Re: Talk about Guix and GuixSD at FSF Hungary

2018-02-23 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Gábor, Gábor Boskovits skribis: > Thanks for all your help. The talk went well, they asked me to repeat it on > the Free Software Conference on the 12. of May. Excellent, congrats on that! Ludo’.

Re: Kernel modules in initrd

2018-02-23 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 03:28:55PM +0100, Danny Milosavljevic wrote: > No, wait, according to > https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/43699/debian-does-not-detect-serial-pci-card-after-reboot/43723#43723 > , > the kernel should be doing that even without udev. Are we sure we need to

Re: Kernel modules in initrd

2018-02-23 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Mark H Weaver skribis: > To make this easier, I think the right approach is to include many > modules like these to our installation image initrd, and then to > automatically detect which modules are needed for booting. A future > easy installer could automatically add

Re: glibc 2.26 refuses to run on CentOS 6.8

2018-02-23 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > I have a bad day. After the upgrade to glibc 2.26 none of the > Guix-installed software runs on the HPC cluster running CentOS 6.8. Bah. :-( > The glibc 2.26 expects a minimum kernel version of 3.x on x86_64, but > CentOS 6.8

Re: PYTHONPATH woes

2018-02-23 Thread Pjotr Prins
On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 08:36:46PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > Patching Python 2 is still an option, but I’d like to explore (and > understand) upstream mechanisms first. I don't think it will be radical and something upstream can adopt. We can at least suggest it ;) > > With Ruby we have a

Re: PYTHONPATH woes

2018-02-23 Thread Vincent Legoll
Hello, On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 9:42 PM, Hartmut Goebel wrote: > (synopsis "Python venc-hack for Guix") Looks like a typo... s/venc/venv/ -- Vincent Legoll

Re: Staging

2018-02-23 Thread Leo Famulari
On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 01:22:16PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote: > On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 04:54:36AM +0100, Marius Bakke wrote: > > Leo Famulari writes: > > > > > There are some patches on the staging branch, including an update to the > > > time zone database. > > > > > > What

Re: PYTHONPATH woes

2018-02-23 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Pjotr Prins writes: > Then there are people > using virtualenv on top of Guix ... Pjotr brings up a good point: can virtualenvs be composed? Do users still have a way to override modules via PYTHONPATH or some other mechanism if we were to create virtualenvs by

Re: PYTHONPATH woes

2018-02-23 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Am 22.02.2018 um 16:30 schrieb Ricardo Wurmus: > (This wouldn’t help us much for wrapper scripts, though.) Attached please fins an approach for solving this issue. The basic idea is make the application/script use a python within a virtual environment. I nee to rethink some details and check

Re: Kernel modules in initrd

2018-02-23 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
No, wait, according to https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/43699/debian-does-not-detect-serial-pci-card-after-reboot/43723#43723 , the kernel should be doing that even without udev. Are we sure we need to manually modprobe the stuff in gnu/build/linux-boot.scm in the first place? I think