Re: Using local package

2018-11-13 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Brett, > I am wondering about a specific dilemma for developers. I know that I > can run a specific guix environment container of sorts to hack on > package code, but I am curious about how I could do about using that > locally checked out code to build it and run it. You can generate a

Re: Updating a very old Guix

2018-11-13 Thread Konrad Hinsen
swedebugia writes: > This is most probably not correct. You most probably do have a working > Guix in the store but your current guix points to the new one which > lacks guile-gcrypt. Indeed, kind of. It looks more complicated than that. As you say, there is indeed a working guix in the

Re: Updating a very old Guix

2018-11-13 Thread Julien Lepiller
Le 2018-11-13 13:43, Konrad Hinsen a écrit : swedebugia writes: This is most probably not correct. You most probably do have a working Guix in the store but your current guix points to the new one which lacks guile-gcrypt. Indeed, kind of. It looks more complicated than that. As you say,

Re: Updating a very old Guix

2018-11-13 Thread swedebugia
Hi On 2018-11-13 13:43, Konrad Hinsen wrote: snip So let's try a variant: use "guix archive" to export a nar file, copy it over to the other machine, and import it. guix archive --export `readlink -f ~/.config/guix/latest` > guix-update.nar guix archive: error: build failed: program

Re: /etc/hosts

2018-11-13 Thread Leo Famulari
On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 04:16:23PM +0100, zna...@tutanota.com wrote: > Hello, Guix Help! I've added a line in /etc/hosts > 5.5.5.5 site.com > > But site.com points on its usual ip. Restart wpa_supplicant and restart pc > did not help. > How to work with hosts on GuixSD? You can specify your

/etc/hosts

2018-11-13 Thread znavko
Hello, Guix Help! I've added a line in /etc/hosts 5.5.5.5 site.com But site.com points on its usual ip. Restart wpa_supplicant and restart pc did not help. How to work with hosts on GuixSD?

Re: /etc/hosts

2018-11-13 Thread Devan Carpenter
There are plenty of reasonable causes for this behaviour, and you can set your hosts file in the system configuration. However the most simple solution is chattr. Like so: 1. make your changes to /etc/hosts 2. run (as root) `chattr +i /etc/hosts` Now the other programs will not be able to edit

Re: Updating a very old Guix

2018-11-13 Thread Konrad Hinsen
Hi Julien, > The command you should run is: > > guix archive --recursive --export `readlink -f ~/.config/guix/current` > > guix-update.nar > > note the --recursive (so guix can find its dependencies, but it will > bundle every dependency in the .nar, so there may be some duplication I just

Re: Ever-growing store with --gc-keep-outputs?

2018-11-13 Thread swedebugia
On 2018-11-13 21:31, Leo Famulari wrote: snip But I think the best way is to make the software "just work", so that it can be silent and not make the user wish for more verbose comments. This is definitely possible — a lot of software is like this. It's so reliable that we forget there are

Re: Ever-growing store with --gc-keep-outputs?

2018-11-13 Thread Leo Famulari
On Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 05:47:47PM +0100, swedebugia wrote: > Thanks for the heads up! I totally agree. Guix is way too silent to my > taste, comparing with e.g. pacman and git. Now we are ready to discuss the color of the bike shed ... ;) But I think the best way is to make the software "just