Re: The problem of packaging Minetest mods/games

Hi, Thanks everyone for suggestions, I will check how it works in practice and look for the environment variables. Surprisingly I had an idea yesterday - what if we threat the minetest package as an interpreter, which it actually is, because it interprets lua scripts, while treating mods and

Re: Guix mirrors

Dear, On Wed, 20 May 2020 at 15:18, Begley Brothers Inc wrote: > I was surprised guix doesn't seem to be mirrored to gnu.io - or is > that the same machine(s)? What do you mean? The site gnu.io is about GNU FM and GNU Social as the "About" explains. BTW, I do not know what is the link between

Re: Guix mirrors

zimoun 写道： BTW, why such discussion happens on Guix sysadmins mailing list and not on guix-devel? Because that's where I sent a quick & dirty patch yonks ago. There's also really not that much to discuss. Kind regards, T G-R signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [PATCH] gnu: fontconfig: Add replacement with font-dejavu instead of gs-fonts.

zimoun writes: > Apparently, there is different fonts on master and core-updates, if yes why? The only known difference since the core-updates merge is that applications using Pango (e.g. GTK+) no longer recognizes bitmap fonts. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pango/issues/386 > I mean, on

Re: [PATCH] gnu: fontconfig: Add replacement with font-dejavu instead of gs-fonts.

Hi Marius, Thank you for the patch. I have tried it yet... maybe soon today. On Sun, 17 May 2020 at 16:51, Marius Bakke wrote: > * gnu/packages/fontutils.scm (fontconfig)[replacement]: New field. > (fontconfig/font-dejavu): New variable. > --- > Guix, > > This is a hack to make (some) fonts

Re: Guix mirrors

On Wed, 20 May 2020 at 14:15, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > There’s a very recent discussion among the Guix sysadmins and I hope it > leads to results soon. Thank you for reporting. Since it is a private mailing list, I cannot be aware. BTW, why such discussion happens on Guix sysadmins mailing list

Re: Guix mirrors

Hi, Thanks for taking the time to respond. Sounds like good news overall On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 6:57 AM zimoun wrote: > > Hi Ricardo, > > On Wed, 20 May 2020 at 13:02, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > > > I expect that this will change soon after some more discussion of the > > details. > > Last

Re: Guix mirrors

Hi Tobias, On Wed, 20 May 2020 at 14:53, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: > Because that's where I sent a quick & dirty patch yonks ago. Cool! A patch! > There's also really not that much to discuss. As we quickly talked about it on Monday on IRC, I have the feeling that some details are still

Re: [OUTREACHY]: Integration of desktop environments into GNU Guix

Hi Pierre! > Congrats on the project! Thank you! > Here are some links related to the broken bits of GNOME and Libreoffice in > Guix: > > - Nautilus thumbnails: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/39117 > - GNOME Music: https://issues.guix.info/issue/38931 > - GNOME Photos:

Re: Guix mirrors

Hi Ricardo, On Wed, 20 May 2020 at 13:02, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > I expect that this will change soon after some more discussion of the > details. Last time we discussed that was on December [1]. What is missing is: discuss if a) an "official" mirror is hard-coded in '%default-channels' or

Re: Guix mirrors

zimoun writes: > On Wed, 20 May 2020 at 13:02, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > >> I expect that this will change soon after some more discussion of the >> details. > > Last time we discussed that was on December [1]. There’s a very recent discussion among the Guix sysadmins and I hope it leads to

Re: Exact same 'call-with-temporary-directory' defined twice?

Hi, On Sun, 17 May 2020 at 23:53, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > Naively: does it make sense to move it to "guix/build/utils.scm"? > > No because it depends on (guix build syscalls) for ‘mkdtemp!’ and > there’s currently that assumption that (1) (guix build utils) can be > used on a

Re: [OUTREACHY]: Integration of desktop environments into GNU Guix

Hello Guix! As a part of outreachy internship program, I have to create a blog and make posts every two weeks. The following are the blog information: BLOG: https://hub.disroot.org/channel/raghavgururajan?f==outreachy FEED: https://hub.disroot.org/feed/raghavgururajan?f==outreachy The following

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

Dear Ricardo, On Fri, 15 May 2020 at 12:20, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > General help using GNU software: I have never read this. It is not welcoming for newcomers, IMHO. First sentence: "The Free Software Foundation does not provide technical support." I give up.

Re: [PATCH] gnu: fontconfig: Add replacement with font-dejavu instead of gs-fonts.

On Wed, 20 May 2020 at 15:55, Marius Bakke wrote: > zimoun writes: > > Apparently, there is different fonts on master and core-updates, if yes why? > > The only known difference since the core-updates merge is that > applications using Pango (e.g. GTK+) no longer recognizes bitmap fonts. > >

Re: [PATCH] gnu: fontconfig: Add replacement with font-dejavu instead of gs-fonts.

Leo Famulari writes: > On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 04:50:12PM +0200, Marius Bakke wrote: >> This is a hack to make (some) fonts working when users don't have fonts >> specified in their system configuration, and (crucially) places where >> the fontconfig cache may be unavailable such as 'guix

Re: [PATCH] gnu: fontconfig: Add replacement with font-dejavu instead of gs-fonts.

On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 01:28:13PM +0200, Marius Bakke wrote: > The print infrastructure (CUPS, ghostscript) does not use Pango, so I > think gs-fonts still work there. > > Might be difficult to work with when the end user applications don't > recognize them though. > > What do you expect from a

Jami bug investigation #2

Hello, I'm still trying to fix the bug, Jami devs are still busy doing other things, so I decided to do an experiment. I discovered tarballs published at https://dl.jami.net/release/tarballs/ often have some faults - one time it didn't contain client-gnome and lrc folders, and the most recent one

Re: [PATCH] gnu: fontconfig: Add replacement with font-dejavu instead of gs-fonts.

zimoun writes: > On Wed, 20 May 2020 at 15:55, Marius Bakke wrote: >> zimoun writes: > >> > Apparently, there is different fonts on master and core-updates, if yes >> > why? >> >> The only known difference since the core-updates merge is that >> applications using Pango (e.g. GTK+) no longer

Re: [PATCH] gnu: fontconfig: Add replacement with font-dejavu instead of gs-fonts.

On Wed, 20 May 2020 at 23:41, Marius Bakke wrote: > Missing fonts in the manual is another known issue and was not clear > from your initial message: . My initial message was on and not on #41418; I have never

Re: Guix mirrors

On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 7:45 PM Begley Brothers Inc wrote: > > Thanks to @kozodev on gitlab.com, a possible workaround, available > immediately, is to document the following in the web pages and alt-F2 > help as appropriate: > > 3.6.2 Proceeding with the Installation > > 8.1 Using the

Re: Guix mirrors

Thanks to @kozodev on gitlab.com, a possible workaround, available immediately, is to document the following in the web pages and alt-F2 help as appropriate: 3.6.2 Proceeding with the Installation 8.1 Using the Configuration System with (note the inital root init channel path needs to be

Re: Unencrypted boot with encrypted root

Pierre Neidhardt skribis: > Have you tried to unlock a ZFS-encrypted home with pam_mount? > > I found these related links: > > https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/user-home-directory-encryption-with-zfs-v2 > >

Re: git / grep with pcre support?

Friendly ping! ;) -- Pierre Neidhardt https://ambrevar.xyz/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Guix mirrors

Begley Brothers Inc transcribed 2.6K bytes: > Hi, > Over the last 24 hours I've experienced `guix pull` etc being > unavailable (HTTP 504's then 502's) more than available. > > Is there a reason why a post receive hook can't be added to the guix > repo to push to github, gitlab, etc. and in that

Re: Can we increase the print width/column in daemon backtraces

This has stopped working for me a while ago. Could it be that Guile's behaviour changed here? -- Pierre Neidhardt https://ambrevar.xyz/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Unencrypted boot with encrypted root

There is at least one benefit using ZFS: encrypted subvolumes (also known as datasets). Currently in Guix it's impossible to have a subvolume for the store and an encrypted subvolume for /home. In order to have an unencrypted root and an encrypted /home, we must put them on different _partitions_

Re: Guix mirrors

Begley Brothers Inc writes: > Over the last 24 hours I've experienced `guix pull` etc being > unavailable (HTTP 504's then 502's) more than available. Yeah, it seems that there have been some problems with Savannah. We did host a mirror on ci.guix.gnu.org, which is hosted independtly of GNU

Re: [PATCH] gnu: fontconfig: Add replacement with font-dejavu instead of gs-fonts.

Leo Famulari writes: > On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 04:50:12PM +0200, Marius Bakke wrote: >> This is a hack to make (some) fonts working when users don't have fonts >> specified in their system configuration, and (crucially) places where >> the fontconfig cache may be unavailable such as 'guix