On May 3, 2021, Leo Famulari wrote:
> Is the tarball generation "stable" across Git releases? Or is it
> subject to change? We had this issue with Git archive creation in the
> past.
I have heard about early format changes, but since Linux itself has used
git archive to generate tarballs on the
On Wed, May 05, 2021 at 10:01:39AM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> Yeah, not sure what best practices are for SysV init scripts these
> days. For Debian I just documented that users of SysV in debian should
> install daemonize; in future versions I may make it a soft alternate
> dependency to the
On Sun, 2 May 2021 02:15:31 +0200
Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Apr 2021 01:43:37 +0200
> Leo Le Bouter wrote:
>
> > I think that the technicality of software development must be
> > redefined so that the hierarchy between the experienced and the
> > beginner disappears [...]
> I
On Sat, 01 May 2021 19:47:40 +0200
Léo Le Bouter wrote:
> I think it is a disaster that you (maintainers) choose to blame
> someone publicly for feeling so bad after having received messages of
> exceptional aggressivity.
Disclaimer: I only saw some of the relevant discussion, so, please don't
s
On 2021-05-03, Leo Famulari wrote:
> On Mon, May 03, 2021 at 09:38:56PM +0200, Tissevert wrote:
>> I've just given the binary tarball a spin on Devuan. Worked almost flawlessly
>> (daemonize wasn't installed and I missed the part when it was mentioned
>> because
>> I was a bit in a hurry but apart
Ludovic Courtès writes:
> 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
Hey Ludovic :)
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On Tuesday, May 4, 2021 3:49 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi Luis!
>
> Luis Felipe luis.felipe...@protonmail.com skribis:
>
> > Are all these constants (%base-packages, for example)? Is this a Guix
> > convention or does it come from Guile?
>
> To
On Tue, May 04, 2021 at 06:52:31PM -0700, Chris Marusich wrote:
> Chris Marusich writes:
>
> > Efraim Flashner writes:
> >
> >> On 923bb70a1bff657125c3008f119a477e5cb57c2b
> >>gnu:glibc-for-bootstrap: Fix patch.
> >>
> >> Run
> >> ./pre-inst-env guix build --target=powerpc-linux-gnu boot
Hi !!
On Mon, 3 May 2021 20:34:54 -0400
Leo Famulari wrote:
> I think that a big part of why we offer the SysV-init "/etc/init.d"
> service management script is to serve Devuan — there are not many
> distros using that style of service management anymore. If `daemonize`
> is not available by defa
