Re: Inverted index to accelerate guix package search

2020-01-14 Thread Arun Isaac
zimoun writes: > However, the core issue about "search" is not 'find quickly an item' > but 'find the relevant item'. > For example, Bloom filter [1] or B-tree could be interesting data > structure if we are talking about fast retrieval. Note that this part > should even be delegated to SQLite,

Re: Documenting Yubikey setup

2020-01-14 Thread Chris Marusich
Hi Martin, Martin Becze writes: > For a user to access a Yubikey an udev rule needs to be added. This can > be done by using the udev rules found in libu2f-host package. To use the > rules the following should be added to your config.scm > > (use-modules (gnu packages security-token)) > > ... >

Re: Inverted index to accelerate guix package search

2020-01-14 Thread zimoun
On Tue, 14 Jan 2020 at 22:41, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > >> > By the way, what about using Xapian in Guix? > > > > Xapian could be really cool! > > However, the size of this dependency should be evaluated; then > > optional feature or not. > > --8<---cut here---start---

Re: Inverted index to accelerate guix package search

2020-01-14 Thread zimoun
Hi, On Tue, 14 Jan 2020 at 16:27, Giovanni Biscuolo wrote: > Pierre Neidhardt writes: > > By the way, what about using Xapian in Guix? Xapian could be really cool! However, the size of this dependency should be evaluated; then optional feature or not. > Actually I would love to search (tag

Re: Proposal for a blog contribution on reproducible computations

2020-01-14 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Konrad Hinsen skribis: >> Perfect, thanks! I had to move files where Haunt expects them, and to >> make the table pure ASCII because guile-commonmark doesn’t support HTML >> nor tables, but here we are: >> >> https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2020/reproducible-computations-with-guix/ >> https://hpc.

Re: Proposal for a blog contribution on reproducible computations

2020-01-14 Thread Konrad Hinsen
Hi Ludo, > Perfect, thanks! I had to move files where Haunt expects them, and to > make the table pure ASCII because guile-commonmark doesn’t support HTML > nor tables, but here we are: > > https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2020/reproducible-computations-with-guix/ > https://hpc.guix.info/blog/2020/0

Re: Proposal for a blog contribution on reproducible computations

2020-01-14 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Konrad Hinsen skribis: >> You can post a patch against the guix-artwork.git repo here when you’re >> ready. > > Here it comes ! Perfect, thanks! I had to move files where Haunt expects them, and to make the table pure ASCII because guile-commonmark doesn’t support HTML nor tables, but h

Re: Inverted index to accelerate guix package search

2020-01-14 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Pierre Neidhardt writes: > By the way, what about using Xapian in Guix? > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xapian > > If it's relevant, maybe we can follow up with a discussion in a new > thread. IMHO it's relevant (you decide if it's worth a new thread) Actually I would love to search (tag?!?)

Re: Parameterized packages

2020-01-14 Thread zimoun
Hi Pierre, I do not not if it related. Currently, the option "--with-input" does not re-write the implicit inputs. Probably for good reasons. :-) For example, say I would like to have the version 3.4.3 of R (2017 old). This version is really old and had disappeared. Other said, it is older than

Re: Inverted index to accelerate guix package search

2020-01-14 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
By the way, what about using Xapian in Guix? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xapian If it's relevant, maybe we can follow up with a discussion in a new thread. -- Pierre Neidhardt https://ambrevar.xyz/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Guix at eRum 2020 conference on May 27-30 in Milan?

2020-01-14 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
This year the european R users meeting (eRum https://erum.io/) will be held on 27-30 May in Milan (UNI Bicocca and Politecnico) Call for speakers: - Closes at 11:59 PM 29 Jan 2020 - Notification of acceptance: February 26, 2020 Travel grants application period is expired, sorry! (Application per

Re: Package request: OpenRA

2020-01-14 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Thanks for sharing! Besides Nix seems to have a working package: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/ -- Pierre Neidhardt https://ambrevar.xyz/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Package request: OpenRA

2020-01-14 Thread ng0
There aren't issuess with the DB (unless it changed), we discussed creating a package in context of tor some time in 2016 - 2018 I think.

Re: Testing the installer

2020-01-14 Thread Mathieu Othacehe
Hello Ludo, That sounds like a nice idea! I guess we can discuss it more deeply during Guix Days, but here are a few thoughts: * Testing from a VM won't cover HW issues with undetected wifi networks and kmscon rendering issues, but could cover most partitioning issues. * This kind of client/se