Re: Version of package fontforge

2019-06-05 Thread ison
Assuming it would be ok to just set the date to the package version date, which sounds reproducible to me, then using the date produced by: date -u -d "20190317" +'%s' gives: 1552780800 I did a quick test to set the configure-flags with this value: (arguments (append (package-arguments

Unresolable collision between ocaml packages

2019-06-05 Thread Brett Gilio
Hi all, I like to make meta-packages that I can pass to `guix environment --ad-hoc` for development. I have the following meta package for ocaml (define-public meta-ocaml (package (inherit %meta-base) (name "meta-ocaml") (propagated-inputs `(("meta-emacs" ,meta-emacs)

Re: Noob issues with maintaining a guix laptop system

2019-06-05 Thread Divan Santana
Julien Lepiller writes: > Le 4 juin 2019 08:17:11 GMT+02:00, ison a écrit : >>Just to be clear, when a reconfigure fails you can make any necessary >>changes >>and run it again. Guix operations are atomic so it doesn't actually >>change the >>state of your system in any way until it finishes.

Guix and intrusion detection (was Re: Help with writing custom boot-loader configuration)

2019-06-05 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hello Raghav, Raghav Gururajan writes: [...] > It works. Was curious about other alternatives. Btw, is it possible make guix > to > automatically GPG-Sign the "grub.cfg" it generates during "guix system init" > or > "guix system reconfigure" ?? I cannot (still) help patching guix this way,

Re: Help with writing custom boot-loader configuration

2019-06-05 Thread Raghav Gururajan
> Heh. I didn’t see this before. Sorry for sending you code you already > had! That's okay. No worries. > I’m not quite sure what you are asking, since Guix does not use > “grub-mkconfig”. It has its own way of generating a GRUB configuration > file. The “#~(const #t)” trick is the Guix

Re: Starting emacs as a daemon

2019-06-05 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Marlin, Marlin wrote: Hi! I'm currently running the guix system, and would like to start the emacs daemon/server at boot. How can i do this? Not used to shepherd yet. Unless you mean ‘at boot’ literally, this is best handled ‘at log-in’ through a separate (user) instance of El Shep.

Re: Version of package fontforge

2019-06-05 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Tilman, > when I tried to compile lilypond, I had some problems with the package > fontforge. In Guix it is listed as version 20190317, but when I do "fontforge > --version", i get: > > Copyright (c) 2000-2018 by George Williams. See AUTHORS for Contributors. > License GPLv3+: GNU GPL

Re: Guix Cuirass - Continuous Integration - Crash Error

2019-06-05 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Reza, > I want to setup a CI build server using _Cuirass_ to build a series of custom > packages for Guix. but I receive following error and cuirass-service crashes, > could anyone help me on this? > > ``` > 2019-06-03T18:50:59 fatal: uncaught exception 'git-error' in 'build' fiber! >

Re: Help with writing custom boot-loader configuration

2019-06-05 Thread Timothy Sample
Hi Raghav, Raghav Gururajan writes: >> >> My first thought after reading your question was >> . > > Yes, I was looking for a method other than using (const ~#t). Heh. I didn’t see this before. Sorry for sending you code

Re: conkeror superseded by icecat, why?

2019-06-05 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi, > “guix package -i conkeror” tells me: > guix package: package 'conkeror' has been superseded by 'icecat' > > Why? These are two very different browsers. Conkeror is longer developed as its upstream has disappeared, and with a heavy heart we decided to remove it from Guix. You might be