Re: Divvying up service definitions

2023-12-04 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hi Bruno, Bruno Victal writes: > Hi Efraim, > > On 2023-11-09 07:15, Efraim Flashner wrote: >> I assume the define-maybe's aren't public, so I'd guess that shouldn't >> cause a problem as long as they aren't exported. > > They're not public but they override definitions within the same file > if

Re: Building and caching old Guix derivations for a faster time machine

2023-12-04 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hi Guillaume, Guillaume Le Vaillant writes: > Maxim Cournoyer skribis: > >> Hi Simon, >> >> Simon Tournier writes: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> On mer., 22 nov. 2023 at 19:27, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >>> For long-term storage though, we could choose to keep lzip only (because it compresses bet

Re: Shepherd service logging

2023-12-04 Thread Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
Hi Ludo' On Mon, Dec 04 2023, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Thoughts? Thanks for offering a logging facility! I run a custom Guix and would like to test your changes. Is it enough to switch to your 'wip-logging' branch in the package declaration? [1] Thanks! Kind regards Felix [1] https://git.savan

Shepherd service logging

2023-12-04 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Guix! The ‘wip-logging’ branch of the Shepherd contains changes that allow clients such ‘herd status’ to display recently-logged messages, like this: --8<---cut here---start->8--- $ ./herd -s sock status test-logging Status of test-logging: It is runnin

Re: Feedback (was Re: Meet Guix at Capitole du Libre in Toulouse)

2023-12-04 Thread Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
Hi, On Mon, Dec 04 2023, Andreas Enge wrote: > Plus ... the unified ... language throughout. In my view, that's GNU Guix's greatest selling point: Once someone embraces Guile, they have all the tools they'll need. It simplifies the communications among contributors and makes it easier to collabo

Unreleased wget

2023-12-04 Thread Andreas Enge
Speaking of core-updates, I made a mistake during the latest merge last spring. We needed a new wget release and the wget maintainers took some time, so I rolled a "non-release" 1.21.3.24 before the 1.21.4 release (in core-updates, commit 93f9c260ac333ae7b86bfaeeead674fe01d924ce updates wget to the

Re: role of core-updates

2023-12-04 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Sun, Nov 26, 2023 at 10:53:46PM -0800 schrieb Andy Tai: > Hi, hope Guix maintainers can clarify the role of the now core-updates > branch; the current documentation does not specify the core-updates > branch as a thing but there are clearly interests and uses of this > branch for package updates

Re: "random check" approach to Guix QA?

2023-12-04 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, Am Mon, Nov 20, 2023 at 03:11:29PM -0800 schrieb Andy Tai: > Can the same approach be borrowed here, so when there is large number > of impacted packages from a patch, say larger than 200, Guix QA just > randomly select a subset sample out of these packages and build them, > and in case of

December London Guix meetup

2023-12-04 Thread Arun Isaac
Hi all, The next Guix London meetup is scheduled for Monday 11th December, 6 pm London time (UTC) onward. 😃🤖🌈💻 Join us in person or online, address and link below. - In person, from 6:00 pm: 20 Farringdon St, EC4A 4AB - Online, from 6:10 pm: https://meet.jit.si/london-guix-meetup https://www.m

Re: Feedback (was Re: Meet Guix at Capitole du Libre in Toulouse)

2023-12-04 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, Am Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 05:01:12PM +0100 schrieb Simon Tournier: > Guix on foreign distro: > a) do not interact with foreign distro > => good complement and rolling release > b) containerized shell > => please developers and also "roll-back", although i