Re: Kdump

2023-08-02 Thread Christina O'Donnell
On 31/07/2023 18:45, Csepp wrote: Christina O'Donnell writes: Hi guix and guixesses, I'm still enjoying my guix machine crashing every other week despite changing all the software and half the hardware. So I'm trying to get kdump working so I can get

Re: python-nbconvert build fails

2023-07-23 Thread Christina O'Donnell
Sorry, I've just seen this is a duplicate of https://issues.guix.gnu.org/64729. I should have checked there first! On 23/07/2023 20:15, Christina O'Donnell wrote: Hi Guix! This is my first time posting on a GNU mailing list so

python-nbconvert build fails

2023-07-23 Thread Christina O'Donnell
Hi Guix! This is my first time posting on a GNU mailing list so I'd appreciate feedback on clarity and wording. I've run `guix pull` and `guix package -u` after a couple weeks and I've hit a build failure: builder for

Kdump

2023-07-30 Thread Christina O'Donnell
Hi guix and guixesses, I'm still enjoying my guix machine crashing every other week despite changing all the software and half the hardware. So I'm trying to get kdump working so I can get to the real reason behind it. However I see that kdump-tools

Re: Golang mudules to follow common grouping

2024-01-20 Thread Christina O'Donnell
Hi Oleg, > I've added comments in commentary section in the top of the file asking to > keep packages alphabetically sorted seen in julia-xyz.scm as well. > python-*.scm ordered semi random grouped closer to package purpose which > require more thinking where to put a new one :-) Ah, I

Re: Golang mudules to follow common grouping

2024-02-04 Thread Christina O'Donnell
Hi again Oleg, > > I think you may help! The identification of the group is still human > > decision making process and I'm not sure it may be automated in any point. > > I can certainly help with this then. I'll have some free time on Friday and > I can coordinate with you then. Ah, I lost

Re: Issues with issues.guix.gnu.org (502 Bad Gateway)

2024-02-04 Thread Christina O'Donnell
Hi Felix, You are welcome to use my Mumi clone at mumi.juix.org. Bookmarked, thanks! Looks like issues.guix.gnu.org is back up again. Kind regards,  - Christina On 04/02/2024 05:33, Felix Lechner wrote: Hi Christina, On Sat, Feb 03 2024, Christina O'Donnell wrote: connecting to https

Re: Golang mudules to follow common grouping

2024-01-29 Thread Christina O'Donnell
Hi Oleg, I've pushed the split III to master. Fantastic work! I think you may help! The identification of the group is still human decision making process and I'm not sure it may be automated in any point. I can certainly help with this then. I'll have some free time on Friday and I can

Re: Golang mudules to follow common grouping

2024-02-05 Thread Christina O'Donnell
Hi, Okay that's a better plan :) Let's use  Occam's razor for now. We have few common groups, the task is to drop use-module (gnu packages golang) for each of them by sorting packages into recently introduced modules. Right, put the dependencies in of golang-web in golang-web (etc.) as much

Re: Golang mudules to follow common grouping

2024-01-20 Thread Christina O'Donnell
Hi Oleg, On 13/01/2024 21:05, Sharlatan Hellseher wrote: > Hi Guix, > > I'm about to prepare split and aggregation of all golag packages >  related to cryptography. The process would be the same as for >  golang-check and golang-web. > > > In progress: > golang-cryptography > > Planned: >

Issues with issues.guix.gnu.org (502 Bad Gateway)

2024-02-03 Thread Christina O'Donnell
Hi Guix, From my machine[1] connecting to https://issues.guix.gnu.org/ results in, after 130 seconds[2], a 502 bad gateway. It's been having issues for over a week, but I only just found a need to test it. I couldn't see an issue about it on debbugs so I thought it prudent to raise an

Re: Mechanism for helping in multi-channels configuration

2024-02-03 Thread Christina O'Donnell
Hi Simon, The wishlist is: provide a machine-readable description on guix-science channel side in order to help in finding the good overlap between commits of different channels. It could be nice if instead of an hard error, “guix pull” could say: « the channel ’guix’ needs to be at least at

Re: Mechanism for helping in multi-channels configuration (and Xapian index)

2024-03-18 Thread Christina O'Donnell
Hi Simon, Sorry for the really long delay, I meant to reply after I'd had a good read through the conversation you linked, but I haven't had a chance to really get into it yet, but I have read enough to get a surface idea of the project. The project looks fun, and looks like it will help Guix

Re: Coordinators for patch review session on Tuesday

2024-04-03 Thread Christina O'Donnell
Hi Steve, On 02/04/2024 21:23, Steve George wrote: Hi Christina - thanks for coming along today - I hope it was useful. Yes I did find it helpful. Since I'm the least experienced out of everyone there, I just stayed quiet and tried to absorb as much as I could. It was good to see that not

Re: Coordinators for patch review session on Tuesday

2024-04-03 Thread Christina O'Donnell
on. It's actually quite fun! Kind regards, Christina [2] https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?users=guix;bug=56576 On 03/04/2024 12:00, Christina O'Donnell wrote: Hi Steve, On 02/04/2024 21:23, Steve George wrote: Hi Christina - thanks for coming along today - I hope it was useful

Re: Coordinators for patch review session on Tuesday

2024-04-02 Thread Christina O'Donnell
Hi Steve, I just wanted to say that I enjoyed the first one of these and I'm looking forward to today's session. I did want to go to the last session, but I lost track of time and missed it! I'm a new contributor who's only sent a few patches up, but these sessions have been helpful for

Re: Coordinators for patch review session on Tuesday

2024-04-04 Thread Christina O'Donnell
Hi, Thanks for your reply, 1. Changing the tag to reviewed-looks-good It doesn't look like this worked. The way to do this is in the instructions are 4. 'Set a user tag' [0], probably the easiest way is to send an email (I do get funny results sometimes with my email client): Subject:

Re: Adding plumbing subcommand 'derivation'?

2024-04-18 Thread Christina O'Donnell
Correction: On 18/04/2024 13:57, Christina O'Donnell wrote: [...] `guix store get-references` `guix store get-referrers` `guix store info` - dumps the `path-info` `guix store put xyz` - puts xyz into the store as a fixed derivation binary blob. [...] I've just checked and get-references

Re: Adding plumbing subcommand 'derivation'?

2024-04-18 Thread Christina O'Donnell
Hi, In the interest of throwing ideas out there, and with the caveat that this is rather uninformed: I think having  a derivation sub-command makes the most sense to me. E.g. `guix derivation show` for `guix drv-show` `guix derivation update` for `guix drv-drv` (or 'refresh' or 'fix') I

Re: Core updates status

2024-04-24 Thread Christina O'Donnell
Hi Steve, On 24/04/2024 07:08, Steve George wrote: Hi, We're trying to stabilise and merge core-updates, help definitely wanted! I'd love to help! Any of these issues novice-friendly? Will there be a point release after core-updates is merged? Kind regards, Christina

Re: Core updates status

2024-04-24 Thread Christina O'Donnell
/?id=fb86bf658a9374d41b05c5e586bfc6a3150cc3cb and https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=452e7673bfeb0a14cecb8e760dda2c436aa69047 On 24 Apr, Christina O'Donnell wrote: Hi Steve, On 24/04/2024 07:08, Steve George wrote: Hi, We're trying to stabilise and merge core-updates, help

[PATCH 0/6] WIP: nss: Update to 3.99

2024-04-26 Thread Christina O'Donnell
I've missded then I'd appreciate that. Otherwise I'm free to pick it back up again on Tuesday. Let me know if you have any questions. Kind regards, Christina Christina O'Donnell (4): gnu: nss: Make reproducible. gnu: nss: Update to 3.99. gnu: nss-certs: Update to 3.99. WIP: nss

[PATCH 6/6] WIP: nss: Attempting to resolve FIPS regression.

2024-04-26 Thread Christina O'Donnell
There are 51 new test failures which all appear to be related to FIPS. For example: modutil -dbdir /tmp/guix-build-nss-3.99.drv-0/nss-3.99/tests_results/security/localhost.1/fips -fips true WARNING: Performing this operation while the browser is running could cause corruption of your security

[PATCH 1/6] gnu: nss: Fix cross-compilation.

2024-04-26 Thread Christina O'Donnell
From: Zheng Junjie * gnu/packages/nss.scm (nss)[arguments]<#:make-flags>: When cross-compilation, Add CROSS_COMPILE=1. <#:phases>: When cross-compilation, Set env NATIVE_CC to gcc. Change-Id: I5c9559a4b8cecf2cfc6c47d136d69c01a335faaf Signed-off-by: Zheng Junjie --- gnu/packages/nss.scm | 7

[PATCH 4/6] gnu: nss: Update to 3.99.

2024-04-26 Thread Christina O'Donnell
gnu/packages/nss.scm (nss): Update to 3.99. Change-Id: Iba6c9dc2956cc0febb62a1c471add899250fa489 --- gnu/packages/nss.scm | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/gnu/packages/nss.scm b/gnu/packages/nss.scm index b608a995577..80667d8affe 100644 ---

[PATCH 2/6] gnu: nspr: Fix cross-compilation.

2024-04-26 Thread Christina O'Donnell
From: Zheng Junjie * gnu/packages/nss.scm (nspr)[arguments]<#:configure-flags>: When cross-compilation, Add HOST_CC=gcc. Change-Id: I337f217f153f8cc3a713906643d6fab9115056e9 Signed-off-by: Zheng Junjie --- gnu/packages/nss.scm | 5 - 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff

[PATCH 5/6] gnu: nss-certs: Update to 3.99.

2024-04-26 Thread Christina O'Donnell
gnu/packages/certs.scm (nss-certs-3.88.1): New variable. (nss-certs-3.98): Update and rename to nss-certs-3.99. (nss-certs): Update to 3.99. Change-Id: I2f5f737d44d08497d4f5e0e07557be36d2f1f070 --- gnu/packages/certs.scm | 24 +++- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 5

[PATCH 3/6] gnu: nss: Make reproducible.

2024-04-26 Thread Christina O'Donnell
b834755822f962af29e9395daa7338084e21 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 +Message-ID: <4734b834755822f962af29e9395daa7338084e21.1714059680.git@mutix.org> +From: Christina O'Donnell +Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2024 16:35:50 +0100 +Subject: [PATCH] nss: Disable library signing. + +--- + nss/cmd/shlibsign

Re: Core updates status

2024-04-25 Thread Christina O'Donnell
Hi Steve, It would be good to confirm this one: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=40316 Still fails to reproduce with those changes applied. The culprit is in nss/cmd/shlibsign/shlibsign.c: shlibSignHMAC generates a new key-pair each time it's run:     /* Generate a DSA key

Re: nss not reproducible

2024-04-25 Thread Christina O'Donnell
Hi, I believe I have a fix for this, I'm just waiting on my machine to hurry up and confirm it, might end up running over night, then I'll send my patch up. I'm doing two native builds and two cross-builds. I've also updated to 3.99. Kind regards, Christina On 25/04/2024 15:06, Christina

Re: Online social and patch review session on Monday

2024-04-15 Thread Christina O'Donnell
Hi, Just to say that I'm looking forward to today's session! I'll try my best to be less quiet this time :-) Kind regards, Christina On 12/04/2024 12:33, Steve George wrote: Hi, Our next online social and patch review session is on Monday (15th April): 17:00 UTC; 18:00 London; 19:00

Re: bug#40316: nss not reproducible

2024-05-06 Thread Christina O'Donnell
Hi, On 06/05/2024 11:12, Ludovic Courtès wrote: Hi, Christina O'Donnell skribis: Tangentially, given how long nss takes to build, do you think that it'd be worth shaving it down to a single test pass? Currently it runs each test up to 3 times, which takes ~1h on my machine with no other

Re: bug#40316: nss not reproducible

2024-05-02 Thread Christina O'Donnell
machine with no other build running. Running only the standard pass takes 2.5-3x less time, which is a huge quality of life improvement. Kind regards, Christina On 02/05/2024 09:15, Ludovic Courtès wrote: Hi Christina, Nice work! Christina O'Donnell skribis: I've got as far as making nss

Re: Scheduling a new release?

2024-05-14 Thread Christina O'Donnell
Hi, On 08/05/2024 14:01, Christopher Baines wrote: I think it would be nice to have a new release, and indeed release more often, I think the way to get there is for less things to be broken between releases, such that releasing takes less effort in terms of testing and fixing things. To give