Joint statement on the GNU Project

2019-10-07 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Guix! We, a group of GNU maintainers sharing a vision for a stronger GNU Project, are publishing this statement today: https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/joint-statement-on-the-gnu-project/ We are somewhat abusing the Guix blog here, for lack of a better place, but OTOH the future of GNU is

Re: i686-linux GCC package on x86_64

2019-10-07 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Pierre, Pierre Neidhardt skribis: > Pierre Neidhardt writes: > >> Hi! >> >> I'm trying to define an i686-linux package of gcc. >> Simply using the >> >> --8<---cut here---start->8--- >> #:system "i686-linux" >> --8<---cut here---end

Re: Joint statement on the GNU Project

2019-10-07 Thread František Kučera
Hello Guix! We, a group of GNU maintainers sharing a vision for a stronger GNU Project, are publishing this statement today: https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/joint-statement-on-the-gnu-project/ We are somewhat abusing the Guix blog here, for lack of a better place, but OTOH the future of GNU i

Re: Joint statement on the GNU Project

2019-10-07 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi František, and welcome, (I’m willing to answer questions like I wrote, but if we are to have a more in-depth conversation, I think we should not abuse guix-devel for that.) František Kučera skribis: > you speak about „behavior“ in that blog post. But what is more > important is whether there

Re: i686-linux GCC package on x86_64

2019-10-07 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Chris Marusich writes: > That said, I am curious about something. If I want to make a > cross-compiler available for the purpose of hacking around on some code > and cross-compiling it, is there an equivalent to "guix package -i > gcc-toolchain" which will give me a cross-compilation toolchain

Re: Joint statement on the GNU Project

2019-10-07 Thread Jesse Gibbons
On Mon, 2019-10-07 at 16:32 +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hello Guix! > > We, a group of GNU maintainers sharing a vision for a stronger GNU > Project, are publishing this statement today: > > https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/joint-statement-on-the-gnu-project/ > > We are somewhat abusing the

Re: Joint statement on the GNU Project

2019-10-07 Thread Wilson Bustos
Just for curiosity, about this: "Yet, we must also acknowledge that Stallman’s behavior over the years has undermined a core value of the GNU project" Which 'behavior' are you exactly talking about? What is the reason of that statement? What you want to get with that? Regards! El lun., 7 oct. 20

Re: i686-linux GCC package on x86_64

2019-10-07 Thread Chris Marusich
Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Chris Marusich writes: > >> That said, I am curious about something. If I want to make a >> cross-compiler available for the purpose of hacking around on some code >> and cross-compiling it, is there an equivalent to "guix package -i >> gcc-toolchain" which will give me

Re: [External] Re: New outreachy participant introduction

2019-10-07 Thread Asfaw, Nardos
Hi Gabor, I apologize for the late reply. > How did the installation go? Based on your suggestion I was able to install it as a package manager on kali (I had help from the IRC chat group). > Should you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us. We are > here to help. I am go

Re: btrfs and Guix features [was: gnu: next: Compress the executable.]

2019-10-07 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Pierre Neidhardt writes: > Tobias Geerinckx-Rice writes: > >> Generations also don't allow you to btrfs send/receive, which I >> think was Maxim's main point. If there's another KISSy way to >> back up whole Guix Systems over the Internet, I don't know of it >> (rsync can't, nor can borg or

Re: [External] Re: New outreachy participant introduction

2019-10-07 Thread Christopher Baines
Asfaw, Nardos writes: > Hi Gabor, > > I apologize for the late reply. > >> How did the installation go? > > Based on your suggestion I was able to install it as a package manager > on kali (I had help from the IRC chat group). Great, good stuff :) >> Should you have any questions, please don't