Re: Suggestion for a guix shell feature.

2023-12-29 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hiyall, On 29 December 2023 03:58:27 UTC, Maxim Cournoyer wrote: >Guix doesn't/shouldn't make use of LD_LIBRARY_PATH, except in rare cases >to wrap binaries. It's better to patch the dlopen calls to use the >absolute shared library file name. Fully agree. Furthermore, '--ld-library-path'

Re: Western US mirroring?

2023-12-11 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
I'm happy to assist but not currently available to be volunteered into leading the effort, sorry. Kind regards, T G-R Sent on the go. Excuse or enjoy my brevity.

Re: Western US mirroring?

2023-12-11 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
[+CC the -maintainers alias for good measure] I can't speak for the collective but enthousiastic +1 from me. OSU should already have me on file as representing Guix (for the POWER9 VM) so let me know if I can expedite anything. Kind regards, T G-R Sent on the go. Excuse or enjoy my brevity.

Re: Shutting down qa.guix?

2023-12-09 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hi Chris, I agree that Guix should step in to maintain the level of service that QA currently offers, by paying for hosting and sharing responsibility for system administration. Whether the software's maintained or improved is something over which we've historically had very poor control.

Re: Upgrading Guix's security team

2023-11-22 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Great, I was waiting for someone to reply so's to glom on and ask to be included in the same commit to minimise noise. So, there. Kind regards, T G-R Sent on the go. Excuse or enjoy my brevity.

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,

Re: A Forum for Guix Users

2023-07-15 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hi! I saw this thread mentioned in #guix. Csepp 写道: We could also bridge IRC to Matrix This will happen if EMS (representing ‘Matrix’ here) fixes the mysterious errors that are currently plaguing channels trying to migrate from portalled⁰ to plumbed⁰ rooms. Kind regards, T G-R [0]:

Expect bayfront (bordeaux) downtime on 26 May

2023-05-19 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Bonjour! This is a service announcement for users of the bayfront (or bordeaux) substitute server, which also handles IRC logs IIRC, and probably some other rando services. That's most Guix users. The original French message follows. The TF;DR is that networking will probably be severed

Re: Welcome new committers

2023-05-11 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Welcome (further) aboard, Josselin & Simon! You've both contributed tremendously to Guix over many years, and it is very much appreciated. Kind regards, T G-R Sent on the go. Excuse or enjoy my brevity.

Re: The package/inherit trap

2023-03-07 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hi, On 7 March 2023 17:46:50 UTC, Simon Tournier wrote: >Well, from my point of view, we have a trap because the documentation is >not clear. :-) Both. However, merely documenting something is not enough when we have the chance to fix misleading naming, as we do here. It would be nice to

The package/inherit trap (was: gnu: stellarium: Enable ShowMySky.)

2023-03-03 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hi! Maxim Cournoyer 写道: Simon Tournier writes: It is not clear for me why you choose one over the other. From my current understanding, I would be tempted to always use 'package/inherit' and never plain 'inherit'. I also got confused by that in the past; Same. I think it's a rite of

Re: Requesting permission to post a job search in guix-devel

2023-02-28 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hi Andrea [on-list], So, good news. A majority of maintainers has awoken, and all agree that job searches are welcome on guix-devel@ as long as they: 1. are related to Guix, obviously not an issue here; 2. do not promote non-free software. Promotion would include applicants being

Re: Guix on Apple Silicon

2023-02-25 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Roman, On 2023-02-25 20:17, Roman Scherer wrote: I'm working on a channel to run Guix on an Apple M1. I wonder if there is interest in bringing some of its packages into Guix itself, provided licensing allows it. As long as they're FSDG-OK, I'd love to see this happen. Kind regards, T G-R

Re: [PATCH] download: Add url-fetch/xz-file.

2023-02-25 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hi Hilton, I agree with Ludo' and also wonder if a generic ‘url-fetch/compressed-file’ wouldn't be better. There are closure arguments to be made for this xz-only approach. I don't know if they're convincing. Cluebats welcome. (I was going to bring up ‘url-fetch/tarbomb’ as an example,

Re: Oniro or Guix on Zephyr kernel?

2023-02-24 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hi, On 2023-02-24 19:36, Mitchell Schmeisser wrote: I don't think the guix daemon is technically required for the shepherd to boot (being the daemon is a shepherd process itself). No, not at all. I think this is a common (and not unreasonable!) assumption we Guixers

Re: adding motif to guix

2023-02-12 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hi! Not a review, but how is *tif ‘not an X toolkit’...? Why not just say it ‘uses *tif’, instead? Kind regards, T G-R Sent on the go. Excuse or enjoy my brevity.

Re: Resurrecting top-notch continuous integration for Guile

2023-01-29 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hello, > (Speaking of which, I hereby ask fellow Guix hackers to voice any > concerns they may have regarding this use of project resources.) Please use project resources. Thank you. Kind regards, T G-R Sent on the go. Excuse or enjoy my brevity.

Re: Unexpected error with #~(modify-phases

2023-01-27 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
You're probably missing (guix gexp), and the 'replace' syntax fails before Guile ever gets to expanding the '#~'. Kind regards, T G-R Sent on the go. Excuse or enjoy my brevity.

Re: #:configure-flags flags #~'() or #:configure-flags flags #~()

2023-01-19 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
In this example, only #~'() makes sense. #~() is nonsensical here and will cause a syntax error when ungexped. Kind regards, T G-R Sent on the go. Excuse or enjoy my brevity.

Re: #:configure-flags flags #~'() or #:configure-flags flags #~()

2023-01-19 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hi! It's not about 'right' (why would grepping Guix return wrong code...? Impossible! :-). It's a matter partly of preference and partly of using the best tool for the job. Omitted from your second example is a call to list, and the #~ that both have in common is just syntactic sugar for

Re: What's missing from qutebrowser for text rendering?

2023-01-02 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Thanks. Could you try adding a few mainstays, such as Bitstream Vera & DejaVu, and make sure that fc-cache -rv returns no errors? (Some being ENOENT is fine). That usually placates IceCat, at least. Kind regards, T G-R Sent on the go. Excuse or enjoy my brevity.

Re: What's missing from qutebrowser for text rendering?

2023-01-02 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Which fonts do you have installed? Kind regards, T G-R Sent on the go. Excuse or enjoy my brevity.

Re: Winding down of Fosshost

2022-12-04 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hi Jonathan, indieterminacy 写道: Given Fosshost's place in the ecosystem: is this something which requires mitigating at the Guix end? I'm aware of two dealings with Fosshost in the past, neither of them crucial: - They hosted a Big Blue Button instance[0] only for the duration of our COVID

Re: Status of hibernation (suspend to disk) in Guix

2022-12-02 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Ivan Vilata i Balaguer 写道: But then I wonder if I may have rushed to post the patch, as I don't know whether hibernation is supposed to be more or less mature or supported in Guix (we may not want to encourage people to use a feature which may easily cause data loss)… Though it works quite

Re: nss-certs@3.81: server certificate verification failed. CAfile: /gnu/store/…/ca-certificates.crt CRLfile: none

2022-11-23 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hi Simon, zimoun 写道: Is it a bug in Guix nss-certs side? Or on Gitlab server side? No Guix bug, the server is misconfigured. It's incorrectly sending an ISRG Root X1 certificate, which chains to the expired DST Root CA X3. It should not send ISRG Root X1 at all. Kind regards, T G-R

Re: guix open

2022-11-18 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
( 写道: How would that interact with ``guix package --show''? Perhaps it might be better to add a ``guix package --open'' option? Ah, damn, yes. I didn't think of that. (Actually, I think this nicely illustrates the folly of adding cute subcommands that should be options. It illustrates

Re: guix open

2022-11-18 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
jgart 写道: what do you think of having a `guix open` command that opens the projects home-page in your $BROWSER? […] bloat? Yes — as ‘guix open’ — but it would make a nice addition to ‘guix show’. Kind regards, T G-R signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Antioxidant (new rust build system) update - 100% builds

2022-10-29 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hi Maxime, This is so great. It's been downright fun watching antioxidant steadily grow in power. Thank you so much for working on it! Kind regards, T G-R signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: https://guix.gnu.org/ is offline

2022-10-19 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Brendan Tildesley 写道: https://guix.gnu.org/ doesn't load for me and another person in IRC Thanks! You can follow along with debugging at . Kind regards, T G-R signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: elogind configuration

2022-10-15 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Antonio Carlos Padoan Junior 写道: I will investigate further. All right! /run/current-system/profile/etc/elogind/logind.conf What made you find/look at this file? It's not used. I don't know why it exists. Oh, I was on the wrong track. :) Ah, so it exists as a funny prank! That's

Re: elogind configuration

2022-10-15 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hi Antonio! Antonio Carlos Padoan Junior 写道: I do not know why but "suspend" stopped working on my computer after a recent upgrade (pull & reconfigure). Do you still have a working system generation to compare? Does suspending without elogind work? E.g., using the more reliable ~ λ echo

[PATCH mumi] view/html: Unambiguously imply date:YYYY-MM-DD.

2022-10-12 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
--- mumi/web/view/html.scm | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mumi/web/view/html.scm b/mumi/web/view/html.scm index 552d435..171fbf9 100644 --- a/mumi/web/view/html.scm +++ b/mumi/web/view/html.scm @@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ simple query language. Here is a list of

Re: bug#58417: Installer script no longer works with `yes` utility

2022-10-11 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
[Shunted to guix-devel@] Jonas Freimuth 写道: bash -c 'yes | bash guix-install.sh' While this happens to work (again) now, that doesn't mean it always will or should be considered supported. We should reserve the right to ask future questions to which the safe/sane/common answer is ‘no’,

Re: substitute derivation: also substitute grafts?

2022-10-01 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Quick note: On 1 October 2022 17:29:03 UTC, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: >If substitutable was merely a hint that a daemon could be free to ignore >it wouldn’t be any worse than downloading a substitute vs building >something locally. Substitutability has legal implications in Guix, whether or not it

Re: Hostile takeover of the matrix room

2022-09-30 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hi Jacob, I recommend seeking help for your compulsive lying. Czechia's a great country, they don't deserve to be associated with abusive behaviour. Please remember that you've been banned from Guix for just this pattern of dishonesty, of which I'm only your latest victim. Don't take it

Re: Hostile takeover of the matrix room

2022-09-28 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
jbra...@dismail.de 写道: He probably spends his free time adopting kittens that have been abandoned in sub 0 blizzard weather, though that is speculation of course... I can neither confirm nor deny these foul accusations, nor that it is merely a front for building my deadly army of adorable

Re: branch master updated: gnu: gitolite: Wrap programs instead of using propagated inputs.

2022-09-05 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Thompson, David 写道: Will this build be retried at some point? Yes: now ;-) (There are no automatic retries.) Fresh new errors at . I would say these look fundamental and not transient, but if you say you built this at home, I don't know what

Re: [POSTMORTEM] Subkey is not authorized by .guix-authorizations

2022-09-05 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Ludovic Courtès 写道: I’m busy these days so I’d rather not commit to starting a discussion on this, but I’d suggest testing waters on #savannah on IRC. They weren't wild about it. We'd be asking for a lot from their perspective. I haven't given up on convincing them otherwise, but an

Re: Fwd: [core-updates] libaio test fails on powerpc64le-linux due to kernel bug

2022-08-30 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Thiago, Done: - Ran ‘apt update && apt full-upgrade’ - rebooted - read [0] to figure out what Debian's weirdo unames mean. Thanks! T G-R [0]: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/509247/debian-linux-kernel-versioning signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: FSDG issues of SCUMMVM-based games

2022-08-25 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
In a strange coincidence (I mean, I assume they don't troll our lists...?), I just got a friendly reply to assure me we've not been forgot. Kind regards, T G-R Sent on the go. Excuse or enjoy my brevity.

Re: FSDG issues of SCUMMVM-based games

2022-08-24 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
I got an auto-reply with a ticket number from the FSF, but no answer yet. I was aware of and unimpressed by Debian's rationalisations on the matter. Still, this isn't as clear-cut as (say) the Realtek drivers, so IMO we can afford to wait as long as is needed. Kind regards, T G-R Sent on the

Re: Who owns guix-mirror?

2022-08-17 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hi Lars-Dominik, Lars-Dominik Braun 写道: you could also enable “temporary interaction limits”[1] in your org account, which applies to all of its repositories. It’s only valid up to 6 months, but maybe better than nothing…? It is! Thank you. I've set it to ‘collaborators’ and added a

Re: Who owns guix-mirror?

2022-08-16 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hi Marius, Marius Bakke 写道: (took me a while to find it): Indeed. Thanks for saving me that trouble. I've now done the same. Awesome logo, by the way! Thanks :-) Keeps the PRs away, or at least you can't prove otherwise. Kind regards, T G-R signature.asc Description: PGP

Re: Who owns guix-mirror?

2022-08-16 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Oh, Maxime Devos 写道: . That's not some weird role-play — I wasn't part of the org when I wrote it. Kind regards, T G-R signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Who owns guix-mirror?

2022-08-16 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hi Philip, Philip Beadling 写道: I was wondering who owns the mirror as there is no public ownership declared on github.com? Is it owned by Guix or is it run by a trusted third party, etc? It's Marius Bakke (mbakke) and me (nckx). It probably wouldn't hurt to make that list public.

Re: sneek

2022-08-14 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
jgart 写道: Does anyone know what git repo sneek lives in? https://gitlab.com/dalepsmith/sneek Guix has nothing to do with its deployment or hosting though. That's all Dale. Kind regards, T G-R signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: FSDG issues of SCUMMVM-based games

2022-08-06 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
I've sent an e-mail to the FSF licencing department asking for their guidance on the matter. I erred on the side of netiquette caution and didn't CC this list. Either the inclusion of [a subset of] Drascula in Trisquel[0] is a similar oversight, or we're missing some legal subtlety. I'm

Re: FSDG issues of SCUMMVM-based games

2022-08-06 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hi Liliana, Liliana Marie Prikler 写道: The packages - drascula, […] 1. Their license explicitly prohibits selling of the games themselves and may thus be qualified as non-free. Yep, it's pretty explicit, and I agree that it's an unreasonable restriction that makes the software non-free.

Re: Welcome to our new committer!

2022-08-05 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hi Andrew, A big fat welcome from me as well. Savannah UI being what it is, I'm almost completely certain that I managed to make you a member of the ‘GNU Guix’ organisation there. You should be able to push to the Git repository. For my own future reference: did you get any automated mails

Updating linux-libre

2022-07-25 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hi, Just a heads-up so we don't needlessly burn energy like it's 2020: I'm (still) updating the linux-libres to the latest kernel.org versions, but it's taking one hell of a long time to deblob & build them all on a mere i7. I didn't realise it was this expensive! (And berlin is down, so

Re: python-pytest in references graph

2022-07-25 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hi Bengt, Berlin is currently in a degraded state (probably a Shepherd bug). The main Web site works, although it's probably not being updated, and last I checked substitutes did to, but issues. is down and I don't think Cuirass is building new substitutes. We can't remotely reset the

Re: User group during build process

2022-07-24 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hiya, On 24 July 2022 19:17:29 UTC, Maya wrote: > shouldn’t opensmtpd-service-type already extend setuid-program-service-type > with appropriate setuids? A matter of taste (I disagree with your characterisation 'useless'!), but I certainly wouldn't mind. Plenty of services do this for

Re: User group during build process

2022-07-24 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hi Maya! So... You cannot change group ownership in the store. There are no additional user groups in the build environment. The chgrp failing is by design ('it's a feature, not a bug'), and there's no way to subvert this. The group is not required during the build process. The correct way

Re: Tom Lord passing

2022-07-19 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Thanks for sharing, even if accidental. What a shame. Kind regards, T G-R Sent on the go. Excuse or enjoy my brevity.

Re: maradns reproducibility fixes and the merits of picking a random number

2022-07-19 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Ludovic Courtès 写道: Honestly, I don’t think it’s worth bothering about the non-substitutable trick. Agreed. In practice, maradns should be able to rely on /dev/urandom at run time, right? That is my understanding. Kind regards, T G-R signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Could Guix System eventually run on top of HyperbolaBSD ? slightly off topic

2022-07-14 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
On 14 July 2022 10:23:49 UTC, zimoun wrote: > Well, I am missing where it is announced. Could you be more specific? https://www.hyperbola.info/news/announcing-hyperbolabsd-roadmap/ Far from 'recent' in my book. Whatever my opinion on WSL, Darwin, and the Hurd, I must concede that they at

Re: guix refresh to a specific version?

2022-07-05 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
They should even redirect from http: to https:, and here they do. Kind regards, T G-R Sent on the go. Excuse or enjoy my brevity.

Re: repl macro (metacommand?) for guix CLI (sub)commands

2022-07-04 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
>This is because each of those "CLI calls" end up running `(exit 0)` >at the end in some form or another. Should they? Is this an accepted pattern in the functional style to which Guix tries to adhere? (I don't know! It just caught me by surprise.) Kind regards, T G-R Sent on the go.

Re: glibc-locales

2022-07-03 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
The intended use is NOT to use a package at all, see https://guix.gnu.org/en/manual/devel/en/html_node/Application-Setup.html#Locales-1 Strongly put (and very possibly missing something :-), this sounds like maintenance effort to support an antipattern. Kind regards, T G-R Sent on the go.

My GPG key just expired. I know.

2022-07-02 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hi, Just a pre-emptive note that, yes, I'm aware. Kind regards, T G-R Sent on the go. Excuse or enjoy my brevity.

Re: Non-free data in Poppler test suite

2022-07-02 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hi, Mark's reply addresses everything that would worry me from an FSDG perspective and more -- thanks Mark! On 2022-07-01 15:12, Ludovic Courtès wrote: It may also be that this qualifies as fair use (AIUI, we’re talking about pages extracted from larger PDF files, right?). ...but from a

Re: How to reinstall the bootloader without guix system reconfigure?

2022-07-01 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
P.S.: I would have answered this on either list; the move from -help to -devel was not a factor. I didn't even notice. Kind regards, T G-R Sent on the go. Excuse or enjoy my brevity.

Re: How to reinstall the bootloader without guix system reconfigure?

2022-07-01 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hi, Guix System reinstalls GRUB every time for convenience, but there's no need to run 'guix' just to fix GRUB. You can reinstall it by hand if you know what you're doing, using GRUB's grub-install command. It doesn't even matter which distribution's GRUB you use, as long as it's not

Re: maradns reproducibility fixes and the merits of picking a random number

2022-06-28 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
...I mean: as long as there's this second, run-time random term added to it as upstream says there is. I didn't audit the code to verify that. Kind regards, T G-R Sent on the go. Excuse or enjoy my brevity.

Re: maradns reproducibility fixes and the merits of picking a random number

2022-06-28 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
>I am at a loss as to what to do then ... nothing and just have it be >unreproducible? embed a specific random number? come up with better >upstreamable patches? From upstream's response and my own biases and my reading of the room here, I'd say #2. Kind regards, T G-R Sent on the go.

Re: maradns reproducibility fixes and the merits of picking a random number

2022-06-28 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hi, Vagrant said: > It is expensive to generate the random prime on some hardware, so doing > so at runtime might not be feasible in some cases... But in the same reply you're paraphrasing, upstream also says: > In 2010, I updated that homegrown hash compression > algorithm to also add a random

Re: D Packages in Guix

2022-06-21 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Tobias Platen 写道: I had a look at Inochi2D[1], which is written in D. D has its own packagemanager called dub, so a dub-importer will be needed to build Inochi2D with guix Such an importer would certainly be welcome. I recently encountered my first D package in the wild. However: there's

Re: maradns reproducibility fixes and the merits of picking a random number

2022-06-08 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Efraim Flashner 写道: I like the idea of forcing the program to segfault if it looks for /dev/urandom and it isn't there more than distributing a randomized prime number. +4 Or error out nicely. Don't let's ship such ‘features’. Kind regards, T G-R signature.asc Description: PGP

Re: Teams

2022-06-04 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
On 4 June 2022 12:07:15 UTC, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: >* Rust team [...] >Tobias Geerinckx-Rice OK what the hell. I'll also join Leo on a kernel/module/initrd team if they're interested. I think we should also have (natural) language 'teams' who can be pinged when, e.g., a news item

Re: proposal: guix-ment...@gnu.org list/alias

2022-06-03 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Liliana Marie Prikler 写道: So first things first, this would only apply to guix-patches (I believe), since that is where "contributions" as in "patches that need review" are sent to. My proposal is roughly as follows: 1. When a new contributor sends a mail to guix-patches, the mail gets

Re: proposal: guix-ment...@gnu.org list/alias

2022-06-03 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hi Lily, Liliana Marie Prikler 写道: That is once it's established that a new contribution is actually a contribution, the patch is forwarded separately to guix-mentors (along with reply-to: for the original bug etc. set up in a way that's useful to mentors), claiming takes place, and so on.

Re: Move /gnu/store to another filesystem

2022-05-27 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
I forgot to add: You can probably reclaim most of that space by deleting the (now bogus) /gnu/store/.links directory. That's safe. Kind regards, T G-R signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Move /gnu/store to another filesystem

2022-05-27 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hi Théo, Théo Maxime Tyburn 写道: I figured out where the problem came from. I forgot to use the -p option while copying the store with cp. I think this will probably work (I mean—it obviously did, but also longer-term). However, ‘cp -p’ does not preserve everything, including hard links.

Re: Arun Isaac Presentation on guix-forge this Saturday

2022-05-24 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
jgart 写道: I'd like to invite you this Saturday to a presentation on guix-forge by Arun Isaac: Magical: I can probably make it this time. Kind regards, T G-R signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Test US mirror for bordeaux.guix.gnu.org and slow downloading of substitutes

2022-05-24 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hi Blake, Blake Shaw 写道: Any idea why this might be happening? Could bordeaux be blocking IPs in Singapore? This is *completely* unrelated. bordeaux (bayfront) is currently running out of RAM and has been doing so, quite heroically, for more than an hour now. Because of that it's

Re: Supporting upstream supported Python versions

2022-05-17 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
On 17 May 2022 05:38:48 UTC, jgart wrote: >What is the opinion on supporting current upstream supported versions >of python? > >The master branch only has 3.9 but I'd like to have substitutes available >for 3.7, 3.8 and 3.10: Go for it if you're willing to maintain them. Kind regards, T G-R

Re: Shepherd erroring on guix system reconfigure

2022-04-17 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
On 17 April 2022 09:27:04 UTC, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: >There's only a warning here, not an error. > >Is the swap file already swapon'd? If it previously worked, the warning is >likely (pun unintended) transient. > >Kind regards, > >T G-R > >Sent on the g

Re: Shepherd erroring on guix system reconfigure

2022-04-17 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
There's only a warning here, not an error. Is the swap file already swapon'd? If it previously worked, the warning is likely (pun unintended) transient. Kind regards, T G-R Sent on the go. Excuse or enjoy my brevity.

Re: Update to bug 54919 gone missing

2022-04-16 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hi Brian, On 16 April 2022 11:36:52 UTC, Brian Cully wrote: > > I sent an email to 54...@debbugs.gnu.org to update it with more >specific information almost two days ago and I haven’t seen any changes >in https://issues.guix.gnu.org/54919 . I also never got a bounce or >other return

Re: New review checklist

2022-04-01 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
>-- would the commit need to be let-bound here? You seem to already know the answer, which is 'no'. Aside, 'let-binding' is not the opposite of 'hard-coding'. Kind regards, T G-R Sent on the go. Excuse or enjoy my brevity.

Re: Statement from the Guix maintainers regarding recent events

2022-03-01 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hi Mark, Maxim wasn't directly involved. Neither was the CoC. I was. If you're really curious about what happened you can read the past days' archived threads in which Taylan participated. We're not going to rehash them here. Kind regards, T G-R Sent on the go. Excuse or enjoy my

Re: An appeal to empathy on actual hurt caused by this thread

2022-02-28 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Good god, man. You spectacularly botched your original proposal. That should have been the end of it. Instead, we all have to suffer through your inability not to have the last word. Or indeed thousand words. That's cruel & unusual collective punishment, that is. To protect you from

Re: branch master updated: gnu: pspp: Fix failing test suite.

2022-02-26 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
On 2022-02-26 15:52, guix-comm...@gnu.org wrote: + #~(modify-phases %standard-phases Hm, this initially used an ungexp before I was sure what was going on. Now it doesn't. Is the purported performance impact of gexps measurable at this scale, and worth removing the gexp? My gut

Re: Update CoC adapted from upstream 2.1 (instead of 1.4)

2022-02-25 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Lily, On 2022-02-26 1:48, Liliana Marie Prikler wrote: As a nice side-effect, adding it would give us two reasons to ban Taylan; first for discriminating against trans people based on their sex characteristics and second based on their gender identity or expression. This is a new low. we

Re: Excessively energy-consuming software considered malware?

2022-02-25 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
On 2022-02-25 13:41, Bengt Richter wrote: And maybe also a mailing list called "guix-grownups" -- where casual adult language is accepted without triggering endless complaints. This is guix-grownups, although we accept grown-ups of all ages. Kind regards, T G-R Sent from a Web browser.

Re: Update CoC adapted from upstream 2.1 (instead of 1.4)

2022-02-24 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hi, On 2022-02-25 1:05, zimoun wrote: So, since we are at it, let give a look at the most recent version v2.1 [3]. :-) I propose to adopt their extended list: regardless of age, body size, visible or invisible disability, ethnicity, sex characteristics, gender identity and

Re: [minor patch] Amend CoC

2022-02-21 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
On 2022-02-21 22:03, Liliana Marie Prikler wrote: let's look at some other ways of defining sex, shall we? Let's not! This is guix-devel, not trans-discuss. Any relevance to Guix or its CoC is long lost. (Regarding that: flawed as it indubitably is, I don't think the current CoC should

Re: Commit Access

2022-01-27 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hi Vinicius, Vinicius Monego 写道: I was granted commit access to the repository [1] one hour ago. I am signing this mail with the key that will be used to sign commits. My public key can be found at [2] and [3]. Thanks, and welcome aboard! :-) Toot, T G-R signature.asc Description: PGP

Re: Clarifying blog post licensing

2022-01-26 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Vagrant Cascadian 写道: Just for clarity, do you mean the GFDL with a laundry-list of non-free anti-features excluded, like the guix manual: I think that goes without saying, but clarity is good: thanks for bringing it up. Invariants would be a deal-breaker for several of us I'm sure,

Re: Clarifying blog post licensing

2022-01-26 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
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Re: Could someone please restart this Cuirass build?

2022-01-13 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Thiago Jung Bauermann 写道: Therefore, could someone please restart this Cuirass build? Done. Kind regards, T G-R signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Guix wiki

2022-01-11 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hi Zimoun, I'm disappointed by the ‘bikeshedding’ insult. I really don't care what you call it. - cathedral, as it is today I object to redefining loaded terms to promote it. Kind regards, T G-R signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Guix wiki

2022-01-11 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hi Simon, all, I'll give your long and thoughtful reply the attention it deserves when I have time, but there's another misleading tangent that has bothered me (elsewhere) in this discussion: - cathedral, as it is today This is revisionist. The Bazaar model perfectly describes Guix,

Re: 03/06: style: Add support for "newline forms".

2022-01-11 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hi Ludo'! Sigh. Sorry. I know what this will sound like. :-) guix-comm...@gnu.org 写道: + ('base32 '(sha256 origin)) I know this is your style, but I would *really* prefer this to be: + ('source '(package)) instead. I know! But wait! I think that's defensible: for the same reason

Re: Guix wiki

2022-01-11 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hullo Matt, Matt 写道: I feel like it also says that community isn't important to us. I understand how you could reach a flawed conclusion from a flawed assumption: Wikis are synonymous with community. But it's still circular, wrong, and frankly quite offensive. Guix cares about

Bug tracker spam

2022-01-06 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
All, I've asked the debbugs crew over e-mail how to deal with [0], assuming there's a way to close bugs without pinging a malicious sender. Please, nobody respond to or modify it in the mean time. I'll follow up with a question on how we're supposed to moderate bugs if the tracker &

Re: git hook error

2021-12-28 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice 写道: I wonder if Savannah monitors and publishes numbers, and how they compare to other popular forges. I asked; they don't. Kind regards, T G-R signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: git hook error

2021-12-28 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hi Ricardo, Ricardo Wurmus 写道: - Savannah’s uptime isn’t quite as high as we’d like I wonder if Savannah monitors and publishes numbers, and how they compare to other popular forges. Why should we do better? We haven't even managed to set up a git mirror after all these years. - we

Re: git hook error

2021-12-28 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Ricardo, This is . Kind regards, T G-R signature.asc Description: PGP signature

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