Re: Find location of installed package in /gnu/store

2021-05-15 Thread Björn Höfling
On Sat, 15 May 2021 03:28:01 +0100 Phil Beadling wrote: > Given a package definition, eg icedtea-8's JDK, how can can I > determine the location of the installed package in my /gnu/store? [..] > The aim is to use this to derivive the JDK include directories in a > generic way for some scripts

Re: IntelliJ IDEA - Community Edition

2021-05-09 Thread Björn Höfling
On Sun, 9 May 2021 15:00:32 -0400 Raghav Gururajan wrote: > Hello Guix, > > I am trying to package IDEA, which is an IDE for JVM. > > This is the first time I am dealing with java and ant-build-system. > > I was able to do some tinkering to get the build phase started, but > it fails at the

Re: GNU Guix maintainer collective update

2020-05-05 Thread Björn Höfling
On Mon, 04 May 2020 09:31:46 -0400 Maxim Cournoyer wrote: > Let's take a moment to thank Ricardo for his time as a Guix > co-maintainer. He's been immensely useful to the project and I hope > we'll continue to see him around. Thanks Ricardo for being a kind member of Guix and for really

Re: Java fontconfig issues

2019-11-30 Thread Björn Höfling
Some more analysis: Creating a simple logger file: $ cat logging.properties handlers=java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler.level=ALL

Re: Java fontconfig issues

2019-11-28 Thread Björn Höfling
Hi Jonathan, On Sat, 16 Nov 2019 11:57:24 -0500 Jonathan Frederickson wrote: > I've been trying to run PCGen > (https://github.com/PCGen/pcgen/releases) on my laptop running Guix > System, so far without success. I know that ideally all software would > be installed through Guix itself, but

Re: docker-compose not work

2019-06-18 Thread Björn Höfling
On Mon, 17 Jun 2019 03:27:30 +0200 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: > Edison, > > Edison Ibáñez wrote: > > I have tried to update the package as you can see in the paste > > > > https://bin.disroot.org/?d21a1c74236d7ebd#FlZ2iQxLIkrclC1O45wr7YuUI5bjBcjStwc710J6TWo= > > > > but I still have the same

Re: Guix packaging tutorial with hand holding

2019-05-30 Thread Björn Höfling
Hello 白い熊, I can also recommend the new Guix tutorial videos. They are currently located here: https://archive.org/details/guix-videos (When finalized, they should move to a GNU website.) I especially recommend the "packaging" videos, where a setup from git is shown. It is doing things

Re: FreeTube

2019-05-01 Thread Björn Höfling
On Tue, 30 Apr 2019 20:34:17 +0200 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: > Dexter Morgan wrote: > > OMG! Can someone please please pack this into Guix. > > I'd invite you to give it a try yourself, but I have disappointing > news. NPM programmes are a nightmare to properly package and we >

Re: paps not found after migrating VM

2019-04-24 Thread Björn Höfling
On Wed, 24 Apr 2019 15:05:19 -0300 Laura Lazzati wrote: > /build-video.sh > Entering a Guix container to build the videos. > Available packages in the container: paps make imagemagick guile > ffmpeg inkscape coreutils findutils cairo-xcb > guix environment: error: paps: unknown package > > Paps

Re: Does your printer work with Guix System? Please share!

2019-04-06 Thread Björn Höfling
Hi Chris, thanks for sharing this information with us. On Sat, 30 Mar 2019 23:30:52 -0700 Chris Marusich wrote: > I also noticed that for each printer with a scanner, sane-find-scanner > was able to find the scanner, but simple-scan and scanimage said they > couldn't find the scanner, even

Re: [video repo] when making videos inside container images break

2019-03-05 Thread Björn Höfling
On Sun, 3 Mar 2019 20:30:51 +0100 Gábor Boskovits wrote: > Then I looked around the package definition of inkscape, where I found > no sign of cairo... > > I tried adding it to the container, and it seems to be working fine > here. Hi Gábor, thank you for that analysis! Do you think it would

Re: Prevent guix gc from removing *grub.cfg under /gnu/store/

2019-02-19 Thread Björn Höfling
On Tue, 19 Feb 2019 18:15:34 + "Raghav Gururajan" wrote: > Hi Guix! > > Since my BIOS comes with in-built grub payload, I did not want to > install bootloader on disk (but do want grub.cfg file > under /gnu/store/), so I passed --no-bootloader parameter during guix > system init. The guix

Re: Error building cdrtools and dvd+rw-tools

2019-02-05 Thread Björn Höfling
On Tue, 5 Feb 2019 20:49:35 +0100 Andreas Enge wrote: > I cannot reproduce this; could it be some non-determinism in the build > process? Both packages build without problem for me with commit > 406ef442580e6a1b68ca99091fef2935dc4fbb4f . I can confirm it is indeterministically failing: I tried

Re: rolling back only a single package

2018-12-28 Thread Björn Höfling
Hi cdelia, On Thu, 27 Dec 2018 16:52:23 -0300 cde...@dc.uba.ar wrote: > Hi, > > I upgraded guix a couple of days ago, installed some things and now I > found that xmobar just keeps segfaulting. > > Switching to specific generation it's really cool, but in this case > would "uninstall" all

Re: Enjoying GuixSD

2018-11-10 Thread Björn Höfling
On Fri, 09 Nov 2018 15:18:00 -0600 Brett Gilio wrote: > Brian Woodcox writes: > > P.S. If anyone feels energetic and has the time, it would be nice > > to have a recipe to install the VirtualBox Guest Additions into > > GuixSD. Then I can get copy and paste to work. :) > > I am thrilled you

Understanding Cuirass

2018-11-08 Thread Björn Höfling
Hi, I want to give Cuirass a try but I don't understand it (For the reference: talking about version 0.0.1-21.0b40dca). From the doc/curiass.texi I copy this snipped of a specification: '((#:name . "foo-master") (#:load-path-inputs . ("guix")) (#:package-path-inputs . ("packages"))

Re: Package Install Question for New User

2018-11-05 Thread Björn Höfling
On Mon, 5 Nov 2018 09:33:22 -0700 Brian Woodcox wrote: > All of a sudden the system is downloading and compiling a pile of > packages that were already installed as root. > > Is there a way to have guix use the packages that were installed in > the root account instead of downloading and

Re: Build failure on nss-3.36.1

2018-11-04 Thread Björn Höfling
On Sat, 3 Nov 2018 21:46:02 -0600 Brian Woodcox wrote: > Hi Björn, > > You nailed it. > > Of course, I am not too certain how to use the guix git-checkout > command. > > Do you or anyone else have an example of how you would build this > after downloading it? > > I’ve done a bit of search,

Re: Build failure on nss-3.36.1

2018-11-03 Thread Björn Höfling
Hi, On Sat, 3 Nov 2018 11:28:26 -0600 Brian Woodcox wrote: > I’m getting a build failure when building nss-3.36.1. > > I have the entire log. Here is the end part of it. > > Any ideas? This package does not build reproducibly. At least in the long term: There are tests that check

Re: Re Recent hydra.gnu.org maintenance window

2018-10-29 Thread Björn Höfling
Hi Nalin, On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 00:37:29 +0530 Nalin Ranjan wrote: > It's just that I am not trying to upgrade Guix, but have been trying > to unsuccessfully install GuixSD for the first time ever on my > laptop. In the past week or so I have ran the command system init > like 7-8 times,and every

Re: Can't log in: blank login screen after reconfigure

2018-10-21 Thread Björn Höfling
On Sat, 20 Oct 2018 12:21:51 -0700 Chris Marusich wrote: > Hi, > > I recently ran "guix pull" and then "guix system reconfigure" on a > GuixSD installation in a VirtualBox VM. Since doing that, I can't log > in. While booting, everything proceeds as usual, with normal output, > until the SLiM

Re: many similar builds

2018-10-09 Thread Björn Höfling
On Tue, 9 Oct 2018 20:34:28 +0200 Marco van Hulten wrote: > $ md5sum /gnu/store/*-xeyes-*/bin/xeyes > e17c8aab7cdeedb763601288b6eb0c43 > /gnu/store/3syyc8yvyymnwsada0kgm1jmc83232c8-xeyes-1.1.2/bin/xeyes > f44bf885477a110f7d0ee7b3524b978a >

Re: Frequent git repository corruptions

2018-09-29 Thread Björn Höfling
On Sat, 29 Sep 2018 14:50:37 +0200 Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > > You can build it manually for now¹ or download a precompiled > > binary² and boot it from your existing GRUB's command line. > > Actually, how do you do that? > > I copied the binary to `/memtest.bin` then rebooted and tried the

Re: GNU Icecat crashed tab

2018-09-27 Thread Björn Höfling
On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 05:30:43 +0200 nightowl wrote: > OK, I see the new version 60 now after running the 'guix pull' > command. I tried running the 'guix package -u' command but does not > do any upgrade. I have the icecat package called out in my > config.scm file, so I think I need to run the

Re: backup questions

2018-08-19 Thread Björn Höfling
Hi Ben, On Tue, 7 Aug 2018 01:57:08 +0200 Björn Höfling wrote: > Hi Ben, > > On Mon, 06 Aug 2018 16:05:28 -0600 > Benjamin Slade wrote: > > > Two question relating to backup: > > > > [..] > > > 2) I don't seem to be able to install `libchi

Re: contributing to Guix and learning Guix

2018-08-14 Thread Björn Höfling
On Sat, 11 Aug 2018 10:40:43 -0700 Quiliro Ordonez wrote: > Hello and congratulations for this great project from the ethical and > from the functional aspects of this work :-). > > I am interested in learning Guix in order to help myself install Guix, > repair problems and to add packages

Output of guix build --check foo is not part of store deduplication

2018-08-09 Thread Björn Höfling
Is there any reason why the output of 'guix build --check ...' is not part of deduplication? I will explain my problem: When checking for (un)reproducibility, we use something like: guix build --check -K foo That will build the package foo again and produce a store output

Re: backup questions

2018-08-06 Thread Björn Höfling
Hi Ben, On Mon, 06 Aug 2018 16:05:28 -0600 Benjamin Slade wrote: > Two question relating to backup: > [..] > 2) I don't seem to be able to install `libchip` (for chop-backup). It > seems to have no substitute binaries and the local build fails. I've > fallen back to using Borg backup for

Re: Unreproducible packages visibility

2018-07-20 Thread Björn Höfling
On Fri, 20 Jul 2018 12:08:24 -0300 EuAndreh wrote: > Hello Guix! > > I know that making all packages reproducible is a current ongoing > effort, and I've seen a few bug reports in debbugs about specific > unreproducible packages. > > Is there a way to know about all unreproducible packages?

Re: gst-plugins-base: Test suite failed: FAIL: elements/opus

2018-07-20 Thread Björn Höfling
On Fri, 20 Jul 2018 14:44:19 -0400 Leo Famulari wrote: > On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 12:36:18PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote: > > Okay, are you able to send a patch to disable the test and report > > this issue upstream? > > Did this bug ever get reported upstream? At least there is a 1.14.2 out:

Re: system vm fails (reprise)

2018-03-20 Thread Björn Höfling
On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 11:54:54 +0100 l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote: > Catonano <caton...@gmail.com> skribis: > > > 2018-03-16 23:20 GMT+01:00 Björn Höfling > > <bjoern.hoefl...@bjoernhoefling.de> : > > > >> On Fri, 16 Mar 2018 21:54:24 +

Re: A few questions about packages

2018-03-13 Thread Björn Höfling
On Wed, 14 Mar 2018 01:48:15 +0300 Jone wrote: > Björn wrote: > > > I'm not sure if I understood you fully, I hope my answer is the > > right one to your question. > > But I understood you. OK, then it's fine :-) > > Since a week or so we decided to invite people > >

Re: A few questions about packages

2018-03-13 Thread Björn Höfling
On Tue, 13 Mar 2018 22:15:35 +0300 Jone wrote: > I wrote a simple script: > > TRGT="*-gtk+-2.2*" > for i in $(ls -d /gnu/store/$TRGT/) > do > echo > echo "--> $i" > echo "$(guix gc --referrers $i | grep -v

Re: A few questions about packages

2018-03-13 Thread Björn Höfling
On Tue, 13 Mar 2018 22:36:37 +0300 Jone wrote: > And, I seem I begin to understand! > After deleting the previous profiles does not occur "relink" to > current version of library: what has already been established, that > will also remain. Correctly? Store items are kept

Re: path error

2018-02-26 Thread Björn Höfling
Hi Quiliro, On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 15:52:54 -0500 Quiliro Ordonez Baca wrote: > I have downloaded OpenKinect. (Disclosure: I have not checked wether > it is has non-libre software yet.) I typed: I haven't checked either. I just saw the keyword "firmwire", which smells like

Re: Transition from Guile 2.0 to 2.2 ("not an ELF file")

2017-06-10 Thread Björn Höfling
On Sat, 10 Jun 2017 09:07:43 +0200 Catonano <caton...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Björn, > > 2017-06-09 16:55 GMT+02:00 Björn Höfling > <bjoern.hoefl...@bjoernhoefling.de> : > > > Hi, > > > > since my last guix update, I get this error message: > >

Transition from Guile 2.0 to 2.2 ("not an ELF file")

2017-06-09 Thread Björn Höfling
Hi, since my last guix update, I get this error message: ;;; ERROR: In procedure load-thunk-from-memory: not an ELF file ;;; WARNING: loading compiled file /home/bjoern/.config/guix/latest/guix/scripts.go failed: OK, I found out that it is related to the transition to Guile 2.2:

Re: GuixSD in a VM is so nice - once you actually have control over your mouse, that is.

2017-05-19 Thread Björn Höfling
On Thu, 18 May 2017 00:42:18 +0200 Fox wrote: > so I run GuixSD (on bare metal nicely and) on qemu > > but mouse capture is an issue in that gpm or whatever runs the mouse. > > I "can't come back from the Immelmann loop" , so-to-speak. The only > "ESCAPE" is CTRL-ALT-F3

Re: guix pull: 502/Bad Gateway for savannah.gnu.org

2017-04-20 Thread Björn Höfling
On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 23:21:09 +0200 l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote: > ng0 <contact@cryptolab.net> skribis: > > > Björn Höfling transcribed 0.8K bytes: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I just tried a guix pull and got this error: > >> >

guix pull: 502/Bad Gateway for savannah.gnu.org

2017-04-20 Thread Björn Höfling
Hi, I just tried a guix pull and got this error: bjoern@g64 ~$ guix pull Starting download of /tmp/guix-file.QxbCPt From https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/snapshot/master.tar.gz... ERROR: download failed "https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/snapshot/master.tar.gz; 502 "Bad

Re: Help with Ruby: rouge 2.0.7

2017-03-17 Thread Björn Höfling
Hi Ben, On Wed, 15 Mar 2017 22:14:06 +1000 Ben Woodcroft <b.woodcr...@uq.edu.au> wrote: > Hello there, > > > On 15/03/17 08:08, Björn Höfling wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I want to import the Ruby package 'rouge' 2.0.7 into Guix. I'm new > > to Ru

Help with Ruby: rouge 2.0.7

2017-03-14 Thread Björn Höfling
Hello, I want to import the Ruby package 'rouge' 2.0.7 into Guix. I'm new to Ruby, Gem, Rake, etc. and tried the importer with some success. Maybe someone with more Ruby experience can tell me what's the right way here? OK, I thought this is an easy one, because it has no dependencies:

Re: Several questions on Guix(SD)

2016-08-29 Thread Björn Höfling
Hi Leo, On Fri, 26 Aug 2016 19:23:11 -0400 Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 11:03:32PM +0200, Björn Höfling wrote: > > Leo, thank you for your answers. I would like some more > > clarifications: > > > > On Mon, 22 Aug 2016 1

Re: Counting Packages yields wrong result

2016-08-25 Thread Björn Höfling
On Tue, 23 Aug 2016 13:56:39 +0300 Alex Kost <alez...@gmail.com> wrote: > Björn Höfling (2016-08-23 00:10 +0300) wrote: > > Is that my problem? How can I script over the newest pull? > > "guix pull" updates "~/.config/guix/latest" link, and when you r

Several questions on Guix(SD)

2016-08-22 Thread Björn Höfling
Dear list, since I watched that LibrePlanet video on GuixSD, I installed it in a QEMU environment and I'm very fascinated about it. It's a nice concept, having package management the functional and FSDG way. And that concept is reality. It works! I'm trying to learn to use and understand the