bug#23828: unsupported sexp item type #f ```

2016-06-22 Thread David Craven
Maybe not a bug, but I'm getting the same backtrace when trying to run ./guix archive or ./guix package -i guix or ./guix pull. Trying to install guix 0.10.0 binary tarball on nixos. ```nix users.users = { guixbuild1 = { isSystemUser = true; group = "guixbuild"; }; }; use

bug#23828: unsupported sexp item type #f ```

2016-06-22 Thread David Craven
:28 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hi, > > David Craven skribis: > >> Maybe not a bug, but I'm getting the same backtrace when trying to run >> ./guix archive or ./guix package -i guix or ./guix pull. > > Do you really type “./guix”? From which directory? > &g

bug#24440: [PATCH] gnu: kernel-config: Use correct kconfig file.

2016-09-15 Thread David Craven
* gnu/packages/linux.scm (kernel-config): Use correct kconfig file. --- gnu/packages/linux.scm | 10 ++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/gnu/packages/linux.scm b/gnu/packages/linux.scm index 3ec6514..61288be 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/linux.scm +++ b/gnu/package

bug#24993: System installer grows brittle with time

2016-11-29 Thread David Craven
vice "my-root") (title 'label) (mount-point "/") (type "ext4")) %base-file-systems)) (users (cons (user-account (name "dvc")

bug#25254: [minor] 'About' page says GuixSD is a "GNU/Linux distribution"

2016-12-23 Thread David Craven
> It would be better to be consistent with the home page and make clear > that GuixSD is a GNU distribution, with Linux-libre being the default > kernel for the foreseeable future. > Background: Wikipedia has a policy to call GNU/Linux distributions > "Linux distribution" because that wrong term i

bug#25254: [minor] 'About' page says GuixSD is a "GNU/Linux distribution"

2016-12-23 Thread David Craven
> I don't think this is the place to discuss that particular issue at > large. That can be done on Wikipedia, or elsewhere. > I think the Guix project authors probably agree on GuixSD being defined > as a GNU distribution. The question is whether or not to make the About > page consistent with t

bug#25254: [minor] 'About' page says GuixSD is a "GNU/Linux distribution"

2016-12-23 Thread David Craven
> Using accurate terminology on Wikipedia is an intention of mine, and > changing the About page (and the FSF's endorsed distros page) not to > call GuixSD a GNU/Linux distro would help in that regard, but it's > arguably a petty issue so I don't intend to bother others with it. :-) > (And a guix b

bug#25254: [minor] 'About' page says GuixSD is a "GNU/Linux distribution"

2016-12-24 Thread David Craven
Please change to the GNU distribution. Or alternatively if you are going to say a GNU distribution provide a link to or an explanation of what it means. Calling it a GNU distribution implies that there are more than one, please provide an example of another GNU distribution. A google search for GNU

bug#25254: [minor] 'About' page says GuixSD is a "GNU/Linux distribution"

2016-12-24 Thread David Craven
> Please change to the GNU distribution. Or alternatively if you are > going to say a GNU distribution provide a link to or an explanation of > what it means. To be clear what I mean with a description, it could be one of the following: a) A GNU distribution is a distribution compiled with the gc

bug#25254: [minor] 'About' page says GuixSD is a "GNU/Linux

2016-12-25 Thread David Craven
> To David, the Guix developers had the intention to call the system just GNU, > and distribute it as GNU (Guix is a GNU project after all), but RMS didn't > agree, so it was decided to use the GuixSD name and call it "A distribution > of GNU", and not "THE distribution of GNU." [1] First I apprec

bug#25281: rust importer duplicates input

2016-12-27 Thread David Craven
Looking at the Cargo.toml file we see this: [target."cfg(unix)".dependencies] libc = "0.2.14" # Compat with older Cargo versions temporarily [target.x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.dependencies] libc = "0.2.14" [target.i686-unknown-linux-gnu.dependencies] libc = "0.2.14" [target.x86_64-apple-darwin.depen

bug#25281: rust importer duplicates input

2016-12-28 Thread David Craven
> Could the importer be changed to either ignore targets that don’t match > the current architecture or to uniquify the list of inputs? It could, but I don't see an advantage. It takes more than just removing duplicate inputs for the thing to build. I'd find time spent on a Cargo.lock parser (whic

bug#25278: Possible virus found in icecat-45.5.1

2017-01-03 Thread David Craven
> I'm hoping this is a false positive. I run Guix ontop of Gentoo and have also > found the same Trojan appearing in Firefox-related files in my home directory, > as well as in Wine directories (I didn't record the exact directories, but I > think they were something like ../drive_c/windows/sys

bug#25403: fsck.ext4 not found during boot

2017-01-08 Thread David Craven
Hi Alex, Can you run guix pull and guix system reconfigure? I think this was fixed in 9328eafbf590938d2b7c4b8c6476a8664fa052b7 back in Dez.

bug#22990: Grafts leads to inefficient substitute info retrieval

2017-01-11 Thread David Craven
> On second thought, the whole idea of applying grafts on the final result > (instead of applying grafts at each step like we do now) doesn’t fly. > It works well for things like a profile or the system derivation, but > breaks for less trivial things. > For example, if you’re building a VM image

bug#25449: GHC packages take a long time to install

2017-01-14 Thread David Craven
Hi, time guix build ghc-attoparsec warning: failed to install locale: Invalid argument substitute: warning: failed to install locale: Invalid argument /gnu/store/qb6y8294zp3la57y1hm02hyf2ck0giwp-ghc-attoparsec-0.13.0.1 $HOME/guix/pre-inst-env guix build ghc-attoparsec 252.59s user 37.52s system 9

bug#25449: GHC packages take a long time to install

2017-01-14 Thread David Craven
Hi Ludo! guix build idris -n works for me too. guix build idris --no-substitutes does this (which may be a problem on my end): guix build idris --no-substitutes warning: failed to install locale: Invalid argument @ build-started /gnu/store/85rrbgf0y77s1qwk9lw04gcf44nhw213-libxslt-1.1.29.tar.gz.dr

bug#25449: GHC packages take a long time to install

2017-01-17 Thread David Craven
> That script must be readable and executable by the guixbuild* users > (thus, its parent directories must be readable/executable as well). Mmh, it worked till recently... I did chmod a+x /home/dvc and it solved the permission denied problem on guix/nix/scripts/download. Thanks! But that doesn't