Re: Mixing GPL and non-copyleft code in source files

2024-01-04 Thread Alexandre Oliva
seen a copy of the unmodified program. That's not a strict requirement, but it's a strong hint. So please proceed with caution. Thanks, -- Alexandre Oliva, happy hackerhttps://FSFLA.org/blogs/lxo/ Free Software Activist GNU Toolchain Engineer

Re: Mixing GPL and non-copyleft code in source files

2024-01-03 Thread Alexandre Oliva
oesn't look to me as good as standing against violence to the point of intervening when you witness it. I hope this makes sense to you, -- Alexandre Oliva, happy hackerhttps://FSFLA.org/blogs/lxo/ Free Software Activist GNU Toolchain Engineer Disinfor

Re: linux-libre source tarballs

2021-05-08 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On May 6, 2021, Maxim Cournoyer wrote: > Alexandre Oliva writes: >> recipes as to the possibilities of getting to the GNU Linux-libre >> sources from it, how to verify signatures, etc > I for one have not seen them. Would you mind making them available > somewher

Re: linux-libre source tarballs

2021-05-05 Thread Alexandre Oliva
o generate tarballs on the fly, and published digital signatures based on archives generated this way, I presume an expectation that changes to the format won't be made without a very compelling reason. -- Alexandre Oliva, happy hackerhttps://FSFLA.org/blogs/lxo/ Fre

Re: ISO image: to xz or not to xz?

2021-05-03 Thread Alexandre Oliva
squashfs for the bulk of the data in the install media for a future release. -- Alexandre Oliva, happy hackerhttps://FSFLA.org/blogs/lxo/ Free Software Activist GNU Toolchain Engineer Disinformation flourishes because many people care deeply about injustice but very

Re: linux-libre source tarballs

2021-05-03 Thread Alexandre Oliva
ur feedback towards making them available to the public at large. Thanks, -- Alexandre Oliva, happy hackerhttps://FSFLA.org/blogs/lxo/ Free Software Activist GNU Toolchain Engineer Disinformation flourishes because many people care deeply about injus

Re: Linux-libre 5.8 and beyond

2020-08-25 Thread Alexandre Oliva
Hello, Mark, On Aug 25, 2020, Mark H Weaver wrote: > Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> On Aug 15, 2020, Mark H Weaver wrote: >> >>> If I were to implement this, what would you suggest I do if the patches >>> fail to apply >> >> Look at the conflict pr

Re: Linux-libre 5.8 and beyond

2020-08-23 Thread Alexandre Oliva
using the guix build recipe and default kernel config for the bisection, but rather a smaller config built within the bisect tree. > Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> I'm sure that's not what you intend, but this arrangement, plus your >> mention of hurriedly getting releases out, a

Re: Linux-libre 5.8 and beyond

2020-08-23 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Aug 15, 2020, Mark H Weaver wrote: > Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> On Aug 12, 2020, Mark H Weaver wrote: >>> I also consider it unwise for all of us, as a matter of habit or policy, >>> to trust the integrity of the computer systems used by the Linux-libre >>&g

Re: Linux-libre 5.8 and beyond

2020-08-23 Thread Alexandre Oliva
ake up for disregarding the procedures that would have warned you of avoidable issues, whether or not they turn out to be actual freedom issues. The other reason you got much lower results than me was that I made room for your recipe's lagging for up to 2 releases (thus the 5% of stable releases requiri

Re: Linux-libre 5.8 and beyond

2020-08-23 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Aug 15, 2020, Mark H Weaver wrote: > Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> On Aug 12, 2020, Mark H Weaver wrote: >> >>>>> It may be useful for users with newer hardware devices, which are >>>>> not yet well supported by the latest stable release, to us

Re: Linux-libre 5.8 and beyond

2020-08-23 Thread Alexandre Oliva
g 15, 2020, Mark H Weaver wrote: > Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> No. There are much better (faster and less risky) ways to tend to that >> requirement, see #bisecting below. > [...] >> #bisecting >> >> You can even take one of our releases and apply the patches that

Re: Linux-libre 5.8 and beyond

2020-08-14 Thread Alexandre Oliva
ially about major security issues, and our main workhorse has limited capacity, we end up at about one hour per release anyway, having them all ready at about the same time. (Compression of tarballs then takes another half hour or more per release, but the releases are pushed to the git release archive long before compression is completed) -- Alexandre Oliva, happy hacker https://FSFLA.org/blogs/lxo/ Free Software Activist GNU Toolchain Engineer

Re: BTRFS, LVM, LUKS

2019-07-06 Thread Alexandre Oliva
aking this step ;-) -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighter he/him https://FSFLA.org/blogs/lxo Be the change, be Free! FSF Latin America board member GNU Toolchain EngineerFree Software Evangelist Hay que enGNUrecerse, pero sin perder la terGNUra jamás - Che GNUevara

Re: BTRFS, LVM, LUKS

2019-07-06 Thread Alexandre Oliva
ered by the end of the month, to jump into this right away; I wanted to, in order to use guix to deliver the speech, but I doubt I'm going to be able to make the jump in time ;-( -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighter he/him https://FSFLA.org/blogs/lxo Be the change, be Free! FSF Lat

Re: BTRFS, LVM, LUKS

2019-07-04 Thread Alexandre Oliva
Hello, Giovanni, On Jun 30, 2019, Giovanni Biscuolo wrote: > wellcome to Guix! Thanks! > Alexandre Oliva writes: > Guix is "just" not able to activate/assemble LVM volumes at boot Ok, that doesn't sound too hard to fix. (famous last words ;-) > Device mapper i

Re: BTRFS, LVM, LUKS

2019-07-04 Thread Alexandre Oliva
(quite > easy setup). The term "substitute server" doesn't sound familiar to me. From what you suggest, I guess that's a Guix concept related with offloading system rebuilds to it, is that so? > I wish you the best of luck with GuixSD! Thanks! -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom figh

BTRFS, LVM, LUKS

2019-06-29 Thread Alexandre Oliva
to get started, but... the machines I use are not very powerful, as in, laptops old enough as to support LibreBoot, so I haven't used virtualization much myself. Thanks in advance for any guidance. I'm lxo on IRC. -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighter he/him https://FSFLA.org/blogs/lxo

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] [PATCH] gnu: Add ungoogled-chromium.

2019-02-16 Thread Alexandre Oliva
e it's Free, or at least some of the remaining tasks can be checked off. -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighter https://FSFLA.org/blogs/lxo Be the change, be Free! FSF Latin America board member GNU Toolchain EngineerFree Software Evangelist Hay que enGNUrecerse, pero sin