Backing up a GuixSD system? rsnapshot doesn't seem to like the store.

Hello, My normal backup software (rsnapshot) doesn't seem to play terribly well with GuixSD because the software uses hardlinks for it's deduplication, so I'm looking for alternatives (or someone to tell me what needs to happen to get rsnapshot to backup /gnu/store without issue). I'd prefer

Some questions regarding GuixSD

Hello, I have a few questions about GuixSD that I need to have answered before I can think about trying to install it. For some background on myself, I'm a long-time Gentoo user, and I've used Funtoo and Arch some in the past. 1) Is there any way to prevent a package from being installed at

Re: Some questions regarding GuixSD

On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 12:07:22PM +, ng0 wrote: > >> 4) Is GnuNET integration already working? > > > > No. > > > > It's like Google Summer of Code, only a bit longer. I'll very optimistic > and say that my internal documented goal for basic gnunet-filesystem > integration for guix is summer

Does guix remount /gnu/store when on another partition?

Hello, I was wondering whether, if I put /gnu (or /gnu/store) on a seperate partition, Guix would (re)mount the partition ro/rw as needed. I know the store is supposed to be read-only (unless guix-daemon is making a change), but I wanted to know if it handed this specific case or if it was

How to setuid X.org?

Hello, I have tried several times to get X.org (/bin/X, specifically) setuid for obvious reasons. However, I can't find any examples of usage and attempting to follow the infopages has led to a bunch of different errors and failures (and rather useless error messages). I currently don't have

Re: Unable to get (menu-entries (...)) to work properly

On Sun, 09 Apr 2017 09:59:07 +0200 (CEST) Thomas Danckaert wrote: > From: > Subject: Unable to get (menu-entries (...)) to work properly > Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2017 00:36:42 -0700 > > > (bootloader (grub-configuration (device "/dev/sda") > >

How important is /gnu/store/.links?

What is the purpose of /gnu/store/.links and is it important? I checked the docs on the website and couldn't find any reference to this directory anywhere, so I'm asking here.

Re: GuixSD installation: binary vs source packages

On Mon, 06 Mar 2017 11:59:51 +0100 l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote: > However, in the presence of “grafts”, it may be that additional things > will be downloaded or built without you being notified beforehand. > > I consider this a bug but we don’t have an easy fix at this stage. Is there a

Re: How to setuid X.org?

On Mon, 20 Mar 2017 09:50:21 +0100 l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote: > However, people reported in the past that there were problems with > ‘xinit’, though I forgot what it was. I booted into the LiveUSB I was using for testing and xinit/startx was looking for X in it's own directory. I