Re: How to install prerelease package versions (particularly Emacs)

Pierre Neidhardt writes: > Oleg, I tried reusing your package snippet from > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2017-09/msg00074.html > by setting > >(url "git://localhost/~ambrevar/projects/emacs") > > but it fails for me: [...] > I'm not very

Re: Given a file, find the package that builds it

> Handy way for Emacs users: ‘M-x eww’, then ‘!debfiles bin/hello’. Didn't know about this, it's brilliant! See also http://www.portagefilelist.de/site/query/file/?do#result for the Gentoo equivalent. I don't know if there is a duckduckgo shortcut however. -- Pierre Neidhardt signature.asc

Re: Locale error: Falling back to C locale

Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Pierre Neidhardt writes: > >> The problem is gone for Emacs (hurray!) but not for stow. >> >> What does it mean? That glibc _must_ be installed on all user profiles? > > Certainly not. I’ve never installed glibc into any

Re: Test fail

Hi Maria, Thanks for your report. In practice you can safely ignore this test failure. We had a similar report earlier that this fails on Ubuntu: . Something we should do, though, is to at least skip the test when we know we’re using a faulty kernel. Currently we

Re: Given a file, find the package that builds it

Chris Marusich writes: […] > * Search the Internet for $program, and find out what package provides > the $program on existing distributions. Handy way for Emacs users: ‘M-x eww’, then ‘!debfiles bin/hello’. […] Oleg. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Package requests: fortune, gifsicle, inxi, uncrustify, unrar, vsftp, xss-lock

Pierre Neidhardt writes: > vsftp:Very Secure FTP daemon > Upstream URL: https://security.appspot.com/vsftpd.html > (It seems that there is not a single FTP server on Guix. Strange... Can > anyone > recommend anything better than vsftp for file sharing? Not

trouble with guix pull and guile-git

Hi folks, The FSF's LibrePlanet last weekend has reinvigorated my interest to learn more about and start using guix. I have a version of the guix package manager on my machine from last year. It's a little newer than 0.13.0. I tried using guix pull to update it, but there is a problem as the

Re: units_cur

I'm also wondering whether an mcron-service would work at the system level. -- Pierre Neidhardt signature.asc Description: PGP signature