[PATCH] Doc: Introduction: rewrite for style and clarity.

2014-01-23 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
* dmd.texi (Introduction): Rewrite for style and clarity. --- dmd.texi | 52 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-) diff --git a/dmd.texi b/dmd.texi index 841ce7c..4e06e93 100644 --- a/dmd.texi +++ b/dmd.texi @@ -78,24 +78,28 @@

dmd: Some improvements to the dmd manual

2014-01-23 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Hello, I'm assuming that dmd contributions go to the guix list for now. Attached a patch introducing some changes to the dmd manual — the patch only covers the Introduction section for now as I wanted to submit something with my approach early to know whether it is acceptable. As you can see

Re: [Nix-dev] FOSDEM: any plans for Saturday evening?

2014-01-23 Thread Bas van Dijk
That would be really nice! Count me in. Bas On 22 January 2014 13:50, Cillian de Róiste cillian.deroi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Since there will be quite a few NixOS and Guix folks at FOSDEM it would be great to meet up. Is there some interest in arranging dinner / drinks on Saturday evening?

Re: Rename oggvorbis.scm to xiph-codecs.scm? (was Re: New package recipe: libopus-1.1)

2014-01-23 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Mark H Weaver m...@netris.org skribis: Andreas Enge andr...@enge.fr writes: Actually, it should go into oggvorbis.scm, where we put all xiph codecs. I think that module should be renamed. Maybe xiph-codecs.scm ? Or just xiph.scm? Because not everything is a codec strictly speaking. Ludo’.

/dev/shm inconsistency in chroot

2014-01-23 Thread Sree Harsha Totakura
Hi, It has been known for a while that any access to /dev/shm fails inside chroot if the host system has /dev/shm symlinked to /run/shm. The suggested method to deal with this until now is to remove the symlink from the host system, create /dev/shm directory and mount a tmpfs on it. I spent

Re: Heads-up: daemon update

2014-01-23 Thread Andreas Enge
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 11:51:08PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: Do you have a way to reproduce it (command line + “will be downloaded” list)? I tried a few substitutions at random and everything went fine. Now everything goes well for me, too. No idea what happened. Andreas

Re: The Nixpkgs Monitor

2014-01-23 Thread Andreas Enge
On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 04:35:14PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: And what do we do for URIs in http:// or mirror://? What is the particular problem? For ffmpeg, for instance, the uri reads (uri (string-append http://www.ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-; version

Re: /dev/shm inconsistency in chroot

2014-01-23 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi, Sree Harsha Totakura sreehar...@totakura.in writes: It has been known for a while that any access to /dev/shm fails inside chroot if the host system has /dev/shm symlinked to /run/shm. The suggested method to deal with this until now is to remove the symlink from the host system, create

[PATCH 2/3] gnu: fltk: New module

2014-01-23 Thread John Darrington
* gnu/packages/fltk.scm: New file * gnu-system.am: New file fltk.scm --- gnu-system.am |1 + gnu/packages/fltk.scm | 63 + 2 files changed, 64 insertions(+) create mode 100644 gnu/packages/fltk.scm diff --git a/gnu-system.am

[PATCH 1/3] gnu: libxft: Propagate input.

2014-01-23 Thread John Darrington
* gnu/packages/xorg.scm (libxft): Propagate input libxrender. --- gnu/packages/xorg.scm |3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/gnu/packages/xorg.scm b/gnu/packages/xorg.scm index dfdd82c..c21ed63 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/xorg.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/xorg.scm @@

New ‘guix offload’ build hook

2014-01-23 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! Finally support for offloading builds to other Guix machines has landed! It’s still rough on the edges, but it does the job, and should allow us to start having more than one machine (and one architecture) building things. Yay! It requires Guile 2.0.10 (not yet released) though, and is not