Re: Documenting Yubikey setup

2019-11-29 Thread Martin Becze
On 2019-11-29 20:15, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > To clarify, you can send your article to this mailing list with an > obvious title (e.g. [BLOG] ...) to get feedback before publishing. thanks Pierre! Maybe this should go into the cookbook though? I think ideally it would be a wiki entry. Its one of

Re: Python 2 end-of-life?

2019-11-29 Thread Bengt Richter
Hi simon, On +2019-11-29 15:12:49 +0100, zimoun wrote: > Hi Bengt, > > On Fri, 29 Nov 2019 at 14:42, Bengt Richter wrote: > > > > And what do we win? More reproducibility? More bootstrappability? > > > > https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/C._A._R._Hoare#The_Emperor's_Old_Clothes > > > > The first qu

Re: Documenting Yubikey setup

2019-11-29 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
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Documenting Yubikey setup

2019-11-29 Thread Martin Becze
Hello Guix, It took me a bit of time to figure out how to setup my Yubikey. Where would be a good place to document how to do this? Thanks, -Martin Becze

Re: Guix pull chokes on uglify-js

2019-11-29 Thread zimoun
Hi Pierre, On Fri, 29 Nov 2019 at 15:58, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > > > By the way, is there a convenient way to catch this kind of errors > > without pushing to master first? > > To answer my own question: > > --8<---cut here---start->8--- > guix pull --url=$HO

RE: guix gc doesn't seem to clean old guix revision

2019-11-29 Thread YOANN P
> It is similar to Bug#36785 [1]. > As said, it is not a bug of "guix pull" but a bug of the > configuration. Adding the root user to your Dockerfile should fix the > issue you encounter. The fact that guix require $USER to be set is IMO a kind of bug and is documented anywhere. It will be less p

Re: Guix pull chokes on uglify-js

2019-11-29 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
> By the way, is there a convenient way to catch this kind of errors > without pushing to master first? To answer my own question: --8<---cut here---start->8--- guix pull --url=$HOME/projects/guix --dry-run --8<---cut here---end-

Re: Python 2 end-of-life?

2019-11-29 Thread zimoun
Hi Bengt, On Fri, 29 Nov 2019 at 14:42, Bengt Richter wrote: > > And what do we win? More reproducibility? More bootstrappability? > > https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/C._A._R._Hoare#The_Emperor's_Old_Clothes > > The first quote in particular ;-) I agree with the quote. :-) But it does not answer

Re: Python 2 end-of-life?

2019-11-29 Thread Bengt Richter
Hi zimoun, On +2019-11-29 12:41:43 +0100, zimoun wrote: > Hi Bengt, > [...] > > > > > That's yet another question: could we patch the upstream code to replace > > > > Python by something else that's more convenient for Guix. That may > > > > actually be a worthwhile approach to reduce software b

Re: [PATCH] WIP patches for the rust importer

2019-11-29 Thread Martin Becze
On 2019-11-28 12:22, Efraim Flashner wrote: > I'll take a look at it in a minute. I figured with the versioned > requirements we would always want to be specific in version numbers for > crate dependents so I figured it made sense. Also, if we did want to > provide an unversioned '-latest' version

Re: New POWER9 machines for the Guix build farm?

2019-11-29 Thread Marco van Hulten
Hello— On 29 Nov 09:25 dftxbs3e wrote: > I'm really happy to hear this! I also do own a POWER9 machine. > > I have a Talos II with 2x 8 SMT4 cores POWER9 DD2.2 CPUs (64 threads), > 64GB of RAM and an AMD WX7100 GPU (amdgpu libre driver). > > I run Fedora on it since more than a year now, it's b

Re: Python 2 end-of-life?

2019-11-29 Thread zimoun
Hi Bengt, On Fri, 29 Nov 2019 at 07:54, Bengt Richter wrote: > > For example, considering rust, it is about the bootstrappability. See [1]. > > > > [1] http://guix.gnu.org/blog/2018/bootstrapping-rust/ > > > > That looks horrible to me :) > Don't they have a "guild disasseble" kind of thing that

Re: Python 2 end-of-life?

2019-11-29 Thread zimoun
Hi Konrad On Fri, 29 Nov 2019 at 08:38, Konrad Hinsen wrote: > Nice discussion, please go on. With Simon taking the pragmatic point of > view ("what can we do right now?") and Bengt the long-term idealist > perspective ("where should Guix be going?"), we might end up getting > both ends right.

Re: Python 2 end-of-life?

2019-11-29 Thread zimoun
Hi Bengt, On Fri, 29 Nov 2019 at 07:07, Bengt Richter wrote: > > Is it not cheap to replace the python2 dependency by the python3 one > > and try to locally build? > > > > The first step is probably cheap, but if you just s/python2/python3/g > and it "works," what do you know? Can you even begi

Re: New POWER9 machines for the Guix build farm?

2019-11-29 Thread dftxbs3e
Hello, I'm really happy to hear this! I also do own a POWER9 machine. I have a Talos II with 2x 8 SMT4 cores POWER9 DD2.2 CPUs (64 threads), 64GB of RAM and an AMD WX7100 GPU (amdgpu libre driver). I run Fedora on it since more than a year now, it's been my main workstation without any major