Re: installing a modified package

2014-09-23 Thread Mark H Weaver
Carlos Carleos writes: > I know I should be RTFM carefully, but... > > In Debian, I can follow these steps to customize a package (more or less): > > 1. # apt-get build-dep PACKAGE > > 2. $ apt-get source PACKAGE > > 3. $ cd PACKAGE-...; ...tweak...; dpkg-buildpackage... > > 4. # dpkg -i PACKAGE.

Re: Long-term Release Kernels

2014-09-23 Thread Mark H Weaver
"Jason Self" writes: > I was wondering what people though about whether or not there should > also be a long-term release kernel package (see the longterm section > at [0]) in addition to the current one which always tracks the latest > version? Yes, I think we should have this. Mark

Re: guix.el & multiple outputs

2014-09-23 Thread Alex Kost
Ludovic Courtès (2014-09-21 23:37 +0400) wrote: > Alex Kost skribis: > >> Ludovic Courtès (2014-09-07 01:11 +0400) wrote: >> >>> Taylan Ulrich Bayirli/Kammer skribis: >>> By the way, it might be nice to have an option to list the secondary outputs of a package explicitly alongside the

Re: [PATCH] emacs: Rewrite scheme side in a functional manner.

2014-09-23 Thread Alex Kost
Ludovic Courtès (2014-09-21 23:27 +0400) wrote: > Alex Kost skribis: > >> Ludovic Courtès (2014-09-20 18:11 +0400) wrote: [...] >>> Overall it looks OK. I’m concerned with code duplication between emacs/ >>> and guix/, though, and there are also a few stylistic issues, and >>> missing or terse

Re: Possible error in the manual?

2014-09-23 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2014 23 Sep 07:22 -0500, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Be aware that version X or Guix cannot contains a package of Guix > version X. So Guix 0.7 actually comes with a pre-0.7 snapshot. This > should be visible in the directory name in: > > readlink $(type -P guix) Embedded in the returned st

Re: GSettings schemas

2014-09-23 Thread Mark H Weaver
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Federico Beffa skribis: > >> I've found that setting the environment variable GSETTINGS_SCHEMA_DIR >> solves the problem. >> >> $ >> GSETTINGS_SCHEMA_DIR=/gnu/store/5shj344c9vrh4fx93r9lfjjrrr97fmjv-gtk+-3.10.1/share/glib-2.0/schemas >> emacs >> >> Can th

Re: installing a modified package

2014-09-23 Thread Thompson, David
2014-09-23 12:51 GMT-04:00 Carlos Carleos : > > Hi! > > I know I should be RTFM carefully, but... > > In Debian, I can follow these steps to customize a package (more or less): > > 1. # apt-get build-dep PACKAGE > > 2. $ apt-get source PACKAGE > > 3. $ cd PACKAGE-...; ...tweak...; dpkg-buildpackage

Re: installing a modified package

2014-09-23 Thread Jason Self
Carlos Carleos asked: > What would be the similar sequence for GUIX? Edit the package definition as appropriate to accomplish what you need to do? Make a new package definition that uses the old one as an input with whatever changes are needed? If the changes you're making would be generally usefu

installing a modified package

2014-09-23 Thread Carlos Carleos
Hi! I know I should be RTFM carefully, but... In Debian, I can follow these steps to customize a package (more or less): 1. # apt-get build-dep PACKAGE 2. $ apt-get source PACKAGE 3. $ cd PACKAGE-...; ...tweak...; dpkg-buildpackage... 4. # dpkg -i PACKAGE.deb What would be the similar sequ

[PATCH] gnu packages maxima: Update to 5.34.1 and fix dependencies

2014-09-23 Thread Federico Beffa
I would like to propose the attached patch for maxima. This updates it to version 5.34.1 which fixes an upstream bug in plot2d and friends. Also it fixes dependencies to gnuplot and tk. In preparing the patch I've observed the following: The build procedure (make) generates some temporary files.

Re: Possible error in the manual?

2014-09-23 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Nate Bargmann skribis: > * On 2014 23 Sep 05:09 -0500, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> Nate Bargmann skribis: >> >> > Running 'guix --version' returns "guix (GNU Guix) 0.7" ... >> >> Could it be that this is actually a pre-0.7 installation? Or perhaps >> ~/.config/guix/latest points to a pre-0.7 ve

Re: Possible error in the manual?

2014-09-23 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2014 23 Sep 05:09 -0500, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Nate Bargmann skribis: > > > Running 'guix --version' returns "guix (GNU Guix) 0.7" ... > > Could it be that this is actually a pre-0.7 installation? Or perhaps > ~/.config/guix/latest points to a pre-0.7 version? This option appeared > in

Re: problems with "guix pull"

2014-09-23 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Carlos Carleos skribis: > Hi! On a Ubuntu system I've tried "sudo guix pull --verbose" and obtained > this > ([...] used to shorten the output; warnings and errors left): [...] > compiling > '/gnu/store/8s2y6886rl6z79axbskyh17xd18xw5cq-guix-latest/gnu/packages/abiword.scm'... > [...] > compi

Re: Possible error in the manual?

2014-09-23 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Nate Bargmann skribis: > Reading through the Guix manual I am in section "3.2 Invoking guix > package" and tried the --show=package option. I receive the following > error from Guix: > > $ guix package --show=emacs > guix package error: show=emacs: unrecognized option > > Running 'gu