Re: maradns reproducibility fixes and the merits of picking a random number

On Tue, 28 Jun 2022, Efraim Flashner wrote: On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 06:31:41PM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: https://github.com/samboy/MaraDNS/discussions/101#discussioncomment-3006487 Upstream appears to think it is mostly ok to actually embed a specific random prime... and not have it b

Re: IWBC guix derivation pretty printer

On Fri, 28 Oct 2022, jgart wrote: IWBC if we have a guix derivation pretty printer built into the Guix CLI itself. WDYT? Yes, I would welcome such an addition. I remember that nckx had one in bash but I can't seem to find it now in in log ocean... I've also used emacs-semantic-refactor t

Re: Status of hibernation (suspend to disk) in Guix

On Fri, 9 Dec 2022, Mekeor Melire wrote: Thanks for making hibernation work and for bringing that up. I have two questions: 1. Does hibernation work in case of swap-partition inside an luks-encrypted device? Yes, this works for me (nested LVM in LUKS too) 2. Does hibernation work in c

purpose of GnuTLS versions

Hi Guix, We currently have two versions of GnuTLS packaged: 3.7.2 represented by the `gnutls` variable and 3.7.7 represented by the `gnutls-latest` variable. `guix refresh -l` reports that changes to the 3.7.2 version would cause 14770 rebuilds, but only 30 rebuilds for the 3.7.7 version. As

Re: purpose of GnuTLS versions

On Thu, 26 Jan 2023, Simon Tournier wrote: Hi, On Thu, 26 Jan 2023 at 00:12, Jack Hill wrote: It seems to me that the `gnutls` variable should refer to the latest "stable" release, and the `gnutls-latest` variable to latest "next" release. Does that make sense? What

Re: purpose of GnuTLS versions

On Mon, 30 Jan 2023, Jack Hill wrote: To help us decide, I've asked [0] the GnuTLS developers for their thoughts. I was directed to an older thread [0] which provides some more insight. Having read that, I propose to moving to just one gnutls version in core-updates. Thoughts?

Re: purpose of GnuTLS versions

On Tue, 31 Jan 2023, Ludovic Courtès wrote: Jack Hill skribis: Then there's the question of what to do in the meantime for master. Grafts for 3.7.2? Move packages to 3.7.7? Graft, after making sure both versions are ABI-compatible (it should be the case). Unfortunately, we may not

Re: Guidelines for pre-trained ML model weight binaries (Was re: Where should we put machine learning model parameters?)

On Mon, 3 Apr 2023, Nicolas Graves via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution. wrote: Just to be precise on llama, what I proposed was to include the port of Facebook code to CPP, (llama.cpp, see ticket 62443 on guix-patches), which itself has a license. The weight themselves

Re: How many bytes do we add (closure of guix) when adding one new package?

On Tue, 30 May 2023, Simon Tournier wrote: Just to put a figure on what means “big”: currently the .go files are 5 times bigger than their associated .scm. Somehow, it’s the trap of DSL. :-) Packages are declarative and the information they declare is not dense. However, because they are bytec

Re: How can we decrease the cognitive overhead for contributors?

Katherine, Thanks for starting this thread! I'd like to offer my perspective on mistake making (of course it's OK, but definitely less fun to repeatedly make the same mistakes over again rather than new, interesting ones): My personal experience is the initial steps to submitting a contribut

Certbot with alternative certificate authority

Hi Guix, I'm working on making the certbot service work with any certificate authority that implements ACME, not just Let's Encrypt. I've done this by adding a server field to the certbot-configuration, and then using it in the match for certbot-command as follows: ``` diff --git a/gnu/servi

Re: Certbot with alternative certificate authority

On Thu, 5 Mar 2020, Jack Hill wrote: What error have I made? Thanks to Tobias Geerinckx-Rice on IRC, it looks like I forgot additional record changes as well. Even though Tobias was not able to reproduce my exact problem, making the following additional changes fixed it for me: ``` diff

Re: Certbot with alternative certificate authority

On Thu, 5 Mar 2020, Jack Hill wrote: I will clean up these changes and submit a proper patch to improve our certbot service. Submitted at https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/39934 Thanks, Jack

Re: Adding the maven-build-system

On Sat, 4 Apr 2020, Julien Lepiller wrote: Hi Guix! great news! I have successfully built a hello world package with a fully bootstrapped maven-build-system! This email will summarize a bit what I did and how I got there. For the impatient, my work is currently at https://framagit.org/tyreuno

Re: core-updates call for testing

On Fri, 24 Apr 2020, Marius Bakke wrote: The "core-updates" branch is ready for testing! Thanks Marius and others who have worked on core-updates. It's exciting to see these updates nearing completion. In my testing so far, I've noticed that font-gnu-freefont fails to build: https://issues

Re: core-updates call for testing

On Fri, 24 Apr 2020, Marius Bakke wrote: The "core-updates" branch is ready for testing! pdfpc currently fails to build on core-updates. Upgrading to the latest pdfpc release fixes the issue. Patch upgrading pdfpc is at: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/40829 Best, Jack

Re: core-updates call for testing

On Fri, 24 Apr 2020, Marius Bakke wrote: The "core-updates" branch is ready for testing! Hi, I've reconfigured my user profile and system from the core-updates branch. I use a GNOME desktop session. However, I don't use too many fancy features. I mostly use GNOME-Terminal, GNOME-Web, and Em

Re: core-updates call for testing

On Sat, 25 Apr 2020, sirgazil wrote: On Sat, 25 Apr 2020 03:02:23 + Jack Hill wrote > I have not done extensive testing, but so far the desktop itself seems to > be in working order, including cursory use of the GNOME settings dialog. Same here. So far, things are w

Re: Medium-term road map

On Sat, 25 Apr 2020, Ludovic Courtès wrote: Hello Guix! We released 1.1.0, but what’s coming next? What would you like to see? … Thoughts? Hi Ludo’ et al, Thanks for your hard work on the 1.1.0 release! Your proposed direction sounds great to me. To those, I would like to add: * Impro

Re: core-updates call for testing

On Sat, 25 Apr 2020, sirgazil wrote: On Sat, 25 Apr 2020 21:19:26 + Jack Hill wrote > Does GNOME-Web work for you? I'm wondering if others can reproduce the > problem I'm seeing: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/40837 No it doesn't. Hi all, Unfortunately

Re: GNU Guix maintainer collective update

On Mon, 4 May 2020, sirgazil wrote: On Mon, 04 May 2020 13:31:46 + Maxim Cournoyer wrote > Let's take a moment to thank Ricardo for his time as a Guix > co-maintainer. He's been immensely useful to the project and I hope > we'll continue to see him around. Hey, Wurmus, thanks

Re: MIPS support

On Wed, 6 May 2020, Vincent Legoll wrote: Hello, In the intervening years, interest faded away as free software friendly MIPS hardware became more rare. I grabbed a gnubee during the crowdfunding campaign, but the CPU is too low spec to do a lot of compilation on it. I also have a gnubee,

Re: [EXT] Re: Medium-term road map

Dave, On Wed, 6 May 2020, Thompson, David wrote: On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 5:38 PM Jack Hill wrote: * Continued development of guix deploy. Figuring out how to deploy secrets to remote machines would be great. I used to think this was a problem that guix deploy had to deal with but after

Re: core-updates merged!

On Fri, 8 May 2020, Marius Bakke wrote: Guix, The mythical 'core-updates' branch was just merged to 'master'! Yay! Thanks Marius for shepherding this through. Best, Jack

Re: Internationalization Support for the Guix Data Service Outreachy Project

Danjela, On Sat, 9 May 2020, Daniela Lura wrote: Hello everyone,  Hope you are doing well during these tough times! Hello, and welcome to Guix! I am Danjela, the intern who will be working on "Internationalization Support for Guix Data Service" Outreachy project mentored by Christopher Ba

Re: Bundler 2

On Tue, 12 May 2020, Josh Holland wrote: Indeed I see that gnu/packages/ruby.scm only packages Bundler v1.17.3, though Bundler 2 was released in January 2019 [0]. I'm not hugely familiar with the Ruby ecosystem, but reading the release announcement suggests that they expect users/developers to

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

On Wed, 13 May 2020, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: --with-commit Yes, this is niice. ♥ For the sake of argument¹, though, so is --with-source=supported upstream tarball dot tar>. Somehow erasing that hard distinction is the real winning move. Kind regards, T G-R [1]: Obligatory

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

On Sun, 24 May 2020, Ludovic Courtès wrote: […] Another improvement we could make here is improving the message about Software Heritage in guix lint. Most of the other messages it emits are things that the author of a package should consider improving. If the Software Heritage message is less a

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

On May 25, 2020 5:17:02 PM EDT, "Ludovic Courtès" wrote: >Hi, > >Jack Hill skribis: > >> On Sun, 24 May 2020, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> >> […] >> >>>> Another improvement we could make here is improving the message >about >>>

Re: Request to verify powerpc64-linux bootstrap binaries

On Tue, 2 Jun 2020, Vincent Legoll wrote: Hello, On 02/06/2020 04:56, Chris Marusich wrote: Hopefully, you'll get identical results! You don't have to run "guix gc" if you don't want to, but doing so will increase the likelihood of catching nondeterminism issues propagated from dependencies (

Re: Request to verify powerpc64-linux bootstrap binaries

On Tue, 2 Jun 2020, Chris Marusich wrote: I have opened up a bug report for this issue, so we can continue the discussion there: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=41669 I will try on my end to obtain a differing gcc to see if I can analyze the difference. In the meantime, could yo

Re: guile-readline bug -- readline module not available

On Fri, 12 Jun 2020, Josh Marshall wrote: Hello all, I ran into an issue where the readline module isn't available for the guile repl after installing `guile-readline`. It can be replicated via: `echo "(use-modules (ice-9 readline))" | guix environment --pure guile guile-readline -- guile` S

Re: guile-readline bug -- readline module not available

On Sat, 13 Jun 2020, Josh Marshall wrote: The thing is that I want those dependencies in order to illustrate the bug that the readline module for guile is not available.  In that case, I think you can get what you want with guix environment --pure guile guile-readline --ad-hoc guile-readline

Re: Policy to remove broken packages

On Sat, 20 Jun 2020, Christopher Baines wrote: Do you have any examples of packages that are currently broken, and which you'd like to remove? Perhaps mongo-tools: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/39637 It broke when Go was upgraded to 1.13, and changed the test library. I fixed some other Go pac

Re: guix search: first line not shown

On Tue, 30 Jun 2020, Ekaitz Zarraga wrote: Hi, With the recent adoption of $PAGER in `guix search` I'm experiencing an issue. The some of the firsts lines are not shown if the output long enough to cover the full screen so I can't see the first package name. It forces me to scroll down and u

Re: guix search: first line not shown

On Thu, 2 Jul 2020, Jack Hill wrote: On Tue, 30 Jun 2020, Ekaitz Zarraga wrote: Hi, With the recent adoption of $PAGER in `guix search` I'm experiencing an issue. The some of the firsts lines are not shown if the output long enough to cover the full screen so I can't see the fir

neovim and luajit?

Hi Guix, I'm wondering why we use Lua 5.1 instead of LuaJIT for neovim? It seems that upstream prefers LuaJIT given the non-default configure flag we use[0] and their FAQ[1]. I don't have an opinion either way. I'm learning about neovim today, and am curious how we arrived at our configurati

Re: [bug#42738] [Work in progress] gnu: emacs: update to 27.1

h upstream. I have the following updates, since I prepared at patch for the 27.1 release candidate: On Thu, 6 Aug 2020, Jack Hill wrote: Hi Guix, Now that there is a release candidate for Emacs 27.1, I started working on updating our Emacs packages. Now that Emacs 27.1 has been released, I&

Re: [bug#42738] [Work in progress] gnu: emacs: update to 27.1

2020, Michael Rohleder wrote: Jack Hill writes: Now that Emacs 27.1 has been released, I've updated the patch for released version. Per Michael Rohleder's (mroh) suggestion on IRC, I have added gmp as an input. emacs (26 and 27) configure and compiles with gmp anyway. I couldn't

Re: [bug#42738] [PATCH v4] gnu: emacs: Update to 27.1.

Hi Morgan, On Thu, 27 Aug 2020, morgan.j.sm...@outlook.com wrote: From: Morgan Smith * gnu/packages/emacs.scm (emacs): Update to 27.1. [arguments]: Add --with-cairo and --with-modules to #:configure-flags. Add restore-emacs-pdump phase. [inputs]: Add cairo, libxaw, jansson, gmp, and harfbuzz.

Re: [bug#42738] [PATCH v4] gnu: emacs: Update to 27.1.

On Fri, 28 Aug 2020, Brett Gilio wrote: Also, are we planning to keep emacs-next and have it track 28.x or remove it? I believe bandali was planning to track 28.x. Best, Jack

Re: Help, and get help reviewing patches this Friday (18th)

On Thu, 17 Dec 2020, Christopher Baines wrote: Hey, I mentioned in [1] that some "Scheduled and regular collaboration on IRC to review patches" might help both get some patches reviewed, but help get more people involved in reviewing patches, even if they haven't done so before. 1: https://lis

Re: Why [bug#47081] Remove mongodb?

I don't have anything to add with respect to the process for package removeal, but for the completeness of the thread I'd like the observe that one of the packages that was removed (mongo-tools) was broken for over a year: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/39637 For the reasons Efraim pointed out, I

next browser (was: Packaging a free Firefox)

On Thu, 3 May 2018, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: While not directly related to Firefox, Next Browser is also a full-featured, highly-compatible webbrowser. I'll package it for Guix very soon: https://github.com/next-browser/next/issues/92 http://next-browser.com/ Pierre, This is

Re: next browser (was: Packaging a free Firefox)

On Thu, 3 May 2018, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: Thank you very much for reaching out to me, Jack! You're welcome. I will start working on it in the upcoming days. Great. I'm starting to get there regarding Guix package declarations. I've still got to learn more about Common Lisp packaging t

Re: Promoting the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines?

Alex, On Tue, 23 Oct 2018, Alex Griffin wrote: FWIW once I noticed that Guix had adopted the Contributor Covenant, it factored strongly into my decision to stop contributing to the project last year. Interesting. I too am eager understand your thinking on this. When thinking about this issue

manage /boot/grub/grub.cfg without installing grub binaries to disk

Greetings, This email records some thinking that we had on IRC today. raghavgururajan and I have use cases for a Guix-managed grub.cfg, but without Guix-managed grub boot binaries. This is to support booting a Guix system with an external grub, where there is no place for Guix to install grub.

Re: idea: "guix cargo", "guix npm" etc

On Fri, 2 Feb 2018, Andy Wingo wrote: A little idea inspired by Eelco's talk at the Guix miniconference. The "problem" is that users are often more used to their language-specific package manager than Guix. They find "cargo install foo" to be convenient. However this rarely results in a repro

Racket 8 and store references (was [security] Chunked store references in .zo files in Racket 8 #47614)

On Tue, 6 Apr 2021, Mark H Weaver wrote: Anyway, I doubt that imposing such a limitation would adequately solve the problem here of chunked references in Racket 8, because I suspect that Racket 8 could split store references at arbitrary points in the string. I doubt that we can safely assume t

Re: neovim and luajit?

On Fri, 31 Jul 2020, Jack Hill wrote: Hi Guix, I'm wondering why we use Lua 5.1 instead of LuaJIT for neovim? It seems that upstream prefers LuaJIT given the non-default configure flag we use[0] and their FAQ[1]. I don't have an opinion either way. I'm learning about neovi

Jam: which licence is this?

Hi Guix, I'm working on packaging the Argyll Color Management System for Guix. To build, it uses the Jam tool, which has the following license: ``` This is Release 2.5 of Jam, a make-like program. License is hereby granted to use this software and distribute it freely, as long as this copyrig

Re: Jam: which licence is this?

On Sun, 25 Apr 2021, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: On 2021-04-25, Jack Hill wrote: I'm working on packaging the Argyll Color Management System for Guix. To build, it uses the Jam tool, which has the following license: ``` This is Release 2.5 of Jam, a make-like program. License is hereby gr

Re: Jam: which licence is this?

I have asked the FSF licensing lab about this in RT #1718940 Best, Jack

Re: Jam: which licence is this?

On Sun, 25 Apr 2021, Jack Hill wrote: I have asked the FSF licensing lab about this in RT #1718940 I've also asked OSI: https://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review_lists.opensource.org/2021-April/005139.html Best, Jack

Re: neovim and luajit?

On Sun, 25 Apr 2021, HiPhish wrote: I just want to add my 2 cents to the discussion. Officially Neovim supports only Lua 5.1 as its extension language according to the manual (`:h lua-intro`): The Lua 5.1 language is builtin and always available. Using LuaJIT allows the use of some extension

Neovim plugin/addon packaging

Greetings Guix, I'd like to improve the experience of installing Neovim plugins/add-ons with Guix. I've submitted #48112 [0] which adds an XDG_DATA_DIRS search path so nvim (the Neovim executable name) will be able to find plugins installed by guix at …/share/nvim/site. Currently, we only ha

Re: Neovim plugin/addon packaging

Thanks for your reply. On Fri, 30 Apr 2021, Efraim Flashner wrote: On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 01:03:23AM -0400, Jack Hill wrote: Greetings Guix, I'd like to improve the experience of installing Neovim plugins/add-ons with Guix. I've submitted #48112 [0] which adds an XDG_DATA_DIRS s

Re: Neovim plugin/addon packaging

On Sun, 2 May 2021, Efraim Flashner wrote: ng0/nikita thought about it a few years ago but I think the copy-build-system works well enough. I know for vim we need a vim profile hook to create the documentation, does neovim need something like that too? I'm not sure and will need to investigate

Help me create a janet-build-system

ception: no code for module (guix utils) ``` What have I done wrong? More generally, I expect there are many ways I could improve the build system. What are they? Thanks! JackFrom f229d3863f5e93606db1275dcb30ad4f3092496b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jack Hill Date: Thu, 13 May 2021 01:09:22 -0400 Sub

Re: Help me create a janet-build-system

Leo, Thanks for your reply On Sat, 15 May 2021, Leo Prikler wrote: Your code imports (guix utils), but (guix utils) is not present within the module closure present at build time. Did you mean (guix build utils)? I used cc-for-target and cxx-for-target from (guix utils). Where would I add (

Re: Rust freedom issue claim

On Thu, 27 May 2021, Joshua Branson wrote: In terms of languages trying to be replacements for C: - Zig is one of the most famous ones, and will probably be the first C alternatives to reach 1.0. https://ziglang.org/ - Odin https://odin-lang.org/ - scopes which using S-expressions https://

Re: Telemetry on by default kitty

On Tue, 15 Jun 2021, Mark H Weaver wrote: […] However, I strongly believe that each Guix user should be given the opportunity to make that decision for themselves, i.e. that telemetry, auto-update checks, and more generally unsolicited network traffic should be disabled until the user has given

Re: Guix co-maintainers rotation

On Wed, 4 Aug 2021, Maxim Cournoyer wrote: Dear Guix community, For some time already, two current Guix co-maintainers have expressed the wish to withdraw themselves from their current duties: Ludovic Courtès and Marius Bakke. This would reduce the current co-maintainers collective to the foll

Re: PackaginCon

On Fri, 13 Aug 2021, jbra...@dismail.de wrote: Hey Guix, Apparently there is going to be a virtual Packaging Conference this year: https://packaging-con.org/ […] * Submissions close: 31 August 2021 Thanks to you and Dong Carl on IRC for sharing! This looks like a very interesting eve

Re: delete-generations or --delete-generations?

On Thu, 26 Aug 2021, Raghav Gururajan wrote: Hello Guix! Why there is no '--' prefix to 'delete-generations' for `guix system`, when there is for `guix pull` and `guix package`? Raghav, I don't know (but I'll speculate in a bit), but it's not just delete-generations. All of the guix system

Re: Sniping "guix deploy"

Thanks Julien and Katherine On Thu, 9 Sep 2021, Katherine Cox-Buday wrote: Julien Lepiller writes: As a rule of thumb, when you update multiple systems and one system provides security for another, you should update the security system before the protected system if you restrict access, and

Go importer and packages with version flags

Hi Guix, While I was was working with the go importer today, it suggested I package go-github-com-russross-blackfriday-v2. Fair enough, except we already have a package for go-github-com-russross-blackfriday. The packages differ in their version (2.1.0 verses 2.0.1), their imputs (the imported

Re: extend ’guix archive’?

On Mon, 20 Dec 2021, zimoun wrote: Hi, On Mon, 20 Dec 2021 at 23:07, Ludovic Courtès wrote: Regarding nar-herder, I think it’d be nice to have a solution to mirroring in Guix proper, developed similarly to other components, because it could be a fairly central tool. ‘guix publish’ is probab

Re: Formalizing teams

On Wed, 22 Dec 2021, Ludovic Courtès wrote: Hello Guix! I’ve been looking at our guix-patches backlog, at the great contributions we get but that stick there for too long, certainly discouraging people, and also at non-code initiatives (meetups, Guix Days, Outreachy, documentation, etc.) that w

Browsers and Gstreamer plugins

d comments? How shall we move forward? Is it ok to wrap browsers in this way? Best, JackFrom 44971b5c5c2d355ed6b270810ee7fcb16b106edb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jack Hill Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2021 11:07:36 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] gnu: vimb: Wrap with required gstreamer plugins. * gnu/package/w

Re: SANE / simple-scan working for anyone?

Mark, Did you end up getting your scanning issue resolved? You may have seem my own scanning-related adventures over on help-guix [0] where I discovered that adding the udev rules from sane-backends was needed. The service definition that I used to add them is: (simple-service 'sane-udev-rul

pypi URL 404

Hi Guix, I've created the following package definition using the pypi importer. However, when I try to build it with guix build -f … the build fails because it cannot download the source. The downloader gets redirected to a url that returns 404. However, the pypi importer was able download the

Re: pypi URL 404

Thanks for your reply On Fri, 10 May 2019, Marius Bakke wrote: It seems no proper source tarball is available on PyPI, only a "wheel": The importer uses those to extract requirements.txt, and apparently returns the wheel hash when it fails to find

Re: Expat 2.2.7 with security fixes has been released / CVE-2018-20843

On Fri, 28 Jun 2019, Sebastian Pipping wrote: Hello everyone! Sorry for the noise if you heard about the release of 2.2.7 about a week ago through some other channel and maybe even took action, already! To be quick, there is one DoS fix — for CVE-2018-20843 [1] — and misc build system fixes.

Re: Expat 2.2.7 with security fixes has been released / CVE-2018-20843

Hi Sebastian, On Fri, 12 Jul 2019, Sebastian Pipping wrote: On 12.07.19 01:17, Jack Hill wrote: We elected to backport the patch that fixed the problem instead of upgrading due to a change in the expat abi with 2.2.7 [1]. [1] https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/36424#2 thanks for the update

Add zsh as input to emacs-org?

Hello Guix, While looking at the build log for #36710 [0], I see ``` starting phase `patch-source-shebangs' patch-shebang: ./contrib/scripts/dir2org.zsh: warning: no binary for interpreter `zsh' found in $PATH phase `patch-source-shebangs' succeeded after 0.0 seconds starting phase `patch-gen

Character display problem in mumi and my mail client

Hi Guix, It appears that mumi (or at least the instance of it running on issues.guix.gnu.org) has problems displaying some non-ASCII characters. I noticed it with '’'. Compare https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/36207 with https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=36207 In the former, Lu

Re: Character display problem in mumi and my mail client

Ricardo and Arun, Thanks for the responses and analysis. It sounds like you have a good grasp of the problem, and my MUA isn't behaving too strangely. Let me know if you'd like anything from me. Best, Jack

Re: Mumi now uses raw emails and Mu

Ricardo, On Sun, 21 Jul 2019, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: Hey there, I just wanted to let y’all know that Mumi at issues.guix.gnu.org now stores raw emails from Debbugs instead of fetching them through the Debbugs SOAP service. This means that messages are no longer truncated, which is what happene

plugins as separate packages for desktop application

Hi Guix, I've been thinking about https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/34759 again recently. 34759 is an issue with GIMP in which it does not find plugins that are installed via separate packages in the same profile. I believe that what is going on is that GIMP is only looking for plugins in its

Help with $SHELL in perl package for backuppc

Hi Guix, I'm working on packaging backuppc. So far, with the help of the cpan importer, I have the following package definition for BackupPC::XS which the part of BackupPC implemented in C and a Perl module that exposes that functionality: ``` (define-public perl-backuppc-xs (package (na

Re: Help with $SHELL in perl package for backuppc

On Wed, 21 Aug 2019, Jack Hill wrote: However, that fails to build because it tries to invoke /bin/sh (see full build log at the end of this message). Line 2465 in configure.sh is suspicious as it reads: ``` $SHELL "$ac_aux_dir/config.sub" sun4 >/dev/null 2>&1 || ``` I

Re: Let’s merge ‘core-updates’!

On Tue, 24 Sep 2019, Ludovic Courtès wrote: The ‘core-updates’ branch is in a good shape now, and I think we should go ahead and merge in the coming days! Please try to upgrade your system and your user profile to see if anything’s wrong for you (I did that a few days ago and I’m happy!). I'v

Re: Stateful system directories

Today I had an occasion to create a file in gdm's home directory that should persist across reboots. I needed to set a dconf setting to prevent gdm from putting the computer to sleep. Full details on guix-help [0]. Unfortunately, I don't believe there is yet a way to handle these setting in a d

Re: gnu: profanity: Modify build options.

Tanguy, As a mcabber user, I'm excited to learn about another console xmpp client! Is the home-page in the package definition, , correct? That page is blocked for me at work, and it didn't look right when I was browsing it from a different network with elinks. It looks

Re: Packaging "single file"

On Mon, 4 Nov 2019, Tanguy Le Carrour wrote: Hi Guix! I intended to ask this question later, but now that ungoogled-chromium has been superseded by icecat, I find myself stuck! Is it possible to package a single file? The "file" being a bash script or a binary. Is there a package definition I

Re: Packaging "single file"

On Tue, 5 Nov 2019, Tanguy Le Carrour wrote: Le 11/04, Jack Hill a écrit : Does this help? It's a perfect example! Thanks! I'll do the same for rofi-pass! Yay, you're welcome. Unfortunatly, I don't have the experience with web testing to be helpful there. Best, Jack

Re: GNOME Core Applications

On Wed, 13 Nov 2019, Raghav Gururajan wrote: CHART: https://calc.disroot.org/2nu6mpf88ynq.html Neat! If anyone did any task(s) from the chart, please let me know and I will update the chart accordingly. This wasn't anything I did, but I believe that Simple Scan is packaged as simple-scan,

Re: [Proposal] The Formal Methods in GNU Guix Working Group

Greetings, On Sun, 15 Dec 2019, Brett Gilio wrote: Hello Guix! This is going to be a rather lengthy email proposing a new working group (if that is indeed the proper name for this) in the GNU Guix project. Just as there are other "working groups" for GNOME packages, bootstrapping Rust & JVM, a

Re: Packaging Jami progress

On Mon, 6 Jan 2020, Jan wrote: Or should I send one mail to guix-patc...@gnu.org and then send the rest to n...@debbugs.gnu.org? Yes, I believe that sending to guix-patches first and then to NNN@debbugs is the recommended way. Best, Jack

Re: New build system: copy-build-system

On Sun, 26 Jan 2020, Jesse Gibbons wrote: On Sun, 2020-01-26 at 21:27 +0100, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: Error verifying signature: Failed to execute gpg. Hi! We've got quite a few packages that simply copy some files from their source to the output. Examples include `debian-archive-ke

help updateing go to 1.13

ackFrom 4a8147b8b447b30501f2fcb4d157cc8cc79ce6c2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jack Hill Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2020 17:22:58 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] WIP: gnu: go: update to 1.13 --- gnu/packages/golang.scm | 9 - 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/gnu/packages/golan

Re: help updateing go to 1.13

On Sat, 8 Feb 2020, Alex Griffin wrote: I believe the go-build-system will need to be updated to support Go modules. For some reason they thought it would be a good idea for `go build` to access the network for consistency with `go get`. Until we figure out what to do about this, I think we

Re: Guix search, colors and INSIDE_EMACS

Hi Guix, I've been trying to follow this discussion as I have observed problems with the linking characters in eshell. However, it seems I am having seeing different behavior than others. In both Emacs 26.3 and Emacs-next 27.0.50, running as `emacs -q`, INSIDE_EMACS is not being set in eshell

Re: Guix search, colors and INSIDE_EMACS

On Tue, 11 Feb 2020, zimoun wrote: In shell and term mode, INSIDE_EMACS is being set, and everything looks fine (although without any highlighting). You mean set by default, right? Yes, for me emacs is setting INSIDE_EMACS for shell and term, but not eshell with the default configuration.

Re: help updateing go to 1.13

Thanks for the advice. I've submitted a minimal patch to update go to 1.13: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/39570 Best, Jack

Re: containerd fails to build

On Thu, 13 Feb 2020, Tanguy Le Carrour wrote: Hi Guix! containerd fails to build on my system! :-( [content elided] starting phase `check' flag provided but not defined: -test.testlogfile Usage of /tmp/guix-build-containerd-1.2.5.drv-0/go-build772692618/b001/containerd.test: -address st

importing/refreshing Go packages

Leo and Guix, I noticed that you recently updated syncthing and many of its dependencies. Did you do this by hand? I'm wondering if it would make things easier if we had a recursive importer. I ask because I'm tempted to want the help of an importer while I'm looking at packaging software (l

Re: importing/refreshing Go packages

On Fri, 14 Feb 2020, Leo Famulari wrote: On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 12:08:08PM -0500, Jack Hill wrote: Leo and Guix, I noticed that you recently updated syncthing and many of its dependencies. Did you do this by hand? I'm wondering if it would make things easier if we had a recursive imp

Re: git send-email

On Sat, 18 Nov 2023, Nicolas Débonnaire wrote: Hi, In guix documentation we have the following command to send the cover letter of a patch serie: git send-email outgoing/-cover-letter.patch -a \ --to=guix-patc...@debbugs.gnu.org \ $(etc/teams.scm cc-members ...) However, Gmail

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