bug#41603: How To Resolve "guile: warning: failed to install locale"

2020-05-30 Thread Marius Bakke
David Philipe Gil via Bug reports for GNU Guix writes: > Interesting -- ive never heard of guix challenge... > > I ran it and here is my result: > > ''' > > 8,427 store items were analyzed: >   - 3,480 (41.3%) were identical >   - 147 (1.7%) differed >   - 4,800 (57.0%) were inconclusive > > '''

bug#41498: sed fails to build on kernels with selinux

2020-05-30 Thread Chris Marusich
Chris Marusich writes: > It appears related to this issue: > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-sed/2019-06/msg00022.html There is actually a bug report for this here: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=36150 I have submitted a patch upstream to fix the issue. -- Chris sig

bug#41499: /proc/filesystems impurity in build environment

2020-05-30 Thread Chris Marusich
Hi Ludo, Ludovic Courtès writes: > The daemon mounts /proc in the build environment (see > libstore/build.cc): > > /* Bind a new instance of procfs on /proc to reflect our >private PID namespace. */ > createDirs(chrootRootDir + "/proc"); > if (mount("none", (chrootRootDir + "

bug#41413: guix-install.sh broken on Gentoo

2020-05-30 Thread Vincent Legoll
Hello Tobias, ZC, I created a gentoo VM (i686 / following gentoo handbook) and tried the official upstream guix installer. It worked properly, not detecting the OS init system, I think this is because the gentoo handbook made me install cronie instead of plain cron, so there's no "/etc/init.d/cr

bug#41604: guix pull impossible after rebasing a local repository

2020-05-30 Thread zimoun
Hi John, On Sat, 30 May 2020 at 04:26, John Soo wrote: > Yeah guix pull --commit=1444040933 --allow-downgrades failed. Hum? with this message: --8<---cut here---start->8--- guix pull: error: Git error: object not found - no match for id (57518fc7bf1efc899c0

bug#41400: Current biber version is incompatible with biblatex

2020-05-30 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Julien Lepiller skribis: > We should add a comment to the biber package toqwarn about this. Wdyt? Yes, definitely. Ludo’.

bug#41602: texlive-texmf is actually subtitutable

2020-05-30 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Leo Famulari skribis: > On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 05:15:40PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> The info suggests it won’t be substituted, but it’s eventually >> substituted. I wonder why, because the .drv has: >> >> ("allowSubstitutes","0") >> >> and the daemon has: >> >> bool substitut

bug#41499: /proc/filesystems impurity in build environment

2020-05-30 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Chris Marusich skribis: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> The daemon mounts /proc in the build environment (see >> libstore/build.cc): >> >> /* Bind a new instance of procfs on /proc to reflect our >>private PID namespace. */ >> createDirs(chrootRootDir + "/proc"); >> if (m

bug#41541: merge wip-hurd-vm

2020-05-30 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Mathieu Othacehe writes: Hello! > About that, I'd like to limit at maximum the (if hurd ...) conditionals > in (gnu system image). > > So for the "make-device-node", I would propose to "link" it to the > image definition, as proposed in the attached patch. > > I'll see if we can do something simi

bug#41614: It's impossible to mark "--list-generations" for guix shell commands

2020-05-30 Thread ksg
Using emacs, when I do, M-x guix RET, under "Sub-popups" hit "c" (guix shell commands) I can't mark "-l, --list-profiles", because when I hit "-l", 'Switches' buffer automatically mark "-l, --list-generations". The buffer showes the switches redundantly like below Switches  -l list generation

bug#41616: Configure error when installing emacsy-minimal: missing guile-lib

2020-05-30 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi, I get a configure error on upgrade from git. Previous version: $ guix describe Generation 203 23. April 2020 17:43:54 (aktuell) guix f077992 Repository-URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git Branch: master Commit: f0779922ff260df2404c90504986aa59553154fb (I had errors

bug#41604: guix pull impossible after rebasing a local repository

2020-05-30 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
John Soo writes: > I guess that makes me wonder what the desired specification is. > There is a lot of problem space to explore. As a user I would want to > be able to take my local patches as "the real truth". > > Because guix has a linear git history, that means the user needs to > always re

bug#39584: evolution: involid page id error when composing emails

2020-05-30 Thread Marius Bakke
Christopher Howard writes: > Hi, I use evolution heavily, current 3.32.4 from Guix. I updated my > guix user packages and guix system about a week ago. When composing > emails, I occasionally see an error similar to this appear in a box > above the message composition area: > > gdbus.error:org.fr

bug#40310: IceCat reports navigator.platform as Win32

2020-05-30 Thread Marius Bakke
Alexandru-Sergiu Marton writes: > Hi, > > I found out about this problem when going on Rust's website at > https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install and they tell me that "It looks like > I'm running Windows". > > I checked their code and they look for the navigator.platform value, which on > Ic

bug#41081: coreutils: cp is built without xattr support

2020-05-30 Thread Marius Bakke
Tim Komarov writes: > It's often very useful to run: > > # cp --preserve=xattr aaa.txt bbb.txt > Running this on Guix I get: > > cp: cannot preserve extended attributes, cp is built without xattr support Fixed on the 'core-updates' branch with commit 11ae7e9e45153b63c4bcd1625a6156da512d65a7

bug#41596: [staging] 'librsvg-next' build failure

2020-05-30 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 03:37:36PM +0200, Jakub Kądziołka wrote: > On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 03:17:51PM +0200, Marius Bakke wrote: > > On the 'staging' branch, "librsvg-next" (a dependency of GNOME) fails to > > compile the 'xml-rs' Rust crate: > > > > --8<---cut here---start

bug#41616: Configure error when installing emacsy-minimal: missing guile-lib

2020-05-30 Thread Marius Bakke
Arne Babenhauserheide writes: > Hi, > > I get a configure error on upgrade from git. [...] > building > /gnu/store/xyp9y2w28hki3zk9j9pvsx0yb6kykf67-emacsy-minimal-v0.4.1-28.d459ca1.drv... > - 'configure' phasebuilder for > `/gnu/store/xyp9y2w28hki3zk9j9pvsx0yb6kykf67-emacsy-minimal-v0.4.1-28.

bug#41616: Configure error when installing emacsy-minimal: missing guile-lib

2020-05-30 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Marius Bakke writes: >> building >> /gnu/store/xyp9y2w28hki3zk9j9pvsx0yb6kykf67-emacsy-minimal-v0.4.1-28.d459ca1.drv... >> - 'configure' phasebuilder for >> `/gnu/store/xyp9y2w28hki3zk9j9pvsx0yb6kykf67-emacsy-minimal-v0.4.1-28.d459ca1.drv' >> failed with exit code> I believe this was fixed sh

bug#38702: install fails with missing patch

2020-05-30 Thread Marius Bakke
Ricardo Wurmus writes: > I recently built an installer image from a few commits before > 4e09f57af8ee9ac3e7bd5a7a904c4cb6d8d44d9d. It boots fine and the > installer works up to the actual system installation, which then aborts > with an error indicating that the file > python-pep8-stdlib-tokeniz

bug#41623: [Web] Chinese content of page is displayed as blocks.

2020-05-30 Thread Wensheng Xie
Precondition: font-wqy-zhenhei is installed ibus-rime is installed Action: open https://guix-china.github.io/ using Web 3.34.4 Observation: The tab name is correctly displayed in Chinese. The page content for Chinese is displayed as blocks. Changing coding and font will not solve the problem. NE

bug#41607: Deleted store items are not actually deleted

2020-05-30 Thread Chris Marusich
Hi Leo, Stephen, and others, I originally wrote a very detailed email describing my investigation of this issue and the results. However, I accidentally deleted it, so please bear with me as I write a rough summary instead. Leo Famulari writes: >>From the discussion "Guix Docker image inflatio

bug#41604: guix pull impossible after rebasing a local repository

2020-05-30 Thread John Soo
Hi Arne, Interesting idea about mercurial. My problem largely comes from the fact that I specified a branch in channels.scm for over a year with the same workflow. If a branch can be specified for a channel repo then the system probably should handle the current pull commit not being available