Re: 'core-updates' Q4 2019

2019-10-19 Thread Kei Kebreau
Timothy Sample writes: > Hi Kei, > > Kei Kebreau writes: > >> Anyone want to see the 54 patches and possibly help me root around for >> the issue? > > I would love to take a look at it! I’ve been a little tied up, but I > should have some time tomorrow or the next day. I think it would be > ea

Re: (Really) Free Software future in the light of systemd

2019-10-19 Thread Dmitry Alexandrov
Stefan Huchler wrote: > If I write a program and it's elisp there is only as far as I know one > interpreter and all libs I use are also not replacable without rewriting code. Even if put aside that we have at least two elisp interpreters alive: there is also GNU Guile; GNU Emacs is actually qu

Re: Maintaining GNU Jami package for Guix

2019-10-19 Thread Jan
On Sat, 19 Oct 2019 22:52:58 +0200 Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > We always try to unbundle libraries, because that ensures that all > packages benefit from security fixes. > Great, so I have to package everything recursively :) Just to make it clear, because I'm a bit unfamiliar with build systems an

Help wanted for mumi (issues.guix.gnu.org)

2019-10-19 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hello Guix, our bug tracker web interface at issues.guix.gnu.org could really benefit from a more reliable, faster search. Currently, mumi (the application behind issues.guix.gnu.org) uses a slow interface to Debbugs, the bug tracker service that runs at debbugs.gnu.org. The search isn’t great a

Re: Stateful system directories

2019-10-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Efraim, Efraim Flashner skribis: > Ignoring the directories in users' home directories, /var/lib/gdm has > been a source of pain on GNOME upgrades, and we still have some problems > with /var/cache/fontconfig and I believe there is something else with > permissions if you switch between nt

Re: package systems, before and after the core-updates merge

2019-10-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Christopher Baines skribis: > One thing that I was aware of before the recent core-updates merge was > that the Guix Data Service [1] didn't generate derivations for systems > other than x86_64-linux and i686-linux, at least to the same extent as > the master branch before the recent core-up

Multiseat in Guix

2019-10-19 Thread Chris Marusich
Hi, Guix does not seem to have multiseat support. What would it take to add it? Is anyone on the list familiar with how multiseat is achieved in other distros, such as Fedora? Here is an example of a problem that happens because we don't have good multiseat support: When I launch virt-manager

Re: We need your feedback of the documentation videos!

2019-10-19 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 10:13:59PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > […] if you wanted to integrate them on > the web site, I think that’d be great. > I suppose the “Discover Guix” section on the homepage should advertise Guix System and the videos, maybe in buttons next to the ALL PACKAGES button.

Re: Maintaining GNU Jami package for Guix

2019-10-19 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Jan Wielkiewicz writes: > Why are third party directories removed if they're necessary to build > pjproject? Should I package contents of these folders as separate > package? We always try to unbundle libraries, because that ensures that all packages benefit from security fixes. -- Ricardo

Re: Maintaining GNU Jami package for Guix

2019-10-19 Thread Jan Wielkiewicz
Hello, Dnia 2019-10-19, o godz. 11:02:35 Pierre Neidhardt napisał(a): > Hi Jan, > > glad you are interested in picking this one up! :) > I'm the last packager of Jami, so I might be able to help. Yes, thank you, I definitely will need help. > After a quick glance, here is the situation it seem

Re: [External] Re: New outreachy participant introduction

2019-10-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Nardos, "Asfaw, Nardos" skribis: > Thanks for reaching out. I am still hanging. I am learning a lot on what it > means to be a developer outside of university courses. I am going through the > documentation (and examples provided in the email by simon) and the chat logs > to sees if my que

Re: Any interest in using HTML for locally-installed Texinfo documentation?

2019-10-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Gavin, Gavin Smith skribis: > I started another line of development, using the WebKitGTK engine. > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/texinfo.git/log/?h=webkitgtk-info [...] > I may be able to get an initial prototype that other people could try > ready in a few days. As ever, if anyone is in

Re: Could guix lint check the copyright line?

2019-10-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! Pierre Neidhardt skribis: > Wouldn't it be neat if guix lint would automatically spot missing > copyright lines in the file headers? It could rely on `git blame' to > identify who wrote more than some 15 lines in a file. > > What do you think? That check would have to be optional because ‘

Re: Performance improvements

2019-10-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Efraim Flashner skribis: > Blog post? I think performance still leaves a bit to be desired, so maybe we should blog when we have even better news? :-) Ludo’.

Re: Performance improvements

2019-10-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Jan Nieuwenhuizen skribis: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> I just wanted to share that recent commits have improved the performance >> of ‘package-derivation’ and related operations quite a bit: >> >> 8f417ed280 gnu: commencement: Further optimize the package object graph. >> f618134e4c build-

Re: We need your feedback of the documentation videos!

2019-10-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" skribis: > On Sun, Aug 25, 2019 at 03:55:16PM -0300, Laura Lazzati wrote: >> Hi Guix! >> >> I've uploaded a new version of the video for asking for help. Here is the >> link to it: https://archive.org/details/guix-videos/03-help-new-version.webm >> >> I gues

Re: Fwd: Running individual system tests

2019-10-19 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Daniel, I don’t understand why you would want to run a system test without building Guix first. Could you elaborate? -- Ricardo

Re: 'core-updates' Q4 2019

2019-10-19 Thread Timothy Sample
Hi Kei, Kei Kebreau writes: > Anyone want to see the 54 patches and possibly help me root around for > the issue? I would love to take a look at it! I’ve been a little tied up, but I should have some time tomorrow or the next day. I think it would be easiest to push it to some world-readable

Re: Fwd: Running individual system tests

2019-10-19 Thread Marius Bakke
Hello Daniel, Daniel Schäfer writes: > I'm still trying to figure out, how to run a single Guix system test > without building the entirety of Guix. > Does anybody do this? Has anybody written a Guix system test for > something not in Guix? Maybe a personal or work-related project. You only h

Re: Stateful system directories

2019-10-19 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Ricardo Wurmus writes: [...] > I prefer to keep workarounds for real bugs out of the Cookbook. Even in a specific section called "Workarounds" and with a clear warning they are just _temporary_ workarounds users could decide to use, while waiting for upstream to fix that specific issue? We sho

Fwd: Running individual system tests

2019-10-19 Thread Daniel Schäfer
Hi Guix developers, I'm still trying to figure out, how to run a single Guix system test without building the entirety of Guix. Does anybody do this? Has anybody written a Guix system test for something not in Guix? Maybe a personal or work-related project. CC'ing some people who've added gui