Re: Join the Guix hackathon, Sep. 27-28

2014-09-26 Thread Jason Self
Andreas Enge said: > I am not quite sure what google hangout is, but it sounds a lot like > a proprietary software as a service. So I do not think that would be > in line with the gnu philosophy... You got it right. Other options are available for screen sharing that are free software. There are

Re: wrap-program

2014-09-26 Thread Federico Beffa
On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 10:09 PM, Federico Beffa wrote: > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > >> Mark H Weaver skribis: >> >>> This 'wrap-program' strategy of setting environment variables before >>> running a program has problems. In this case, it means that every >>> program run within Em

Re: Serious Bash security vulnerabilities

2014-09-26 Thread Ludovic Courtès
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis: > the other three patches I'm aware of are: > http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/att-690/eol-pushback.patch > (from Chet), > http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/att-712/parse-oob-4_2.patch > (seems non-contro

Re: wrap-program

2014-09-26 Thread Federico Beffa
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Mark H Weaver skribis: > >> This 'wrap-program' strategy of setting environment variables before >> running a program has problems. In this case, it means that every >> program run within Emacs will inherit that GSETTINGS_SCHEMA_DIR value. >> >> Along the

Re: Join the Guix hackathon, Sep. 27-28

2014-09-26 Thread Pjotr Prins
If there is an alternative I am all ears. Pj. On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 07:33:47PM +0200, Andreas Enge wrote: > On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 07:29:48PM +0200, Pjotr Prins wrote: > > If we are not to many, maybe we could monitor your hacking through a > > shared Google hangout screen? It would be quite h

Re: Join the Guix hackathon, Sep. 27-28

2014-09-26 Thread Andreas Enge
On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 07:29:48PM +0200, Pjotr Prins wrote: > If we are not to many, maybe we could monitor your hacking through a > shared Google hangout screen? It would be quite helpful to me to see > what you are doing. I have too many things I wish to achieve, but if I > could get comfortable

Re: Join the Guix hackathon, Sep. 27-28

2014-09-26 Thread Pjotr Prins
Hi Ludo, If we are not to many, maybe we could monitor your hacking through a shared Google hangout screen? It would be quite helpful to me to see what you are doing. I have too many things I wish to achieve, but if I could get comfortable with the development environment I would consider that a g

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

2014-09-26 Thread Federico Beffa
On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 9:12 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Federico Beffa skribis: > >> I've found that the doc and emacs ".el" files were not installed in >> the right place. Also >> I've worked out how to set the full gnuplot path in the default >> startup configuration file. >> Now plotting wor

Re: Join the Guix hackathon, Sep. 27-28

2014-09-26 Thread Ludovic Courtès
The hackathon is tomorrow! Make sure to look at , edit it, etc. I plan to be on #guix around 8AM UTC (10AM CEST), see you there! Ludo’.

Re: Guix gc removing important packages?

2014-09-26 Thread Andreas Enge
On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 01:26:20PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > The derivation that builds the profile uses Guile, like almost all the > derivations. And since we just merged the bash-cve-2014-6271 branch, it > depends on the new Guile build, which isn’t yet in your store. Hence > the long dow

Re: Guix gc removing important packages?

2014-09-26 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Andreas Enge skribis: > Then I wanted to delete one package: > guix package -r texlive > > This resulted in the following output: > The following package will be removed: >texlive 2013 > /gnu/store/in5hhsj3335k1mkdq15y855mya430c6v-texlive-2013 > > The following derivations will be

Guix gc removing important packages?

2014-09-26 Thread Andreas Enge
I just did the following: guix package -d guix gc to have only the current profile and its packages on my disk. Then I wanted to delete one package: guix package -r texlive This resulted in the following output: The following package will be removed: texlive 2013/gnu/store/in5hhs

Re: Serious Bash security vulnerabilities

2014-09-26 Thread Ludovic Courtès
We’ve decided to merge the ‘bash-cve-2014-6271’ branch: it’s an incomplete fix, but it’s already an improvement, and it’s completely built on Hydra for x86. As for what’s next, quoting Mark on IRC: the other three patches I'm aware of are: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/att-69