Re: RPC pipelining

2017-07-11 Thread Roel Janssen
Hello Ludo’! Thanks for working so hard on this. I run into trouble with my test setup.. [roel@hpcguix ~]$ time ./guixr environment --ad-hoc coreutils -- true ;;; (flush-pending-rpcs 170) ;;; (flush-pending-rpcs 4) substitute: guix substitute: warning: ACL for archive imports seems to be

Re: 01/03: gnu: Add ncurses-with-gpm.

2017-07-11 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi Ludo, On Fri, 07 Jul 2017 13:14:39 +0200 l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote: > I’m really happy to see you continue John’s heroic work on the > installer! I’ll be happy to give it a spin when you deem appropriate. Okay. Still some loose ends to tie up first :) > > +(define-public

Re: Installer, ISO9660, etc.

2017-07-11 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi Ludo, On Tue, 11 Jul 2017 11:23:46 +0200 l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote: > Is it really a problem to always have a partition table? The ISO9660 filesystem code doesn't find its primary volume descriptor when it's looking for it on the (fake) partition. (I'm not sure what the fake

Re: guile-dbi: Use libltdl and prefer GUILE_DBD_PATH.

2017-07-11 Thread 宋文武
Linas Vepstas writes: > Sorry for the very late reply. I applied these patches to > > https://github.com/opencog/guile-dbi > > which will have to serve as the official repo for guile-dbi, since gna.org is > now dead. Oh, thanks! Is there a plan for a new release with

Re: RPC pipelining

2017-07-11 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Roel, Roel Janssen skribis: > substitute: guix substitute: warning: ACL for archive imports seems to be > uninitialized, substitutes may be unavailable > substitute: ;;; Failed to autoload make-session in (gnutls): > substitute: ;;; ERROR: missing interface for module (gnutls)

Re: 01/03: gnu: Add ncurses-with-gpm.

2017-07-11 Thread Leo Famulari
On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 11:42:23AM +0200, Danny Milosavljevic wrote: > With all this "ncurses/fixed" stuff in master, should I make it > inherit from ncurses/fixed ? Recently, Mark added the macro (package/inherit) which does the Right Thing when inheriting from a grafted package:

Re: cuirass evaluate

2017-07-11 Thread Mathieu Othacehe
Hi Ludo, > It’s a requirement because the evaluation process has side effects on > the Guile that runs it; for instance, it loads tons of modules in it. Ok thanks for the explanation. I just sent a patch to add minimal error checking on "evaluate" errors. Mathieu

Re: guile-dbi: Use libltdl and prefer GUILE_DBD_PATH.

2017-07-11 Thread Linas Vepstas
Sorry for the very late reply. I applied these patches to https://github.com/opencog/guile-dbi which will have to serve as the official repo for guile-dbi, since gna.org is now dead. Maurizio Boriani, I was surprised to see you answer -- do you have some other repo somwhere that contains the

Re: Guix infrastructure

2017-07-11 Thread Catonano
Wow, I had totally missed this thread ! 2017-07-09 10:49 GMT+02:00 Ricardo Wurmus : > > myglc2 writes: > > > As you have experienced here, the learning/deployment costs and hassle > > associated with each new type of server often dwarfs other costs. The > >

Re: Installer, ISO9660, etc.

2017-07-11 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Heya, Danny Milosavljevic skribis: > But this "partition?" thing would mean that having a partition table is now > mandatory, right? Is that really supposed to be the case? The partition > table has a magic mark (0x55 0xAA) in order for it *not* to be mandatory >

Re: my recent messages

2017-07-11 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello ng0, Thanks for your message. Like Pjotr wrote, we all go through this at times, that happens. The technical issues you reported remain valid, and I hope we can all work together on addressing them in the best of our capacity. I wish you the best for your ongoing endeavors! Ludo’.

Re: my recent messages

2017-07-11 Thread Pjotr Prins
No worries ng0. We all go through phases like that. The good side is that it brings out that others state clearly where they are. Thumbs up to the Guix team - this is a great effort and I am continuously amazed with the quality of people here. Pj.