Re: bug#28211: Grafting fails for latest Go release candidate

2017-08-23 Thread Mark H Weaver
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Marius Bakke skribis: > >> Most likely just lucky, new grafting failure today. >> >> I've noticed they are more likely to occur when the host system is busy. >> Grafting a large package such as 'texlive' is almost guaranteed to fail >> on a fully-utilized

Re: On packaging old versions of libraries

2017-08-23 Thread Mike Gerwitz
On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 00:20:34 +0200, Roel Janssen wrote: > Regardless of whether older versions of libraries would be accepted > upstream, you can also keep them in a separate repository or directory > and use the environment variable GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH to include them in Right, I just want my e

Re: Grafting fails for latest Go release candidate

2017-08-23 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Marius Bakke skribis: > Most likely just lucky, new grafting failure today. > > I've noticed they are more likely to occur when the host system is busy. > Grafting a large package such as 'texlive' is almost guaranteed to fail > on a fully-utilized machine. > > Maybe we should switch back to 2.0

Re: On packaging old versions of libraries

2017-08-23 Thread Roel Janssen
Mike Gerwitz writes: > There is a game my kids love playing named Secret Mayro > Chronicles. Unfortunately, it's been unmaintained since 2012, and it > was removed from Debian because it is no longer compatible with newer > versions of libraries they package.[0] There is a maintained fork of >

Re: Software Heritage API

2017-08-23 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Mon, Feb 06, 2017 at 10:34:17AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hello Guix! > > I couldn’t attend the Software Heritage talk at FOSDEM, but they had > good news: > > https://www.softwareheritage.org/2017/02/04/archive-api/ > > The API is currently limited to meta-data (retrieving the actual

QT install and search paths

2017-08-23 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Hi, I'm currently working on the build of KDE's plasma-desktop. When strac-ing the tets, I dicoverd that plaugins are searched in /gnu/store/…-qtbase-5.9.1/plugins/… while most of the KDE program use /gnu/store/…-plasma-workspace-5.10.4/lib/plugins/… (mind the additional `lib`) wh

On packaging old versions of libraries

2017-08-23 Thread Mike Gerwitz
There is a game my kids love playing named Secret Mayro Chronicles. Unfortunately, it's been unmaintained since 2012, and it was removed from Debian because it is no longer compatible with newer versions of libraries they package.[0] There is a maintained fork of the game, but it's quite differen

Re: Optionally using more advanced CPU features

2017-08-23 Thread Dave Love
ludovic.cour...@inria.fr (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Hi, > > Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > >> I was wondering how we should go about optionally building software for >> more advanced CPU features. Currently, we build software for the lowest >> common feature set among x86_64 CPUs. That’s good for p

missing licence files and incomplete licence lists

2017-08-23 Thread Dave Love
I realize that a lot of packages don't include licence files (e.g. glibc). I'd mistakenly assumed that was automated according to the "license" fields. Also, some license fields aren't complete -- compare glibc's lgpl with the contents of Debian's libc6 "copyright" file, which includes gpl, bsd,

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add mongodb.

2017-08-23 Thread Christopher Baines
On Thu, 17 Mar 2016 16:08:24 +0100 Roel Janssen wrote: > Dear Guix, > > This is a patch to add MongoDB (server and client) tools. I used a > three-line patch to fix the build process's reliance on Git and the > .git/ directory. Hey, I've now created bug #28198 with a slightly modified version

Re: GRUB EFI installation breakage

2017-08-23 Thread Andy Wingo
On Wed 23 Aug 2017 00:25, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Marius Bakke skribis: > >> Ludovic Courtès writes: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> To reconfigure my system on UEFI, I had to apply this patch: >>> >>> modified gnu/bootloader/grub.scm >>> @@ -401,7 +401,8 @@ submenu \"GNU system, old co