Re: planned downtime for ci.guix.gnu.org this Friday

2020-03-02 Thread Christopher Baines
Ricardo Wurmus writes: > on Friday (March 6) the head node and the big storage for > ci.guix.gnu.org will need to be moved to a different aisle in the MDC > data centre. This will require a short downtime as we need to shut off > ci.guix.gnu.org for a little while. We will also take some time

Re: 02/02: gnu: next: Compress the executable.

2020-03-02 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hi Pierre, Pierre Neidhardt writes: > This is fantastic, thanks a lot for the feedback! > > Speaking of which, should we update the manual and/or templates to > encourage users to switch to Btrfs? Perhaps! I don't really have an opinion on this :-) Maxim

Re: Packaging UCSC

2020-03-02 Thread Pjotr Prins
On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 10:12:28AM +0100, Giovanni Biscuolo wrote: > Is Galaxy also capable of genome browsing? Not that I am aware. There may be some SNP browsing tools in Galaxy. > --8<---cut here---start->8--- > > The source for the Genome Browser, Blat, li

Re: Packaging UCSC

2020-03-02 Thread Pjotr Prins
On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 02:20:16PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > > Pjotr Prins writes: > > > Anyone got UCSC running with Guix? May be easier than Galaxy which is > > also on the books at some point. > > Most of the UCSC browser is non-free software. The kentutils make up a > part of the code

New Spanish PO file for 'guix' (version 1.1.0-pre1)

2020-03-02 Thread Translation Project Robot
Hello, gentle maintainer. This is a message from the Translation Project robot. A revised PO file for textual domain 'guix' has been submitted by the Spanish team of translators. The file is available at: https://translationproject.org/latest/guix/es.po (We can arrange things so that in th

Re: adding unencoded space character check to guix lint

2020-03-02 Thread Vincent Legoll
Hello, I retract that WIP,RFC,PATCH, it was mistakenly created after seeing a warning about such unencoded (%20) space characters in url on repology, but since I've been unable to find them again (the warnings). They were temporarily activated on repology, and triggered me into doing something ab

Re: adding unencoded space character check to guix lint

2020-03-02 Thread zimoun
Hi Vincent, On Sat, 29 Feb 2020 at 20:21, Leo Famulari wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 04:26:57PM +0100, Vincent Legoll wrote: > > The attached (crude, WIP, RFC) patch allowed to find the following > > packages that have unecoded space characters in their URIs: > > Can you explain a little mor

Re: Missing substitutes and TIMEOUT property (Racket, MAME)

2020-03-02 Thread Leo Famulari
On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 03:58:19PM +0100, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > Some packages are frequently without substitutes, like Racket and MAME. > Link between the two? They both take a long time to build. So I wonder > if this is not because the build somehow timeouts. The logs of the failing builds

Re: guix build --repair might not always work

2020-03-02 Thread zimoun
Hi, On Sat, 25 Jan 2020 at 19:06, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > And nothing else. So, let's check the hash > > In particular, you should compare the actual hash returned by “guix hash > -r” with that stored in the local database. If they match, then the > store item is not considered corrupt. It

planned downtime for ci.guix.gnu.org this Friday

2020-03-02 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi there, on Friday (March 6) the head node and the big storage for ci.guix.gnu.org will need to be moved to a different aisle in the MDC data centre. This will require a short downtime as we need to shut off ci.guix.gnu.org for a little while. We will also take some time to apply firmware updat

Re: returning a store directory

2020-03-02 Thread Gábor Boskovits
Hello, Efraim Flashner ezt írta (időpont: 2020. márc. 2., Hét 12:54): > I'm working on some user shepherd services and I want to make use of the > #:directory option. The directory keyword clearly takes a string but > guix-build from (guix scripts build) outputs a path and returns > unspecified.

returning a store directory

2020-03-02 Thread Efraim Flashner
I'm working on some user shepherd services and I want to make use of the #:directory option. The directory keyword clearly takes a string but guix-build from (guix scripts build) outputs a path and returns unspecified. The other things I've tried haven't worked as well. I'm looking to run a servic

Re: Missing substitutes and TIMEOUT property (Racket, MAME)

2020-03-02 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
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Re: [GSOC 2020] Idea: Guile based build-tool

2020-03-02 Thread zimoun
Dear, Perhaps, some inspiration about build systems in this paper [1] by Haskellers. [1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2018/03/build-systems-final.pdf All the best, simon

Re: 23/36: gnu: Add libkdepim.

2020-03-02 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Hi Ludo, > I should have been more specific: could you try to expound a bit the > descriptions and write full sentences? I understand it’s going to be > difficult if upstream doesn’t bother to provide a README, so it’ll > clearly be best effort, no problem! I updates the ugly ones, see