Re: Help needed: Updating GHC to 8.4.3

Hi Ricardo, Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Hi Ludo, > >> Hello, >> >> Ricardo Wurmus skribis: >> >>> GHC 8.0 had been patched with >>> "ghc-dont-pass-linker-flags-via-response-files.patch" to avoid using >>> response files with the linker, because our ld-wrapper doesn’t seem to >>> behave right in so

guix system init question

Hello, I'm updating my guix repository in Debian/Hurd with the commit 40f5c53d89da266055a1dd6571c380f5c57fe5f9. When I run `sudo ./pre-inst-env guix system init doc/os-config-hurd.scm /guix --fallback --no-substitutes --no-build-hook` show the error: ` Backtrace:   10 (primitive-load "/

Re: Graft hooks

Hi Ludovic, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Mark H Weaver skribis: > >> I think it would be quite unfortunate if _every_ graft had to run >> _every_ graft hook, or if every graft hook had to be defined in >> (guix grafts) and/or (guix build graft). >> >> It's reasonable to have a few gl

New German PO file for 'guix' (version 0.15.0)

Hello, gentle maintainer. This is a message from the Translation Project robot. A revised PO file for textual domain 'guix' has been submitted by the German team of translators. The file is available at: http://translationproject.org/latest/guix/de.po (We can arrange things so that in the

Re: Guix on aarch64

Ludovic Courtès writes: > In addition, Ricardo has a plan to throw more storage at berlin (we > currently have 1TB for the store). That would allow us to increase the > TTL and generally worry less, though it’s no substitute for the GC root > mechanism above. Right. Unfortunately, this depen

Re: Ghostscript / ImageMagick / GraphicsMagick vulnerability mitigation?

On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 03:04:53PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > In this week’s discussions, it’s unclear to me why people are focusing > so much on ImageMagick and Evince when the real issue is in > Ghostscript’s ability to run arbitrary commands from PostScript code. I > rarely run ‘convert’ o

Re: [Next browser] Common Lisp: mgl-pax: Package SWANK-BACKEND does not exist.

Thank you, Ludo. Upstream suggests a patch to the ASDF system definition. I'll try that later. I've pushed the current state of work to the 'wip-next-browser' branch. -- Pierre Neidhardt https://ambrevar.xyz/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Ghostscript / ImageMagick / GraphicsMagick vulnerability mitigation?

Hello Leo, Leo Famulari skribis: > For the last couple years, people have been finding exploitable bugs in > the image processing system based on Ghostscript and ImageMagick / > GraphicsMagick: > > http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q3/142 > http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/29 In this week’s d

Re: [Next browser] Common Lisp: mgl-pax: Package SWANK-BACKEND does not exist.

Hi Pierre, Pierre Neidhardt skribis: > I have no clue what this SWANK-BACKEND is. I can find SWANK/BACKEND in > the source however. Maybe my misunderstanding of Common Lisp... > > Any clue? I’m clueless ;-) but I’ve Cc’d one of our local CL experts. Any ideas, Andy? Ludo’.

Re: Long term plan for GuixSD security: microkernels, ocap, RISC-V support

Hi, Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > I’d love to get us closer to being able to run the GNU system with the > Hurd and Guix underpinnings. Unfortunately, Hurd is not considered a > priority by GNU, which shows in the lack of support for modern hardware. I know you know ;-) but there’s no such thing a

Re: Long term plan for GuixSD security: microkernels, ocap, RISC-V support

Hi there! Christopher Lemmer Webber skribis: > - It's getting hard to trust our computers as in terms of our physical >hardware. Companies like Purism are helping to build blobless >systems, but even then the hardware is built on un-auditable and >with growing apparent insecurity (

Re: FOSDEM 2019

Manolis Ragkousis writes: > Hello everyone, > > It's that time of the year again we need to start organizing about > FOSDEM. We have a deadline for the 20th of September[1] to apply for a > devroom. We also need to start looking for a place for this year's > fringe event! > > I created a libreplan

Re: 01/06: gnu: guile-redis: Update to 1.0.0.

Mark H Weaver skribis: > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > >> civodul pushed a commit to branch master >> in repository guix. >> >> commit a50eed201bf470b3bd124a2983bcea3453ec698f >> Author: Ludovic Courtès >> Date: Mon Aug 20 14:35:33 2018 +0200 >> >> gnu: guile-redis: Update to 1.

Re: [Next browser] Common Lisp: mgl-pax: Package SWANK-BACKEND does not exist.

I've also reported the issue at https://github.com/slime/slime/issues/457. -- Pierre Neidhardt https://ambrevar.xyz/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Guix on aarch64

Hello Mark, Mark H Weaver skribis: > If I'm not mistaken, I believe I have confirmed with the test below that > a substitute for binutils from early commencement on aarch64 is not > available on berlin. [...] > It occurs to me that on Hydra, I have implemented a system to ensure > that *all* d

Re: Graft hooks

Hello Timothy, Timothy Sample skribis: > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: [...] I agree that this would be the right thing to do! (I’d really like to do it for GDB as discussed in .) Package properties would be the right way to make it ext

GNU Guix Days before FOSDEM

Hello! Pjotr Prins skribis: > If you intend to come and/or want to speak please add your name and > proposed title to the new page at > > https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/FOSDEM2018 > > Alternatively, reply here or mail me privately so we can keep a tally. The real URL is: https://l

Re: FOSDEM 2019 (ACTION: please register or mail)

On 8/24/18 11:23 AM, Pjotr Prins wrote: > Who wants to come to a separate 2 day GNU Guix event? > > That is the Thursday Jan 31st and/or Friday Feb 1st right before > FOSDEM. I.e., 4 days of hacker nirvana. > > FOSDEM is really great. Look at last year's schedule for Saturday > > https://archi

Re: Graft hooks

Hi Mark, Mark H Weaver skribis: > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > >> Since this is used when grafting Racket, I would suggest moving this >> graft to the “build side” entirely, similar to what I did in >> . Probably >> you’d just

Re: FOSDEM 2019 (ACTION: please register or mail)

Pjotr Prins writes: > Who wants to come to a separate 2 day GNU Guix event? > > That is the Thursday Jan 31st and/or Friday Feb 1st right before > FOSDEM. I.e., 4 days of hacker nirvana. I plan to be there for the 2 days of Guix and the 2 FOSDEM days. Please also let us know (privately, if yo

Re: Bootstrap Tarballs for alpha-linux Targets

Hi, Vincent Weisner skribis: > No additional patches were needed and no, I don't have any DEC Alpha hardware. OK. > If you rather not include an Alpha port, then why does the code state > "alpha-linux" in /gnu/packages/bootstrapping.scm? That’s because somebody else tried cross-compiling to

Re: FOSDEM 2019 (ACTION: please register or mail)

I'm in. On Fri, 24 Aug 2018, 11:23 Pjotr Prins, wrote: > Who wants to come to a separate 2 day GNU Guix event? > > That is the Thursday Jan 31st and/or Friday Feb 1st right before > FOSDEM. I.e., 4 days of hacker nirvana. > > FOSDEM is really great. Look at last year's schedule for Saturday > >

Re: FOSDEM 2019 (ACTION: please register or mail)

Who wants to come to a separate 2 day GNU Guix event? That is the Thursday Jan 31st and/or Friday Feb 1st right before FOSDEM. I.e., 4 days of hacker nirvana. FOSDEM is really great. Look at last year's schedule for Saturday https://archive.fosdem.org/2018/schedule/day/saturday/ Last year we