bug#45571: Support stable uids and gids for system accounts in a container

2021-04-07 Thread Brendan Tildesley via Bug reports for GNU Guix
It may be useful to see what Nix does. Nix has many static id, with the comment: # IMPORTANT! # We only add static uids and gids for services where it is not feasible # to change uids/gids on service start, in example a service with a lot of # files. Please also check if the service is applicable

bug#47628: webkitgtk-2.32.0 is broken on my system

2021-04-07 Thread Guillaume Le Vaillant
Mark H Weaver skribis: > retitle 47628 webkitgtk-2.32.0 is broken on my system > thanks > > Mark H Weaver writes: > >> FYI, since updating to webkitgtk-2.32.0 (commit >> 3c5e1412e3ef769df8e4826d0aedabaa3aa0d631), epiphany fails to launch: no >> window appears, although GNOME Shell shows an empty

bug#46212: ci.guix.gnu.org narinfos with excessive NarSize

2021-04-07 Thread Brendan Tildesley via Bug reports for GNU Guix
I just had the same bug with flightgear as Ludo. Running `guix build flightgear', guix showed it was downloading substitute information, and then errored with guix build: error: integer expected from stream Possibly helpful strace info: write(14, "\36\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\0\0\0\0\0\0?\0\0\0\0\0\

bug#45179: qutebrowser stuck at Cloudflare 'browser checks'

2021-04-07 Thread Michael Rohleder
"bdju" writes: > On Tue Apr 6, 2021 at 4:41 PM CDT, bdju wrote: >> While I was able to bypass the cloudflare checks in IceCat with that >> User Agent Switcher addon, I found I so far haven't been able to get >> past them in qutebrowser by changing my useragent. I tried both your >> example and cop

bug#47636: building for foreign arches produces native code on core-updates

2021-04-07 Thread Efraim Flashner
$ ./pre-inst-env guix build hello --system=i686-linux /gnu/store/j8kszh3mgi2f9k3vy8kl5mk0lgsp9qdf-hello-2.10 $ file /gnu/store/j8kszh3mgi2f9k3vy8kl5mk0lgsp9qdf-hello-2.10/bin/hello /gnu/store/j8kszh3mgi2f9k3vy8kl5mk0lgsp9qdf-hello-2.10/bin/hello: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV)

bug#47451: closed (Re: bug#47451: Guix pull building lz4-1.9.3 fails)

2021-04-07 Thread Bone Baboon
I am no longer having this error. This error was part of a unsuccessful attempt to install a previous version of a package. I am using a different approach to install a previous version of a package which is working and is detailed here: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2021-04/msg000

bug#47631: Add graphical installation and solve tons of headache

2021-04-07 Thread bo0od
Hi There, According to my communications on IRC i see that guix doesnt want to have an offline installation, Which mean it need internet connection available at the installation process. This is fine except when user having either static-ip or using VM which doesnt give readable network inte

bug#47633: Provide direct download to .iso

2021-04-07 Thread bo0od
Hi There, I see that guix compress its image here: https://guix.gnu.org/en/download/ Which im not sure why (I dont see any known project doing that), But regardless to the reason behind it this is actually give some problems to users who want to use Guix on outside server, Many host providers

bug#47634: Accompany .asc and .DIGESTS keys for the ISO

2021-04-07 Thread bo0od
Hi There, I see there is only .sig provided: https://guix.gnu.org/en/download/ Its better to provide more than one way of verification e.g: Qubes: https://www.qubes-os.org/downloads/ Whonix: https://www.whonix.org/wiki/VirtualBox/XFCE ...etc ThX!

bug#47630: Improve guix manual installation docs

2021-04-07 Thread bo0od
Hi There, Checking here: https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Manual-Installation.html This section actually misses alot of commands and its not nice to give only hint commands and leave step by step explanation e.g: https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Keyboard-Layout-and-Networking

bug#47632: Extracting guix.iso.xz with Xarchiver will give damaged .iso

2021-04-07 Thread bo0od
Hi There, I have just tested to extract guix.iso.xz using Xarchiver and tried to install guix.iso on a vbox, The image wont be readable/identified for installation. Only way to make it work is by using unxz command.

bug#47629: Manual Installation: /grub/i386-pc/modinfo.sh doesn't exist. Please Specify --target or --directory

2021-04-07 Thread bo0od
Hi There, Im trying to install guix manually but i always end up with this error. Please check the uploaded images. ThX!

bug#47638: [Emacs-Guix] build-farm-url.el refers to former URLs

2021-04-07 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! I just noticed that build-farm-url.el refers to deprecated/outdated URLs: hydra.gnu.org, ci.guix.info, etc. As I’m writing this :-), I also notice that build-farm.el is technically not part of Emacs-Guix (and it supports Hydra too), but perhaps it should? The Cuirass JSON API is being expand

bug#47260: Package GNU MediaGoblin as a Guix service

2021-04-07 Thread Ben Sturmfels via Bug reports for GNU Guix
On Tue, 06 Apr 2021, Ben Sturmfels wrote: > On Thu, 01 Apr 2021, Ben Sturmfels wrote: > >> 5. Get a basic Guix service working, with sqlite3 and without the >> offloaded media transcoding currently using Celery task queue with a >> Redis broker. > > Woo! After a lot of trial and error, I finally h

bug#38764: emacs-darkroom: buggy display behavior and errors

2021-04-07 Thread Christopher Howard
Attempting to close bug. Christopher H

bug#47641: Ongoing difficulities after linphoneqt -> linphone-desktop transition

2021-04-07 Thread Christopher Howard
Hi, I've been having difficulties since the the recent linphone updates. I know some work has been done on the package in recent commits, so just a few minutes ago I ran guix time-machine -- environment --ad-hoc linphone-desktop christopher@theoden ~ [env]$ guix describe Generation 14 Apr 01 20

bug#47641: Ongoing difficulities after linphoneqt -> linphone-desktop transition

2021-04-07 Thread Christopher Howard
My system information: christopher@theoden ~$ neofetch --stdout christopher@theoden --- OS: Guix System 079a7f2c65c51da7b53b0e5ef44c516dc8eaab6e x86_64 Host: OptiPlex 9020 00 Kernel: 5.11.11-gnu Uptime: 1 day, 20 hours, 39 mins Packages: 92 (guix-system), 102 (guix-user) She

bug#47225: QEMU warning about performance

2021-04-07 Thread Leo Famulari
On Tue, Apr 06, 2021 at 08:42:38PM -0400, Maxim Cournoyer wrote: > I hope I'm timely; I've made a revised version of the patch, that should > cover more cases (and actually uses 100 MiB rather than 1 MiB :-)). Yes, you're in time :) Thanks for the revised patch. signature.asc Description: PGP si

bug#42250: offload test failure: guile bug?

2021-04-07 Thread Christopher Howard

bug#47584: Race condition in ‘copy-account-skeletons’: possible privilege escalation.

2021-04-07 Thread Maxime Devos
On Tue, 2021-04-06 at 13:57 +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > [...] > > The blog post and info-guix messages are the highest levels of > visibility we can give, roughly. So I think we have to think twice > before doing that or truly important issues will eventually go > unnoticed. > > The risk wit

bug#47458: Terrible UX upgrading Emacs in Guix

2021-04-07 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hi Leo! Leo Prikler writes: > Hi Maxim! > > Am Dienstag, den 06.04.2021, 08:09 -0400 schrieb Maxim Cournoyer: >> Hi Leo! >> >> Leo Prikler writes: >> >> [...] >> >> > > Shouldn't we wrap all the binaries to be on the safe >> > > side? Things >> > > such >> > > as emacsclient probably ought to

bug#47569: ‘qt-build-system’ retains too many references via wrappers

2021-04-07 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hi Ludovic, Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hi again! > > The attached patch fixes this problem AFAICS by filtering out of > XDG_DATA_DIRS directories that are unlikely to be of any use. It > follows the same strategy as ‘glib-or-gtk-build-system’, which is to > only include share/ sub-directories th

bug#47644: guix on foreign distro won't upgrade, stuck on old commits

2021-04-07 Thread Brian Zwahr
Hi! It was suggested I email this in by someone in the IRC channel. I'm having an issue where guix always tells me it is "X days old" and that I should run guix pull/guix upgrade. However, running these commands does not fix the issue. guix describe shows: ``` $ guix describe Generation 9

bug#47569: ‘qt-build-system’ retains too many references via wrappers

2021-04-07 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hi Ludo, I just had another thought on this! Ludovic Courtès writes: [...] > - (filter > - (lambda (var-to-wrap) (not (null? (last var-to-wrap > - (map > -(lambda (var-spec) > - `(,(first var-spec) = ,(collect-sub-dirs base-directories (last > var-spec > -(list > -

bug#47569: ‘qt-build-system’ retains too many references via wrappers

2021-04-07 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Maxim Cournoyer writes: > Seeing a growing number of packages require a custom wrap phase for > qtwebengine, I think the following additions could make sense to be > incorporated as part as this Qt-world rebuild: > > 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > gnu/packages/qt.scm

bug#47645: Feature Request: Add Simple Firewall by default

2021-04-07 Thread bo0od
Hi There, It would be nice too see simple FW within Guix, Most common one used in GNU distros is Gufw used in ubuntu,mint..etc This is essential for end users to have control on opening/closing ports and/or control on income/outcome traffics.. by using either GUI or simple CLI commands. (ipt

bug#47648: cc-for-target makes --with-c-toolchain unusable for some packages

2021-04-07 Thread raingloom
I tried compiling lua with clang on a whim and found out about cc-for-target. Not sure if that's the only instance of hardcoded gcc, but it's certainly a prominent one. What would be the idiomatic way to fix it? Detect clang dynamically? Or move cc-for-target inside the build system module and mak