Re: core-updates frozen!

2019-07-13 Thread Christopher Baines
I've sent a few patches to fix a couple of build issues on the core-updates branch [1][2]. 1: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=36641 2: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=36643 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: core-updates freeze

2019-07-13 Thread Kei Kebreau
Kei Kebreau writes: > Marius Bakke writes: > >> Kei Kebreau writes: >> >>> Ludovic Courtès writes: >>> Hello! Marius Bakke skribis: > The core-updates branch is now (almost!) ready for prime time. Yay! > This is turning out to be one of the biggest m

Installing custom kernel on Intel NUC using USB and no network(newbie question)

2019-07-13 Thread Will Schenk
I'm playing around with guixsd and am really impressed with the work so far! I've been unpacking the installer and configuration trying to understand how it works. so if there's a more straightforward way to do this that would be great also, but I have some questions on how guix itself works. I'

Re: “Towards Guix for DevOps”

2019-07-13 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
zerodaysford...@sdf.lonestar.org (Jakob L. Kreuze) writes: > Thank you for the kind words :) I'm happy to be hearing them > from you -- the articles on your website are what inspired me to try > Guix, and I especially enjoy feedback on things I've written when it > comes from those whose writing

Re: Suggest another way of importing GNU Guix GPG key

2019-07-13 Thread Leo Famulari
On Wed, Jul 03, 2019 at 02:13:12PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote: > An update on this: > > The initial plan is to add the Guix signing key to the new > abuse-resistant keyserver at . Once that has been done > we can update the manual and HACKING to point at this. This didn't happen, but the instructi

Re: “Towards Guix for DevOps”

2019-07-13 Thread Jakob L. Kreuze
Pierre Neidhardt writes: > This is fantastic, thanks for the outstanding work, Jakob! Thank you for the kind words :) I'm happy to be hearing them from you -- the articles on your website are what inspired me to try Guix, and I especially enjoy feedback on things I've written when it comes from

Re: Expat 2.2.7 with security fixes has been released / CVE-2018-20843

2019-07-13 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Hi Jack and Marius, glad to hear that GUIX saying "no" to 2.2.7 in general was a misunderstanding on my side. Thanks for the clarification! Best Sebastian

Re: how to make fonts available to a service?

2019-07-13 Thread Timothy Sample
Hi Robert, Robert Vollmert writes: >> On 12. Jul 2019, at 22:42, Robert Vollmert wrote: >> I’m a bit at a loss right now with respect to how to make fonts available >> to system services. >> >> I’m running a service that uses rsvg-convert (from package librsvg) to >> raster some SVG graphics.

Re: how to make fonts available to a service?

2019-07-13 Thread Robert Vollmert
> On 12. Jul 2019, at 22:42, Robert Vollmert wrote: > I’m a bit at a loss right now with respect to how to make fonts available > to system services. > > I’m running a service that uses rsvg-convert (from package librsvg) to > raster some SVG graphics. However, it appears that the default font

Re: core-updates freeze

2019-07-13 Thread Kei Kebreau
Marius Bakke writes: > Kei Kebreau writes: > >> Ludovic Courtès writes: >> >>> Hello! >>> >>> Marius Bakke skribis: >>> The core-updates branch is now (almost!) ready for prime time. >>> >>> Yay! >>> This is turning out to be one of the biggest merges ever[*], currently represen

Accessibility in Guix

2019-07-13 Thread Julien Lepiller
Hi Guix! I think in order to reach out to more people, accessiblity is an important topic. I've talked with Irina during the Perl and Guile days, and fixed orca (it didn't work because of failures when loading pyatspi). In order to make our system accessible from the start, we obviously need an a