Re: Substitute authorization and binaries

2018-11-04 Thread swedebugia
Hi Please post questions like these to the help-g...@gnu.org mailing list instead. (remove guix-devel when you reply) On 2018-11-05 02:33, bre...@posteo.net wrote: Hi all, I authorized guix to use the berlin server so I can install guixsd without having to build the derivations locally. The

Re: Lisp libraries: Other variants? (CCL, CLisp, etc.)

2018-11-04 Thread Programmer
After having emailed Pierre Neidhardt, he kindly directed me to express my Common Lisp Guix package proposal here. I have for a short while been mulling over a proposal for an alternative and purely declarative method of defining Common Lisp packages, with the intention of being far simpler in

Trying to make texinfo patch

2018-11-04 Thread Laura Lazzati
Hi! I am writing a new thread so that it does not end up messy. Yesterday and today I've been reading and adding @cindex to guix.texi to make a new patch. I know that you don't mind that much about the number of contributions, but it was for myself mostly, to learn texinfo and to see how it applie

Substitute authorization and binaries

2018-11-04 Thread brettg
Hi all, I authorized guix to use the berlin server so I can install guixsd without having to build the derivations locally. The authorization to my knowledge was successful, but when I run guix system init and pass the substitute-urls flag to use berlin, it is still trying to build everything lo

Fwd: Migration of (dhcp-client-service)

2018-11-04 Thread swedebugia
Forwarded Message Subject:Migration of (dhcp-client-service) Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2018 07:59:51 +0100 From: swedebugia To: Ludovic Courtès Hi In this commit http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=39d7fdce453b0ca23ecbed72048647debbaa58a6 you depr

Re: Fwd: Migration of (dhcp-client-service)

2018-11-04 Thread swedebugia
Forwarded Message Subject:Re: Migration of (dhcp-client-service) Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2018 23:09:25 +0100 From: Ludovic Courtès To: swedebugia Hello! swedebugia skribis: I have 2 questions: 1. What is the rationale behind this? (unification? are all service

Re: [Outreachy] First version of my proposed timeline

2018-11-04 Thread Gábor Boskovits
Thanks Laura, Laura Lazzati ezt írta (időpont: 2018. nov. 4., V, 16:13): >> >> I went through your timeline in detail and find it impressive. No, I >> don't see any optional questions that need to be answered. >> > Thank you for your compliment :) Maybe I will send it today. > Regards! > Laura I

Re: Stop it. Formerly - Re: Promoting the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines?

2018-11-04 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On 04/11/2018 10.15, Mark H Weaver wrote: I've decided to withdraw my objections to the policy of requiring that project participants agree to our CoC. I though of Mark as the only "insider" who understood what my prime issue with the CoC is. Now it seems that wasn't the case and surely isn'

Re: Locale error (Was: Re: New detailed troubleshooting section in the manual)

2018-11-04 Thread Laura Lazzati
> According to this your ~.profile was not sourced when you logged in > (GUIX_LOCPATH is not defined in your environment) > My mistake, I went back to a previous snapshot and installed inside guix environment, there I exported the GUIX_LOCPATH running env: GUIX_LOCPATH=/gnu/store/izyw1295kw5d47m4k

Re: Locale error (Was: Re: New detailed troubleshooting section in the manual)

2018-11-04 Thread swedebugia
Hi On 2018-11-04 18:54, Laura Lazzati wrote: Did your export export GUIX_LOCPATH="$HOME/.guix-profile/lib/locale" from somewhere? I tried to solve it when i first installed guix, but then did not mind anymore. Could you send me the output of your environment? paste.debian.net/

Re: New detailed troubleshooting section in the manual

2018-11-04 Thread Laura Lazzati
On Sun, Nov 4, 2018 at 5:05 AM swedebugia wrote: > Hi > > I think we need a new section in the manual detailing much of the > repetitious troubleshooting going on here (see example in appendix 2). > > I would like give it a stab. > > I would like it to contain all errors that has been shared with

Re: [Outreachy] First version of my proposed timeline

2018-11-04 Thread Laura Lazzati
> > I went through your timeline in detail and find it impressive. No, I > don't see any optional questions that need to be answered. > > Thank you for your compliment :) Maybe I will send it today. Regards! Laura >

Re: Stop it. Formerly - Re: Promoting the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines?

2018-11-04 Thread HiPhish
I think "agree" in this context means to agree to follow the rules of that setting, not necessarily that you endorse those rules in general. For example, if you are a smoker in a non-smoking area you agree not to smoke while in that area, but you do not agree not to smoke at all. Or if you are i

Re: Adding a note to 3.6 Invoking guix pull

2018-11-04 Thread Pjotr Prins
On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 10:47:39AM +0100, swedebugia wrote: >Hi > >The more I use guix pull the less I feel like updating guix this way. Have you tried fixating with the --commit option? I think that is really important. I do have the baffling issue that when I run two identical guix pul

Re: [Outreachy] First version of my proposed timeline

2018-11-04 Thread Björn Höfling
On Sat, 3 Nov 2018 23:47:54 -0300 Laura Lazzati wrote: > Sorry for writing again, would someone like me to add or change > anything here? > Shall I write something in the optional questions? > Gabor said it was fine, but if you don't mind I would like to have > both opinions. And if Ricardo and L

Re: Debbugs information missing in the manual

2018-11-04 Thread Clément Lassieur
Clément Lassieur writes: > Hi swedebugia, > > Those informations can be found there: > > https://debbugs.gnu.org/server-control.html > > Cheers, > Clément > > PS: the email you sent is a reply to an unrelated bug-guix email, which > is a bit confusing, because mail clients may display it as part

Re: Debbugs information missing in the manual

2018-11-04 Thread Clément Lassieur
Hi swedebugia, Those informations can be found there: https://debbugs.gnu.org/server-control.html Cheers, Clément PS: the email you sent is a reply to an unrelated bug-guix email, which is a bit confusing, because mail clients may display it as part of the unrelated thread. :-)

Adding a note to 3.6 Invoking guix pull

2018-11-04 Thread swedebugia
Hi The more I use guix pull the less I feel like updating guix this way. I saw a long time ago a post from Ricardo about updating guix directly from the source tree. I think this way of updating guix should be written clearly in the manual and perhaps be noted in 3.6 Invoking guix pull I t

Re: Stop it. Formerly - Re: Promoting the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines?

2018-11-04 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi, I've decided to withdraw my objections to the policy of requiring that project participants agree to our CoC. I read the language of the CoC again more carefully, looking to produce a realistic scenario of a person with legitimate but unpopular political views being discriminated against by t

New detailed troubleshooting section in the manual

2018-11-04 Thread swedebugia
Hi I think we need a new section in the manual detailing much of the repetitious troubleshooting going on here (see example in appendix 2). I would like give it a stab. I would like it to contain all errors that has been shared with the list at least twice. Help compiling such a list of th

Debbugs information missing in the manual

2018-11-04 Thread swedebugia
Hi I would like to have information about how to rename, close, reopen, take ownership etc. to appear or be linked from the manual. Does anyone know where to find this information? Cheers

Environment variables in Guix and GuixSD

2018-11-04 Thread swedebugia
Hi I noticed during my years of reading this list that difficulties stemming from wrong environment variables or lack of knowledge of the importance of these is VERY common among (new) guix users. To help everyone I wonder if it is possible for Guix to automatically register all these sugges

Re: [Post Installation]: Unable to guix pull

2018-11-04 Thread Pjotr Prins
For new users I think we ought to authorize and access these servers by default. I know this was shot down before, but there really is no reason not to. When you install guix you implicitely decide to trust its servers. I know no one who does not want to install the keys. I.e., everyone needs th