Re: python-3.3.5 test failures on i686 in core-updates

2014-09-16 Thread Mark H Weaver
I wrote: > Python-3.3.5 fails its test suite on i686. This turns out to be a bug in glibc-2.20. I've filed an upstream ticket here: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17398 Mark

guix pull

2014-09-16 Thread Federico Beffa
Hi, I've noticed that if I run "guix pull" from a directory where I do not have write permission I get an error: guix pull: error: mkstemp!: Permission denied Maybe it should be created in /tmp? Regards, Fede

Re: emacs package

2014-09-16 Thread Federico Beffa
On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 9:38 AM, Federico Beffa wrote: > On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 9:55 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> Federico Beffa skribis: >> >>> I've installed guix 0.7 and its emacs package (and updated with "guix >>> pull" and "guix package -u"). When I start emacs I get the following >>> me

python-3.3.5 test failures on i686 in core-updates

2014-09-16 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hello Guix, We're trying to get core-updates built, as it includes glibc-2.20 which includes fixes for a couple of CVEs, but we've run into a serious snag. Python-3.3.5 fails its test suite on i686. See: http://hydra.gnu.org/build/90159 http://hydra.gnu.org/build/90159/log/tail-reload I gue

Join the Guix hackathon, Sep. 27-28

2014-09-16 Thread Ludovic Courtès
The GNU Guix¹ project is organizing a hackathon on September 27th and 28th, 2014. The hackathon will take place primarily on-line, on the #guix channel on Freenode. We have started collecting a list of hacking ideas². Feel free to stop by on guix-devel@gnu.org and make more suggestions! The hac

Listing sub-system maintainers?

2014-09-16 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Guix! While discussing with a Debian developer at the GHM, it seemed like a good idea to start developing more “formal” rules now that Guix is small, in order to scale better in the future. Sometimes, we’ve seen patches on the list waiting for review for some time, or people feeling they h

Re: emacs package

2014-09-16 Thread Federico Beffa
On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 9:55 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Federico Beffa skribis: > >> I've installed guix 0.7 and its emacs package (and updated with "guix >> pull" and "guix package -u"). When I start emacs I get the following >> message: >> >> Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-m