Re: What to do when udpating a package ?

2020-05-15 Thread Julien Lepiller
Le 15 mai 2020 03:20:06 GMT-04:00, Edouard Klein a écrit : >Dear Guix Developers, > >I have a few beginner questions. >Attached to this email you will find the "reverse-package" graph of >python-prompt-toolkit. Hi, In general, some packages on master may fail to build. We try to fix these, but

Re: What to do when udpating a package ?

2020-05-15 Thread zimoun
Dear Edouard, In complement to what Julien said. :-) On Fri, 15 May 2020 at 13:36, Edouard Klein wrote: > - Some packages would not build, for reasons unrelated to the update of > python-prompt-toolkit. Namely: > - fdroidserver@1.1.1 will not build because of a failure of >

What to do when udpating a package ?

2020-05-15 Thread Edouard Klein
Dear Guix Developers, I have a few beginner questions. Attached to this email you will find the "reverse-package" graph of python-prompt-toolkit. reverse.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document I am updating it from version 2.0.7 to version 3.0.5 because python-questionary (which I'm trying to add

Guix Christmas

2020-05-15 Thread Ben Sturmfels
Hi Folks, Between the continuous improvements in speed, the high availability of substitutes, the arrival of PostGIS, QGIS and Geary and now Gnome 3.34, Python 3.8 and IceDove... it feels to me like Guix Christmas! Guix System has been my primary OS for a year or two now, but in the last few

Re: Guix Christmas

2020-05-15 Thread Josh Marshall
I hope to get where you are before too long! On Fri, May 15, 2020, 08:03 Ben Sturmfels wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Between the continuous improvements in speed, the high availability of > substitutes, the arrival of PostGIS, QGIS and Geary and now Gnome 3.34, > Python 3.8 and IceDove... it feels to

Re: What to do when udpating a package ?

2020-05-15 Thread Edouard Klein
zimoun writes: > Dear Edouard, > > In complement to what Julien said. :-) > > > On Fri, 15 May 2020 at 13:36, Edouard Klein wrote: > >> - Some packages would not build, for reasons unrelated to the update of >> python-prompt-toolkit. Namely: >> - fdroidserver@1.1.1 will not build because

Re: What to do when udpating a package ?

2020-05-15 Thread zimoun
On Fri, 15 May 2020 at 17:43, Edouard Klein wrote: > I could not find the link to the raw log, but having access to the > "official" build status is a huge relief, as I can stop worrying that > the build failure is my fault. This is exactly what I was looking for. > Thank you ! I have cheated a

Re: naming scheme for "compilers" toolsuite?

2020-05-15 Thread Josh Marshall
Bringing back this necrothread, what you are suggesting is something I would find intuitive. Sounds like a good idea to me. On Thu, Apr 16, 2020, 22:12 zimoun wrote: > Dear, > > Giving a look to the Arun's patches [1] about improving "guix search", > I am testing some queries. Well, I am not

Re: What to do when udpating a package ?

2020-05-15 Thread Edouard Klein
Hi Julien, Thank you for your answer. Julien Lepiller writes: > Le 15 mai 2020 03:20:06 GMT-04:00, Edouard Klein a > écrit : >>Dear Guix Developers, >> >>I have a few beginner questions. >>Attached to this email you will find the "reverse-package" graph of >>python-prompt-toolkit. > > Hi, > >

Re: Some packages failing to build

2020-05-15 Thread Guillaume Le Vaillant
Guillaume Le Vaillant skribis: > Guillaume Le Vaillant skribis: > >> Vagrant Cascadian skribis: >> >>> On 2020-05-10, Marius Bakke wrote: Guillaume Le Vaillant writes: > Guillaume Le Vaillant skribis: > >> Hi, >> >> After pulling guix with the merged core

Re: What to do when udpating a package ?

2020-05-15 Thread Julien Lepiller
Le 15 mai 2020 11:32:31 GMT-04:00, Edouard Klein a écrit : >Hi Julien, > >Thank you for your answer. > >Julien Lepiller writes: > >> Le 15 mai 2020 03:20:06 GMT-04:00, Edouard Klein > a écrit : >>>Dear Guix Developers, >>> >>>I have a few beginner questions. >>>Attached to this email you will

Re: “guix --help” should point to https://guix.gnu.org/help/

2020-05-15 Thread Diego Nicola Barbato
Hey, zimoun writes: > Hi Ricardo, > > On Fri, 15 May 2020 at 12:20, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > >> annoyed by the fact that people turn to Reddit for help with Guix — a >> venue only very few of us frequent — I wondered if our help channels are >> visible enough. > > Maybe it is "cultural" or/and

Kernel module configuration service

2020-05-15 Thread Brice Waegeneire
Hello Guix, I'm working on the future 'kernel-module-configuration-service-type'[0] (KMCS) and I need some guidance. This service will be a one stop shop for all kernel module related configuration by doing the following 4 things: 1. Generate a config directory for modrope to use 2. Load

Re: “guix --help” should point to https://guix.gnu.org/help/

2020-05-15 Thread Bengt Richter
Hi zimoun, et al, On +2020-05-15 13:00:58 +0200, zimoun wrote: > Hi Ricardo, > > On Fri, 15 May 2020 at 12:20, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > > > annoyed by the fact that people turn to Reddit for help with Guix — a > > venue only very few of us frequent — I wondered if our help channels are > >

Re: Guix scheme code being recompiled when target ARCH changes

2020-05-15 Thread raingloom
On Fri, 15 May 2020 10:33:14 +0200 Vincent Legoll wrote: > And as an additionnal question, are the ./pre-inst-envs needed on > all the CLIs above ? No, only the guix invocations need it. make, ./configure, ./bootstrap, those don't need it. But guix always does.

Guix scheme code being recompiled when target ARCH changes

2020-05-15 Thread Vincent Legoll
Hello, I'm wondering if the following is expected: I'm build the guix binary tarball for i686 & x86_64 (without changing any scheme code) and the whole guix codebase gets recompiled for each of the builds. I'm doing this: ./pre-inst-env make update-guix-package git add

“guix --help” should point to https://guix.gnu.org/help/

2020-05-15 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Guix, annoyed by the fact that people turn to Reddit for help with Guix — a venue only very few of us frequent — I wondered if our help channels are visible enough. “guix --help” prints this: Report bugs to: bug-g...@gnu.org. GNU Guix home page: General help

Re: “guix --help” should point to https://guix.gnu.org/help/

2020-05-15 Thread zimoun
Hi Ricardo, On Fri, 15 May 2020 at 12:20, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > annoyed by the fact that people turn to Reddit for help with Guix — a > venue only very few of us frequent — I wondered if our help channels are > visible enough. Maybe it is "cultural" or/and "generational" thing and we cannot