Re: bug#47615: [PATCH 1/9] gnu: bootstrap: Add support for powerpc-linux.

Chris Marusich writes: > Efraim Flashner writes: > >> On 923bb70a1bff657125c3008f119a477e5cb57c2b >>gnu:glibc-for-bootstrap: Fix patch. >> >> Run >> ./pre-inst-env guix build --target=powerpc-linux-gnu bootstrap-tarballs g>> >> Producing >> >> /gnu/store/dyj1wvayyp1ihaknkxniz1xamcf4y

Re: GNU Guix 1.3.0rc1 available for testing!

Maxim Cournoyer writes: > A first RC for the upcoming 1.3.0 release is now available for testing I tested the binary for powerpc64le-linux on a Debian 10 ppc64el system. It seems to be behaving as well as I expected it to. Thank you for preparing it! On powerpc64le-linux, the installation scri

Re: Application for aarch64 computing resources

On Fri, Apr 02, 2021 at 02:43:20PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote: > As part of our efforts to improve the situation, I've applied for > donation of aarch64 (64-bit ARM) computing resources for the Guix build > farm: > > https://github.com/WorksOnArm/cluster/issues/254 Unfortunately our request was no

Re: RISC-V is giving away developer boards

> > And if someone EU-based is interested to work full time for 6 months > we should apply for an NLNet grant. Is it an idea to set up a matrix > room for this? > > Pj. Depending on the needs and all that I would like to work on it I'm not a Guix expert but I know quite a bit about RISC-V and I th

Re: [PATCH 0/2] Add mercurial-commitsigs and some changes to Mercurial.

Whoops wrong list, that was why I didn’t get a message back from Debbugs.

[PATCH 0/2] Add mercurial-commitsigs and some changes to Mercurial.

The first patch adds the commitsigs extension for Mercurial, it allows users to sign Mercurial changesets (equivalent to Git commits) with GnuPG or OpenSSL. The second patch adds PYTHONPATH to the ‘native-search-paths’ field of Mercurial, this allows Mercurial to automatically find third-party ext

Re: How is the LaTeX-related file psfonts.map installed on Guix?

Rovanion Luckey writes: Thank you. My full document also builds now with the above environment. The strange thing is that, just as you noted, even though all texlive-hyphen-{a lot of european languages} are all installed my pdflatex outputs the following: Package babel Warning: No hyphena

Re: FYI: guile-scheme bindings to GNU Mach and the Hurd

Ludovic Courtès schreef op zo 02-05-2021 om 22:51 [+0200]: > > [...] moved it to ;. > > Nice! I knew of the Common Lisp effort this is based on, and the idea > of reusing the .lisp code unchanged is smart. Looks promising! The initial idea was to keep

Re: Bringing substitutes from the Guix Build Coordinator to users

Andreas Enge writes: > Hello Chris, > > Am Sat, May 01, 2021 at 07:56:05PM +0100 schrieb Christopher Baines: >> I think there are some benefits for using the Guix Build Coordinator to >> build things for substitutes, and it would be good to work out how to >> get those benefits to users of Guix

Re: Bringing substitutes from the Guix Build Coordinator to users

Ludovic Courtès writes: > Christopher Baines skribis: > >> Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> As people are going to Cuirass to look at the build status for packages, >> system tests and various branches, the problem is similar to that of >> substitutes. It doesn't matter if the Guix Build Coordinat

Addons (esp. pEp) for Icecat/THunderbird

Hello, pEp just publishes a beta-version of pEp for Thunderbird. Since guix already provides the required base-packages (sequoia, pEp-engiine) it would be great if we could provide the icecat/thunderbird-addon, too. Anybody to support my on packaging the add-on? Or the other way round: someb

Re: RISC-V is giving away developer boards

On Tue, May 04, 2021 at 10:35:41AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hi! > > It seems there’s a number of interested developers, great! I believe > the RISC-V people expect a commitment from applicants to work on porting > software. That means y’all need to be ready to dedicate some time to > this

Re: Bringing substitutes from the Guix Build Coordinator to users

Hello Chris, Am Sat, May 01, 2021 at 07:56:05PM +0100 schrieb Christopher Baines: > I think there are some benefits for using the Guix Build Coordinator to > build things for substitutes, and it would be good to work out how to > get those benefits to users of Guix generally. my question is a bit

Re: How is the LaTeX-related file psfonts.map installed on Guix?

Hello rekado! I saved your document in a file “doc.tex” and then ran this > command successfully: > > guix environment --pure --ad-hoc \ > texlive-base \ > texlive-url \ > texlive-latex-hyperref \ > texlive-fonts-ec \ > texlive-lm \ > texlive-babel-swedish \

Re: [PATCH v2 00/12] Add 32-bit powerpc support

I'm going to bump this email again. I feel like it's ready for merging but I wanted to give everyone another chance to chime in. -- Efraim Flashner אפרים פלשנר GPG key = A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D 14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351 Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencry

Re: What's the meaning of the percent sign in variable names

Hi Luis! Luis Felipe skribis: > Are all these constants (%base-packages, for example)? Is this a Guix > convention or does it come from Guile? To complement Leo’s answer… The ‘%’ convention comes from Guile, which may have borrowed it from other Schemes. Initially, it was meant to read as “sy

Re: A "cosmetic changes" commit that removes security fixes

Hi, Pierre Neidhardt skribis: > Thanks for sharing. I've read it and it does not seem to be concerned > with the question of governance. For the record, you can read about Guix roles and responsibilities at: https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2019/gnu-guix-maintainer-collective-expands/ The “Con

Re: 03/03: doc: Update to cover for an additional OpenPGP signing key.

Hello! Maxim Cournoyer skribis: > Oh, it didn't strike me as an option, as it'd not cover past releases. > Perhaps not a common use case, but the past releases are still available > for download, so someone could want to install them, perhaps just to > compare what changed or decide if some prob

Re: 03/03: doc: Update to cover for an additional OpenPGP signing key.

Hi! Julien Lepiller writes: > Agreed :) > > Le 4 mai 2021 05:08:24 GMT-04:00, "Ludovic Courtès" a écrit : >>Hi! >> >>guix-comm...@gnu.org skribis: >> >>> commit 0f583f60f882d74f4cf2332c85343a2db67410c7 >>> Author: Maxim Cournoyer >>> AuthorDate: Sat May 1 22:35:09 2021 -0400 >>> >>> doc: U

Re: 03/03: doc: Update to cover for an additional OpenPGP signing key.

Agreed :) Le 4 mai 2021 05:08:24 GMT-04:00, "Ludovic Courtès" a écrit : >Hi! > >guix-comm...@gnu.org skribis: > >> commit 0f583f60f882d74f4cf2332c85343a2db67410c7 >> Author: Maxim Cournoyer >> AuthorDate: Sat May 1 22:35:09 2021 -0400 >> >> doc: Update to cover for an additional OpenPGP sign

Re: 03/03: doc: Update to cover for an additional OpenPGP signing key.

Hi! guix-comm...@gnu.org skribis: > commit 0f583f60f882d74f4cf2332c85343a2db67410c7 > Author: Maxim Cournoyer > AuthorDate: Sat May 1 22:35:09 2021 -0400 > > doc: Update to cover for an additional OpenPGP signing key. > > The upcoming 1.3.0 release will be signed with my OpenPGP key

Re: RISC-V is giving away developer boards

Hi! It seems there’s a number of interested developers, great! I believe the RISC-V people expect a commitment from applicants to work on porting software. That means y’all need to be ready to dedicate some time to this in the coming year or so. Is anyone willing to take a closer look at the RI

Re: Bringing substitutes from the Guix Build Coordinator to users

Hi Chris, Christopher Baines skribis: > Ludovic Courtès writes: [...] >> My understanding is that, to build substitutes, we need more than the >> Coordinator; we also need something to perform evaluations, similar to >> the “top half” of Cuirass and the Data Service, right? How would you >>

Re: rust-tempfile-3 update to 3.2.0 breaks sequoia build

Hi Nicolas, thanks for the review, Unfortunately I pushed the change just a few minutes ago :-( In `fix-permissions' phase, are you sure you need #o644 permission? Otherwise, you may want to use `make-file-writeable'. Thanks for this tip, I didn't know this function. I'll keep it in mind f

Re: rust-tempfile-3 update to 3.2.0 breaks sequoia build

Hello, Hartmut Goebel writes: > I was able to fix sequoia by updating to 1.1 and applying some more > changes. Thank you. > Please review so we > can get it into upcoming guix 1.3. Thanks in advance I don't use sequoia but I confirm it builds on my x86

Re: A "cosmetic changes" commit that removes security fixes

Hi Bengt, >> This applies to GNU at the top level, but it does not specify how >> sub-projects (referred to as "packages" in the aforementioned document) >> are governed locally. This question is mostly left unanswered as I >> understand it. >> > > You may find some clues here: > https://www.