Current state of cargo-build-system

2019-01-20 Thread Ivan Petkov
Hello Guix! I'm new to both Guix and Guile/Scheme and decided to get my feet wet by attempting to package a non-trivial Rust crate into Guix. This seems like something others have tried before me with varying degrees of success (I found this thread from a few years ago which doesn't seem to have

Re: perl for arm-linux-gnueabihf

2019-01-20 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Ricardo Wurmus skribis: >> *guix build --target=arm-linux-gnueabihf* *perl* fails with the following >> output: https://pastebin.com/QF0xKAmR > > Here’s the output copied from pastebin: > > starting phase `remove-extra-references' [...] >1 (string-append "incpth='" #f "/incl

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add glibc-locales variants for older versions of glibc.

2019-01-20 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Ludo, >> * gnu/packages/base.scm (make-glibc-locales, make-glibc-utf8-locales): New >> procedures. >> (glibc-locales): Express in terms of make-glibc-locales. >> (glibc-utf8-locales): Express in terms of make-glibc-utf8-locales. >> (glibc-locales-2.27, glibc-utf8-locales-2.27): New variables.

Re: FOSDEM 2019 - we need a VGA to HDMI converter! And live streaming

2019-01-20 Thread Pjotr Prins
FOSDEM from this year only supports HDMI. For those of us on older laptops, can anyone bring a VGA -> HDMI converter? That would be very helpful. Also it may be an idea to stream some of the GNU Guix days. These days that can be done with phones. Anyone interested in helping out? Pj.

Re: Trustworthiness of build farms (was Re: CDN performance)

2019-01-20 Thread Jeremiah
> > Do you know where one can obtain a copy of this report? I did an > > Internet search but couldn't find anything. > me too > Jeremiah: sorry if I insist (last time, promised!) but could you give us > some more info about that report? I am sorry for the delay, the Government shutdown really d

Re: KVM kernel module permission denied on foreign distro

2019-01-20 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hi Pierre, Pierre Neidhardt writes: > If I'm not mistaken, this is because you need to add the builders to the 'kvm' > group. yes! this solved the "Could not access KVM kernel module: Permission denied" I had with "guix system vm" (both as user and root): $ for i in `seq -w 1 10`; do sudo us