Re: Verification Builds for Guix

2020-05-13 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Paul Spooren writes: [cc: guix-devel] Hello Paul, > I've used the last week a bit to work on some kind of verification build > collector. Essentially a scraper of rebuild results. Meaning, an official > binary > provided by a project is tried to rebuild. Okay... > This works already for

Re: best practise between git-fetch vs url-fetch?

2020-05-13 Thread Brice Waegeneire
Hello, On 2020-05-13 01:08, zimoun wrote: Based on these 2 messages [1,2], what is the consensus between git-fetch and url-fetch? I was hoping that some one bring this up, thanks. Pushing to SWH when linting appears to me winning the pros/cons. Even if SWH should eventually fetch

Re: Towards a graphical installer?

2020-05-13 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
dftxbs3e writes: > On 5/12/20 9:09 AM, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: >> Errr... Sorry, I was distracted yesterday, the NLNet grant is actually >> for a graphical _package manager_, not an installer! :p >> >> That said, I'm interested in helping with it too! :) >> > > Really?! We have that??

Re: Verification Builds for Guix

2020-05-13 Thread zimoun
Dear, I do not know if it is relevant and if it completes what janneke already said. On Wed, 13 May 2020 at 08:54, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > > Checking out the packages part of the website I found that there is at > > least an CI creating binaries. Are those also offered to users? The build

Re: [PATCH] ext2fs: Update to upstream Hurd-reserved xattr index for "gnu.*".

2020-05-13 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Samuel Thibault writes: Hello Samuel, > Jan Nieuwenhuizen, le mar. 12 mai 2020 16:12:34 +0200, a ecrit: >> setfattr --name=gnu.translator --value='/hurd/pflocal\0' >> /mnt/servers/socket/1 > > man setfattr says > > If the given string is enclosed in double quotes, the inner string is > treated

Re: Towards a graphical installer?

2020-05-13 Thread Mathieu Othacehe
Hello Tobias and Jonathan, > Are you, for example, able to connect to a Wi-Fi network the Gnome way (not > using the installer), without a Gnome authentication dialogue popping up that > doesn't understand the notion of ‘no password’? I had to open a terminal and > ‘passwd’ myself out of that

Re: Towards a graphical installer?

2020-05-13 Thread Mathieu Othacehe
Hello Florian, > I suppose keyboard input method (IME) support is a reason why someone > might wish to use an Xorg-based installer. Are there other reasons? > What are the reasons for a real desktop environment; is the goal to > offer a live image? Previously I would have thought a virtual

core-updates all over again :)

2020-05-13 Thread Christopher Baines
Hey, So, given that core-updates was recently merged, I guess it's time to start the branch again? I've got two patches in mind, [1] for parallel xz compression during the unpack phase if the build is happening in parallel, and [2] to enable p11-kit in gnutls. 1:

Re: best practise between git-fetch vs url-fetch?

2020-05-13 Thread Leo Famulari
On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 03:08:26AM +0200, zimoun wrote: > Based on these 2 messages [1,2], what is the consensus between > git-fetch and url-fetch? Do we need a consensus? Sometimes it's enough for the reviewer to 1) bite their tongue or 2) fix before pushing. Often it's a matter of taste and it

Re: core-updates all over again :)

2020-05-13 Thread Marius Bakke
Christopher Baines writes: > Hey, > > So, given that core-updates was recently merged, I guess it's time to > start the branch again? > > I've got two patches in mind, [1] for parallel xz compression during the > unpack phase if the build is happening in parallel, and [2] to enable > p11-kit in

Re: best practise between git-fetch vs url-fetch?

2020-05-13 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Les Guix, Brice Waegeneire 写道: Git references being content-addressed is important That's only tautologically true if we limit ourselves to using raw commit hashes instead of the more common (because far more practical) named tags. I obviously don't think we should do that. If we don't,

Re: [FONTS]: Media Type Specification Changed.

2020-05-13 Thread Raghav Gururajan
Hi Tobias! > Thanks!  I'm better than I've been, don't worry. > >> That change has been discussed during review and was only merged after I >> gave the fact of about fontconfig. :-) I am glad. > LGTM, apart from one nitpick. > > Both /share/fonts/{true,open}type are extremely common on other

Re: [FONTS]: Media Type Specification Changed.

2020-05-13 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Raghav, Raghav Gururajan 写道: Oh! How are you doing now? Let me know if you need anything. I can try and help in any way plausible. :-) Thanks! I'm better than I've been, don't worry. That change has been discussed during review and was only merged after I gave the fact of about

Re: [PATCH] ext2fs: Update to upstream Hurd-reserved xattr index for "gnu.*".

2020-05-13 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Jan Nieuwenhuizen, le mer. 13 mai 2020 14:04:04 +0200, a ecrit: > So WDYT, is my patch for the Hurd (the first message in this thread) Applied, thanks! > Any ideas or suggestions on my Linux patch? I would say not bother introducing a configuration variable, and just include

Re: Towards a graphical installer?

2020-05-13 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 09:20:36AM +0200, Mathieu Othacehe wrote: > I think switching to a DE based installer could Every reason you list is a good reason. > * Allow the user to browse for some questions or contact #guix while in > the installation process. Hmm what I don’t like about