bug#38529: Make --ad-hoc the default for guix environment proposed deprecation mechanism

2019-12-30 Thread EuAndreh via Bug reports for GNU Guix
Hello :) Jumping in the discussion xD Ludovic Courtès writes: > Yes, I think it is clear that we’d have to do this using all the tools > at our disposal, including time. > > Konrad’s objection remains though: existing documents (papers, blog > posts, MOOCs, etc.) that mention ‘guix environment’

bug#38529: Make --ad-hoc the default for guix environment proposed deprecation mechanism

2019-12-30 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, EuAndreh skribis: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> Yes, I think it is clear that we’d have to do this using all the tools >> at our disposal, including time. >> >> Konrad’s objection remains though: existing documents (papers, blog >> posts, MOOCs, etc.) that mention ‘guix environment’ would

bug#38529: Make --ad-hoc the default for guix environment proposed deprecation mechanism

2019-12-30 Thread zimoun
Hi Ludo, On Mon, 30 Dec 2019 at 11:35, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > Wouldn't having a new name for the new behaviour avoid breakage in this > > situation? > > Yes, that’s correct (that’s also one of the suggestions Konrad made). Is this statement acted? Is it the consensus by all the maintainers?

bug#38529: Make --ad-hoc the default for guix environment proposed deprecation mechanism

2019-12-30 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! zimoun skribis: > On Mon, 30 Dec 2019 at 11:35, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > >> > Wouldn't having a new name for the new behaviour avoid breakage in this >> > situation? >> >> Yes, that’s correct (that’s also one of the suggestions Konrad made). > > Is this statement acted? Is it the consens

bug#38529: Make --pure the default for `guix environment'?

2019-12-30 Thread raingloom
On Tue, 2019-12-10 at 18:16 +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > As for ‘--ad-hoc’: making it the default is technically easy. The > difficulty is to come up with a nice transition/deprecation mechanism > so > that we don’t break everyone’s script overnight. > > Ideas on how to achieve it are welcome!

bug#38529: Make --ad-hoc the default for guix environment proposed deprecation mechanism

2019-12-30 Thread zimoun
Hey! On Mon, 30 Dec 2019 at 16:06, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > zimoun skribis: > > On Mon, 30 Dec 2019 at 11:35, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > Is this statement acted? Is it the consensus by all the maintainers? > > All I’m saying is that what EuAndreh wrote above is correct; I’m not > stating anyth

bug#38673: missing 'provenance' in $PROFILE/manifest

2019-12-30 Thread zimoun
Hi Ludo, On Sun, 29 Dec 2019 at 18:26, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Fixed in c48e522fdbb7c749bbf6147e44c067bf1f916fdd. Cool! Thank you. > Commit 975183a1c428198fe639fa37552ae069692b1f15 fixes a similar issue > with ‘guix pack --save-provenance --manifest’. Good catch! ;-) All the best, simon

bug#38703: installion cannot be cancelled

2019-12-30 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > When I first tried to install one of the new build servers for > ci.guix.gnu.org I forgot that the firewall rules prevent these servers > from accessing ci.guix.gnu.org via its public IP address. I started the > installation process and waited … > > When I realized

bug#36924: Xfce not starting

2019-12-30 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Andreas, Andreas Enge skribis: > after trying to reconfigure with commit > 02b6382169192367e97a2d1bc72f8eb3ed38b0dc > of December 9, I am now running into a problem where I cannot log into my xfce > session under gdm any more: According to the first tty, a session is opened > and closed imme

bug#38821: Can't run guix from external drive.

2019-12-30 Thread Jan
Hi, I tried running "guix install" from my USB hard drive and that's what I got: user@machine /media/user/Backup$ Backtrace: 4 (apply-smob/1 #) In ice-9/boot-9.scm: 705:2 3 (call-with-prompt ("prompt") # …) In ice-9/eval.scm: 619:8 2 (_ #(#(#))) In ice-9/command-line.scm: 1

bug#38529: Make --ad-hoc the default for guix environment proposed deprecation mechanism

2019-12-30 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
zimoun writes: >> > Why do you say that "guix shell" does not reflect what the command is >> > about? >> > Because the command spawns a new shell with options (expanding it, >> > isolating it, etc.) >> >> The command does not necessarily spawn a new shell; it spawns a command >> in a well-defi

bug#22883: Authenticating Git checkouts: step #1

2019-12-30 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Vagrant Cascadian skribis: > On 2019-12-27, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: [...] >> Thank you for the instructions. I thought I had all keys, but >> apparently at least one of them is missing. “make authenticate” fails >> for me with this error: >> >> Throw to key `srfi-34' with args `(#> auth

bug#38529: Make --ad-hoc the default for guix environment proposed deprecation mechanism

2019-12-30 Thread zimoun
Hi Ricardo, Thank you for your input. On Mon, 30 Dec 2019 at 22:10, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > zimoun writes: > > What about "guix spawn"? > > “spawn” is a very generic verb, much like “enter” (enter what?) or > “make”. My English is not good enough to see the drawback. :-) Well, my personal

bug#38806: Bug Report

2019-12-30 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Wayne Wallace skribis: > I was doing a guix pull on a new VM setup Could it be that your VM ran out of memory during ‘guix pull’? (I’d recommend ~2G of RAM at least.) Thanks, Ludo’.

bug#38709: Recursive crate importer ignores specified version

2019-12-30 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Valentin, Valentin Ignatev skribis: > When I'm trying to recursively import specific crate version, it > imports the latest version instead: > > guix import crate --recursive notify@4.0.14 gives this output: > following redirection to > `https://static.crates.io/crates/notify/notify-5.0.0-pre