Re: Idea: setting up a company [formerly 'ethical hosting' [formerly mailman service (free for FOSS projects)]]

2017-04-19 Thread Pjotr Prins
> For the record, YunoHost develops such a Web interface that allows > people to select services to run on their machine: > > https://yunohost.org/ > > It’s designed to drive a Debian system, but I guess making something > similar for GuixSD would be easier. We could have Exim, Mailman, > Medi

Re: grub with qemu-kvm server fail

2017-04-19 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hello ng0, On April 19, 2017 5:14:13 PM PDT, ng0 wrote: >Hi, > >I already contacted the hoster support, but maybe someone has an idea. > >Upon initing GuixSD from a minimal Debian base, I get stuck at this >point >about GRUB. The server is aparently a qemu -> kvm one. > >guix system: warning: whi

Re: Services can now have a default value

2017-04-19 Thread Carlo Zancanaro
Hey Ludo, On Wed, Apr 19 2017, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > It used to be that we would write ‘-service’ procedures. Then when (gnu > services) was added, each of these procedures would boil down to: > > (define (foo-service #:key (foo foo) (number 42)) > (service foo-service-type >

grub with qemu-kvm server fail

2017-04-19 Thread ng0
Hi, I already contacted the hoster support, but maybe someone has an idea. Upon initing GuixSD from a minimal Debian base, I get stuck at this point about GRUB. The server is aparently a qemu -> kvm one. guix system: warning: while talking to shepherd: No such file or directory Installing for i3

Re: Services can now have a default value

2017-04-19 Thread ng0
Ricardo Wurmus transcribed 0.9K bytes: > > ng0 writes: > > > Before I lock myself out, this is the definition for defaults. > > So: > > (service openssh-service-type > > (openssh-configuration > > (port-number 12121))) > > > > becomes: > > (service openssh-service-type >

Re: [staging] Mesa FTBFS on 32-bit architectures

2017-04-19 Thread Leo Famulari
On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 02:17:20AM +0200, Marius Bakke wrote: > Oops, that is indeed the commit in my patch earlier. Not sure what went > wrong with the copy-paste! Haha, oops! Looks like we both charged ahead trying to fix this :) signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Idea: mailman service (free for FOSS projects)

2017-04-19 Thread ng0
Ludovic Courtès transcribed 1.1K bytes: > Heya! > > Pjotr Prins skribis: > > > I am thinking in this age of VPS' we could create a deployable Guix > > instance which people can roll out by themselves with some guarantee > > that it is safe and secure. There are also organisations willing to > >

Re: Services can now have a default value

2017-04-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! Carlo Zancanaro skribis: > I have a question related to this, but about a broader issue. > > On Sat, Apr 15 2017, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> (service openssh-service-type) > > Is this supposed to be the preferred way to add a service to your > operating system? Or, put another way, as a ser

Re: UEFI support in boot image

2017-04-19 Thread Marius Bakke
Ludovic Courtès writes: >> @@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ the #:references-graphs parameter of 'derivation'." >>(sizepartition-size) >>(file-system partition-file-system (default "ext4")) >>(label partition-label (default #f)) >> - (bootable? partition-bootable? (default #f)) >>

Re: texlive texmf hash value incorrect?

2017-04-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Danny Milosavljevic skribis: > so I've downloaded approximately 6 GB of texlive today and it always fails at > the verification of the hash value: > > Starting download of > /gnu/store/xdjl5wxdjghq85nbc9qacgyzh8d54f6y-texlive-20160523b-texmf.tar.xz > From > ftp://tug.org/historic/systems/

Re: Idea: 'ethical hosting' [formerly mailman service (free for FOSS projects)]

2017-04-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Pjotr Prins skribis: > This is one example for hosting mailman: https://www.mailmanhost.com/. > They host it on some other VPS service. > > What I want to do is provide something similar with a slick web > interface where people click on a service, say a VPS with mailman, > configure it and launc

Re: GuixSD on servers [Fwd: [rtracker.1984.is #131647] A question about VServer system specific requirements]

2017-04-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Heya, Chris Marusich skribis: > I've been looking into this off and on over the last few weeks, but I > haven't made any breakthroughs. The closest I got was this: > > 1) Create a disk image for testing: > > ./pre-inst-env guix system --root=/tmp/disk-image-gc-root --fallback > disk-image ~/

Re: Idea: mailman service (free for FOSS projects)

2017-04-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Heya! Pjotr Prins skribis: > I am thinking in this age of VPS' we could create a deployable Guix > instance which people can roll out by themselves with some guarantee > that it is safe and secure. There are also organisations willing to > fork out some money to outsource their mailing lists. Ba

Re: potluck in the house

2017-04-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Andy Wingo skribis: > On Fri 14 Apr 2017 14:54, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > >>> I think we should make it so that the lower-potluck-package process >>> prefers "core" packages if available, and only goes to the channel if >>> the core does not provide a package matching the specifica

Re: UEFI support in boot image

2017-04-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Marius! Marius Bakke skribis: > I've attached a few patches as a humble beginning, but currently the > "format-partition" code in (gnu build vm) needs to learn some > filesystem-specific parameters. So, I don't think it will be ready for > the upcoming release. > > I have also done some readi

Re: 01/02: gnu: libressl: Update to 2.5.3.

2017-04-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Mark H Weaver skribis: > Leo Famulari writes: > >> On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 05:08:29PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >>> A simple approach is to force LibreSSL to always use its non-getentropy >>> code, and lift this restriction once we clearly require newer kernels¹. >>> The attached patch does

Extending the mysql configuration

2017-04-19 Thread Christopher Baines
Hey, Does anyone have any advice about making the mysql service configuration more flexible? At the moment, its not even possible to use a custom configuration file without modifying the Guix source code. My initial thoughts revolved around at some level providing access to a data structure like:

Re: Services can now have a default value

2017-04-19 Thread ng0
Carlo Zancanaro transcribed 1.7K bytes: > I have a question related to this, but about a broader issue. > > On Sat, Apr 15 2017, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > (service openssh-service-type) > > Is this supposed to be the preferred way to add a service to your > operating system? Or, put another wa

Re: Services can now have a default value

2017-04-19 Thread Carlo Zancanaro
I have a question related to this, but about a broader issue. On Sat, Apr 15 2017, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > (service openssh-service-type) Is this supposed to be the preferred way to add a service to your operating system? Or, put another way, as a service writer: should I consider a *-service-

texlive texmf hash value incorrect?

2017-04-19 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi, so I've downloaded approximately 6 GB of texlive today and it always fails at the verification of the hash value: Starting download of /gnu/store/xdjl5wxdjghq85nbc9qacgyzh8d54f6y-texlive-20160523b-texmf.tar.xz From ftp://tug.org/historic/systems/texlive/2016/texlive-20160523b-texmf.tar.xz.

Re: emacs-build-system installs too many files

2017-04-19 Thread Arun Isaac
> I think it would be really great if you will give it a try. I have a work in progress patch implementing the ideas discussed. https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=26559

Re: emacs-build-system installs too many files

2017-04-19 Thread Arun Isaac
> I think it would be really great if you will give it a try. I have a work in progress patch implementing the ideas discussed. https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=26559