Re: 01/01: gnu: glibc/linux: Add patches for CVE-2017-1000366.

2017-07-03 Thread Mark H Weaver
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis: > >> From 59c12882e6954b17750c617abddf4997a9bcbfa6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 >> From: =?UTF-8?q?Ludovic=20Court=C3=A8s?= >> Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2017 12:07:23 +0200 >> Subject: [PATCH] packages: Mark

Re: 01/01: gnu: glibc/linux: Add patches for CVE-2017-1000366.

2017-07-03 Thread Ludovic Courtès
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis: > From 59c12882e6954b17750c617abddf4997a9bcbfa6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: =?UTF-8?q?Ludovic=20Court=C3=A8s?= > Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2017 12:07:23 +0200 > Subject: [PATCH] packages: Mark 'replacement' as an "innate" field. > > Suggested by

Re: Subdirectories in GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH

2017-07-03 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Alex, Alex Kost skribis: > Ludovic Courtès (2017-06-30 11:35 +0200) wrote: [...] >>> Looks like this was removed in an attempt to improve performance over >>> NFS. The “scheme-files” procedure now includes a comment: >>> >>> ;; XXX: We don't recurse if we find a

Installer development

2017-07-03 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi, if you want, in order to start developing the installer, the easiest way is to run as NORMAL USER (not root): $ mkdir guix-installer $ cd guix-installer $ git clone -b wip-installer-2 https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git $ cd guix $ ./pre-inst-env guix environment guix --fallback

Re: compiling guix is too slow?

2017-07-03 Thread Andy Wingo
On Sat 01 Jul 2017 15:33, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Leo Famulari skribis: > >> My understanding is that Guile 2.2 traded slower compilation for faster >> execution of compiled programs. Hopefully the performance of the >> compiler will be improved in later

Re: compiling guix is too slow?

2017-07-03 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Andy Wingo skribis: > On Sat 01 Jul 2017 15:33, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > >> Leo Famulari skribis: >> >>> My understanding is that Guile 2.2 traded slower compilation for faster >>> execution of compiled programs. Hopefully the performance of

Re: 01/01: gnu: glibc/linux: Add patches for CVE-2017-1000366.

2017-07-03 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Mark H Weaver skribis: > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > >> First, we could mark the ‘replacement’ field as “innate”, which means it >> will never be inherited (like the ‘location’ field.) Like you, I can’t >> think of a situation where inheriting the replacement

Re: compiling guix is too slow?

2017-07-03 Thread Ludovic Courtès
ng0 skribis: > What about the sledgehammer approach: > Would it help if we just split the incredible long modules into > smaller modules like python-web, python-library, etc? We can always do that, yes (and it’s probably a good idea independently of this.) Any volunteer

Re: compiling guix is too slow?

2017-07-03 Thread ng0
Andy Wingo transcribed 1.5K bytes: > On Sat 01 Jul 2017 15:33, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > > > Leo Famulari skribis: > > > >> My understanding is that Guile 2.2 traded slower compilation for faster > >> execution of compiled programs. Hopefully the performance of

guix mirror online

2017-07-03 Thread ng0
I have just activated an guix caching mirror at https://guix-mirror.infotropique.org/ which is open for the public to use. Just don't start a goldrush on using it, I'm waiting for the hoster to increase the disk space. -- ng0 GnuPG: A88C8ADD129828D7EAC02E52E22F9BBFEE348588 GnuPG:

Re: compiling guix is too slow?

2017-07-03 Thread ng0
Ludovic Courtès transcribed 0.3K bytes: > ng0 skribis: > > > What about the sledgehammer approach: > > Would it help if we just split the incredible long modules into > > smaller modules like python-web, python-library, etc? > > We can always do that, yes (and it’s

Re: Subdirectories in GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH

2017-07-03 Thread Alex Kost
Ludovic Courtès (2017-06-30 11:35 +0200) wrote: > Hello, > > Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > >> Christopher Baines writes: >> >>> Recently I had problems with the way GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH was working with >>> govuk-guix [1]. Currently, I'm using a separate directory