Tor Service

2019-05-09 Thread Raghav Gururajan
Hello Guix! I added Tor Service with Default Configuration to my system config. I also added the user to Tor group. When I configured my browser to use localhost's tor port as proxy, I got error "proxy is refusing connection". When I check tor service with "herd status" as root, tor wasn't

Re: Input Attach Service

2019-05-09 Thread Raghav Gururajan
> Our inputattach says… > > --wacom -wacom Wacom W8001 > > …so I guess it was just renamed since that wiki article was > written. > > Then I'm all out of ideas, sorry. > That's okay. Let us see if others or maintainer of "inputattach-service-type" has any ideas. :) Regards, RG.

About conflicting entries in a profile

2019-05-09 Thread Ivan Vilata i Balaguer
Hi! I've been using Guix on top of Debian for more than 2 years and I saw something that spurred a doubt about how Guix manages conflicts. So the other day I got the following output from ``guix package -u`` after a ``guix pull``: $ guix package --dry-run -u python-jsonschema The

Re: Guix cookbook (was: guile scheme tutorial)

2019-05-09 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Pierre Neidhardt writes: > I agree with all your points! > > Regarding the bootstrapping process: we could already split the > packaging tutorial into 2 "recipes": > - A guile primer > - The actual packaging tutorial > > Of course we would interlink them. > > Once done, we should not forget to

Re: good overview presentation?

2019-05-09 Thread Miles Fidelman
Thanks Chris, A couple of follow-ups: On 5/9/19 12:39 PM, Christopher Baines wrote: 1: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/maintenance.git/tree/talks There's also two talks [2] which I've given in the past on Guix, they're a few years old, but I think most of the material is still correct.

Re: question re. packaging, build, init and shepherd

2019-05-09 Thread Miles Fidelman
Ok... a few follow-on questions (in-line): On 5/9/19 1:03 PM, Christopher Baines wrote: Miles Fidelman writes: The GUIX documentation is great when it comes to installing GUIX, and then installing packaged software. It's not so clear on how do install software that isn't in the package

Re: collect2: fatal error: cannot find 'ld'

2019-05-09 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hello! > > Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > >> Ludovic Courtès writes: >> >>> Ricardo Wurmus skribis: >>> I still think that we should hide the plain gcc packages on the command line. >>> >>> Agreed. >> >> Is this the right way to hide the package (see patch)?

Re: Input Attach Service

2019-05-09 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Raghav, Raghav Gururajan wrote: I tried it. But didn't work. Now the error output line during boot " inputattach: invalid type "--w8001"". Our inputattach says… --wacom -wacomWacom W8001 …so I guess it was just renamed since that wiki article was written. Then I'm all out

Re: question re. packaging, build, init and shepherd

2019-05-09 Thread Christopher Baines
Miles Fidelman writes: > The GUIX documentation is great when it comes to installing GUIX, and > then installing packaged software. > > It's not so clear on how do install software that isn't in the package > repository - whether by creating a package, or via the classic > ./configure;make;make

Re: good overview presentation?

2019-05-09 Thread Christopher Baines
Miles Fidelman writes: > Hi Folks, > > Is there a good, current, overview presentation on all things GUIX? > The whole who, what, where, when, why, how, how much, and who cares > overview that one might give at USENIX, describing a new distro. > > I've been doing a lot of googling, and not

question re. packaging, build, init and shepherd

2019-05-09 Thread Miles Fidelman
The GUIX documentation is great when it comes to installing GUIX, and then installing packaged software. It's not so clear on how do install software that isn't in the package repository - whether by creating a package, or via the classic ./configure;make;make install, or if there are tools

good overview presentation?

2019-05-09 Thread Miles Fidelman
Hi Folks, Is there a good, current, overview presentation on all things GUIX?  The whole who, what, where, when, why, how, how much, and who cares overview that one might give at USENIX, describing a new distro. I've been doing a lot of googling, and not finding anything remotely current. 

Re: "System Package" vs "System Service"

2019-05-09 Thread Raghav Gururajan
> The Linux kernel logs information in a ring buffer as it runs. That log > can be viewed by invoking the "dmesg" tool. The tool is available in > the "util-linux" package. > > The same messages will eventually be logged to syslog, and on Guix > System I think the default place they are stored is

Fingerprint Service

2019-05-09 Thread Raghav Gururajan
Hello Guix! Based on this (https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Miscellaneous-Services.html#Miscellaneous-Services (https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Miscellaneous-Services.html#Miscellaneous-Services)), I have included "fprintd-service-type" (with default

Re: Input Attach Service

2019-05-09 Thread Raghav Gururajan
> > > > > This is probably just a typo in your e-mail, but the service is > > name inputattach-service-type (no third hyphen). > > > > Yes, it was a typo. :) > > > > > I don't own an X200T, and I don't know which guide your following, > > but a random search led me here[0]. They use ‘--w8001’

Re: Search for package output

2019-05-09 Thread Chris Marusich
Hi, mikadoZero writes: > `guix package -s cargo` > This does not return rust even though cargo is an output of rust. The > manual says it looks at name, synopsis, or description. So this is not > a surprise. > > Is there a way to search for programs that are an output of a package? > > I looked

Re: Wrong type argument in position 1 (expecting struct): #

2019-05-09 Thread rendaw
On 5/9/19 2:55 PM, zna...@disroot.org wrote: > Hello! I try to reconfigure system with Gnome, sddm and wayland. > I also use sddm-configuration to define use wayland for greeter, but get the > error for my misconfiguration: > > # cat config.scm > ... > (services (cons* > ;(service

Re: Input Attach Service

2019-05-09 Thread Raghav Gururajan
> > This is probably just a typo in your e-mail, but the service is > name inputattach-service-type (no third hyphen). > Yes, it was a typo. :) > > I don't own an X200T, and I don't know which guide your following, > but a random search led me here[0]. They use ‘--w8001’ while our > service

Re: "System Package" vs "System Service"

2019-05-09 Thread Chris Marusich
"Raghav Gururajan" writes: >> I'm sorry to hear that Tor is giving you such trouble. Maybe there is >> some helpful information in one of the files in /var/log? Perhaps dmesg >> has some useful output? > > I will check the log and get back to you. > How do I use dmesg? Should I install any