bug#37150: Erroneous uses of regex in the invokation of FIND-FILES

Hello Mark, >> You're right. It would be good to fix these problems incrementally, as >> long as the changes don't cause too many rebuilds. >> I agree we should fix it incrementally, like how the 'invoke' transition was handled. The patch below does exactly that (it fixes the problem for delta wh

bug#37150: Erroneous uses of regex in the invokation of FIND-FILES

Hello guix, Currently, there are a lot of erroneous uses of regex in the invokation of FIND-FILES. Please see the conversations below (taken from https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-08/msg00149.html). Mark H Weaver writes: > Hi Alex, > > Alex Vong writes: > >> I find out that the

bug#36753: The GUI installer throws an error

> That you were able to continue without networking looks like a bug. > However, I just tried, and when networking is unavailable, I get the > “Connection error” box that only allows me to go back to the “Checking > connectivity” dialog; there’s no way to skip that AFAICS. Okay, I now know what *p

bug#37021: GuixSD 1.01-i686 install DVD boot failure on Macbook1, 1: failed to resolve partition

Hi Mark, Hi Calvin, On Thu, 22 Aug 2019 17:26:50 -0400 Mark H Weaver wrote: > I appreciate your effort to make life easier for Calvin, but in general > it seems like a bad security practice to post large unsigned disk images > and asking users to try them. In general I agree. So I would sugges

bug#37021: GuixSD 1.01-i686 install DVD boot failure on Macbook1, 1: failed to resolve partition

> and asking users to try them. A digital signature from you would > improve matters somewhat sha256sum: c09b3d75e15f46cf04605895402fcfeaf2d1ef922859c7e9fab49352debc guix-master-i686.iso This mail is signed. pgpu1slP3ZQL3.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

bug#36753: The GUI installer throws an error

Hello, Jan skribis: > Okay I've figured out what causes openssl build to fail - continuing > installation without network connection. The installer told > me network connection is required to install the system correctly, but > I thought only packages will be outdated. Is it a bug? Network conn

bug#37021: GuixSD 1.01-i686 install DVD boot failure on Macbook1, 1: failed to resolve partition

Hi Danny, Danny Milosavljevic writes: > On Thu, 22 Aug 2019 16:31:19 +0200 > Danny Milosavljevic wrote: > >> could you try booting >> https://drive.google.com/open?id=15YTPS2jt1l3VMyE4LTbMCoy7DnEu7etv from DVD >> and later from USB Flash drive? > > Sorry, I didn't mean that one. Wrong archit

bug#36708: Serving an up-to-date https://guix.gnu.org/packages

Ludovic Courtès writes: > Ludovic Courtès skribis: > >>The package list at is made from the >>current ‘guix’ package, not from the latest ‘master’. We should >>work to build it dynamically with something like hpcguix-web, or to >>generate it from

bug#37064: Ghc 8.6.5 fails to find core package database

Hi Gabriel, Gabriel Giamarchi writes: > Installing only 'ghc 8.6.5' (Glasgow Haskell compiler) and sourcing > > '~/.guix-profile/etc/profile' leads to ghc not finding core modules. > ('ghci' doesn't find System.IO for instance). > > This is due to $GHC_PACKAGE_PATH not containing ghc 8.6.5's > p

bug#37021: GuixSD 1.01-i686 install DVD boot failure on Macbook1, 1: failed to resolve partition

Hi, On Thu, 22 Aug 2019 16:31:19 +0200 Danny Milosavljevic wrote: > could you try booting > https://drive.google.com/open?id=15YTPS2jt1l3VMyE4LTbMCoy7DnEu7etv from DVD > and later from USB Flash drive? Sorry, I didn't mean that one. Wrong architecture. https://drive.google.com/open?id=15aGw

bug#37148: ‘sudo guix pull’ creates root-owned /home/$USER/.cache/guix/…

Guix, After running ‘sudo guix pull’, some directories that guix assumes to be writable are not: $ guix pull Updating channel 'guix' from Git repository at 'https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git'... guix pull: error: Git error: failed to create temporary file '/home/adom/.cache/guix

bug#37013: LyX can not find refstyle.sty

Hi Ricardo, LyX seems to build and run fine without this texlive-union. The texlive stuff is only required when one wants to compile a lyx document to a pdf. I'd therefore expect it to not be a dependency (but maybe a recommended package). And removing this texlive-union fixes my problem: Now,

bug#36014: [PATCH] Attempt to use console-fonts not provided by kbd if they are installed

Hello, John Soo skribis: > I am not familiar with the info and html documentation build process. Will > this patch suffice? Sure; I pushed a slightly modified variant as commit 74a98b5cddd0430dd7229d4045f4885191c624b7. Thanks, Ludo’.

bug#36708: Serving an up-to-date https://guix.gnu.org/packages

Hello! Ludovic Courtès skribis: >The package list at is made from the >current ‘guix’ package, not from the latest ‘master’. We should >work to build it dynamically with something like hpcguix-web, or to >generate it from an inferior of ‘master’.

bug#37021: GuixSD 1.01-i686 install DVD boot failure on Macbook1, 1: failed to resolve partition

Hi Calvin, could you try booting https://drive.google.com/open?id=15YTPS2jt1l3VMyE4LTbMCoy7DnEu7etv from DVD and later from USB Flash drive? pgpkmkTQ1vlSZ.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

bug#37145: Qemu VM with default settings runs out of ram during guix pull

Using recommended settings for the Qemu VM of 512 MB ram from https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Running-Guix-in-a-VM.html, guix pull fails. Increasing ram to 1024 MB and running on fresh VM fixes the issue. It would probably be best to just update the command on the website to 1024 MB. Outp

bug#36747: Official MesCC bootstrap binaries differ from my locally built ones

Hello, Mark H Weaver skribis: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> Mark H Weaver skribis: >> >>> You can reproduce them with the following command from a git checkout at >>> commit 9e6256ba0f32ab12d61c914a3fed879dac881762, which is the tip of the >>> 'wip-binaries' branch, based on recent 'master':