Source tarballs from PyPI versus tarballs from the individual project websites

When packaging python packages, why are we using the source tarballs hosted on PyPI, rather than using the source tarballs hosted on the websites of the individual projects? For example, for the package python-pycrypto, why are we using the tarball from PyPI https://pypi.python.org/packages/sourc

GNU IceCat 45 beta now available in Guix

Hello Guix, I'm pleased to announce the availability of GNU IceCat 45.3.0-gnu1-beta with selected fixes cherry-picked from upstream, including all security fixes introduced in Firefox ESR 45.4.0, specifically: CVE-2016-5250 - Resource Timing API is storing resources sent by th

Re: CPU-specific builds

Ben Woodcroft skribis: > On 02/10/16 23:33, Ludovic Courtès wrote: [...] >>> So I'm wondering if there is some way to specify a system more >>> specific than 'X86_64'? I tried simply adding '--with-arch=haswell' as >>> a configure argument in gcc-4.9 so that flag became the default for >>> gcc

Re: Patches to implement system roll-back and switch-generation

Hello, Chris Marusich skribis: > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: [...] >> Sorry about that! Hopefully we can work around the conflicts. > > I think we can. But I think it will require backwards incompatible > changes to the boot parameters file. Here's why: > > Many of the existing p

Re: [PATCH (4)] gnu: Add NFS related services. (minor improvements to documentation; Added test to ensure that pipefs mount/umount succeeded()

Hi, John Darrington skribis: > Yet another patch. Here I check that the mount/umount succeeds by testing > that > /var/lib/nfs/pipefs is a member of the list returned by (mount-points). OK. > Regarding Ludo's suggestion to use a filesystem extention a la elogind - I > have > looked into th

Re: [PATCH 2/5] gnu: python-pytest-xdist: Remove python byte-code files from source.

On Mon, 10 Oct 2016 15:10:00 +0200 Hartmut Goebel wrote: > +'(begin > + ;; Source archive contains .pyc files > + (for-each delete-file-recursively > + (find-files "." "__pychache__" #:directories? #t))

Re: Contents of /etc/hosts

Hello! John Darrington skribis: > On Wed, Oct 05, 2016 at 10:17:14PM +0200, Ludovic Court??s wrote: > Hi! > > John Darrington skribis: > > > So ... my recommendations: > > > > 1. We change /etc/hosts to read > > > > > > 127.0.0.1 localhost.lo

Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] Add GCC cross compiler for arm-none-eabi.

Hi Ricardo, diff --git a/gnu/packages/patches/gcc-6-arm-none-eabi-multilib.patch b/gnu/packages/patches/gcc-6-arm-none-eabi-multilib.patch new file mode 100644 index 000..442f52b --- /dev/null +++ b/gnu/packages/patches/gcc-6-arm-none-eabi-multilib.patch @@ -0,0 +1,201 @@ +From Anatol Pomoz

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Build and install xonsh docs.

Hi Ludo, On Sun, 09 Oct 2016 23:59:15 +0200 l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote: > Is the URL change intended? Is it needed? If so, please add a comment > above as to why the github.com tarball is preferred. Yes. The github URL contains the docs, the other doesn't. > Am I missing another pat

Re: [PATCH 2/2] gnu: Add bluefish.

Hello, some help to check my procedure is correct?. If you do not have a branch, do the follwoing: git checkout -b gnome-bluefish # search for your two patches, e.g using "git reflog | grep gunimap" and "git reflog | grep bluefish" git cherry-pick abcdefg # use commit-id of gunimap patch git

Redis security fix release 3.2.4 now available

I just pushed an update to our Redis package (commit 5f4194f68728531f09596bb359c58addf86efc5e) to address a security vulnerability which has been out for 16 days: https://github.com/antirez/redis/commit/6d9f8e2462fc2c426d48c941edeb78e5df7d2977 The set of people using Redis provided by Guix o

[PATCH] gnu: Add mlmmj.

* gnu/packages/mail.scm (mlmmj): New variable. --- gnu/packages/mail.scm | 52 +++ 1 file changed, 52 insertions(+) diff --git a/gnu/packages/mail.scm b/gnu/packages/mail.scm index baa5a96..fc0d8e5 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/mail.scm +++ b/gnu/packag

[PATCH] gnu: Add mlmmj.

* gnu/packages/mail.scm (mlmmj): New variable. --- gnu/packages/mail.scm | 52 +++ 1 file changed, 52 insertions(+) diff --git a/gnu/packages/mail.scm b/gnu/packages/mail.scm index baa5a96..1d732f5 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/mail.scm +++ b/gnu/packag

[PATCH] Add mlmmj (Mlmmj — Mailing List Management Made Joyful)

In the absence of a functional environment this is assumed to work when one of us will create a service which populates /var/ etc accordingly OR if the bash scripts for list creation just work. I would test it myself, but right now I can only testify that the build works. Setting it up on a ser

Re: [PATCH] Add scheme-bytestructures

l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Hi Amirouche, > > Some comments to complement Kei’s. > > Kei Kebreau skribis: > >> Amirouche Boubekki writes: >> >>> Warning: scheme-bytestructures works on various implementation of Scheme >>> but this patch adds >>> it only for guile-2.0. >>> >>> This

Re: Security updates (was Re: texmaker, Qt and Chromium)

Leo Famulari writes: > On Sat, Oct 08, 2016 at 10:55:45AM +0200, Danny Milosavljevic wrote: >> One of the reasons I'm using distributions rather than just >> ./configure ; make ; make install is that distributors stay on top of >> security problems and disable and/or patch packages as problems ar

Re: [PATCH] Update e-mail address for ng0.

ng0 (2016-10-10 15:03 +) wrote: > Alex Kost writes: > >> ng0 (2016-10-10 12:31 +) wrote: [...] >>> Additional question: is this incomplete? Do I have to add >>> ng0 >>> to this list aswell? >> >> You can check with "git --no-pager shortlog -nse". I'm not sure I >> follow the changes wit

[PATCH] gnu: Add hdf4

Hi Guix, this patch continues the work done by Jeremy Robst to package HDF4 (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-06/msg00069.html) - Back then, people reported occasional build failures. I've disabled parallel tests and don't have any problems on my system anymore (maybe so

Re: [WIP 0/9] python-build-system set 1: please review

Am 10.10.2016 um 16:57 schrieb Hartmut Goebel: > If you want to test > the complet patch set, please use the branch at > https://gitlab.com/htgoebel/guix/tree/python-build-system. Please note that this branch *may* change frequently if I update clean up commits. -- Regards Hartmut Goebel | Hart

Re: [WIP 0/9] python-build-system set 1: please review

Hi, > this is the first set of patches for the changed python-build-system. I was asked about the big plan on these commits. The original proposal to this changes can be found at . And this change sets implement *A1) Change the

Re: Display diffs between generations.

Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hi Roel! > > I realized we have not applied this --list-generations patch of yours, > which is a pity. So… > > Roel Janssen skribis: > >> Vincent Legoll writes: >> >>> On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 2:12 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: --list-generations=full >