How to work on a bootloader in the REPL?

2023-03-15 Thread Roman Scherer
Hi Guix, what is the best way to work on a bootloader in the REPL? Say, I make changes to the grub-efi-bootloader and want to test if it is working. I think I know how to do it with guix system on the command line, but I wonder how I would do this in Scheme in the REPL, to have a faster feedback

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2023-03-15 Thread Roman Scherer
Good to know about that unspoken rule. :) Should we do something about that? I thought about adding a note to the manual. Or even not allowing the user to re-configure in such a case? WDYT? Efraim Flashner writes: > [[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]] > On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 08:16:52PM +0100,

Re: updating restic: go-build-system trying to resolve host names with nonexistent dnscache at [::1]:53

2023-03-15 Thread Martin Castillo
Am 13.03.23 um 01:26 schrieb Martin Castillo> Now the build fails trying to download dependencies: Ok, naturally, we don't want go to access the internet to get the dependencies. I tried adding (inputs (list go-github-com-minio-sha256-simd)) to the package, but go still tries to get that. Go

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2023-03-15 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Roman, Nice. > I still don't know which symlink was causing this issue, though. Don't take unix error messages seriously, they probably weren't intended that way. The #define for the error string you saw is ELOOP, so that should answer your question. Kind regards, T G-R Sent on the go.

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2023-03-15 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 08:16:52PM +0100, Roman Scherer wrote: > > Felix, I'm back on track! I found what triggered this horrible problem :) > > At some point I added the qemu-binfmt-service-type to my system. I > copied a snipped from the manual and finally "adjusted" it to this: > > ``` >

Re: Newbie: Why executing "guix home reconfigure" requires an Internet connection?

2023-03-15 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 08:38:52AM +0200 schrieb Saku Laesvuori: > If you have not changed the packages referenced in your configuration or > ran `guix pull` after the last `guix home reconfigure`, I'd think it > shouldn't require an internet connection. And then you should be able to add the

Re: Newbie: Why executing "guix home reconfigure" requires an Internet connection?

2023-03-15 Thread Saku Laesvuori
On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 11:49:41PM -0500, Rodrigo Morales wrote: > Table of Contents > _ > > 1. The context > 2. The questions > > > 1 The context > = > > Currently, the only way I know how to make my laptop connect to the > Internet is via Ethernet, because the