Re: Proposal: auto-instantiate services with a default value

Hello! l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis: > We discussed some time ago the possibility to automatically instantiate > services. Now that service types have default value, I think it’s a > viable approach: if a service is required, and *if* it provides a > default value, then we can automati

Re: core-updates, let’s go!

Leo Famulari writes: > On Mon, Jan 01, 2018 at 06:12:49PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> We’ll have to stay focused in the coming days to fix everything as >> quickly as we can. > > The latest core-updates evaluation is coming together [0], but there are > still a few notable issues: > > * Pand

Re: Errors encountered in building guix from source.

On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 08:16:04PM +, Fis Trivial wrote: > I am currently running guix on top of Fedora 26. This is a mix of several > problems, and possibly contains bugs in guix, I am not sure if I have done > anything wrong. So I will try to describe them in order. If you believe I > should

[PATCHES] gnu: linux-libre: Full retpoline support on x86 [spectre mitigation]

Here are two patches that: * Add gcc-7.3.0-RC-20180117, which includes support for retpoline. * Use gcc-7.3 to build linux-libre on x86 systems. I'm currently running linux-libre-4.14.14 with full retpoline support: mhw@jojen ~$ cd /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities mhw@jojen /sys/devic

Errors encountered in building guix from source.

I am currently running guix on top of Fedora 26. This is a mix of several problems, and possibly contains bugs in guix, I am not sure if I have done anything wrong. So I will try to describe them in order. If you believe I should make separate threads or fill a bug report, just tell me to. I trie

Re: Prevent native-inputs references ending up in the final binary

Danny, Danny Milosavljevic wrote on 20/01/18 at 11:40: > We should change that in core-updates-next, if possible. > > I think that native-inputs shouldn't end up in the final binary as a > reference [...] This has been discussed before, and I agree. (I started a branch to do so but it breaks qui

Re: Let’s meet before FOSDEM!

On Tue, 07 Nov 2017 14:39:53 +0100 l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote: > We could meet for the whole day, in a place that remains to be defined, > to discuss about all things Guix{,SD}. The event could be a mixture of > short talks on specific topics, discussions on technical and less > technic

Prevent native-inputs references ending up in the final binary

Hi Leo, > Although native-inputs are typically things that are only required while > building [0], there's nothing that prevents a built package from keeping > references to native-inputs. We should change that in core-updates-next, if possible. I think that native-inputs shouldn't end up in th