Re: Outreachy Applicant: An Introduction

Hi Aniket and Bonface, thank you two for the nice suggestions. That was exactly what I was looking to get started into emacs. Magali Em ter., 13 de out. de 2020 às 21:48, Aniket Patil < aniket112.pa...@gmail.com> escreveu: > Hi Lemes, > > I am also emacs user and Outreachy applicant. I would sug

Re: Removing/replacing “Guix in action” video from the home page?

Joshua Branson writes: > I would describe my video set up as pretty simple: > > $ wf-recorder --audio > Thanks for sharing! > If you watch any of my below videos, you'll see me take breaks like, "Oh > hold on just a second, I think my landlord is knocking at my front > door. I'll be right back.

Re: Did nmap just become non-free?

Marius Bakke writes: > > ...I'm fairly certain this is not an acceptable license for Guix, or > free software distributions in general. > This is definitely not a consistent license for us. > So I think we should revert the license change, as well as the update > to 7.90 which introduced the new

Re: Removing/replacing “Guix in action” video from the home page?

‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Tuesday, October 13, 2020 8:39 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hi, > > Luis Felipe luis.felipe...@protonmail.com skribis: > > > > The home page has a “Guix in action” video that’s becoming outdated. It > > > would be nice to have an updated version of it using in

Did nmap just become non-free?

Hello, I updated the nmap license in 2323a7120a0f3ed96fedfff42e86c0aee97995c0. Admittedly I had only skimmed through the text, which is "based on GPL2" and "believed to be compliant with the 'Open Source Definition'", but after a closer read of the annotated version: https://nmap.org/npsl/npsl-

Re: staging freeze

Julien Lepiller writes: > Le 13 octobre 2020 17:54:16 GMT-04:00, Marius Bakke a écrit : >>Hello Guix, >> >>I've pushed a set of updates to the long-overdue "staging" branch. >> >>Let's get it merged once Cuirass is done building for the various >>architectures. Not sure how long that takes now

Re: staging freeze

Le 13 octobre 2020 17:54:16 GMT-04:00, Marius Bakke a écrit : >Hello Guix, > >I've pushed a set of updates to the long-overdue "staging" branch. > >Let's get it merged once Cuirass is done building for the various >architectures. Not sure how long that takes now that we no longer use >transparent

staging freeze

Hello Guix, I've pushed a set of updates to the long-overdue "staging" branch. Let's get it merged once Cuirass is done building for the various architectures. Not sure how long that takes now that we no longer use transparent QEMU emulation for AArch64 and armhf. signature.asc Description: PG

Re: Outreachy internship

Hi Joshua, > I haven't really followed what others have proposed, but you could > certainly get some ideas here: > > https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/GSoC-2020 It’s a good thought, but that’s not how it works for Outreachy. We have a number of Outreachy projects that internship candidat

Re: Outreachy internship

Hi Joshua and Brett, The Outreach proposals are proposal by the project (hence Guix). And for this round there are two: 1. store and IPFS 2. implement “guix git log“ to browse the local repo. Well, #1 is the pending patches which need love:

Re: Shipping more installer images?

Efraim Flashner skribis: > On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 01:47:25PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Mathieu Othacehe skribis: >> >> >> I'm actually not really sure how one would use the installer on one of >> >> the boards. I think the bare-bones disk-images would be best; just >> >> down

Re: Shipping more installer images?

Hi, Mathieu Othacehe skribis: >> So that’s 3 more 1 GiB installer images, right? If we target Oct. 29th, >> how are we going to test them in the meantime? How long will it take to >> build them, even assuming we build on an OverDrive? > > I plan to provide compressed disk images for those boar

Re: File search progress: database review and question on triggers

Pierre Neidhardt skribis: >> “Something” needs to build the file-to-package database (which is what >> you’re working on), and then there needs to be a way for users to fetch >> that database. This is all orthogonal to substitutes, as I see it, >> which is why I think we need to think about inte

Re: Outreachy internship

Hi! Welcome! And thank you for your interest in Guix. Are you currently running Guix? If no, the easiest is to start with the package manager [1] using the shell script installer (first Red note in [1] :-)). The package manager works on any GNU/linux distribution and is not in conflict with the

Re: Outreachy internship

Joshua Branson writes: > > I personally think it would be great to see some improvement to the GNU > Shepherd. It could use some love. :) > +1 -- Brett M. Gilio https://brettgilio.com

Re: Outreachy internship

I haven't really followed what others have proposed, but you could certainly get some ideas here: https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/GSoC-2020 I personally think it would be great to see some improvement to the GNU Shepherd. It could use some love. :) -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs a

Re: Removing/replacing “Guix in action” video from the home page?

I would describe my video set up as pretty simple: $ wf-recorder --audio If you watch any of my below videos, you'll see me take breaks like, "Oh hold on just a second, I think my landlord is knocking at my front door. I'll be right back." -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus https://gn

Re: Removing/replacing “Guix in action” video from the home page?

Hi, Luis Felipe skribis: >> The home page has a “Guix in action” video that’s becoming outdated. It >> would be nice to have an updated version of it using in particular the >> short aliases (‘guix search’, ‘guix install’, etc.). Perhaps we could >> use ‘emacs-gif-screencast’ to make it hopefull

Re: raise(-1) succeeds for programs linked against libpthread

Samuel Thibault skribis: > Ludovic Courtès, le mar. 13 oct. 2020 15:41:37 +0200, a ecrit: >> ‘pthread_kill’ passes the signal number to ‘_hurd_raise_signal’, which >> assumes it is valid: > [...] >> I suppose that before calling ‘sigaddset’, it should check whether SIGNO >> is within bounds, alon

Re: Reproductibility, Data Services, guix weather

zimoun writes: > The issue is to be able to find them. I proposed (below) to run cron > task doing ’--check’ on the build farms and then report by email the > failure. Chris indicated me the work they is doing [3] and instead of a > cron task, they is proposing to parse the JSON. That’s what

Re: [PATCH] installer: Add Emacs EXWM desktop environment. [WAS Re: Call for 1.2 installer testing.]

Mathieu Othacehe writes: Hi Mathieu, >> It works for me; I found Emacs EXWM missing however. After zenny also >> asked about that this morning, I decided to create a patch. > > Thanks for testing Using it is real easy, pleasant, and fast. One thing that I got wrong a couple of times is to actu

New Esperanto PO file for 'guix' (version 1.2.0-pre1)

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 Esperanto team of translators. The file is available at: https://translationproject.org/latest/guix/eo.po (We can arrange things so that in

New Esperanto PO file for 'guix-packages' (version 1.2.0-pre1)

Hello, gentle maintainer. This is a message from the Translation Project robot. A revised PO file for textual domain 'guix-packages' has been submitted by the Esperanto team of translators. The file is available at: https://translationproject.org/latest/guix-packages/eo.po (We can arrange

Re: Removing/replacing “Guix in action” video from the home page?

Joshua Branson writes: > I send a ton of time making videos online, so I can probably spare some > time to do this. I'll have a video posted in a day or two. > > Thanks, > > Joshua > What's your video setup look like? Moreso [free] tools that you'd use to cut, splice and clean audio. > -- > Jo

Re: Outreachy Applicant: An Introduction

Hi! Magali Lemes writes: > Hey, > I'm using Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS. I must say I've > never used emacs before, so  > I'll try to get the hang of it. Welcome to the club(of Emacsen users)! You'll get used it to it ;). Here's a good channel that shows you some cool things that you can get done in Em

Outreachy internship

Hello there! I'm Jade (lost_enchanter at IRC), I came from Outreachy and I'd like to try contributing even though there are two proposals already! I'd like to hear what I can do to help.

Re: Call for 1.2 installer testing.

Hello, Here a positive installation experience: I did my usual bare metal installation of the image linked below on a ThinkPenguin laptop that has always worked pretty well with Guix. Ran through the graphical installation, going through configuration options that have caused problems in the pas

Re: Shipping more installer images?

Hi Ludo, On Tue, 13 Oct 2020 15:51:19 +0200 Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > IMO there are only very few RYF-worthy ARM devices--and we should support > > at least those, if we support any ARM devices at all. That includes > > providing images for those few (at least A20-EOMA68, A?0*Olinuxino*, and >

Re: [PATCH] installer: Add Emacs EXWM desktop environment. [WAS Re: Call for 1.2 installer testing.]

Hey janneke, > It works for me; I found Emacs EXWM missing however. After zenny also > asked about that this morning, I decided to create a patch. Thanks for testing and for the patch! I think it might be necessary to add "emacs-exwm" to "installation-target-os-for-gui-tests" in (gnu tests in

Re: Shipping more installer images?

On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 01:47:25PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hi, > > Mathieu Othacehe skribis: > > >> I'm actually not really sure how one would use the installer on one of > >> the boards. I think the bare-bones disk-images would be best; just > >> download it and flash it onto the board

Re: Shipping more installer images?

Hey Ludo, > So that’s 3 more 1 GiB installer images, right? If we target Oct. 29th, > how are we going to test them in the meantime? How long will it take to > build them, even assuming we build on an OverDrive? I plan to provide compressed disk images for those boards so it's more around 400

Re: Continuous integration - automatic EMAIL

Hi! zimoun skribis: > If "guix weather -m" is improved, does it fill the gap? I think it helps, but it’s not the same as getting a notification for a commit you’ve just made. > Because it is exactly doing what is required, isn't? But it is not > suitable for this purpose because of UI. I mea

Re: raise(-1) succeeds for programs linked against libpthread

Ludovic Courtès, le mar. 13 oct. 2020 15:41:37 +0200, a ecrit: > ‘pthread_kill’ passes the signal number to ‘_hurd_raise_signal’, which > assumes it is valid: [...] > I suppose that before calling ‘sigaddset’, it should check whether SIGNO > is within bounds, along the lines of: > > if (signo <

Re: 32-bit builds on 64-bit hardware/VMs

Hi, Andreas Enge skribis: > On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 01:52:18PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> As a start, could you comment out in ‘machines-for-berlin.scm’ the >> machines that need to be removed in order to not run 32-bit builds in >> potentially buggy environments? > > already done by Danny

Re: Shipping more installer images?

Hi, Danny Milosavljevic skribis: > On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 13:47:25 +0200 > Ludovic Courtès wrote: > >> Mathieu Othacehe skribis: >> >> Keep in mind that images use space at ftp.gnu.org and also take time to >> build (having CI up-to-date helps with that, but it doesn’t not >> eliminate build tim

Re: File search progress: database review and question on triggers

Pierre Neidhardt skribis: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> I would lean towards keeping it separate, so that it’s an optional >> feature (given that it relies on downloading an external database). > > I was leaning towards downloading the database with "guix pull", so that > the "filesearch" subco

Re: File search progress: database review and question on triggers

Hi Pierre, Pierre Neidhardt skribis: > Ludovic Courtès writes: [...] >> It would be nice to see whether/how this could be integrated with >> third-party channels. Of course it’s not a priority, but while >> designing this feature, we should keep in mind that we might want >> third-party chan

raise(-1) succeeds for programs linked against libpthread

Hi! (Cc: bug-hurd.) Jan Nieuwenhuizen skribis: >>> #include >>> >>> int >>> main (void) >>> { >>> if (!raise (-1)) >>> return 1; >>> >>> return 0; >>> } >> >> I don’t know if it’s relevant here, but you should always use ‘-pthread’ >> both at compile time and link time: >> >> gcc

Re: bug#24066: icecat "mailto" handler does not work - and cannot be reconfigured by user

Hello Danny, Danny Milosavljevic writes: [...] > Checking the application preferences of icecat, it only gives "always > ask" (note: it doesn't ask) and not an application for "mailto". (in > GuixSD) Testing in latest IceCat, there's a 'Use other...' entry in the mailto applications configurat

Re: Translating the web site

PS: Please avoid top-posting. :-) Ludo’. Sure, I don’t mind translating everything through Weblate eventually. However, in the short term, could we simply push the web site POT files to that repo on Savannah, so we can start getting translations for it? It would be great to have more web site t

Re: Problem bootstrapping Guix - "make update-guix-package" result: no code for module (gcrypt hash)

Hi Danny, Danny Milosavljevic skribis: > I'm doing a project for Heads where we are trying to switch over their build > system to something that makes their builds more reproducible (for example > Guix). > > They are using github and gitlab test runners for a lot of things, so one of > the ways

Re: Guix Deploy Hacking

Le 12 octobre 2020 22:08:44 GMT-04:00, Kurt I a écrit : >Greetings, > >I am attempting to use "Guix Deploy" as a replacement for Norton >Ghost/SCCM, imaging type software. > >There are 2 tasks I'm working on: > >1) Using deploy to update a machine > - I don't understand the point of push

Re: Outreachy Applicant: An Introduction

Hey, I'm using Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS. I must say I've never used emacs before, so I'll try to get the hang of it. Sharing my progress: I decided to package the arduino IDE, but it turned out way harder than I expected, due to its many dependencies. I ended up not doing it, but it was a good experience

Re: Data Services: use cases

Hi! Sorry if I'm stating the obvious, but ideally it'd be nice if the interface would be so straightforward it didn't need any instructions to use :) In particular, the "Version From To" table is hard to grasp to a newcomer. During the Guix Days we talked about how to make it a bit more approach

Guix Deploy Hacking

Greetings, I am attempting to use "Guix Deploy" as a replacement for Norton Ghost/SCCM, imaging type software. There are 2 tasks I'm working on: 1) Using deploy to update a machine - I don't understand the point of pushing packages to a system that disappear if you do a "guix system reco