bug#19795: Allow for stateless users and groups in GuixSD

2015-02-07 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, I agree, it is rather surprising that removing a user does not remove it. So I think it should be fully stateless (as long as the user's home directory is not erased, of course; so this should remain as a state and be reactivated once the user is available again, which could cause problems

bug#19803: gstreamer-0.10 fails tests

2015-02-07 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, currently, gstreamer-0.10.36 fails its tests on all three platforms. As we have the latest version 1.4.5 and nothing depends on the old version any more, I think we can safely remove it (together with gst-plugins-base-0.10). Andreas

bug#19671: Raw binary data in build log from substitute-binary

2015-02-07 Thread Mark H Weaver
Mark H Weaver writes: > While trying to install 'racket' using substitutes, several lines of the > form "substitute-binary: " were output. See the > attachment for the precise output, captured via Emacs' shell mode. > > This was when running guix from git commit 2dfed64 on an i686 GSD > system.

bug#19781: Close

2015-02-07 Thread Andreas Enge
Duplicate of #19780.

bug#17202: Imagemagick lacks stable source URLs

2015-02-07 Thread Andreas Enge
The problem seems to be solved; for instance at the mirror ftp://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/packages/ImageMagick/ all versions since 2012 seem to be available.

bug#19805: Numpy failures

2015-02-07 Thread Andreas Enge
python-numpy-bootstrap currently fails its tests on hydra, which entails a bunch of other failures. On my own x86_64 machines, the build succeeds, however. Andreas

bug#19780: 13 failing tests

2015-02-07 Thread Ludovic Courtès
What architecture is it? There are a lot of these: --8<---cut here---start->8--- builder for `/localhome/rwurmus-tmp/guix/test-tmp/store/m1cbz6gmyv2f5551j7zpm99d7mgy2zp9-guile-bootstrap-2.0.drv' failed due to signal 11 (Segmentation fault) --8<---

bug#19771: Missing documentation on enviroment variables for guix-deamon

2015-02-07 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Andrei Osipov skribis: > how to change the temporary directory from /tmp to /var/tmp? > > [08:14] > i have /tmp as tmpfs and it has no enough space to build gcc > hm, I can't find it either in ./configure, either as param

bug#19772: Verbosity of guix build output

2015-02-07 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Andrei Osipov skribis: > The output of confugre scripts and make can be either suppressed or > redirected to file by guix build. It makes easy to track the current > step of building process. Just to be clear, I suppose you don’t just want something equivalent to: guix build foo > /dev/null

bug#19806: substitute-binary --query busy for 36 minutes with no output

2015-02-07 Thread Mark H Weaver
While updating my profile with "guix package -c1 -u", "substitute-binary --query" hung for 36 minutes with ~90% CPU utilization without any active network connections and without printing any output. Here was the relevant excerpt from 'ps auxwwf' after about 30 minutes of CPU time: --8<--

bug#19756: connection issues lead to cryptic backtrace

2015-02-07 Thread Ludovic Courtès
sleep_wal...@suse.cz skribis: > I tried to use guix when I had connection issues and I wasn't aware of > that, I got really wild traceback. It took me a while until I realized > that connection problems may be the issue. > > Please, make the error message for connection problems readable for > hum

bug#19811: Attempt to graft texlive times out after one hour

2015-02-07 Thread Mark H Weaver
On my i686 Libreboot X60, two consecutive attempts to run "guix package -u" have failed with the following message: --8<---cut here---start->8--- grafting '/gnu/store/i8iiv9qd1jndwxxr2h563fwwn0997xkx-cups-2.0.1' -> '/gnu/store/nrdr51fkncjm5nqkx70576g25l4ka5na-c

bug#19811: Attempt to graft texlive times out after one hour

2015-02-07 Thread Mark H Weaver
Mark H Weaver writes: > * I later discovered the --timeout option for 'guix build' (also > supported by 'guix package') but the manual claims that "By default > there is no timeout". This seems to be incorrect. I proceeded to try explicitly passing --timeout=0 to 'guix build', but that didn

bug#19803: gstreamer-0.10 fails tests

2015-02-07 Thread Mark H Weaver
Andreas Enge writes: > currently, gstreamer-0.10.36 fails its tests on all three platforms. As we > have the latest version 1.4.5 and nothing depends on the old version any more, > I think we can safely remove it (together with gst-plugins-base-0.10). In fact, this was my motivation for commit 7

bug#19811: Attempt to graft texlive times out after one hour

2015-02-07 Thread Mark H Weaver
Mark H Weaver writes: > Mark H Weaver writes: > >> * I later discovered the --timeout option for 'guix build' (also >> supported by 'guix package') but the manual claims that "By default >> there is no timeout". This seems to be incorrect. > > I proceeded to try explicitly passing --timeout

bug#19795: Allow for stateless users and groups in GuixSD

2015-02-07 Thread Mark H Weaver
Andreas Enge writes: > I agree, it is rather surprising that removing a user does not remove it. > So I think it should be fully stateless (as long as the user's home > directory is not erased, of course; so this should remain as a state and > be reactivated once the user is available again, whic

bug#19811: Attempt to graft texlive times out after one hour

2015-02-07 Thread Mark H Weaver
Mark H Weaver writes: > I guess that my machine and rotating disk are too slow to graft texlive > within an hour. I was able to do it by passing "--max-silent-time=36000". It ended up taking just under 2 hours (real time) to graft texlive on my i686 Libreboot X60 system. Mark