Re: File search

raingloom writes: > One use case that I hope can be addressed is TeXlive packages. Trying > to figure out which package corresponded to which missing file was a > nightmare the last I had to use LaTeX. The texlive package database is the authoritative source of information. The file texlive.tl

Re: File search

On Fri, 21 Jan 2022 10:03:43 +0100 Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hello Guix! > > Lately I found myself going several times to > to look for packages providing a given > file and I thought it’s time to do something about it. > > The script below creates an SQLite databas

Re: File search

Hi Ludovic, Thank you for this valuable initiative :-). I like that it sits in few lines and should already be useful for local searches with a minimal front command to query it. Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hi! > > Vagrant Cascadian skribis: > >> What about ... a roughly weekly job that runs on

Re: File search

Hi! Vagrant Cascadian skribis: > What about ... a roughly weekly job that runs on ci.guix. to create the > database and packages of parts of the database and a channel that > includes those and utilities to query them so that you can install the > packages and refresh them at your leisure... > >

Re: File search

Hi! Mathieu Othacehe skribis: >> I think accuracy (making sure you get results that correspond precisely >> to, say, your current channel revisions and your current system) is not >> a high priority: some result is better than no result. Likewise for >> freshness: results for an older version o

Re: File search

On 2022-01-21, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Lately I found myself going several times to > to look for packages providing a given > file and I thought it’s time to do something about it. Hah! > The script below creates an SQLite database for the current set of > packages

WSDD Service Module

Hello! I've been preparing WSDD [1] for Guix. This is a Web Service Discovery Daemon that replaces host discovery through SMBv1. SMBv1 has been disabled in Samba and Windows for some time now for security reasons. Hence WSDD is a drop in replacement for host discovery. I've packaged wsdd alread

WSDD Service Module

Hello! I've been preparing WSDD [1] for Guix. This is a Web Service Discovery Daemon that replaces host discovery through SMBv1. SMBv1 has been disabled in Samba and Windows for some time now for security reasons. Hence WSDD is a drop in replacement for host discovery. I've packaged wsdd alread

Re: using an SRFI that is not available in Guile

> How about using ‘*unspecified*’ in those cases? hrm, that looks interesting, thanks! i'll try using that first. it's Guile-specific, but then most of the rest of Guix is... > Out of curiosity, in what case do you need to represent “unset fields”? i think an example works better here: consid

Re: File search

Hello Ludo! > Lately I found myself going several times to > to look for packages providing a given > file and I thought it’s time to do something about it. Yeah, I'm also thinking regularly about it but giving up because setting up this mechanism properly turns ou

File search

Hello Guix! Lately I found myself going several times to to look for packages providing a given file and I thought it’s time to do something about it. The script below creates an SQLite database for the current set of packages, but only for those already in the store

Re: Return back original implementation for text-config serialization

Andrew Tropin schreef op do 20-01-2022 om 16:20 [+0300]: > [...] > > From what I understood from Liliana's and Maxime's replies: I'm not the > only one finding the original implementation to be more intuitive and > consistent with the rest of Guix API. Please, correct me if I'm wrong. To be clea