Re: Installation-Protocol for GuixSD x86_64 v0.15-preview

2018-07-03 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Björn, Björn Höfling skribis: > as Ludo "requested", today I freshly installed GuixSD in a QEMU > environment (x86_64 on both host and virtual env) to check the > installation process of the upcoming release. > > Overall result: Yes, it worked, no big trouble! There are some things I > notice

Re: Guix support in cachix

2018-07-03 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Oleg Pykhalov skribis: > Domen Kožar recently was in #guix (IRC) 2 days ago asking > about support of Guix in cachix. Also he opened an issue on GitHub: > >> I'm opening this issue for interest around supporting Guix. > > [1] https://github.com/cachix/cachix/issues/85 Cachix looks inte

Re: Installation-Protocol for GuixSD x86_64 v0.15-preview

2018-07-03 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hey Danny, Danny Milosavljevic skribis: > After this release, let's integrate an installer. > > wip-installer-2 works fine. The architecture could be more generic (it has > peculiar ideas about how any installer screen MUST look), but it's not bad > or anything. Also, the wizard leaves somethi

Re: 01/01: build-system/meson: Really skip the 'fix-runpath' phase on armhf.

2018-07-03 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Marius Bakke skribis: > I'm sorry, I forgot to address your actual concerns. The (buggy) > workaround was put in place and discussed in > . The meat of it can be found in (guix > build-system meson): > > ;; XXX PatchELF fails to build on armhf, so we skip > ;

Re: preparing the next release v0.15.0

2018-07-03 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Ludovic Courtès writes: > BTW, did “we” fix access to the OverDrive by berlin.guixsd.org? I opened a ticket to have the firewall rules adjusted but the network security person who usually does these things is currently out sick. Looks like it’s going to take a little longer, unfortunately. (I

Re: preparing the next release v0.15.0

2018-07-03 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Efraim Flashner skribis: > make guix-binary.aarch64-linux.tar.xz works as exptected Great, thanks for checking! BTW, did “we” fix access to the OverDrive by berlin.guixsd.org? In other news, these installation tests pass for me, as of a51cf16031c974ffa238e5dd9ced32f0d68c9227, on x86_64

Re: guix package is slow

2018-07-03 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Alex Kost skribis: > "M-x guix" can't be an entry point for this or any other interface, it > is only for "guix" *shell* commands. Actually I'm very surprised > someone uses "M-x guix", I find it unpractical. I even plan to rename > it to "M-x guix-command", and to make "M-x guix" a real entry

Re: 01/01: build-system/meson: Really skip the 'fix-runpath' phase on armhf.

2018-07-03 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi Marius, Marius Bakke writes: > Mark H Weaver writes: > >> mba...@fastmail.com (Marius Bakke) writes: >> >>> mbakke pushed a commit to branch staging >>> in repository guix. >>> >>> commit cb4b508cd68df89bfbd5255a0c5569f8318ad50f >>> Author: Marius Bakke >>> Date: Mon Jul 2 12:07:58 2018 +

Re: 01/01: build-system/meson: Really skip the 'fix-runpath' phase on armhf.

2018-07-03 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi Marius, Marius Bakke writes: > Mark H Weaver writes: > >> mba...@fastmail.com (Marius Bakke) writes: >> >>> mbakke pushed a commit to branch staging >>> in repository guix. >>> >>> commit cb4b508cd68df89bfbd5255a0c5569f8318ad50f >>> Author: Marius Bakke >>> Date: Mon Jul 2 12:07:58 2018 +

[PATCH] profiles: Let canonicalize-profile return an absolute path.

2018-07-03 Thread Roel Janssen
Dear Guix, I'd like to change the way the symlinks to custom profiles are created. Here's what currently happens: $ guixr package -i hello -p guix-profiles/test $ ls -l guix-profiles lrwxrwxrwx. 1 user group 25 Jul 3 19:53 test -> guix-profiles/test-1-link lrwxrwxrwx. 1 user group 51 Jul 3 19:5

Guix support in cachix

2018-07-03 Thread Oleg Pykhalov
Hello Guix, Domen Kožar recently was in #guix (IRC) 2 days ago asking about support of Guix in cachix. Also he opened an issue on GitHub: > I'm opening this issue for interest around supporting Guix. [1] https://github.com/cachix/cachix/issues/85 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: guix package is slow

2018-07-03 Thread swedebugia
On July 2, 2018 10:28:01 PM GMT+02:00, Alex Kost wrote: >Maxim Cournoyer (2018-07-02 10:55 -0400) wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Oleg Pykhalov writes: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> Pierre Neidhardt writes: >>> Maxim Cournoyer writes: >> - Perform transactions (install/remove) over multiple packa

Re: Installation-Protocol for GuixSD x86_64 v0.15-preview

2018-07-03 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi Björn, thanks for testing it! On Tue, 3 Jul 2018 10:15:53 +0200 Björn Höfling wrote: > 2) The welcome screen with installation instructions is a bit > cluttered. I had in mind that Danny already worked on this? Only for the serial tty init. But it might be similar here too, I don't know.

Re: Installation-Protocol for GuixSD x86_64 v0.15-preview

2018-07-03 Thread Marius Bakke
Björn Höfling writes: > 9) Old guix version: > > Being in the newly booted system: > > which guix: > --> /run/current-system/profile/bin/guix > -> /gnu/store/111i...-guix-0.14.0-12.77a1aac/bin/guix > > That commit 77a1aac is from 2018-06-09. Why so old? > > After guix pull [quite fast!], I get

(Ab?)using aliases to set ls' and others' colours

2018-07-03 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: Björn Höfling wrote: ls has a colored output. Nice. ls | less has ugly escape sequences. Only ls --color=no | less works. I'd be surprised if ‘ls | less -R’ didn't (and that would be a bug). Otherwise, this is standard behaviour for both ‘ls’ and ‘less’. Apolo

Re: Installation-Protocol for GuixSD x86_64 v0.15-preview

2018-07-03 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hullo Bjrn, Björn Höfling wrote: Hi people, as Ludo "requested", today I freshly installed GuixSD in a QEMU environment (x86_64 on both host and virtual env) to check the installation process of the upcoming release. Wow. Thanks! You've motivated me to try it on a headless server (if that w

Installation-Protocol for GuixSD x86_64 v0.15-preview

2018-07-03 Thread Björn Höfling
Hi people, as Ludo "requested", today I freshly installed GuixSD in a QEMU environment (x86_64 on both host and virtual env) to check the installation process of the upcoming release. Overall result: Yes, it worked, no big trouble! There are some things I noticed I want to share here. I know you