bug#22981: guix-edit does not find git checkout directory

2016-03-13 Thread Alex Kost
myglc2 (2016-03-13 05:00 +0300) wrote: [...] > Thank you for this great summary. This list + the post you referenced > make me feel better that I am taking so long to figure Guix out ;) > > OTOH, guix as more state-full than I had hoped ;( > > I suggest that you think of it this way: You are runni

bug#22970: guix edit mutt -- not working

2016-03-13 Thread Jean Louis
Hello Alex, I have followed your recommendation, and mutt is working modified. However, now I get useless error messages. And I can imagine, if I have modified 10 packages, that I would get 10x that much of error messages. warning: collision encountered: /gnu/store/xxzgai9khdfhk70p06vs6akrarzph9r

bug#22970: guix edit mutt -- not working

2016-03-13 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 11:47:04 +0100 Jean Louis wrote: > Hello Alex, > > I have followed your recommendation, and mutt is working modified. > However, now I get useless error messages. And I can imagine, if I have > modified 10 packages, that I would get 10x that much of error messages. > > warni

bug#22990: Grafts leads to inefficient substitute info retrieval

2016-03-13 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Alex Kost skribis: > Ludovic Courtès (2016-03-11 19:52 +0300) wrote: > >> As of right now (v0.9.0-2007-g66a30a3), ‘graft-derivation’ works either by: >> >> 1. Fetching substitute info about the things being built so that it >> can determine its references, which in turns allows it to deter

bug#21806: TeX Live: missing biber executable

2016-03-13 Thread Clément
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Sure, no problem. I just wanted to know if you had given up or stumbled > upon a problem where we could help. :-) I think I am nearly there, I have packaged all biber dependencies, but I still have some trouble with tests and runpath validation. I'd like to send the

bug#22981: guix-edit does not find git checkout directory

2016-03-13 Thread myglc2
Alex Kost writes: > myglc2 (2016-03-13 05:00 +0300) wrote: > > [...] >> You probably already thought of this: Can guix be made easier to use by >> converting some of the state-full guix configuration into guix recipe >> inputs? > > Sorry, my knowledge in English language is not enough to understa

bug#21806: TeX Live: missing biber executable

2016-03-13 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Clément skribis: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> Sure, no problem. I just wanted to know if you had given up or stumbled >> upon a problem where we could help. :-) > > I think I am nearly there, I have packaged all biber > dependencies, but I still have some trouble with tests and > runpath val

bug#22981: guix-edit does not find git checkout directory

2016-03-13 Thread Ludovic Courtès
myglc2 skribis: > Guix is "stateful" because, to use a git checkout, I have to set "state" > variables like ... > > (setq guix-directory "/home/glc/src/guix") > > (let ((dir "~/dev/guix/emacs")) > (add-to-list 'load-path dir) > (setq guix-load-path dir) > (require 'guix-

bug#22994: FAIL: tests/gexp.scm

2016-03-13 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Jean Louis skribis: > I have run this: > > guix package -i guix > > and it failed: > > FAIL: tests/gexp.scm What does ‘guix build guix -n’ display? TIA, Ludo’.