Re: lvm2/device-mapper (dmeventd): libdevmapper-event-lvm2mirror.so: error: depends on 'libdevmapper-event-lvm2.so.2.02', which cannot be found in RUNPATH

2018-06-17 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Pierre Neidhardt skribis: >> Could you paste the excerpt from that log that shows the command that >> produced libdevmapper-event-lvm2mirror.so? >> >> It may be a matter of adding -ldevmapper to that command (which in turn >> will lead ld-wrapper to add the right -Wl,-rpath flag.) > > Done, here

Re: Python 2 retirement — what should Guix do?

2018-06-17 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > I agree. My preference is to build Python 2 packages only when > absolutely needed by another package. “python2-” packages are mostly a convenience for users who’d like to use them directly. For applications, ‘package-with-python2’ takes care of “converting” c

Re: Suboptimal experience

2018-06-17 Thread Julien Lepiller
Le Sun, 17 Jun 2018 23:13:27 +0300, Dan Partelly a écrit : > Ive seen that in manual Julien, but I did not tried it, because the > manual says: :When using Guix on top of GNU/Linux distribution other > than GuixSD—a so-called foreign distro—a few additional steps are > needed to get everything in

Re: Suboptimal experience

2018-06-17 Thread Dan Partelly
Ive seen that in manual Julien, but I did not tried it, because the manual says: :When using Guix on top of GNU/Linux distribution other than GuixSD—a so-called foreign distro—a few additional steps are needed to get everything in place. Here are some of them.” Note the “… other than Guix

Re: Suboptimal experience

2018-06-17 Thread Julien Lepiller
Le Sun, 17 Jun 2018 22:55:03 +0300, Dan Partelly a écrit : > guile: warning: failed to install locale. This is a "normal" message. You need to install glibc-locales in your profile and set an environment variable. Also, that's only a warning ;). It's documented here: http://www.gnu.org/software

Re: Suboptimal experience

2018-06-17 Thread Dan Partelly
Thanks a lot Julien. Well a second pull did not worked, it compiled sucessfully , but now any command results in : guile: warning: failed to install locale. Ill try to compile from git, I want to lear enough to solve those annoyance , so I can work a bit with guix sd see first hand what it ha

Re: Suboptimal experience

2018-06-17 Thread Dan Partelly
HI Mark > A major change was recently made to 'guix pull', and there's apparently > a bug. I'm sincerely sorry that this was your first impression of Guix. Well, is not all bad, there is a lot to like as well it seems, but I need to experience it first hand as well :P The concept might be very

Re: lvm2/device-mapper (dmeventd): libdevmapper-event-lvm2mirror.so: error: depends on 'libdevmapper-event-lvm2.so.2.02', which cannot be found in RUNPATH

2018-06-17 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
> Could you paste the excerpt from that log that shows the command that > produced libdevmapper-event-lvm2mirror.so? > > It may be a matter of adding -ldevmapper to that command (which in turn > will lead ld-wrapper to add the right -Wl,-rpath flag.) Done, here is the result: --8<---

Re: Suboptimal experience

2018-06-17 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi Dan, Dan Partelly writes: > First thanks for the development effort you guys do. Now the issues: > > 1. I managed to install 0.14 to a Virtual box VM. I used bare-bones > configuration. > 2. I tried to get familiar with guix / guixSD a bit, I never used it before > 3. Within minutes I manag

Re: Suboptimal experience

2018-06-17 Thread Julien Lepiller
Le Sun, 17 Jun 2018 13:09:54 +0300, Dan Partelly a écrit : > Hello, > > > First thanks for the development effort you guys do. Now the issues: > > 1. I managed to install 0.14 to a Virtual box VM. I used bare-bones > configuration. 2. I tried to get familiar with guix / guixSD a bit, I > never

Re: Python 2 retirement — what should Guix do?

2018-06-17 Thread Konrad Hinsen
Leo Famulari writes: > I wonder, what should Guix do? > > Personally, I think our set of Python packages is relatively hard to > maintain. There is a lot of brittle code in there. I'd be happy to drop > our policy that Python libraries have both Python 2 and 3 packages by > default. I expect Pyt

Suboptimal experience

2018-06-17 Thread Dan Partelly
Hello, First thanks for the development effort you guys do. Now the issues: 1. I managed to install 0.14 to a Virtual box VM. I used bare-bones configuration. 2. I tried to get familiar with guix / guixSD a bit, I never used it before 3. Within minutes I managed to break the system completely