Re: Dualbooting with guixsd not handling grub installation

Hello Ludovic, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Oleg Pykhalov skribis: [...] >> Are linux linux-arguments initrd in menu-entry required? > > Currently yes: this is how you tell GRUB what to boot. I see an issue with it, because not always you want them. >> Maybe we could have configf

Re: Export environment variables only in `guix environment`.

On Thu, Feb 01, 2018 at 12:40:39AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hello, > > Fis Trivial skribis: > > > * Problem > > The exported environment variables can cause various problems in foreign > > distribution(1)(2). And besides, The long list of environment variables(4) > > injected into user's

System calls interrupted by signals - or not

Hi Mark, >This can happen if interrupted by a signal, If only BSD-style signals (SA_RESTART) are used, as is very likely, this should not happen. It only happens with old "PC-losering" style signal handlers - which even signal(2) doesn't install anymore (and I know of no reason why anyone shoul

Re: Cancellation for Friday's event

Hey Alex, Alex Sassmannshausen skribis: > Unfortunately due to unforeseen work pressures I won't be in Brussels > over the Fosdem weekend. > > I'm gutted, but I'll have to miss the first ever Guix fringe conference > too! Thanks for letting us know, we’ll miss you! We’ll have to organize anoth

Re: Package inclusion criteria

n...@n0.is skribis: > On Wed, 31 Jan 2018, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote: >> Hello, [...] >> I can understand Mark’s concerns, though I don’t have a strong opinion >> on this particular package (I find it both “weird” and “amusing”; it >> reflects on how people use those Git services.) >>

Re: Dinner in Brussels?

Hello, Björn Höfling skribis: > If there is space left, I would join for the dinner on Friday. Has > someone reserved a restaurant yet? I enjoyed the Lebanese food from > last year very much, though it was maybe a bit of a small and narrow > room? I enjoyed it too, but if we’re going to be 20–3

Re: Export environment variables only in `guix environment`.

Hello, Fis Trivial skribis: > * Problem > The exported environment variables can cause various problems in foreign > distribution(1)(2). And besides, The long list of environment variables(4) > injected into user's login shell makes the user's environment impure. > So, I believe that if I want t

Re: Dinner in Brussels?

Hi Guix, On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 13:34:46 +0100 l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote: > Hello Guix! > > To those going to the Guix workshop in Brussels this Friday: who’s in > for dinner (+ drink) on Friday evening? > > Even better: who would like to book something (I’m looking at you, > Brusselers

Re: Dinner in Brussels?

Ludovic Courtès writes: > To those going to the Guix workshop in Brussels this Friday: who’s in > for dinner (+ drink) on Friday evening? I'm in, with a friend you met last year :) Did we settle on a venue for the workshop yet? signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Dinner in Brussels?

Unfortunately I won't be able to make it and won't be able to help organize either. It sounds like a great crowd though, so I'm jealous I'll be missing it! Alex Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hello Guix! > > To those going to the Guix workshop in Brussels this Friday: who’s in > for dinner (+ drink)

Cancellation for Friday's event

Hello, Unfortunately due to unforeseen work pressures I won't be in Brussels over the Fosdem weekend. I'm gutted, but I'll have to miss the first ever Guix fringe conference too! I hope you all have an amazing time! Best wishes, Alex

Re: Pre-built binaries vs. performance

ludovic.cour...@inria.fr (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Hello Guix! > > This post is a followup to our previous discussions on how to handle > architecture-specific optimizations: > > > https://guix-hpc.bordeaux.inria.fr/blog/2018/01/pre-built-binaries-vs-performance/ > > Comments welcome! > > Lud

Re: website: say what Guix is at the very top

On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 01:11:23PM -0500, myg...@gmail.com wrote: > On 01/31/2018 at 18:27 Pjotr Prins writes: > > > On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 11:58:09AM -0500, myg...@gmail.com wrote: > >> To be explicit, I added a couple target groups and indicated the product > >> we would pitch with an x ... > >

Re: website: say what Guix is at the very top

On 01/31/2018 at 18:27 Pjotr Prins writes: > On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 11:58:09AM -0500, myg...@gmail.com wrote: >> To be explicit, I added a couple target groups and indicated the product >> we would pitch with an x ... >> >> | Target Group| Guix | GuixSD | Motivation

Re: Pre-built binaries vs. performance

Le 31 janv. 2018 3:08 PM, "Ludovic Courtès" a écrit : Hello Guix! This post is a followup to our previous discussions on how to handle architecture-specific optimizations: https://guix-hpc.bordeaux.inria.fr/blog/2018/01/pre-built- binaries-vs-performance/ Comments welcome! Ludo’. Tx for t

Re: Package inclusion criteria

On 01/31/2018 at 14:10 n...@n0.is writes: > On Wed, 31 Jan 2018, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Leo Famulari skribis: >> >>> On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 06:09:16PM -0500, Mark H Weaver wrote: Hi ng0, > commit 57f9671d22bb4ee37962c31b9eed0ae50859398a > Autho

Re: Maintaining implementations of similar utility functions like json-fetch

Hi Ludo', 2018-01-27 17:09 GMT+01:00 Ludovic Courtès : > Hello! > > Jelle Licht skribis: > > > I noticed that there are currently two very similar functions for > fetching > > json data; `json-fetch' in (guix import json) and `json-fetch*' in (guix > > import github). > > > > Some things I noti

Re: website: say what Guix is at the very top

On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 11:58:09AM -0500, myg...@gmail.com wrote: > To be explicit, I added a couple target groups and indicated the product > we would pitch with an x ... > > | Target Group| Guix | GuixSD | Motivation >| > |-

Re: website: say what Guix is at the very top

On 01/29/2018 at 08:37 Pjotr Prins writes: > On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 11:14:15PM -0500, myg...@gmail.com wrote: >> > I’m not a fan of sales messages and that kind of language >> > (“introducing”, “the first foo to do bar”, etc); I also don’t like that >> > these are all worded negatively, which is

Re: Package inclusion criteria

On Wed, 31 Jan 2018, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote: > Hello, > > Leo Famulari skribis: > >> On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 06:09:16PM -0500, Mark H Weaver wrote: >>> Hi ng0, >>> >>> > commit 57f9671d22bb4ee37962c31b9eed0ae50859398a >>> > Author: ng0 >>> > Date: Wed Jan 17 22:42:55 2018 + >

Pre-built binaries vs. performance

Hello Guix! This post is a followup to our previous discussions on how to handle architecture-specific optimizations: https://guix-hpc.bordeaux.inria.fr/blog/2018/01/pre-built-binaries-vs-performance/ Comments welcome! Ludo’.

Package inclusion criteria

Hello, Leo Famulari skribis: > On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 06:09:16PM -0500, Mark H Weaver wrote: >> Hi ng0, >> >> > commit 57f9671d22bb4ee37962c31b9eed0ae50859398a >> > Author: ng0 >> > Date: Wed Jan 17 22:42:55 2018 + >> > >> > gnu: Add badass. >> [...] >> > + (package >> > +(name

Re: Linux-libre-4.15 and the NVMe module

Mark H Weaver skribis: > Mark H Weaver writes: >> I've pushed a new 'kernel-updates' branch that includes the update to >> linux-libre-4.15, and asked Hydra to build it. > > I went ahead and pushed these commits to master, following a successful > evaluation on Hydra and some additional testing

Re: hardening

Hello, n...@n0.is writes: > Hi, > > as we've long talked and not really taken action on hardening builds > I've started working on an opt-in way as last discussed in > september 2016, modifying the gnu-build-system with a > #:hardening-flags keyword. > > For my testing purposes I will use > >> CF

Re: 03/03: gnu: python-dateutil: Update to 2.6.1.

Ben Woodcroft writes: > On 31/01/18 16:18, Alex Vong wrote: >> Ben Woodcroft writes: >> >>> Hi Mark, Marius, >>> >>> >>> On 31/01/18 12:52, Mark H Weaver wrote: Hi, mba...@fastmail.com (Marius Bakke) writes: > mbakke pushed a commit to branch master > in repository gu