Trouble with DHCP and GuixSD in a VM

2017-05-25 Thread Peter Baumgarten
Hello everyone, I am following along with the steps to get GuixSD installed in a VM here https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/guix.html#Installing-GuixSD-in-a-VM and I am stuck on getting the VM to have internet access. It is able to get an ip address but pinging gnu.org or google.com does

Re: What’s next?

2017-05-25 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
I think we can try either using: - ISO dates: [Full year number]-[Two digit month number]-[Two digit day number]T[Two digit hour in 24-hour clock]:[Two digit minutes]:[Two digit seconds] - A numeric sufix: Like "latest.1" for the first generation, "latest.2" for the second, and so on, and "

Re: What’s next?

2017-05-25 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Chris Marusich writes: > Leo Famulari writes: > >> So, I use and recommend `guix pull`! > > I use it too. Statements by others in this thread that "nobody" uses it > or that "everyone" is using Git are mistaken. > > I use Git when I want to hack on Guix. Otherwise, I use 'guix pull'. > IMO, t

Re: Upcoming OpenSSL updates

2017-05-25 Thread Marius Bakke
Leo Famulari writes: >> I’m surprised that they announce bug-fix-only releases in this way. > > Me too. I can't figure out how to construct a link to GitHub that will > list the commits in this release; there are 111 commits. The only thing > the OpenSSL maintainers put in 'CHANGES': Here is the

Re: Upcoming OpenSSL updates

2017-05-25 Thread Leo Famulari
On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 01:39:17PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Leo Famulari skribis: > > I thought about it some more, and now I'm not so sure we should start > > grafting non-security related bug fixes, in general. For this case, > > let's see what the changes are. > > Same here. I think we

Re: What’s next?

2017-05-25 Thread Leo Famulari
On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 07:57:41AM -0700, Chris Marusich wrote: > I use Git when I want to hack on Guix. Otherwise, I use 'guix pull'. > IMO, the biggest problem with 'guix pull' is that there is no easy > rollback. I can live with long execution times (--fallback is fine, but > it'd be nice if s

Re: Packaging mathjax and other javascript libraries

2017-05-25 Thread Pjotr Prins
On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 10:30:25PM +0530, Arun Isaac wrote: > There are so many javascript libraries out there -- mathjax, d3.js, > jquery, etc, etc. Packaging them would be extremely useful for > self-hosting. But, we need to agree on good practices, so that we don't > run into trouble later. Goo

Packaging mathjax and other javascript libraries

2017-05-25 Thread Arun Isaac
A couple of days back, I submitted a patch packaging mathjax. My conversations with Brendan there raised some more general questions. So, I'm posting here for wider visibility. https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=27049 The patch I submitted simply extracts the mathjax tarball into /sha

[PATCH] git-download: Fix 'git-predicate' to use absolute paths.

2017-05-25 Thread Christopher Baines
git ls-files will return paths relative to the repository directory. This commit prepends the repository directory to those paths when calling lstat, such that 'git-predicate' works if the current working directory is not the repository directory. * guix/git-download.scm (git-predicate): Prepend r

Re: What’s next?

2017-05-25 Thread Chris Marusich
Leo Famulari writes: > So, I use and recommend `guix pull`! I use it too. Statements by others in this thread that "nobody" uses it or that "everyone" is using Git are mistaken. I use Git when I want to hack on Guix. Otherwise, I use 'guix pull'. IMO, the biggest problem with 'guix pull' is t

Re: What???s next?

2017-05-25 Thread Pjotr Prins
On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 05:45:39PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote: > [1] `guix pull` verifies the certificate of > against the Let's Encrypt trust chain *only*. This brings up another annoyance. Before a first 'git pull' as a newbie you have to go through a number of steps which are, arguably, redunda