bug#32770: Packaging SLIME/SWANK as Common Lisp library

2018-10-04 Thread Andy Patterson
Hi Pierre, I've seen your later e-mail but I'd still like to answer some of your questions here. On Thu, 04 Oct 2018 10:37:08 +0200 Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > CC-ing Ludovic and Ricardo if they want to chime in. > > Thanks for the feedback, Andy, so invaluable as always. > > > I've been using

bug#32895: file progress reporter crashes on small files

2018-10-04 Thread Mark H Weaver
I see now that this bug was already fixed while I sent several new messages about it. Oops. I should really make sure I've fetched email before responding. Sorry for the noise. Mark

bug#32895: file progress reporter crashes on small files

2018-10-04 Thread Mark H Weaver
I've applied the following temporary workaround to my private branch, to enable me to work on the IceCat security update. Mark --8<---cut here---start->8--- diff --git a/guix/status.scm b/guix/status.scm index c6956066f..8c6045a7d 100644 --- a/guix/stat

bug#32895: file progress reporter crashes on small files

2018-10-04 Thread Mark H Weaver
And now I'm running into the same bug repeatedly while trying to test build security updates for IceCat, which involve downloading a great many small patches from Mozilla. Bah. Something is very broken here, and now it's interfering with my attempts to deploy critical security updates. I'm think

bug#32937: python-six-bootstrap referenced by profile

2018-10-04 Thread Leo Famulari
While setting up a build environment for Borg from Guix commit 9e783d0bf22a7ff965105eb45f6c179a832bbabf, I noticed a profile collision between python-six and python-six-bootstrap, with the bootstrap package winning the contest: -- building /gnu/store/lz09hrr9z0p9xc44n31sjvpykfwq38f1-manual-dat

bug#32935: `guix package --verbose` does not produce verbose output

2018-10-04 Thread Leo Famulari
On Debian, from Guix commit 9e783d0bf22a7ff965105eb45f6c179a832bbabf, the --verbose argument to `guix package` doesn't seem to have the desired effect. Rather than showing the raw output of whatever builds are being performed, it just shows the "spinner". signature.asc Description: PGP signature

bug#32895: file progress reporter crashes on small files

2018-10-04 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi Ricardo, Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Downloading small files (such as cabal revisions) sometimes fails with a > backtrace like this: > > Starting download of > /gnu/store/plr3hf9gjdcg2qhi3x4k2wjm8zajqibc-ghc-cryptohash-md5-0.11.100.1-2.cabal > From > https://hackage.haskell.org/package/cryptoh

bug#32916: font-awesome v5 build scripts are not free

2018-10-04 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Mark, Mark H Weaver skribis: > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: [...] >> I don’t have a clear opinion on ‘font-awesome’ yet, but I have some >> comments: (1) only some of our font packages are built from source >> (though I think we should do more of that), (2) the font might be >>

bug#32770: Packaging SLIME/SWANK as Common Lisp library

2018-10-04 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
CC-ing Ludovic and Ricardo if they want to chime in. Thanks for the feedback, Andy, so invaluable as always. > I've been using a cffi consumer for a while now, and my approach for > that package was to update references to library and header files with > the full paths to their respective store i

bug#32895: file progress reporter crashes on small files

2018-10-04 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis: > Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > >> Ludovic Courtès writes: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> Ricardo Wurmus skribis: >>> guix/progress.scm:214:25: In procedure display-download-progress: In procedure /: Wrong type argument in position 1: #f This