Re: [PATCH] gnu: grub: Add patch to fix new version of freetype

2015-03-05 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Tomáš Čech skribis: > * gnu/packages/patches/grub-freetype.patch: New file. > * gnu-system.am (dist_patch_DATA): Add the patch. > * gnu/packages/grub.scm (grub): Apply new patch. Please push! Thanks, Ludo’.

Re: libarchive fails tests on i686

2015-03-05 Thread Andreas Enge
On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 11:54:42PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > > In linuxfromscratch, libarchive is only mentioned as "recommended" to build > > cmake: > >http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/general/cmake.html > > So maybe we could take it out from the cmake inputs? > > I do not k

Re: RFC: Build system hacks for Guix do not belong in 'source'

2015-03-05 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Mark H Weaver skribis: > >> I don't think we should be making these kinds of changes in 'snippets'. >> >> When I ask for the source code via "guix build -S ", I expect >> freedom fixes and other bug fixes, and maybe even enhancements needed >> for Guix that would also w

Re: [PATCH] Add tree.

2015-03-05 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Alex Sassmannshausen skribis: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >>> I wasn't sure whether I should put it in another file (it's a tiny >>> package). >> >> Similar tools (like ‘dfc’) ended up into admin.scm, though it’s not >> perfectly right. I think we need a module for “this kind of tool,” but >> I’

Re: libarchive fails tests on i686

2015-03-05 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Andreas Enge writes: > On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 10:47:53AM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: >> libarchive has not yet been built for i686 on hydra, so there are no >> binary substitutes available. The failure to build libarchive blocks >> other packages such as qt. > > It is a bit strange that we sho

Re: [GNUnet-developers] Guix + GNUnet at GSoC?

2015-03-05 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Christian, Christian Grothoff skribis: > Yes, I think we should. MESH (now CADET) is much further along and the > API is stable. I also don't see any other significant roadblocks. OK. I gather from a recent Mumble meeting report that a new release is in the works, right? > 1) Transfer

Re: RFC: Build system hacks for Guix do not belong in 'source'

2015-03-05 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Mark H Weaver skribis: > I don't think we should be making these kinds of changes in 'snippets'. > > When I ask for the source code via "guix build -S ", I expect > freedom fixes and other bug fixes, and maybe even enhancements needed > for Guix that would also work fine on other systems (e.g. ad

Re: [GNUnet-developers] Guix + GNUnet at GSoC?

2015-03-05 Thread Christian Grothoff
Hi Ludo, Yes, I think we should. MESH (now CADET) is much further along and the API is stable. I also don't see any other significant roadblocks. Nevertheless, I agree that we should have some more design discussions, as I can still imagine many ways how one _might_ do this -- and in any case we

Re: [GSoC] Introduction + question about dmd

2015-03-05 Thread Jonas Rebmann
Hi, I contacted Ludo about the DHCP client just before I noticed this conversation. I'm interested in making it my gsoc project as well. I'm an undergraduate in computer science in Germany, I'm a bit into free software and I'm especially interested in making my gsoc for the gnu project. Would it b

Re: [PATCH 01/15] gnu: gtk-xfce-engine: Update to 2.10.0.

2015-03-05 Thread Mark H Weaver
Andreas Enge writes: > On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 01:06:30AM -0500, Mark H Weaver wrote: >> I think 宋文武 should push this commit. > > Yes. Unfortunately, automatic upgrades will be broken, so people need to > think of doing them manually. If they installed 'gtk-xfce-engine' directly, that is true.

Re: RFC: Build system hacks for Guix do not belong in 'source'

2015-03-05 Thread Thompson, David
On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Mark H Weaver wrote: > I don't think we should be making these kinds of changes in 'snippets'. > > When I ask for the source code via "guix build -S ", I expect > freedom fixes and other bug fixes, and maybe even enhancements needed > for Guix that would also work

Re: [GSoC] Introduction + question about dmd

2015-03-05 Thread Rohan Prinja
Hi Jonas, I have no problems with teaming up. Like you, this project is my foremost focus for GSoC but I'm also looking at other/related projects. Let's wait for Ludo to confirm/deny that we are allowed to team up. Regards, Rohan On 5 March 2015 at 19:14, Jonas Rebmann wrote: > Hi, > > I conta

RFC: Build system hacks for Guix do not belong in 'source'

2015-03-05 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi Ricardo, Thanks for investigating. Please see below for comments. Ricardo Wurmus writes: > From f5e35f488fd1b4f5d916476d7c522783809b0f82 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Ricardo Wurmus > Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 11:50:26 +0100 > Subject: [PATCH 1/2] gnu: zita-alsa-pcmi: set LIBDIR to "lib". >

Re: [GSoC] Introduction + question about dmd

2015-03-05 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Rohan Prinja skribis: > The project I'm interested in working on for GNU GSoC this year is to > implement a DHCP client library in Guile. The end result, as I discussed > with Ludovic, would be a package installable via Guix. This would make > available a command roughly equivalent to ISC

Re: libarchive fails tests on i686

2015-03-05 Thread Andreas Enge
On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 10:47:53AM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > libarchive has not yet been built for i686 on hydra, so there are no > binary substitutes available. The failure to build libarchive blocks > other packages such as qt. It is a bit strange that we should depend on bsdtar and bsdcpi

libarchive fails tests on i686

2015-03-05 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Guix, libarchive fails two tests in tar/test/test_option_b. Here is the test output: test_option_b tar/test/test_option_b.c:41: File archive1.tar has size 3072, expected 2048 Description: bsdtar does not pad archives written directly to regular files tar/test/test_option_b.c:63: F

Re: [PATCH] Add djvulibre.

2015-03-05 Thread Paul van der Walt
On 2015-03-04 at 21:52, quoth Ludovic Courtès: >> I had just realised Ludo suggested djvu.scm, so i was modifying that, >> but ebook is also fine by me. > > I’m fine either way. (I’m more concerned about you becoming tired > before you finally commit the thing. ;-)) Haha, yeah. Thanks for all t

[PATCH] gnu: Add htsjdk.

2015-03-05 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
>From 8ead8074142f1a2e0d11d8a8eaf64b6707925467 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ricardo Wurmus Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2015 10:24:12 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add htsjdk. * gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm (htsjdk): New variable. --- gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm | 46 +

Re: [PATCH 3/3] gnu: Add ghc.

2015-03-05 Thread Federico Beffa
On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 1:24 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> Somehow find-files appears to have problems with a file. This happens >> even if I install the en_US.UTF-8 locale: > > [...] > >>?: 1 [regexp-exec # "hello\x00 world\n" 0 0] >> In ice-9/boot-9.scm: >> 106: 0 [#> args)> misc-error ...]

[PATCH] gnu: grub: Add patch to fix new version of freetype

2015-03-05 Thread Tomáš Čech
* gnu/packages/patches/grub-freetype.patch: New file. * gnu-system.am (dist_patch_DATA): Add the patch. * gnu/packages/grub.scm (grub): Apply new patch. --- gnu-system.am| 1 + gnu/packages/grub.scm| 3 ++- gnu/packages/patches/grub-freetype.patch

[PATCH] gnu: Add fdupes.

2015-03-05 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
>From 76b47d095af6e564175bef660ecb99b0be67b41f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ricardo Wurmus Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2015 08:30:46 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add fdupes. * gnu/packages/admin.scm (fdupes): New variable. --- gnu/packages/admin.scm | 26 ++ 1 file changed, 26 inse