Re: bootstrap guile segfaults on powerpc 32-bit

2019-11-09 Thread Efraim Flashner
I took the statically compiled guile again on my powerpc machine and I deleted the whole lib directory (ins)efraim@g4:~/guile-static$ ./bin/guile --help guile: warning: failed to install locale ;;; note: auto-compilation is enabled, set GUILE_AUTO_COMPILE=0 ;;; or pass the --no-auto-compile

Re: Profiles/manifests-related command line interface enhancements

2019-11-09 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Konrad, Konrad Hinsen skribis: > The bigger issue is config.scm - again unrestricted Guile code, like > manifests. That's not good for publishing because we shouldn't encourage > anyone to run unrestricted code from untrusted sources. It’s a conscious design choice to have configuration as c

Re: default GNOME desktop background

2019-11-09 Thread Leo Prikler
> I know that at least on my machine I have a grub-image.png file in my > store. I don't know if that helps... > > find /gnu/store -name '*grub-image*' It is on (almost) everyone's machine, see (gnu bootloader grub) on how it's derived. You can probably copy most of the steps up to the definitio

Re: Parallel downloads

2019-11-09 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Pierre! Pierre Neidhardt skribis: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >>> - Can we configure the default value? >> >> Yup, just pass ‘--max-jobs=N’ to the daemon. > > So I suppose you mean to use the `extra-options` field, e.g. > > (guix-service-type config => >(guix-configuratio

Re: Publishing news about Guix on a weekly basis

2019-11-09 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, sirgazil skribis: > > > I have one question, though; couldn't these news be posted as entries > > > in the current blog, tagged as "News" entries? > > > > Right, that's something I didn't really consider. > > > > Thinking about it now, I think it's worth considering though. W

Re: Publishing news about Guix on a weekly basis

2019-11-09 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Christopher Baines skribis: > Yep, with respect to contributing content, it would be good to make it > really easy. I was also thinking an IRC bot could maybe be used, so you > message it the content, and it somehow makes it appear in the news > entry. Oh, that’d be fun. Thanks, Ludo’.

Re: Publishing news about Guix on a weekly basis

2019-11-09 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Christopher Baines skribis: > 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 click

Re: ARM VM with networking support?

2019-11-09 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Mathieu, Mathieu Othacehe skribis: > I think I solved this issue on my wip cross system serie: > > https://patchwork.cbaines.net/patch/15252/. > > Tell me if it works for you :) I confirm that it works, thank you! You should really push it to ‘master’. :-) (BTW, there seem to be other

Re: default GNOME desktop background

2019-11-09 Thread Joshua Branson
Leo Prikler writes: >> I find it strange that the default background in the GNOME DE is a >> plain color instead of one of the backgrounds installed with gnome- >> backgrounds. > So do I, although to me it matters little, since the settings dialogue > is usually the first thing I visit in a fresh

Wheel group as polkit admins

2019-11-09 Thread Leo Prikler
Hello, some other distros use a Polkit rule, that makes the local admin group ("wheel" on Guix) Polkit admins. Yet others easily allow writing your own files to /etc, so that such a rule can be added. Guix lacks such a rule by default and adding it in the way you're supposed to in other distros

Re: GDM and Wayland

2019-11-09 Thread Raghav Gururajan
> Yes it is, but GNOME was working in Guix long before GDM was working. > GNOME even worked with Wayland before GDM worked at all. We focused > on > getting GDM to work on X first to make things simple, and that’s > where > things have stayed. I see. > In order to get GDM to work on Wayland, yo