Re: Next browser finally on master!

2018-12-19 Thread Brett Gilio
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hello! > > Pierre Neidhardt skribis: > >> I'm happy to let you know that after months of feisty packaging and the >> last month spent on the full rewrite of the GNU/Linux port, the Next web >> browser is finally on master! >> >> It's packaged as sbcl-next. > > Before

Re: PAM module

2018-12-19 Thread Brett Gilio
Saeed Jamali writes: > How we can change system configurations in /etc, I want to add some pam > module to pam configuration files for exapmle pam.d/login, You use your system configuration file you made during the installation and add relevant services to your configuration. I believe the

Re: PAM module

2018-12-19 Thread Saeed Jamali
Yes, thank you. On Wed, Dec 19, 2018, 22:14 Brett Gilio > Saeed Jamali writes: > > > How we can change system configurations in /etc, I want to add some pam > > module to pam configuration files for exapmle pam.d/login, > > You use your system configuration file you made during the installation

Re: Lock screen gnome

2018-12-19 Thread Gábor Boskovits
Hello, Ludovic Courtès ezt írta (időpont: 2018. dec. 19., Sze, 14:53): > > Hi Timothy, > > Timothy Sample skribis: > > > Someday I would like to return to fixing GDM, but I am a bit > > traumatized. It is a very slow and frustrating package to debug. > > > > 1.

Re: Next browser finally on master!

2018-12-19 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Brett Gilio writes: > Excuse me for not being fully aware, are you involved in the development > of the Next browser? I am! John Mercouris is the original author, and I've implemented the WebKitGTK platform for Next. Ricardo Wurmus writes: > I’ve read that discussion, but I don’t see how it

Re: Next browser finally on master!

2018-12-19 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Pierre Neidhardt writes: > - As far as I understand, the compiler *does* change the resulting > binary, thus the resulting REPL experience will be different, because > all Lisps are different beyond the ANSI standard and other undefined > behaviour. In other words, connecting via SLIME to

Re: Next browser finally on master!

2018-12-19 Thread Brett Gilio
Pierre Neidhardt writes: > Brett Gilio writes: >> Excuse me for not being fully aware, are you involved in the development >> of the Next browser? > > I am! John Mercouris is the original author, and I've implemented the > WebKitGTK > platform for Next. > Is there a mailing list for this,

Re: Next browser finally on master!

2018-12-19 Thread Brett Gilio
Ricardo Wurmus writes: > The naming scheme applies to packages that are primarily used as > libraries. A package “foo” that is written in Python and also provides > modules that can be imported in an interactive Python session will not > be named “python-foo” when it is primarily used on its

Re: Next browser finally on master!

2018-12-19 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Pierre, >> I am also in favor >> of renaming SBCL-Next to something else. I know that we are using sbcl >> instead of clisp for building it, but the naming scheme seems to imply >> an SBCL library or module rather than a web browser application. > > This is being discussed for stumpwm in bug

Re: Next browser finally on master!

2018-12-19 Thread Brett Gilio
Pierre Neidhardt writes: >> Hi all, I am also using the Next browser. A terrific tool. > > Oh, and I forgot: Thanks for the compliment! :) Excuse me for not being fully aware, are you involved in the development of the Next browser? I have been following it for some time, and am genuinely

Re: Next browser finally on master!

2018-12-19 Thread Brett Gilio
Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Hi Pierre, > >>> I am also in favor >>> of renaming SBCL-Next to something else. I know that we are using sbcl >>> instead of clisp for building it, but the naming scheme seems to imply >>> an SBCL library or module rather than a web browser application. >> >> This is

Re: Lock screen gnome

2018-12-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Timothy, Timothy Sample skribis: > Someday I would like to return to fixing GDM, but I am a bit > traumatized. It is a very slow and frustrating package to debug. > > 1. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2017-08/msg00268.html >

Re: GC hints

2018-12-19 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Actually, I was also wondering whether we should provide a configurable > mechanism that would, by default, automatically delete old GC roots and > maybe even run the GC automatically when needed—similar to what Git > does. While this would be convenient and probably

Re: Next browser finally on master!

2018-12-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Pierre Neidhardt skribis: > I'm happy to let you know that after months of feisty packaging and the > last month spent on the full rewrite of the GNU/Linux port, the Next web > browser is finally on master! > > It's packaged as sbcl-next. Before reading your message I naively installed

Re: Next browser finally on master!

2018-12-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Pierre Neidhardt skribis: > Forget the above, I was wrong. "guix pack" works well with regard to finding > the correct executable, with or without graft (could be wrong again, but so > far > it seems to work). > > The issue is that "next" cannot send XML-RPC requests to "next-gtk-webkit". >

GC hints

2018-12-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! Pierre Neidhardt skribis: >(if profile >(display-hint (format #f (G_ "Consider deleting old profile > -generations and collecting garbage, along these lines: > +generations, deleting old Guix checkouts and collecting garbage, along these > +lines: > > @example > -guix

Re: gpg key does not exist on pgp.mit.edu

2018-12-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Haz-Edine, Haz-Edine Assemlal skribis: > There is a small bug in the installation script guix-install.sh: > [1544622607.463]: [ FAIL ] Missing OpenPGP public key.  Fetch it with > this command: >   gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys > 3CE464558A84FDC69DB40CFB090B11993D9AEBB5 > >

Unable to Install Rust 1.20.0 and Beyond

2018-12-19 Thread Brian Woodcox
Hi all, I’m not able to install rust. Initially, I was having problems with 1.19.0 because of memory issues. I fixed that by increasing the memory and now 1.19.0 is installed. Now that I have lots of memory 16GB, and lots of hard disk space, I cannot get 1.20.0 to install. I am installing

Re: Stuck upgrading from Guix v0.12

2018-12-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Heya, Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > I’m in the same situation upgrading a machine that didn’t have an > Internet connection for months. > > Here’s what I do: > > - use a git checkout to jump to commit > b0cb92b2d43a2c4d5fa9b3f8c04c5732c60061e7, which adds guile-gcrypt > > - ./bootstrap &&

Re: Next browser finally on master!

2018-12-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Pierre Neidhardt skribis: > Hmm, I'm having an issue with Guix pack. > > Check out the following: > > $ ./pre-inst-env guix build next-gtk-webkit > /gnu/store/ildn4l2wr0y7irm2536dnp88hhrdphsz-next-gtk-webkit-1.1.0 > > $ ./pre-inst-env guix size next-gtk-webkit > store item

Re: Stuck upgrading from Guix v0.12

2018-12-19 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Heya, > > Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > >> I’m in the same situation upgrading a machine that didn’t have an >> Internet connection for months. >> >> Here’s what I do: >> >> - use a git checkout to jump to commit >> b0cb92b2d43a2c4d5fa9b3f8c04c5732c60061e7, which adds

Re: Next browser finally on master!

2018-12-19 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
> That’s because ‘guix size’ disables grafts, which allows it to check the > size of substitutes (build farms provide substitutes for ungrafted > variants.) > Before reading your message I naively installed ‘next-webkit-gtk’, which > is not supposed to be used directly, right? Should we make it

PAM module

2018-12-19 Thread Saeed Jamali
How we can change system configurations in /etc, I want to add some pam module to pam configuration files for exapmle pam.d/login,

Re: GC hints

2018-12-19 Thread Chris Marusich
Ludovic Courtès writes: > I agree that this would be more accurate, but isn’t there also a risk > with making hints too long? I’m split between the idea of providing > concise hints that can be pasted and get things done, and the idea or > not trying to be a substitute for the manual. I agree

Re: About /var/guix/profiles and guix pull generations

2018-12-19 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Agreed "checkout" is not very precise, but can anyone come up with a better term? -- Pierre Neidhardt https://ambrevar.xyz/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: About /var/guix/profiles and guix pull generations

2018-12-19 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
> I think we're still waiting for Pierre to send his latest patch. If the > text really is too long, perhaps we can provide concrete examples, a > sentence explaining what they do, and a link to the manual, where we put > the slightly more verbose explanation. I think the text so far is OK, >

Re: About /var/guix/profiles and guix pull generations

2018-12-19 Thread Chris Marusich
Pierre Neidhardt writes: >> OK. Since that example deletes profile generations, Can we just say >> "profile generations" instead of "checkouts"? The latter makes me think >> of a Git repository checkout. Maybe the phrase "cleaning up old >> profiles" would be good enough, since we put a clear