able to boot memtest, there are a couple requirements:
[...]
The memdisk kernel from the syslinux library
[...]
See page : https://ipxe.org/appnote/memtest?s[]=syslinux
So maybe add a comment somewhere explaining that those 2 things
won't work on any arch != x86_*
Maybe just add that to the commitmsg...
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Hello,
There is something here:
https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix
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0)))
>
> one can write:
>
> (native-inputs (list autoconf automake pkg-config guile-3.0))
What about
> (native-inputs
> `(,autoconf
>("truc" ,muche)
>"pkg-config"
> ))
i.e. allowing package objects, tuples and names, and it would DTRT ?
Wouldn't something like that be possible ?
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Hello,
On Mon, May 3, 2021 at 4:11 PM Luis Felipe
wrote:
> I just sent a patch to add this (https://issues.guix.gnu.org/48187/).
At a cursory glance, it LGTM.
Thanks a lot.
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eps draining power
Yes, I'm also having problems to (re)boot.
> I've only tested with the "linux-libre-arm64-generic" kernels
Same here.
Thanks
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Thanks Christopher, Mathieu & Ludo to help us understand what's going on
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to get one of these?
> > What do you think?
>
> That’d be great; a few people were interested in a port to RISC-V.
>
> Could interested developers raise their hands? :-)
I am interested.
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On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 10:18 PM Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> What do people think?
I'd say distribute both, so the bandwidth-starved can get the
smaller, and the CPU-starved can get the uncompressed one.
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Hello Vagrant,
Thanks a lot for the update.
I'll see what I can do.
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working on).
Yes, I know the term is overloaded, but it's easy and conveys at least
a bit of the subject at hands, so...
> Does that make any sense? Do say if you have more questions.
Yes, and I will, thanks
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es/2020-04/msg01317.html
The wip-pbp branch:
why does it get merges from master instead
of being rebased (as wip-* branches can be) ?
How can one help getting things going upstream ?
Thanks to all people involved
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g
what the differences are, how can they complement each other,
kind of the CI envisionned big picture...
Regards
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> I'll give it a shot
Here is an (untested) attempt, is it any good ?
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From 50f15a322e86591bc6e3572245c98eb79c0dfafb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vincent Legoll
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2021 19:48:51 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] website: help: Add development manual link.
* website/a
Hi,
On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 6:44 PM Luis Felipe
wrote:
> It sounds good to me. I added this to my list, but if someone else wants to
> do it, please go ahead.
I'll give it a shot
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Hello,
I think we could add a link to the devel doc [1] (with the appropriate
warnings) to the "all help" page.
WDYT ?
[1] https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/
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penbsd & netbsd also still have support too.
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that may be possible, so all hope is not lost.
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or how we can get a machine for powerpc CI? Maybe VMs, I
> guess? Can a POWER9 machine be a powerpc-linux machine...?
A VM on power9 may be able to run BE ppc32.
Regards
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fix it. The Jobs column displays either the percentage or
> the build count but not both.
You're right, a forced reload (CTRL-SHIFT-R here) did the trick.
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umn:
* is there really a need for decimals for the %age, an integer would
be good enough ? (no more ".00%" nor "100.00%")
* could you give a bit more width so that it always fits in two lines ?
See the attached capture
Thanks, this is nice work / progress !
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the guix-patches ML. As in: a followup to "xxx...@debbugs.gnu.org"
At least that was what I was +1'ing
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ent a patch to add this menu (https://issues.guix.gnu.org/47663).
I'm not sure if I can help, but this LGTM (untrained eyes)...
Thanks a lot
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e same reasons. But it's still a bit pricey for me though.
I'd say you can talk about it, the way you proposed, as there's a high
probability that it will get the certification.
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ore than on particular models...
Thanks
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/_unixware7.cfg
./_unixware.cfg ./_win95.cfg ./_winnt.cfg
../../../dist/include/nspr/md
../../../config/./nsinstall: ../../../config/./nsinstall: cannot
execute binary file
mesa and afl refused because of meson-build-system.
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to date as possible.
It already is only an index to ML, blog, git branches for some items,
and I think that's OK. I also think that the entries with a bit more
context (arch support, mainly) are also useful in explaining what
one can expect from that item.
Thanks
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Hello,
On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 5:03 PM Andreas Enge wrote:
> posting messages to the issues looks like a feasible and good thing to me,
> then all relevant information would be present in the same place.
Yes, +1 to that
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On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 9:18 PM Efraim Flashner wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 06, 2021 at 07:00:50PM +0200, Vincent Legoll wrote:
> > s/sporatically/sporadically/
>
> Not going to lie, spelling is hard. I normally have spell check turned
> off for scheme files.
But you *are* lying,
On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 9:18 PM Efraim Flashner wrote:
>
> On Tue, Apr 06, 2021 at 07:02:47PM +0200, Vincent Legoll wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 2:44 PM Efraim Flashner
> > wrote:
> > > +((string-match "powe
Hello,
On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 2:44 PM Efraim Flashner wrote:
> +((string-match "powerpc" cpu) "ppc")
Won't there be some "powerpc64le" conflict here ?
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Hello,
On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 2:44 PM Efraim Flashner wrote:
> + ;; Tests on powerpc-linux take forever and fail sporatically.
s/sporatically/sporadically/
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Hello,
On Sun, Apr 4, 2021 at 10:49 PM Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote:
> nsis-x86_64
> mingw-w64-x86_64
> mingw-w64-x86_64-winpthreads
That will make really strange names, at least for those
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myself since my early tries with guix,
and just today, I got to know it is doable, and there are people just doing
it, and some hints about what & how to try it myself...
So thank you, and Raingloom.
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e (way faster but
not durable, and would make the VM non migratable) to the VMs and
they may be able to do so in the future.
Tchuss
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] the Odroid N2 looks roughly 3x faster than the CI
on this specific build / test (total 30 mins vs 90).
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> I've restarted <https://ci.guix.gnu.org/build/133895/details>.
I'm seeing overdrive1 as idle (as a lot of hydra workers) yet the
restart is still in scheduled state.
What am I missing ?
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.
What should we do ? just wait for next build ?
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On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 7:11 PM Luis Felipe
wrote:
> I see a newly created page for Works in Progress, though
Yep, my announce and your email crossed past each other...
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The first bits are in, look:
https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/WorkInProgress
Add / enhance to tell what is running, where to find good recipes...
To create pages you have to score a few edits (I went
typo-hunting for a bit). I think about 5 should do.
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So OK with me.
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lp page).
There's something strange, the default link to the doc is for the /en/ language
when I selected the french web site, this could go directly to the
french version.
BTW, there's no rush to change this, as Leo, I can't create a page on
libreplanet's
wiki
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Maybe we can have both: a core-updates:'core with
a sufficient priority so that it is built often enough,
and then a core-updates:'all with the lowest priority
(batch) so that it does not steal any processing power
from the other more important stuff...
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On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 4:54 PM Luis Felipe
wrote:
> Or that, yes. I can send a patch to add a Wiki entry to the Help page instead
> of adding a "Wiki" item to the "About" menu.
Or even better a "Wiki" title bar entry of its own, like we have one
for "Blog"...
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Looks like we have a plan.
Now for the hard part, how do we name it ?
"Guix/WIP" or "Guix/WorkInProgress"
or
"Guix/Hacking", "Guix/CoolStuff", "Guix/BleedingEdge", "Guix/NewShiny"
Some of those may be half-jokes, I'd personally go with WorkInProgress.
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s probably OK from a PoV of spam management.
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And probably other things I missed.
This should complement the ML archives, IRC logs or
blog, with pointers to (hopefully) more current infos
on those subjects.
WDYT ?
[1] I only (accidentally) discovered today that those
exist
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Hello,
I stumbled upon the following blog post:
https://www.mininodes.com/arm-server-update-fall-2020/
Which was a summary of what should be available.
I say "should" because some links are already dead now.
There are mentions of non-FLOSS things there.
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b/src/static/css/cuirass.css
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
#search #search-hints {
display: none;
position: absolute;
+z-index: 1;
top: 3em;
background: white;
border: 1px solid #ced4da;
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mprovements !
PS: Sorry for ENOPATCH but I'm not good at
web.
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privately) to host the same (1 or 2 WS power-class),
currently on ADSL uplink (so not for substitute distribution, only building),
FTTH in the future, no UPS though.
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On Sunday, March 21, 2021, raingloom wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Mar 2021 20:42:19 +0100
> Vincent Legoll wrote:
>
> > + '(#:tests? #f ;; No need for tests when you have formal proof
> > of correctness
> In just about any talk about Idris and Type Driven Development, Edw
On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 8:42 PM Vincent Legoll wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 7:02 PM Vincent Legoll
> wrote:
> > I have created a guix build recipe for seL4 recently, it builds, but I don't
> > know what to do with it :-)
> >
> > I'll send it as a fo
On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 7:02 PM Vincent Legoll wrote:
> I have created a guix build recipe for seL4 recently, it builds, but I don't
> know what to do with it :-)
>
> I'll send it as a followup to this thread, if any one is interested.
Here it is, ukernel only, hardcoded arch, nothin
L4 (looks like seL4
started in 2006).
I have created a guix build recipe for seL4 recently, it builds, but I don't
know what to do with it :-)
I'll send it as a followup to this thread, if any one is interested.
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s merging. Why delay them for too long if
the potential
disruption is mitigated by going back to a workinig profile or system generation
(modulo the substitute availability which is almost only a compute resource
problem)
Cheers
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still providing what we have now so that
any one can try to push it a bit further.
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be an inclusion criteria
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; same as "ip r add default via 192.0.2.1 dev enp1s0"
> (route-add "default" #:device "enp1s0" #:via "192.0.2.1")
"via" could also be called "gateway" (maybe that's an oldtimer
thing ;-) )
But that's all kind of bikesheddy...
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Hello Chris,
On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 7:42 PM Chris Marusich wrote:
> Vincent Legoll writes:
> > I rebuilt guix on core-updates with gcc-8 succesfully
> > I'll now try the same above wip-ppc64le.
>
> Awesome! Thank you for doing this. I'm sure there will be some bumps,
&g
Hello,
I rebuilt guix on core-updates with gcc-8 succesfully
I'll now try the same above wip-ppc64le.
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Hello Chris,
I'm all for that, what can I do to help ?
I don't have a Talos, though...
So only cross- or emulated- stuff...
Willing to help, but needs directions.
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I'll be unable to SSH in
Couldn't you get a console from a virtual serial port from the VM ?
BTW, looks like you're doing excellent work !
Thanks
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if you're copying the old code,
just name your "pinned" package "xpdf-4.02" so that it's not recognized
as "xpdf", and that should protect you from xpdf upgrades.
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viewer (xpdf) won't be built, but the
command line tools will still be built.
This is also documented here:
http://www.xpdfreader.com/download.html
There may exist a cmake param to get the old bare xpdf, but
I've not found it.
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tely bugs that you can report.
Done : https://issues.guix.gnu.org/45936
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than "37 hours ago". The "<< < > >>"
> > buttons also act strangely. Do you see such things ?
> > Should I report them as bugs ?
>
> Yes looks like the search pagination and ordering is broken, those are
> definitely bugs that you can report.
I'll do it later today
Thanks
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a string comparison, where
"32 minutes ago" is older than "37 hours ago". The "<< < > >>"
buttons also act strangely. Do you see such things ?
Should I report them as bugs ?
Tchuss
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Hello,
I don't understand the following docstring
english (even if I guess the meaning):
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/system.scm#n861
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u also use some armhf (32-bit) hardware?
I would like. I tried and failed (I tried to build an image for an
orangepi+2e)
I have other non-x86 HW that I would like to have guixsd on.
I don't ask for susbstitutes, I can build them locally if needed and
doable.
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we should officially deprecate it, and not leave it in this
> >> in-between state.
> >
> > I'm not using it because I can't make it work.
>
> Don't hesitate to report the issues you encountered!
I've done it a few times already, for armhf, arm64, powerpc64, mipsel.
An
nobody is using
> it, then we should officially deprecate it, and not leave it in this
> in-between state.
I'm not using it because I can't make it work.
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nerd-fonts[1] first, since Cascadia appears to be an iteration
> of it.
Yes you're right, I did not look at the submitted scm hard enough to
see it.
Sorry for the noise.
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On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 9:46 AM Vincent Legoll
wrote:
> * I've not checked the difference size (nor that it matters) between zip
> and tar.gz, you may want to use the smallest one to minimize download.
>
I just did, and the tgz wins: 3.1 MB vs 5.7 MB
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ix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Formatting-Code.html)
* I've not checked the difference size (nor that it matters) between zip
and tar.gz, you may want to use the smallest one to minimize download.
Thanks
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ing. That makes it easier to read.
That is better, but the separate file would allow to have proper
syntax highlighting, allow linting/pep8'ing, etc.
Cheers
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Hello,
I like the idea of better testing for our python packages, but would it be
possible to avoid embedding the python code as scheme strings ?
Like in a separate pure-python file.
WDYT ?
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the inherited package) and then
concatenating the overrides.
I've come with the attached diff, but it's giving me
headaches.
Anyone can give it a look and tell me what is wrong
with my coding ?
PS: I don't know if this would be better posted in guix-help or elsewhere...
Thanks
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diff
,
it would help beginners (like me do less mistakes) and comitters
could have more confidence in a submission if it has gone through
this. Which would in turn enable us to integrate patches quicker.
WDYT ?
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with `git send-email'). Dunno if that is useful in that
case.
I hope not to have stepped on mentor's toes with this inquiry ;-)
Happy contributing !
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kout -b bootstrap-ppc64le 8159ce1970d91567468cf1bacac313099a009d2a
make distclean
./bootstrap
./configure --localstatedir=/var
make -j 16
./pre-inst-env guix build --no-substitutes --target=powerpc64-linux-gnu
bootstrap-tarballs
PS: Yes, it looks like I misnamed my branch, endian-size-wise...
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te our come back into the fray, I've grabbed a few low
hanging fruits from the outdated and/or potentially vulnerable list.
Series incoming (on guix-patches, issue #41533)...
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ompilations needed ?
What for ?
And as an additionnal question, are the ./pre-inst-envs needed on
all the CLIs above ?
I still have a TODO to put everything I gathered about building the
binary tarballs in the doc.
I also still cannot test on foreign arches, see:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/htm
y
mv: cannot stat 'guix-binary.armhf-linux.tar.xz.tmp': No such file or
directory
make: *** [Makefile:6166: guix-binary.armhf-linux.tar.xz] Error 1
-->88<------
How are the official tarballs created ?
What am I doing wrong ?
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though, but I'd gladly help anyone
who do.
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is not the same and less interesting.
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is why I postponed further investigations there.
Hoping to get accustomed with guix porting for ppc64 which don't have those
problems in the mean time)
That was a long one...
Thanks everyone for guix it's a refreshing thing !
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did not know about this one.
I think keeping a js-free one is good, but the UX from HPC's is better,
so can we have both ?
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working / trying things in the foreign archs area after my
list of pending things is drained a bit (guix-install.sh & tarball CI,
native-inputs lint warning chasing) but that's only wishful thinking
for now.
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ces (endianness maybe) ?
I don't know if the question really makes sense, though, so please
forgive my ignorance...
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.
But maybe we can revisit enabling it, I'll put that on my todo list, if
you won't beat me to it.
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Hello,
On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 1:59 PM wrote:
> imo the best option would be to page, print or truncate depending on
> an envvar and/or a commandline flag
PAGER="head -20" maybe ?
I'm also of the opinion to respect PAGER. Untruncated ouput if unset.
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/-/commit/96d0cd460430f18d0f22eead5409ed3dc53b4c4e
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totools patches need review, but they work. The patches to
> cross-build guix need some discussion and worse, cross-compiling guix
> currently uses a terrible kludge; so while also that "works", its still
> under development.
Thanks a lot for your work !
And also for the status update.
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Hello Matthew,
LGTM, (I think I saw it myself, but forgot about it)
I think you should send your patches to:
guix-patc...@gnu.org
Thanks
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any success, all failing the same way, on perl...
And when it hit me that there is a recurring theme in those failures
I found a few issues and ML posts about the same problem.
So, what's the status of those patches ?
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the EFI
partition unless you are using QEMU with a UEFI firmware (default is
BIOS emulation).
Ah, thanks, that is useful info.
But I did an install in another disk image...
I couldn't find that in the manual, would it be useful to add it ?
If yes, where ?
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Hello,
On 16/04/2020 00:04, Vincent Legoll wrote:
I'm trying the prebuilt VM image and cannot find
the /etc/config.scm file on it ? (nor any other
system config templates, but I may not be looking
at the right places)
I see that this is now fixed by:
9d0b9c7c6c0b0d45653dea80b499314ea415d3c7
/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=40691
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partitionned
like that (root first, then EFI) ? It makes root
partition resizing more painful than needed.
What am I missing ?
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