GDM and Wayland

2019-11-05 Thread Raghav Gururajan
Hello Guix! When I was reviewing guix manual, it was mentioned that only gnome has support for wayland. I was wondering why gdm is not showing option to start gnome session using wayland? gdm is part of gnome correct? Regards, RG. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message p

Re: Python package naming: Dots vs hyphens

2019-11-05 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Wed, Nov 06, 2019 at 07:49:56AM +0100, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > Shall I rename python-zope-* to python-zope.*? > For new packages I would use whatever upstream uses in regard to '-' vs '.'. For existing ones, how many are there? It might be best to just leave them as-is rather than

Python package naming: Dots vs hyphens

2019-11-05 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
Shall I rename python-zope-* to python-zope.*? I am in the process of packaging mailman 3 which according to the pypi importer needs packages like python-flufl.bounce python-flufl.i18n python-flufl.lock python-lazr.config python-lazr.delegates python-zope.component python-zope.configuration pytho

Re: guix pull failed after 8 hours

2019-11-05 Thread Chris Marusich
Hi Giovanni and everyone, Giovanni Biscuolo writes: > Chris Marusich writes: > > [...] > >> Has anyone run "guix pull" successfully recently? I have been trying >> for days without success. > > I was also able to run guix pull on a foreign system a few hours ago and > on a Guix System a few mi

Re: 'core-updates' Q4 2019

2019-11-05 Thread Kei Kebreau
Miguel Arruga Vivas writes: > Hi Kei, > > Kei Kebreau writes: >> Update: Please check out the new wip-gnome-updates branch of the Guix >> git repository for continued updates. The contents of the notabug.org >> link given above will be changed to a notice that says to do this. > > Thank you ver

Re: “Guix Profiles in Practice”

2019-11-05 Thread Carlo Zancanaro
Hey Pierre, On Mon, Nov 04 2019, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: As I understand it, the current discussion is about "pinning" profiles. Should any dependency get garbage collected, an environment will need Internet access to refetch the missing parts; I think this is what we are trying to avoid, rega

Re: Packaging Jami progress

2019-11-05 Thread Gábor Boskovits
Hello, Jan Wielkiewicz ezt írta (időpont: 2019. nov. 5., Ke 17:50): > Dnia 2019-11-04, o godz. 23:48:00 > Gábor Boskovits napisał(a): > > > Hello, > > > > This is most probably because fmt is missing from inputs. > > > This is because SObjectizer is missing from inputs. > > You can get further

Re: "jar" tool and and reproducible builds - how?

2019-11-05 Thread Gábor Boskovits
Hello, Danny Milosavljevic ezt írta (időpont: 2019. nov. 5., Ke 16:09): > Hi Gábor, > > > This looks like a jar timestamps issue. Adding a phase similar to > > strip-jar-timestamps in ant-build-system should work. > > It extracts the jar to a temporary directory, resets file timestamps, and > >

Re: Packaging Jami progress

2019-11-05 Thread Jan Wielkiewicz
Dnia 2019-11-04, o godz. 23:48:00 Gábor Boskovits napisał(a): > Hello, > > This is most probably because fmt is missing from inputs. > > This is because SObjectizer is missing from inputs. > You can get further info about this in the cmake file: > https://github.com/Stiffstream/restinio/blob/mas

Re: guix pull failed after 8 hours

2019-11-05 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Chris Marusich writes: [...] > Has anyone run "guix pull" successfully recently? I have been trying > for days without success. I was also able to run guix pull on a foreign system a few hours ago and on a Guix System a few minutes ago do you still have problems? Ciao, Gio'. -- Giovanni Bi

Re: Publishing news about Guix on a weekly basis

2019-11-05 Thread zimoun
Hi, To complement, some monthly information about debbugs should be nice too; maybe provided by Mumi. Some time ago [1] Pjotr proposed something like: --8<---cut here---start->8--- Summary Status 31 Outstanding 18 Resolved Severity

Re: Profiles/manifests-related command line interface enhancements

2019-11-05 Thread Konrad Hinsen
Hi Simon, > I am not sure to see which feature is missing. My main point is that the future evolution of functionality (and user interfaces) in this space should take into account usage scenarii, rather than adding features in an ad-hoc fashion. I can of course share a manifest file by putting i

Re: Profiles/manifests-related command line interface enhancements

2019-11-05 Thread zimoun
Hi Konrad, On Tue, 5 Nov 2019 at 07:27, Konrad Hinsen wrote: > two dimensions I mentioned, this should include shareable/re-usable > vs. personal. People publish and share Docker images, so why wouldn't > they publish and share Guix super-packages? I am not sure to see which feature is missing.

Re: Packaging "single file"

2019-11-05 Thread Jack Hill
On Tue, 5 Nov 2019, Tanguy Le Carrour wrote: Le 11/04, Jack Hill a écrit : Does this help? It's a perfect example! Thanks! I'll do the same for rofi-pass! Yay, you're welcome. Unfortunatly, I don't have the experience with web testing to be helpful there. Best, Jack

Re: "jar" tool and and reproducible builds - how?

2019-11-05 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi Gábor, > This looks like a jar timestamps issue. Adding a phase similar to > strip-jar-timestamps in ant-build-system should work. > It extracts the jar to a temporary directory, resets file timestamps, and > then repacks it, and resets the timestamp on the archive. > Could you check if that wo

Re: Packaging "single file"

2019-11-05 Thread Tanguy Le Carrour
Hi Jack! Le 11/04, Jack Hill a écrit : > On Mon, 4 Nov 2019, Tanguy Le Carrour wrote: > > I intended to ask this question later, but now that ungoogled-chromium > > has been superseded by icecat, I find myself stuck! > > > > Is it possible to package a single file? The "file" being a bash script

Re: Publishing news about Guix on a weekly basis

2019-11-05 Thread Pjotr Prins
On Tue, Nov 05, 2019 at 08:36:46AM +, Christopher Baines wrote: > > Not only good for humans, also good for search engines. I find the > > current package list https://guix.gnu.org/packages/ pretty useful, but > > I would like a search function because one keeps clicking to find a > > certain p

Re: "jar" tool and and reproducible builds - how?

2019-11-05 Thread Gábor Boskovits
Hello, Danny Milosavljevic ezt írta (időpont: 2019. nov. 5., K, 10:49): > Hi Gábor, > > > What diff remains there? There might be more jars or jmods inside... > > Most of the trickery should be in ant build system. > > This package does not use ant-build-system or any other java build system > s

Re: "jar" tool and and reproducible builds - how?

2019-11-05 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi Gábor, > What diff remains there? There might be more jars or jmods inside... > Most of the trickery should be in ant build system. This package does not use ant-build-system or any other java build system since there are only very few Java tools in nesc (I'm thinking of disabling those, too).

Re: Profiles/manifests-related command line interface enhancements

2019-11-05 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Very good points! We are having very constructive discussions these days about `guix environment` and guix profiles ;) Exciting times ahead! -- Pierre Neidhardt https://ambrevar.xyz/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Profiles/manifests-related command line interface enhancements

2019-11-05 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Am 05.11.19 um 10:03 schrieb Konrad Hinsen: >> And adding another dimension: spawning a sub-shell (environment) or not >> (profile). > How is this different from the ephemeral vs. persistent dimension? > Creating an ephemeral package set makes sense only if you spwan a > process in it (not necessar

Re: Profiles/manifests-related command line interface enhancements

2019-11-05 Thread Konrad Hinsen
Hi Hartmut, > This becomes even messier if we would implement a "guix develop" > command, which is yet just another version of environment/profile. Yes, I worry also about making more of a mess by implementing special-purpose variants. > And adding another dimension: spawning a sub-shell (enviro

Re: Publishing news about Guix on a weekly basis

2019-11-05 Thread Christopher Baines
Pierre Neidhardt writes: > Pjotr Prins writes: > >> Not only good for humans, also good for search engines. I find the >> current package list https://guix.gnu.org/packages/ pretty useful, but >> I would like a search function because one keeps clicking to find a >> certain package. > > There i

Re: Publishing news about Guix on a weekly basis

2019-11-05 Thread Christopher Baines
Pjotr Prins writes: > On Sun, Nov 03, 2019 at 12:19:42PM +, Christopher Baines wrote: >> 1: http://prototype-guix-weekly-news.cbaines.net/en_US/2019/41.html >> 2: http://prototype-guix-weekly-news.cbaines.net/en_US/2019/42.html > > I think it would be useful to show a rolling report of upgra

Re: Profiles/manifests-related command line interface enhancements

2019-11-05 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Am 05.11.19 um 07:26 schrieb Konrad Hinsen: > In Guix we have ephemeral (environment) vs. persistent (profile), ad-hoc > (package -i, environment from package lists, ...) and declarative > (manifests). It's a bit of a mess. +1 This becomes even messier if we would implement a "guix develop" comma

Help on search (was: List of failing packages)

2019-11-05 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Am 04.11.19 um 16:26 schrieb Ricardo Wurmus: > For previous builds you can use a query like > >icecat spec:guix-master system:x86_64-linux Would be great if the page would contain a small help on this. I'm using this too seldom, so I just can not remember it. -- Regards Hartmut Goebel | Har

Re: "jar" tool and and reproducible builds - how?

2019-11-05 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Am 04.11.19 um 18:18 schrieb Danny Milosavljevic: > I tried > > (substitute* "tools/Makefile.in" > ((" jar cf \\.\\./nesc.jar") >" zip -0 -X ../nesc.jar META-INF/MANIFEST.MF ")) > > but that doesn't seem to be enough. The ant-build-system contains phases

Re: Publishing news about Guix on a weekly basis

2019-11-05 Thread Christopher Baines
L p R n d n writes: > As for the cadence, I'm not really sure. 1 Month seems nice because it > gives probably enough time for people to write one or two sentences on > whats happening without to much of a burden for each post. Or if we go > for a weekly post, I think we should stick with automat