nix installed with guix on a foreign distro

2022-07-25 Thread jgart
Hi Guixers, How can we make it easier to install nix with guix on a foreign distro? Guix System has a nix-service-type but there is no such thing on Debian. wdyt

Re: Building, packaging and updating Guix with confidence

2022-07-25 Thread Bengt Richter
Hi Josselin, tl;dr: I naively don't buy the rationale against a non-root guix daemon :) Skip to [2] if tl ;) On +2022-07-21 18:10:53 +0200, Josselin Poiret wrote: > Hello, > > b...@bokr.com writes: > > Naively: > > > > Why does "the" guix daemon per se need root access at all? > > The main thin

Updating linux-libre

2022-07-25 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hi, Just a heads-up so we don't needlessly burn energy like it's 2020: I'm (still) updating the linux-libres to the latest kernel.org versions, but it's taking one hell of a long time to deblob & build them all on a mere i7. I didn't realise it was this expensive! (And berlin is down, so n

Re: python-pytest in references graph

2022-07-25 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hi Bengt, Berlin is currently in a degraded state (probably a Shepherd bug). The main Web site works, although it's probably not being updated, and last I checked substitutes did to, but issues. is down and I don't think Cuirass is building new substitutes. We can't remotely reset the machine

Re: python-pytest in references graph

2022-07-25 Thread bokr
On +2022-07-25 08:23:57 +0200, Lars-Dominik Braun wrote: > Hi, > > > It should, but sometimes there are bugs in the package definition or > > build system, in this case causing python-rdflib to refer to the > > native-input python-pytest.  Likely it's the 'add-install-to-path' phase > > adding

Re: A proposal of a consistent set of clear rules and guidelines involving snippets, phases and patches.

2022-07-25 Thread Julien Lepiller
I agree that we should better document that policy. I think we could go further, but it's ok to document the common denominator first. To me, the structure you suggest is not great, but I don't have issues with the content. Le 25 juillet 2022 13:18:28 GMT+02:00, Maxime Devos a écrit : > >On 25

Re: A proposal of a consistent set of clear rules and guidelines involving snippets, phases and patches.

2022-07-25 Thread Maxime Devos
On 25-07-2022 07:21, Julien Lepiller wrote: I don't like the wording at all. You're mixing too many things together. Feel free to try to separate the things, but going previous discussions, many tings are important, and they appear all to be inseparable. I think it would be better to first do