Heads-up from Linus -- potential bisection trainwreck: "A note on the 5.12-rc1 tag"

Hi, Not so usual to be switching rc kernels for guix I suppose, but this looked worth mentioning anyway: LWN archive link [1] [1]https://lwn.net/ml/linux-kernel/CAHk-=wjnzdlsp3odxhf9emtyo7gf-qjanlbuh1zk3c4a7x7...@mail.gmail.com/ In case of link problem, a couple of extractions: --8<

Re: mupdf vulnerable to CVE-2021-3407

I just patched this in commit 6891f957. Thanks for the heads up! On Wed, 2021-03-03 at 21:53 +0100, Léo Le Bouter wrote: > CVE-2021-3407 24.02.21 00:15 > A flaw was found in mupdf 1.18.0. Double free of object during > linearization may lead to memory corruption and other potential > consequences

Re: [Outreachy] Use of impure functional programming and use of vlists

Hi Magali, On Sat, 27 Feb 2021 at 00:10, Magali Lemes wrote: > As my Outreachy internship approaches an end, I'd like to know which of > the following options is better for walking and displaying the Git > commit history: > 1) having a list and then using for-each it to display the commit > i

Re: Release on April 18th?

Hi Leo, On Thu, 04 Mar 2021 at 14:07, Leo Famulari wrote: > On Thu, Mar 04, 2021 at 10:41:34AM +0100, zimoun wrote: >> On Wed, 03 Mar 2021 at 13:51, Leo Famulari wrote: >> > * Update tzdata >> >> “guix refresh tzdata -l” provides couple of dependants. Is it >> reasonable to update it for the n

Re: Release on April 18th?

On Thu, Mar 04, 2021 at 11:18:19PM +0100, zimoun wrote: > I should have had emphasized «couple». ;-) > Ah, I miss something because I thought this kind of upgrade was a > candidate for core-updates or staging. > Anyway. :-) It is usually is, but we can be confident that it won't break anything, ba

Re: Changes to the branching workflow

Hi, Chris, On Thu, 04 Mar 2021 at 16:05, Christopher Lemmer Webber wrote: > I wonder if we should formalize it. What about adding a section to the > "Contributing" section of the manual explaining what the different > branches are, and when you have a patch that's been approved, when to > pus

Re: Changes to the branching workflow

Hello, As someone who jumps in and out of Guix development occasionally but who does have commit access (probably for grantparented-in reasons, heh), sometimes I don't know where I should commit code or what the current branching policy is, and I might miss emails like this. I wonder if we should

Re: What features does a language/runtime need to use guix as a package manager?

Hello Vinícius Am Mittwoch, den 03.03.2021, 15:31 -0300 schrieb Vinícius dos Santos Oliveira: > Hi, > > I was curious about how a language/runtime module system needs to be > designed to use guix as a package manager. I'm developing my own > require() function for a Lua host and I'd like to make

What features does a language/runtime need to use guix as a package manager?

Hi, I was curious about how a language/runtime module system needs to be designed to use guix as a package manager. I'm developing my own require() function for a Lua host and I'd like to make sure it can use guix as a package manager. >From a tutorial by Andrew Tropin[1] I learned about native-s

Re: Release on April 18th?

On Thu, Mar 04, 2021 at 10:41:34AM +0100, zimoun wrote: > On Wed, 03 Mar 2021 at 13:51, Leo Famulari wrote: > > * Update tzdata > > “guix refresh tzdata -l” provides couple of dependants. Is it > reasonable to update it for the next release? For me, I see 1765 dependents (a "couple" is 2). We h

Re: branch master updated: website: nls: Fix URLs for Chinese translation.

Florian Pelz 写道： - ("zh_CN" . "zh-cn")) + ("zh_CN" . "zh-CN")) Thanks, Florian! So there was no hidden ‘reason’ for us preferring cn over CN, correct? I was too scared to break something... Kind regards, T G-R signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Release on April 18th?

Hi Leo, On Wed, 03 Mar 2021 at 13:51, Leo Famulari wrote: > * Fix #46871 (problems with init scripts and guix-install.sh). I think it is (almost) done, see . > * Update tzdata “guix refresh tzdata -l” provides couple of dependants. Is it reasonable