise, a day or two is probably fine. If the vulnerability is particularly s

Re: Packaging Jami (ex GNU Ring)

2019-01-09 Thread Leo Famulari
On Wed, Jan 09, 2019 at 07:14:38PM +0100, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > Jami is made of 3 packages and might drag in 2-3 packages that > so far are not used by any other package. > > General question: where should those packages go? > > - ring.scm If there is no longer a 'Ring' project, then let's r

Re: Adding a section about security in the guix manual

2019-01-10 Thread Leo Famulari
On Wed, Jan 09, 2019 at 09:52:53AM -0500, Joshua Branson wrote: > Perhaps I would put it right after GNU Distribution > System > Configuration. Perhaps I would call that section "Hardening > Recommendations". Some of the things that I want to include are strong > passwords, encrypted drives, MAC

GRUB fallback mechanism [was Re: Brain storming cool Guix features]

2019-01-11 Thread Leo Famulari
On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 05:48:39PM +0100, L p R n d n wrote: > - Currently, I think the only way for a GuixSD installation to break is > if something goes wrong with the bootloader. Might be nice to have a > tool (in the install image I suppose) to recover the bootloader. > Maybe 'guix system

Re: Bad GPG sig on guix .16.0x86_64

2019-01-15 Thread Leo Famulari
On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 09:49:14PM -0800, Sebastian wrote: > Hello, Developer. > I was intreged by the OS and decided to try it. > I noticed that the GPG sig was bad and thought I should let you know. > (or perhaps I did something wrong, let me know.) Thanks for reaching out! > seb@seb-pc ~/Downl

Re: FOSDEM 2019 - we need a VGA to HDMI converter! And live streaming

2019-01-22 Thread Leo Famulari
On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 12:36:06PM +0100, Pjotr Prins wrote: > > I have a mini-displayport to hdmi adapter that I'm bringing if anyone > > needs. I also have a DVI->VGA adapter which I don't expect to be useful. > > I'm not sure if VGA->HDMI exists so much, searching online they're > > always liste

Re: Should openssh be an input of Git?

2019-01-22 Thread Leo Famulari
On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 11:36:40AM +0100, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > I've noticed that `git clone ` fails if openssh is > not in the user profile. > Should we add openssh as an input to Git? I guess that programs like Git and rsync (another SSH user that doesn't depend on it explicitly) can use sev

Re: Policy to remove obsolete packages

2019-02-04 Thread Leo Famulari
On Mon, Feb 04, 2019 at 07:06:35PM +0100, Andreas Enge wrote: > On Mon, Feb 04, 2019 at 12:16:12PM +0100, Björn Höfling wrote: > > If a package is broken for more than 6 months, we should just remove it > > from Guix. Prior to removing, we should announce on the dev mailing > > list, maybe someone

Re: Using GPG Subkeys with git/savannah

2019-02-11 Thread Leo Famulari
On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 10:00:20PM +0100, Björn Höfling wrote: > What I haven't found out is how/if you can use multiple subkeys for > savannah.gnu.org. Does anyone know about that? I use GPG subkeys and I use them for Guix. Regarding Savannah, I think that the only thing required is to upload th

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