Re: Package test service for GNU maintainers

2014-08-18 Thread John Darrington
On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 04:53:52PM +0200, Ludovic Court??s wrote: Hello! As a part of a discussion about ???cool features for GNU maintainers??? at the GHM, someone (Andreas, IIRC) suggested having a service (possibly a Web service) that would allow maintainers to upload t

Re: Package test service for GNU maintainers

2014-08-18 Thread Jason Self
Since GNU maintainers (in theory) already upload their stuff to ftp.gnu.org or alpha.gnu.org using that file triplet it might be nice if something could be worked into their existing workflow. Perhaps new commands in the directive file to do the things you describe? This would probably require coor

Re: How to include Guix 0.8 in Guix 0.8

2014-08-18 Thread Ludovic Courtès
m...@netris.org skribis: > At present, every version of Guix always contains an older version of > itself. We needed a post-0.7 version of Guix to create a USB installer > that contains Guix-0.7, but unfortunately it installs an older version > of Guix on the hard drive. If you then use the vers

Referencing native builds from gexps

2014-08-18 Thread Ludovic Courtès
I’m pushing a commit that adds support for new unquote forms for g-expressions: ‘ungexp-native’ or #+, and ‘ungexp-native-splicing’ or #+@. Note that this changes the ABI so make sure to run: make clean-go && make The rationale is given in the manual: --8<---cut here--

Package test service for GNU maintainers

2014-08-18 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! As a part of a discussion about “cool features for GNU maintainers” at the GHM, someone (Andreas, IIRC) suggested having a service (possibly a Web service) that would allow maintainers to upload their (pre)release tarballs and then get some feedback: • If the package is not available in

Re: Problems when trying to install a package via guile API

2014-08-18 Thread Thompson, David
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 11:13 AM, Mark H Weaver wrote: > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > >> David Thompson skribis: >> >>> ERROR: In procedure #: >>> ERROR: Wrong type to apply: # >>> >>>0 (# #>> /gnu/store/mq7cx62…>) >> >> This looks like a miscompilation issue: it seems tha

Re: Problems when trying to install a package via guile API

2014-08-18 Thread Mark H Weaver
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > David Thompson skribis: > >> ERROR: In procedure #: >> ERROR: Wrong type to apply: # >> >>0 (# #> /gnu/store/mq7cx62…>) > > This looks like a miscompilation issue: it seems that the module where > that happens didn’t have the ‘derivation?’ macr