Re: Blog post on the Full-Source Bootstrap

2023-04-28 Thread Janneke Nieuwenhuizen
Simon Tournier writes: Hi Simon, > On mer., 26 avril 2023 at 16:12, Janneke Nieuwenhuizen > wrote: > >> >> https://gnu.org/software/guix/blog/2023/the-full-source-bootstrap-building-from-source-all-the-way-down/ > > Really cool! Yeah, thanks! > Maybe I misread the wording: > > If

Re: Blog post on the Full-Source Bootstrap

2023-04-27 Thread Simon Tournier
Hi Janneke, On mer., 26 avril 2023 at 16:12, Janneke Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > > https://gnu.org/software/guix/blog/2023/the-full-source-bootstrap-building-from-source-all-the-way-down/ Really cool! Maybe I misread the wording: If you run guix pull today, you get a package graph of

Re: Blog post on the Full-Source Bootstrap

2023-04-26 Thread Tobias Platen
This looks good, I am interested in doing a port to the POWER ISA. Currently on my OrangeCrab I only have one small C program running, coldboot. Everything from the HDL to the BIOS should be Full-Source. https://git.libre-soc.org/?p=ls2.git;a=blob;f=coldboot/coldboot.c Tobias On Wed,

Re: Drafting a Guix blog post on the FHS container

2023-01-04 Thread John Kehayias
Hi Jim, On Wed, Jan 04, 2023 at 06:07 PM, Jim Newsome wrote: > Thanks, looks good, and the command in your patch also works for me. > Great, thanks for testing! > I agree that passing and exposing XAUTHORITY seems better. Experimentally, > sharing the directory > read-only also works (using

Re: Drafting a Guix blog post on the FHS container

2023-01-04 Thread Jim Newsome
lay. I'm not sure the second parameter is universally > > correct; I reverse-engineered it via roughly `ps aux | grep -- -auth`. > > > > The `-v` parameter to the browser script keeps it from trying to > > background itself, which otherwise causes the container and brow

Re: Drafting a Guix blog post on the FHS container

2023-01-04 Thread John Kehayias
ise causes the container and browser to > terminate. > > It'd ultimately be nice to package the Tor Browser Bundle properly for > guix, but it's nice to be able to use it this way in the meantime. Thanks again for this! I slightly modified it for the blog post, which you can see in draft

Re: Drafting a Guix blog post on the FHS container

2022-12-25 Thread John Kehayias
alsa-lib \ >> -- \ >> ./start-tor-browser.desktop -v >> ``` >> >> `--preserve='^DISPLAY$'` and `--share=/run/user/$(id -u)/gdm` are to >> get access to the display. I'm not sure the second parameter is >> universally correct; I reverse-engineered it via rough

Re: Drafting a Guix blog post on the FHS container

2022-12-22 Thread Csepp
Jim Newsome writes: > Sorry for (presumably) breaking threading; I came across this online > and don't see a way to set my in-reply-to-email header properly. > > Anyways just thought I'd mention that I recently learned about this > feature, and was able to use it to get a downloaded [Tor

Re: Drafting a Guix blog post on the FHS container

2022-12-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Jim, Jim Newsome skribis: > Anyways just thought I'd mention that I recently learned about this > feature, and was able to use it to get a downloaded [Tor Browser > Bundle] running with: That’s another good example, thanks for sharing! It’s especially interesting because the Tor project

re: Drafting a Guix blog post on the FHS container

2022-12-18 Thread Jim Newsome
Sorry for (presumably) breaking threading; I came across this online and don't see a way to set my in-reply-to-email header properly. Anyways just thought I'd mention that I recently learned about this feature, and was able to use it to get a downloaded [Tor Browser Bundle] running with:

Re: Drafting a Guix blog post on the FHS container

2022-12-15 Thread John Kehayias
Hi again! On Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 03:53 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hello! > > John Kehayias skribis: > >> First, let's dive right into a big one: the popular VSCodium editor. This is >> a freely >> licensed build of VS Code: >> >>

Re: Drafting a Guix blog post on the FHS container

2022-12-15 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! John Kehayias skribis: > First, let's dive right into a big one: the popular VSCodium editor. This is > a freely licensed build of VS Code: > > > This comes in AppImage format. Downloading it and making it executable (with > a

Re: Dissecting Guix -- blog post series

2022-12-12 Thread (
Heya, On Mon Dec 12, 2022 at 1:43 AM GMT, Mekeor Melire wrote: > Or auto-fill-mode? :) I'm pretty new to Emacs, so I dunno which way is best -.o.- > Personally, I felt kind of fooled at that point, because it felt > like I had made needless efforts to read an irrelevant code > snippet. Fair

Re: Dissecting Guix -- blog post series

2022-12-12 Thread Bengt Richter
Hi, On +2022-12-09 17:25:35 +, ( wrote: > Heya, > > On Fri Dec 9, 2022 at 9:32 AM GMT, wrote: > > How does a gullible noob like me know what the dangers might be, (e.g. > > http:) > > and how to avoid (most of) them by finding a guix version that has been > > gone through with a fine-tooth

Re: Drafting a Guix blog post on the FHS container

2022-12-11 Thread John Kehayias
d actually did get this to mount, though it wasn't visible from the container, in the coming blog post draft. Another example is to get the latest nightly builds of Rust, via <https://rustup.rs/> --8<---cut here---start->8--- $ mkdir ~/temphome $ guix shell

Re: Drafting a Guix blog post on the FHS container

2022-12-11 Thread John Kehayias
Hi simon, On Fri, Dec 09, 2022 at 06:56 PM, zimoun wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 05 Dec 2022 at 02:32, John Kehayias > wrote: > >> Here is a current (rough!) draft. For the ease of plain text email >> I've exported from the org source to text with some light edits: > > Nice! If you can turn the

Re: Drafting a Guix blog post on the FHS container

2022-12-11 Thread John Kehayias
Hi Wojtek, Thanks for your input! On Mon, Dec 05, 2022 at 07:51 AM, Wojtek Kosior wrote: > Hello, > > >> Hi Guixers! >> >> I've started working on a little blog post about our new >> --emulate-fhs option for Guix containers. In short, this sets up an >>

Re: Dissecting Guix -- blog post series

2022-12-11 Thread Mekeor Melire
2022-12-11 10:08 pa...@disroot.org: On Sat Dec 10, 2022 at 9:25 PM GMT, Mekeor Melire wrote: > By the way, the text does not seem to strictly fill columns at > a certain line width. So I did not bother to fill columns in > the "patch". Right, I should set up FILL-COLUMNS-INDICATOR... :)

Re: Dissecting Guix -- blog post series

2022-12-11 Thread (
Heya, On Sat Dec 10, 2022 at 9:25 PM GMT, Mekeor Melire wrote: > I think it'd also be fine to come up with the titles during the process of > writing as sometimes that process itself is insightful. E.g. I could imagine > parts 2 and 4 to collapse. Maybe, maybe not, you'll see. Perhaps. I

Re: Dissecting Guix -- blog post series

2022-12-10 Thread Mekeor Melire
r the manual or the cookbook; and OTOH, it should be published as a blog-post. The blog-post should also link to the respective section of the manual or cookbook in a preamble. > * Dissecting Guix, Part 1: Derivations > * Dissecting Guix, Part 2: The Humble G-Expression > * Dissecting G

Re: Drafting a Guix blog post on the FHS container

2022-12-09 Thread zimoun
Hi, On Mon, 05 Dec 2022 at 02:32, John Kehayias wrote: > Here is a current (rough!) draft. For the ease of plain text email > I've exported from the org source to text with some light edits: Nice! If you can turn the draft into Markdown and format a patch for guix-artwork [1] under

Re: Dissecting Guix -- blog post series

2022-12-09 Thread (
Heya, On Fri Dec 9, 2022 at 9:32 AM GMT, wrote: > How does a gullible noob like me know what the dangers might be, (e.g. http:) > and how to avoid (most of) them by finding a guix version that has been > gone through with a fine-tooth comb by trusted guix devs and has been > re-hosted at gitlab

Re: Dissecting Guix -- blog post series

2022-12-09 Thread bokr
Hi, On +2022-12-09 07:33:16 +, ( wrote: > On Fri Dec 9, 2022 at 7:31 AM GMT, 宋文武 wrote: > > I think it's missing what "build-derivations" do, or "Part 0: Store". > > Hmm, do you mean adding an example of building a derivation in Scheme with > ``build-derivations''? I'll definitiely add that

Re: Dissecting Guix -- blog post series

2022-12-08 Thread (
On Fri Dec 9, 2022 at 7:31 AM GMT, 宋文武 wrote: > I think it's missing what "build-derivations" do, or "Part 0: Store". Hmm, do you mean adding an example of building a derivation in Scheme with ``build-derivations''? I'll definitiely add that :) -- ( signature.asc Description: PGP

Re: Dissecting Guix -- blog post series

2022-12-08 Thread 宋文武
"(" writes: > Heya! > > Some of you may have seen on IRC that I've been writing a post for the Guix > blog that I hope will form the first part of a series. This series aims to > dissect the internals of Guix, from bottom to top. Perhaps they could go in > the cookbook once the series is done?

Dissecting Guix -- blog post series

2022-12-08 Thread (
Heya! Some of you may have seen on IRC that I've been writing a post for the Guix blog that I hope will form the first part of a series. This series aims to dissect the internals of Guix, from bottom to top. Perhaps they could go in the cookbook once the series is done? My aim is to write the

Re: Drafting a Guix blog post on the FHS container

2022-12-06 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Standard”. > To that end, we've [recently added] a new option for Guix containers, > `--emulate-fhs' (or `-F'). This will set up an environment in the Perhaps s/Guix containers/`guix shell`/ and add a few words about what ‘guix shell --container’ does (you can link to the manual or blog post)

Re: Drafting a Guix blog post on the FHS container

2022-12-04 Thread Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
Hello, > Hi Guixers! > > I've started working on a little blog post about our new > --emulate-fhs option for Guix containers. In short, this sets up an > FHS-like (Filesystem Hierarchy Standard) container which has things > like /lib and /bin. > > I would like to get

Drafting a Guix blog post on the FHS container

2022-12-04 Thread John Kehayias
Hi Guixers! I've started working on a little blog post about our new --emulate-fhs option for Guix containers. In short, this sets up an FHS-like (Filesystem Hierarchy Standard) container which has things like /lib and /bin. I would like to get some suggestions on good examples to include

Re: Clarifying blog post licensing

2022-02-05 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hi Ludovic, Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hi, > > Maxim Cournoyer skribis: > >> Ludovic Courtès writes: >> >>> Hello Guix! >>> >>> With a few exceptions, our blog posts do not have a license, which is >>> not great as it prevents sharing and reuse, at least by those outside >>> Guix circles (we

Re: Clarifying blog post licensing

2022-02-05 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Vagrant Cascadian skribis: > Just for clarity, do you mean the GFDL with a laundry-list of non-free > anti-features excluded, like the guix manual: > > Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document > under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version

Re: Clarifying blog post licensing

2022-02-05 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Maxim Cournoyer skribis: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> Hello Guix! >> >> With a few exceptions, our blog posts do not have a license, which is >> not great as it prevents sharing and reuse, at least by those outside >> Guix circles (we discussed it in the past but never got around to

Re: Clarifying blog post licensing

2022-01-29 Thread jbranso
January 27, 2022 12:59 AM, "Jan Nieuwenhuizen" wrote: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> With a few exceptions, our blog posts do not have a license, which is >> not great > I agree. Joshua Branson. > -- > Jan Nieuwenhuizen | GNU LilyPond http://lilypond.org > Freelance IT

Re: Clarifying blog post licensing

2022-01-28 Thread Gábor Boskovits
> authors asking them whether they agree with the proposed licensing > > terms, or whether they’d like a different free license. The script > > below enumerates blog post authors (the list needs a bit of cleanup > > still): > >

Re: Clarifying blog post licensing

2022-01-27 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
below. > > What do people think? > > If maintainers and everyone agrees, I’d like to publicly email all the > authors asking them whether they agree with the proposed licensing > terms, or whether they’d like a different free license. The script > below enumerates blog post authors (the list needs a bit of cleanup > still):

Re: Clarifying blog post licensing

2022-01-26 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Ludovic Courtès writes: > With a few exceptions, our blog posts do not have a license, which is > not great Good catch, I agree! Janneke -- Jan Nieuwenhuizen | GNU LilyPond http://lilypond.org Freelance IT http://JoyofSource.com | Avatar® http://AvatarAcademy.com

Re: Clarifying blog post licensing

2022-01-26 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Vagrant Cascadian 写道: Just for clarity, do you mean the GFDL with a laundry-list of non-free anti-features excluded, like the guix manual: I think that goes without saying, but clarity is good: thanks for bringing it up. Invariants would be a deal-breaker for several of us I'm sure,

Re: Clarifying blog post licensing

2022-01-26 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2022-01-26, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > With a few exceptions, our blog posts do not have a license, which is > not great as it prevents sharing and reuse, at least by those outside > Guix circles (we discussed it in the past but never got around to fixing > it). > > I’d like us to clarify that,

Re: Clarifying blog post licensing

2022-01-26 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
How does that sound? Excellent. Thanks! T G-R signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Clarifying blog post licensing

2022-01-26 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hello, Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hello Guix! > > With a few exceptions, our blog posts do not have a license, which is > not great as it prevents sharing and reuse, at least by those outside > Guix circles (we discussed it in the past but never got around to fixing > it). > > I’d like us to

Re: Clarifying blog post licensing

2022-01-26 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
ainers and everyone agrees, I’d like to publicly email all the > authors asking them whether they agree with the proposed licensing > terms, or whether they’d like a different free license. The script > below enumerates blog post authors (the list needs a bit of cleanup > still): > > s

Re: Clarifying blog post licensing

2022-01-26 Thread Oliver Propst
Me too. -- Kinds regards Oliver Propst https://twitter.com/Opropst

Re: Clarifying blog post licensing

2022-01-26 Thread Julien Lepiller
> >What do people think? > >If maintainers and everyone agrees, I’d like to publicly email all the >authors asking them whether they agree with the proposed licensing >terms, or whether they’d like a different free license. The script >below enumerates blog post authors (the lis

Re: Clarifying blog post licensing

2022-01-26 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 10:24:11AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hello Guix! > > With a few exceptions, our blog posts do not have a license, which is > not great as it prevents sharing and reuse, at least by those outside > Guix circles (we discussed it in the past but never got around to

Re: Clarifying blog post licensing

2022-01-26 Thread Manolis Ragkousis
to publicly email all the authors asking them whether they agree with the proposed licensing terms, or whether they’d like a different free license. The script below enumerates blog post authors (the list needs a bit of cleanup still): --8<---cut here---start

Clarifying blog post licensing

2022-01-26 Thread Ludovic Courtès
they agree with the proposed licensing terms, or whether they’d like a different free license. The script below enumerates blog post authors (the list needs a bit of cleanup still): --8<---cut here---start->8--- scheme@(guile-user)> ,pp authors $22 = (&quo

Re: blog post about shepher user services

2021-05-22 Thread Adriano Peluso
Il giorno sab, 22/05/2021 alle 15.49 +0200, Leo Prikler ha scritto: > Hi, > > the blog post you've linked >   > https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2017/running-system-services-in-containers/ > seems to neither contain mentions of XDG_CONFIG_DIR, nor mcron. > > Did you mean

Re: New blog post on the Guix Build Coordinator: Building derivations, how complicated can it be?

2021-04-30 Thread Vincent Legoll
Thanks Christopher, Mathieu & Ludo to help us understand what's going on -- Vincent Legoll

Re: New blog post on the Guix Build Coordinator: Building derivations, how complicated can it be?

2021-04-30 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Mathieu Othacehe skribis: > We have already discussed the Cuirass vs Build coordinator situation in > the past. I haven't changed by mind on that subject. The Guix Build > Coordinator is more or less the equivalent of the Cuirass remote build > mechanism[2]. Yes. So to answer Vincent’s

Re: New blog post on the Guix Build Coordinator: Building derivations, how complicated can it be?

2021-04-25 Thread Mathieu Othacehe
Hello, > On Sat, Apr 24, 2021 at 11:10 AM Christopher Baines wrote: >> I did think about trying to include something about Cuirass, but I don't >> have a clear picture of it's scope or purpose, so I'm not really the >> right person to attempt to write authoritatively about it. > > OK, fair

Re: New blog post on the Guix Build Coordinator: Building derivations, how complicated can it be?

2021-04-24 Thread Vincent Legoll
On Sat, Apr 24, 2021 at 11:10 AM Christopher Baines wrote: > I did think about trying to include something about Cuirass, but I don't > have a clear picture of it's scope or purpose, so I'm not really the > right person to attempt to write authoritatively about it. OK, fair enough, Matthieu,

Re: New blog post on the Guix Build Coordinator: Building derivations, how complicated can it be?

2021-04-24 Thread Christopher Baines
Vincent Legoll writes: > Hello, > > On Sat, Apr 24, 2021 at 8:28 AM Christopher Baines wrote: >> With some prompting, there's now a blog post about the Guix Build >> Coordinator > > Nice post that explains a lot, but I'm still not so sure about the > relati

Re: New blog post on the Guix Build Coordinator: Building derivations, how complicated can it be?

2021-04-24 Thread Vincent Legoll
Hello, On Sat, Apr 24, 2021 at 8:28 AM Christopher Baines wrote: > With some prompting, there's now a blog post about the Guix Build > Coordinator Nice post that explains a lot, but I'm still not so sure about the relations to cuirass. I'd have liked a small paragraph explainin

New blog post on the Guix Build Coordinator: Building derivations, how complicated can it be?

2021-04-24 Thread Christopher Baines
Hey, With some prompting, there's now a blog post about the Guix Build Coordinator: https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2021/building-derivations-how-complicated-can-it-be/ Since it doesn't have a web interface like the Guix Data Service, and doesn't directly meet a widespread need, I think it's

Re: Please review blog post draft: powerpc64le-linux support

2021-04-15 Thread Léo Le Bouter
On Mon, 2021-04-12 at 12:46 -0700, Chris Marusich wrote: > Hi, > > Chris Marusich writes: > > > This is the final draft, I think. I intend to commit it to the > > "posts" > > directory in guix-artwork on Monday morning, USA time, at which > > point I > > believe it will automatically show up

Re: Please review blog post draft: powerpc64le-linux support

2021-04-12 Thread Chris Marusich
Hi, Chris Marusich writes: > This is the final draft, I think. I intend to commit it to the "posts" > directory in guix-artwork on Monday morning, USA time, at which point I > believe it will automatically show up on the blog. I have published it in commit

Re: Please review blog post draft: powerpc64le-linux support

2021-04-11 Thread Chris Marusich
the-linux-foundation-announces-new-open-hardware-technologies-and-collaboration/) +(see also: [the same announcement from the OpenPOWER +Foundation](https://openpowerfoundation.org/the-next-step-in-the-openpower-foundation-journey/). + +In the rest of this blog post, we will discuss the steps w

Re: Please review blog post draft: powerpc64le-linux support

2021-04-11 Thread Chris Marusich
Hi Tobias, Thank you very much for taking the time to review the blog post! Tobias Platen writes: > On Fri, 09 Apr 2021 00:59:44 +0200 > Léo Le Bouter wrote: > >> On Thu, 2021-04-08 at 09:37 -0700, Chris Marusich wrote: >> > They also say in that Twitter thread: "

Re: Please review blog post draft: powerpc64le-linux support

2021-04-10 Thread Tobias Platen
On Fri, 09 Apr 2021 00:59:44 +0200 Léo Le Bouter wrote: > On Thu, 2021-04-08 at 09:37 -0700, Chris Marusich wrote: > > They also say in that Twitter thread: "We have been putting together > > our > > systems from blob-free components only (sans NIC as is known and > > being > > actively worked),

Re: Please review blog post draft: powerpc64le-linux support

2021-04-08 Thread Léo Le Bouter
On Thu, 2021-04-08 at 09:37 -0700, Chris Marusich wrote: > They also say in that Twitter thread: "We have been putting together > our > systems from blob-free components only (sans NIC as is known and > being > actively worked), and this is an area where no low-cost blob-free > silicon is

Re: Please review blog post draft: powerpc64le-linux support

2021-04-08 Thread Vincent Legoll
Hello, On Thu, Apr 8, 2021 at 6:37 PM Chris Marusich wrote: > I specifically avoided speaking about the Blackbird, only because it's > not yet RYF-certified. However, perhaps I'm being too strict about it. Ah, yes, I forgot about this detail. I'd have chosen the blackbird myself, for the same

Re: Please review blog post draft: powerpc64le-linux support

2021-04-08 Thread Chris Marusich
s analyzed in detail are welcomed. While the BCM5719 does, at least for now, execute proprietary firmware it is prevented from corrupting the operating system and/or other protected memory regions via the system IOMMU[2]." Thinking about this more, I think we should mention Blackbird in our

Re: Please review blog post draft: powerpc64le-linux support

2021-04-08 Thread Vincent Legoll
Hello Chris, Great blog post ! I've not seen anything more than the already reported issues. On Thu, Apr 8, 2021 at 10:55 AM Chris Marusich wrote: > Talos II and Talos II Lite Why only speaking of Talos and not about the 3rd option: the blackbird ? Maybe just concentrate on the vendor, m

Re: Please review blog post draft: powerpc64le-linux support

2021-04-08 Thread Chris Marusich
Hi, Here's a new version of the blog post. It incorporates all the feedback so far. I've also removed the "About other freedom-friendly platforms" because it didn't seem to add much substance. I significantly rewrote the "Why Is This Important?" section, mainly becau

Re: Please review blog post draft: powerpc64le-linux support

2021-04-08 Thread Chris Marusich
Hi Léo, Léo Le Bouter writes: > It's been mostly you here Chris, thank you so much for writing it, as > others said, it is really beautifully written! Unfortunately I havent > felt enough peace of mind to write like you did :-( You've been busy! It's totally understandable. The encouragement

Re: Please review blog post draft: powerpc64le-linux support

2021-04-07 Thread Chris Marusich
Hi Joshua, Joshua Branson writes: > Awesome! Great work! I read the below draft blog post like a Harry > Potter novel! It is superbly written. And it makes a lot of sense! Thank you for the kind words, and your feedback! >> +### Why Is This Important? >> + >> +T

Re: Please review blog post draft: powerpc64le-linux support

2021-04-06 Thread Léo Le Bouter
On Tue, 2021-04-06 at 00:15 -0700, Chris Marusich wrote: > Hi, > > Léo and I have drafted the following blog post. Could you take a few > minutes to read it and give us your thoughts? > > It's a work in progress. The primary goal is to announce the new > powerpc64le-linu

Re: Please review blog post draft: powerpc64le-linux support

2021-04-06 Thread Joshua Branson
Awesome! Great work! I read the below draft blog post like a Harry Potter novel! It is superbly written. And it makes a lot of sense! Chris Marusich writes: > Hi, > > Léo and I have drafted the following blog post. Could you take a few > minutes to read it and give us y

Please review blog post draft: powerpc64le-linux support

2021-04-06 Thread Chris Marusich
Hi, Léo and I have drafted the following blog post. Could you take a few minutes to read it and give us your thoughts? It's a work in progress. The primary goal is to announce the new powerpc64le-linux support and explain why it matters (POWER9 is an exciting, freedom-friendly platform

Re: Blog post about the upcoming FOSDEM + Guix Day

2021-02-07 Thread Pjotr Prins
Just a reminder: tomorrow we have a GNU Guix day online! Free for all. See https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/FOSDEM2021 Starts at 5am UTC with a Greek breakfast and runs all day until we are done! See the link in above page. Pj.

Re: Blog post about the upcoming FOSDEM + Guix Day

2021-02-05 Thread Leo Famulari
On Fri, Feb 05, 2021 at 11:37:49AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > On IRC Leo (American timezone) was thinking about having a session to > discuss branching strategies, and there were also discussions about > substitute availability and continuous builds for QA. Yes, I think we can discuss

Re: Blog post about the upcoming FOSDEM + Guix Day

2021-02-05 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Pjotr Prins skribis: > We start Monday at 5am UTC (6am AMS/Berlin, 7am Athens) to cater for > some of Asia. The day ends when the last one switches off the lights > :). Manolis, Efraim and Bonface have promised to be there. The > bluebutton link will be announced a day ahead. Could you

Re: Blog post about the upcoming FOSDEM + Guix Day

2021-02-03 Thread Bonface Munyoki K .
Efraim Flashner writes: > Send coffee. Lots of coffee ;D > Tea is more polite(?) :) -- Bonface M. K. D4F09EB110177E03C28E2FE1F5BBAE1E0392253F Humble GNU Emacs User / Bearer of scheme-y parens Curator: / Twitter: @BonfaceKilz signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Blog post about the upcoming FOSDEM + Guix Day

2021-02-03 Thread Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
We will start the day with coffee, continue with tea, and finish the day with some belgian beer. :) Sent from ProtonMail mobile Original Message On Feb 3, 2021, 12:32, Bonface Munyoki K. wrote: > Efraim Flashner writes: > Send coffee. Lots of coffee ;D > Tea is more >

Re: Blog post about the upcoming FOSDEM + Guix Day

2021-02-03 Thread Efraim Flashner
ttps://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2021/meet-guix-at-fosdem-2021/ > > > > People in #guix were asking, "When exactly does it start?" Can we update > > the blog post to say? > > -- Efraim Flashner אפרים פלשנר GPG key = A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D 14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351

Re: Blog post about the upcoming FOSDEM + Guix Day

2021-02-02 Thread Pjotr Prins
, Leo Famulari wrote: > On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 07:07:47PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > Here we go! > > > > https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2021/meet-guix-at-fosdem-2021/ > > People in #guix were asking, "When exactly does it start?" Can we update > the blog post to say? >

Re: Blog post about the upcoming FOSDEM + Guix Day

2021-02-02 Thread Leo Famulari
On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 07:07:47PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Here we go! > > https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2021/meet-guix-at-fosdem-2021/ People in #guix were asking, "When exactly does it start?" Can we update the blog post to say?

Re: Blog post about the upcoming FOSDEM + Guix Day

2021-02-02 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Here we go! https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2021/meet-guix-at-fosdem-2021/ Ludo’.

Re: Blog post about the upcoming FOSDEM + Guix Day

2021-02-02 Thread Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
It seems I can create rooms. I created a `Guix Day` one. https://guixbbb.fosshost.org/b/man-wtf-odj-91i Let's try to coordinate tomorrow through email/irc and join for a test. On 2/1/21 8:51 PM, Pjotr Prins wrote: > > Sure. Call a time tomorrow and anyone on IRC/mail/matrix can pop in. Are you

Re: Blog post about the upcoming FOSDEM + Guix Day

2021-02-02 Thread Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
Maybe it would be a good idea to test big blue button tomorrow? How about a call? Sent from ProtonMail mobile Original Message On Feb 1, 2021, 19:49, zimoun wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 01 Feb 2021 at 17:30, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > >> Attendance to the workshop is free and open

Re: Blog post about the upcoming FOSDEM + Guix Day

2021-02-01 Thread Leo Famulari
On Mon, Feb 01, 2021 at 04:57:58PM +0100, Pjotr Prins wrote: > So far, we'll have a GNU Hurd session and a Rust packaging session. We > will also discuss ARM, RISC-V and GNU Mes. Otherwise the program is > open for newbies and unconference topics alike. If you want to propose > something this may

Re: Blog post about the upcoming FOSDEM + Guix Day

2021-02-01 Thread Pjotr Prins
Sure. Call a time tomorrow and anyone on IRC/mail/matrix can pop in. Are you a host Manolis? A host can create rooms. On Mon, Feb 01, 2021 at 06:31:37PM +, Manolis Ragkousis wrote: >Maybe it would be a good idea to test big blue button tomorrow? How >about a call? >Sent from

Re: Blog post about the upcoming FOSDEM + Guix Day

2021-02-01 Thread zimoun
Hi, On Mon, 01 Feb 2021 at 17:30, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Attendance to the workshop is free and open to everyone, though you are > -invited to register (there are only a few seats left!). Check out [the > -workshop’s wiki > +invited to register (there are only a few seats left!). Join [our

Re: Blog post about the upcoming FOSDEM + Guix Day

2021-02-01 Thread Pjotr Prins
On Mon, Feb 01, 2021 at 05:30:26PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Pjotr, Manolis, what are you thoughts? I’m happy to have this event and > to make something unconference-style, but IMO we need to have a clearer > view of when it’ll take place, what we’ll be doing, who’s going to > moderate,

Re: Blog post about the upcoming FOSDEM + Guix Day

2021-02-01 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, zimoun skribis: > On Mon, 1 Feb 2021 at 10:35, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > >> >> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/guix-artwork.git/tree/website/drafts/meet-guix-at-fosdem-2021.md > > LGTM! > >> Regarding the Guix Day next Monday, do we have the BBB URL or will it be >> disclosed

Re: Blog post about the upcoming FOSDEM + Guix Day

2021-02-01 Thread Pjotr Prins
On Mon, Feb 01, 2021 at 10:41:53AM +0100, zimoun wrote: > Hi Ludo, > > On Mon, 1 Feb 2021 at 10:35, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > > > > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/guix-artwork.git/tree/website/drafts/meet-guix-at-fosdem-2021.md > > LGTM! > > > Regarding the Guix Day next Monday,

Re: Blog post about the upcoming FOSDEM + Guix Day

2021-02-01 Thread zimoun
Hi Ludo, On Mon, 1 Feb 2021 at 10:35, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/guix-artwork.git/tree/website/drafts/meet-guix-at-fosdem-2021.md LGTM! > Regarding the Guix Day next Monday, do we have the BBB URL or will it be > disclosed later? What should we say

Re: Blog post on Further reduced bootstrap seed to 25%

2020-06-16 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Danny Milosavljevic writes: Hi Danny, > On Mon, 15 Jun 2020 14:54:39 +0200 > Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > >> I’ve published a post about the second big reduction of the Guix >> bootstrap binaries >> >> https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2020/guix-further-reduces-bootstrap-seed-to-25/ > > "again

Re: Blog post on Further reduced bootstrap seed to 25%

2020-06-15 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
ings, > Janneke Thank you for this very well written blog post! It's a fantastic achievement that benefits us all Guix users. Congratulations! Maxim

Re: Blog post on Further reduced bootstrap seed to 25%

2020-06-15 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi Janneke, On Mon, 15 Jun 2020 14:54:39 +0200 Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > I’ve published a post about the second big reduction of the Guix > bootstrap binaries > > https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2020/guix-further-reduces-bootstrap-seed-to-25/ "again decided to sponsor this work" link is broken

Re: unexpected reproducibility of reproducible blog post?

2020-05-05 Thread Konrad Hinsen
Hi Ludo, > Grafts are normal derivations, and they’re deterministic: it’s just > about replacing a set of strings by another set of strings. > > On the implementation, see also > . Thanks for the clarification. That post makes

Re: unexpected reproducibility of reproducible blog post?

2020-05-05 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Konrad Hinsen skribis: > I looked a bit at grafts. The documentation at > > https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Security-Updates.html > > isn't very explicit about the reproducibility of grafts. In particular, > it doesn't say if a package containing patched binaries retains its >

Re: unexpected reproducibility of reproducible blog post?

2020-05-04 Thread zimoun
Hi Konrad, (add Ludo for advice :-)) On Mon, 4 May 2020 at 15:50, Konrad Hinsen wrote: > > I will add something overthere for tracking reproduciblity infos in > > the future. > > It would actually be nice to have some external Guix reproducibility > surveillance. A few benchmark packages that

Re: unexpected reproducibility of reproducible blog post?

2020-05-04 Thread Konrad Hinsen
Hi Simon, > I will add something overthere for tracking reproduciblity infos in > the future. It would actually be nice to have some external Guix reproducibility surveillance. A few benchmark packages that will be rebuilt regularly, using frozen commits via time-machine, and checked for

Re: unexpected reproducibility of reproducible blog post?

2020-04-30 Thread zimoun
On Wed, 29 Apr 2020 at 18:00, Konrad Hinsen wrote: > I have also opened an issue for this: > > https://github.com/khinsen/reproducibility-with-guix/issues/2 I will add something overthere for tracking reproduciblity infos in the future. > > Grafts or maybe Guile 2 -> 3? > > With

Re: unexpected reproducibility of reproducible blog post?

2020-04-29 Thread Konrad Hinsen
zimoun writes: > Argh! The author should watch the Fun MOOC about computational > reproducibility. ;-) That would probably help. I'll pass on the message ;-) I have also opened an issue for this: https://github.com/khinsen/reproducibility-with-guix/issues/2 > Grafts or maybe Guile 2 -> 3?

Re: unexpected reproducibility of reproducible blog post?

2020-04-29 Thread zimoun
Hi Ricardo, On Wed, 29 Apr 2020 at 14:44, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > > > Konrad Hinsen writes: > > > One question I have been wondering about is the possibility of grafts > > being an obstacle to reproducibility. Grafts are something I don't > > really understand yet, so I cannot answer this

Re: unexpected reproducibility of reproducible blog post?

2020-04-29 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Konrad Hinsen writes: > One question I have been wondering about is the possibility of grafts > being an obstacle to reproducibility. Grafts are something I don't > really understand yet, so I cannot answer this question. In particular, > does a grafted package get a different hash from a

Re: unexpected reproducibility of reproducible blog post?

2020-04-29 Thread zimoun
> but it doesn't contain the file 'guix-version-for-reproduction.txt'. Argh! The author should watch the Fun MOOC about computational reproducibility. ;-) > > Is really the commit 769b96b62e8c09b078f73adc09fb860505920f8f used to > > produce the Docker image listed in the blo

Re: unexpected reproducibility of reproducible blog post?

2020-04-29 Thread Konrad Hinsen
Hi Simon, > Based on the nice blog post [1], instead of really travelling I just > travel in time. :-) > If I read correctly and if I did not do any mistake, the final hash is > not the same now than before. It is not what I was expecting. > > Expected output (blog p

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