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

2019-01-22 Thread Chris Marusich
Hi Pjotr, Pjotr Prins writes: > For those of us on older laptops, can anyone bring a VGA -> HDMI > converter? That would be very helpful. I have one VGA -> HDMI converter, which I'll bring. It requires one Type-A USB port for power. So, you plug it in to a VGA port and a USB port on your com

Re: Call for talks: Minimalistic Languages Devroom at FOSDEM 2019

2019-01-22 Thread Chris Marusich
Hi Pjotr, I can donate some time on Saturday to help if you still need it. Please let me know. -- Chris Pjotr Prins writes: > Dear all, > > On Saturday we have a minimalistic devroom with an interesting agenda: > > https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/track/minimalistic_languages/ > > we need

Re: Now changing ci.guix.info to CloudFront

2019-01-22 Thread Chris Marusich
Hi Guix, This change is complete and verified. Substitutes are now being successfully served via ci.guix.info, over both HTTP and HTTPS like before. You can also continue to access Cuirass via the same website. Note that due to DNS propagation delay, it may take a few hours before you start see

Re: Article: Playing with Guix REPL from scratch

2019-01-22 Thread Chris Marusich
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Currently one has to ask on this mailing list and Ricardo, myself, or > really anyone with access to fencepost.gnu.org can adjust accordingly. Please add me! Thank you in advance. -- Chris signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Now changing ci.guix.info to CloudFront

2019-01-22 Thread Chris Marusich
Hi Guix, As previously announced [1], I am now changing ci.guix.info to serve requests via CloudFront. I will send a follow up email once the change is complete and verified. There should be no downtime during the change. Footnotes: [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-01/ms

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

2019-01-22 Thread Laura Lazzati
On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 10:26 AM Pjotr Prins wrote: > > 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. I don 't have an adapter, but I have a cable. You plug it to your VGA computer and in the

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

2019-01-22 Thread Gábor Boskovits
Hello, Pjotr Prins ezt írta (időpont: 2019. jan. 22., K, 19:50): > > On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 01:16:33PM +0200, Efraim Flashner wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 10:53:43AM +0100, Pjotr Prins wrote: > > > No one can help out here? > > > > > > On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 02:17:39PM +0100, Pjotr Prins

Migrating to Guile-JSON 3.x

2019-01-22 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Guix! As you may know, Guile-JSON 3.x, released a couple of weeks ago, makes significant incompatible API changes, the most important of which is this: --8<---cut here---start->8--- $ guix environment --ad-hoc guile guile-json@1 -- guile -c '(use-modules

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

2019-01-22 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Pjotr Prins writes: > 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? … > No one can help out h

‘nss-certs’ missing in the installation image

2019-01-22 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Pierre Neidhardt skribis: > Wait, what about this: > >> - I was surprised to see that from the install image, curl, git, etc. would >> fail >> with an SSL error. It's annoying because I really needed to get my >> config.scm >> from an online source. >> >> I only briefly investigate

Re: Auto-install EFI / BIOS bootloader

2019-01-22 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi Pierre, > From there, why wouldn't Guix do that automatically for use? In practise UEFI likes to fake a lot of stuff. It can happen that /sys/firmware/efi exists but the system cannot *boot* via EFI. Likewise, /sys/firmware/efi can vanish just because you booted from CD using UEFI's BIOS fal

Re: Auto-install EFI / BIOS bootloader

2019-01-22 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
> (Hybrid MBR/GPT are "dangerous" because they have to be updated in lock-step) Oops, correction: GPT always has a dummy MBR partition table which marks everything as "used". So the MBR will not be updated further. Grub2 will use GPT (if available) both in the EFI and in the non-EFI case. pgp4

Re: Should openssh be an input of Git?

2019-01-22 Thread Leo Famulari
On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 11:36:40AM +0100, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > I've noticed that `git clone ` fails if openssh is > not in the user profile. > Should we add openssh as an input to Git? I guess that programs like Git and rsync (another SSH user that doesn't depend on it explicitly) can use sev

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

2019-01-22 Thread Leo Famulari
On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 12:36:06PM +0100, Pjotr Prins wrote: > > I have a mini-displayport to hdmi adapter that I'm bringing if anyone > > needs. I also have a DVI->VGA adapter which I don't expect to be useful. > > I'm not sure if VGA->HDMI exists so much, searching online they're > > always liste

Re: Should openssh be an input of Git?

2019-01-22 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Pierre Neidhardt skribis: > I've noticed that `git clone ` fails if openssh is > not in the user profile. > Should we add openssh as an input to Git? I’d say no: --8<---cut here---start->8--- $ guix size git | tail -1 total: 375.1 MiB $ guix size git

Re: 03/04: gnu: Replace all cons* with beginner-friendly (append (list ...)).

2019-01-22 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! guix-comm...@gnu.org skribis: > + (packages (append (list ratpoison i3-wm i3status dmenu ;window managers > + nss-certs ;for HTTPS access > + ) [...] > + (packages (append (list nvi fdisk > +

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

2019-01-22 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Ricardo Wurmus skribis: >>> * 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-lo

Re: ‘nss-certs’ missing in the installation image

2019-01-22 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
What's the procedure to install nss-certs then? Will a simple `guix package -i nss-certs` do? I think we should document this in the installation manual. > Someone following the normal installation procedure shouldn’t need those > certificates though. WDYT? HTTPS access is a fairly common requi

Re: Unofficial Neovim channel

2019-01-22 Thread HiPhish
> I wonder why you felt the need to have that channel? Two points: the package in Guix is lagging behind in release, and I don't know enough yet about Guix to submit patches on a whim. So I made a channel to first try thing out for myself before submitting them to Guix. If I mess something up in

Re: Auto-install EFI / BIOS bootloader

2019-01-22 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
> Is it possible that Linux fails to detect the UEFI? Wait... Could that be because of the SecureBoot thing? :/ -- Pierre Neidhardt https://ambrevar.xyz/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Unofficial Neovim channel

2019-01-22 Thread Pjotr Prins
On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 12:14:53PM +0100, Julien Lepiller wrote: > I wonder why you felt the need to have that channel? We already have > a neovim package in guix. I'm very curious because I use that > package and didn't feel that anything was missing, apart maybe from > the possibility to install

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

2019-01-22 Thread Pjotr Prins
On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 01:16:33PM +0200, Efraim Flashner wrote: > On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 10:53:43AM +0100, Pjotr Prins wrote: > > No one can help out here? > > > > On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 02:17:39PM +0100, Pjotr Prins wrote: > > > FOSDEM from this year only supports HDMI. > > > > > > For those

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

2019-01-22 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 10:53:43AM +0100, Pjotr Prins wrote: > No one can help out here? > > On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 02:17:39PM +0100, Pjotr Prins wrote: > > FOSDEM from this year only supports HDMI. > > > > For those of us on older laptops, can anyone bring a VGA -> HDMI > > converter? That wou

Re: Unofficial Neovim channel

2019-01-22 Thread Julien Lepiller
Le 2019-01-21 12:22, HiPhish a écrit : Hello Guix developers, I have set up an unofficial Guix channel for Neovim (and possibly for related projects in the future): https://gitlab.com/HiPhish/neovim-guix-channel/ The plan is to use this channel first, and then submit patches to Guix when ev

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

2019-01-22 Thread Gábor Boskovits
Hello, Pjotr Prins ezt írta (időpont: 2019. jan. 22., K, 11:26): > > No one can help out here? > > On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 02:17:39PM +0100, Pjotr Prins wrote: > > FOSDEM from this year only supports HDMI. > > > > For those of us on older laptops, can anyone bring a VGA -> HDMI > > converter? Th

Re: Call for talks: Minimalistic Languages Devroom at FOSDEM 2019

2019-01-22 Thread Pjotr Prins
Dear all, On Saturday we have a minimalistic devroom with an interesting agenda: https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/track/minimalistic_languages/ we need one or two volunteers to operate/monitor the video/audio recording and two volunteers to help me with the room itself (get speakers started,

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

2019-01-22 Thread Pjotr Prins
No one can help out here? On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 02:17:39PM +0100, Pjotr Prins wrote: > 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 G