Re: Fallout from recent nss-certs changes

2024-04-22 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
Ian Eure writes: > The change is mentioned in the channel news, but it says nothing about > needing to remove that part of the config. You are right; I have added more explicit instructions as commit e5c0ea22e68cc8d6f99957295bc9198afb8455df. Users should see it when they guix pull again. Regard

Re: Should we include nss-certs out of the box?

2024-04-22 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
Fabio Natali writes: > For what it's worth, I put together a micro-patch and sent it over as a > follow-up to #70451. Pushed as 67a3a83170c038d2eb084d3f53a7ea7b033aea74. Thank you! Regards, Florian

Change logs: usage of square brackets

2024-04-22 Thread Nigko Yerden
Hello Guix! I wonder what is the proper usage of square brackets in change logs. According to https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Change-Logs square brackets are used for conditional changes, the name of the condition is specified inside '[ ]'. However looking over the commit h

Re: Guix bios installation: Grub error: unknown filesystem

2024-04-22 Thread Ada Stevenson
Hi Attila, On 4/22/24 9:04 PM, Attila Lendvai wrote: This should allow grub to recognise your filesystem during the installation process. I think using a later version of grub would fix this, but that hasn't happened yet. I think there's a patch to upgrade it in `core-updates` somewhere, but I'm

Re: Value in adding Shepherd requirements to file-systems entries?

2024-04-22 Thread Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
Hi Richard, On Mon, Apr 22 2024, Richard Sent wrote: > NFS is allegedly supported Someone once gave me this service [1] to mount a file-system declared with (mount? #f). [2] It's been working ever since. Kind regards Felix [1] https://codeberg.org/lechner/system-config/src/commit/0131082ff0eb

Re: Sustainability fund application ongoing

2024-04-22 Thread John Kehayias
Hi Maxim, Ludo’, and everyone, On Mon, Apr 22, 2024 at 01:52 PM, Maxim Cournoyer wrote: > Hi Ludovic, > > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> Hi Maxim, >> >> Maxim Cournoyer skribis: >> >>> It was pointed to us that the "Free and Open Source Software >>> Sustainability Fund" [0] is currently receiving

Value in adding Shepherd requirements to file-systems entries?

2024-04-22 Thread Richard Sent
Hi Guix! I wanted to ask the Guix community for their thoughts on improving the support for adding networked file systems to an operating-system declaration. For some context, I started tackling adding CIFS support to file-system declarations, but I've hit a snag. CIFS is a networked file system,

extlinux and a bootloader system rewrite

2024-04-22 Thread Lilah Tascheter
heyall! I've been working on a large bootloader subsystem rewrite to get everything working together nicer and support future bootloaders better. however, extlinux is being a bit of an issue. extlinux installs its second stage (ldlinux.sys) by copying it into the root (or boot) filesystem, and th

Re: [PATCH] Fix typo (Re: Feedback of the GNU Guix manual)

2024-04-22 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
Pushed as b8ccbc942e0ec7baf695d383e575991289c6e033. Thank you for trudging on through the list. Regards, Florian

Re: Guix bios installation: Grub error: unknown filesystem

2024-04-22 Thread Attila Lendvai
> This should allow grub to recognise your filesystem during the > installation process. I think using a later version of grub would fix > this, but that hasn't happened yet. I think there's a patch to upgrade > it in `core-updates` somewhere, but I'm not sure. grub seems to be still v2.06 there:

[PATCH] Fix typo (Re: Feedback of the GNU Guix manual)

2024-04-22 Thread Matt
We're working through a list of feedback one item at a time: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2024-01/msg00117.html We have completed the first four items. The next item reported is: #+begin_quote 3.8 Installing Guix in a Virtual Machine L25 in an vm should be in a vm #+end_quote

Re: Sustainability fund application ongoing

2024-04-22 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hi Ludovic, Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hi Maxim, > > Maxim Cournoyer skribis: > >> It was pointed to us that the "Free and Open Source Software >> Sustainability Fund" [0] is currently receiving applications. The fund >> aim to sponsors free software projects for their >> maintenance/organisati

Re: No default OpenJDK version?

2024-04-22 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hi, Markku Korkeala writes: > On Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 10:37:30PM +0200, Julien Lepiller wrote: >> Currently, most java packages use the implicit jdk from the build >> system (ant- or maven-build-system), which is… icedtea@8. We still >> have quite a lot of old packages that don't build with open

Re: Python's native-inputs

2024-04-22 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hi Nicolas, Nicolas Graves writes: [...] > TL;DR : > - patch series in big progress, not done yet because I don't really > know where to stop and massive rebuilds. > - WDYT about tweaking the build-system for pytest? > - not done : tweaking the pypi import to ignore those packages. I've >

is git the right tool for getting package definitions?

2024-04-22 Thread Adam
(original message was formatted in rich text, so I decided to resend it in plain text) Hi guix! Recently I used nixos on one of my machines. And I noticed people there use tar balls for fetching package definitions. And It worked much faster for me. That was surprising and I decided to write this l

Is git the best tool for pulling packages?

2024-04-22 Thread Adam
Hi guix! Recently I used nixos on one of my machines. And I noticed people there use tar balls for fetching package definitions. And It worked much faster for me. That was surprising and I decided to write this letter. Is git the right tool for getting new package definitions? What if git commits h

Re: Status of ‘core-updates’

2024-04-22 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 01:47:49PM -0400, Maxim Cournoyer wrote: > Hello, > > Ludovic Courtès writes: > > > Hi Steve, > > > > Steve George skribis: > > > >> On 10 Apr, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > > > [...] > > > >>> To be clear (but I guess it’s crystal clear to anyone who’s been around > >>> lo

Re: Python's native-inputs

2024-04-22 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
> TL;DR : > - patch series in big progress, not done yet because I don't really > know where to stop and massive rebuilds. Please take a look at the python-team branch, which contains changes to the build system. -- Ricardo

Re: Python's native-inputs

2024-04-22 Thread Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
Answer in two different emails. On 2024-04-18 22:07, Maxim Cournoyer wrote: > Hi Nicolas, > > Nicolas Graves via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System > distribution." writes: > >> Hi Guix, >> >> On some languages, there are a lot of unused native-inputs that are >> development & lintin

Re: Adding plumbing subcommand 'derivation'?

2024-04-22 Thread Simon Tournier
Hi, On ven., 19 avril 2024 at 16:02, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > We should see how that fits into the set of tools we already have, in > particular the (guix derivations) interface and the REPL meta-commands. > > My gut feeling, with a Schemer bias, is that we’d rather enrich the > Scheme API and/o

Re: bug#63267: gcc-toolchain is missing libstdc++.so

2024-04-22 Thread Simon Tournier
Hi, On mer., 17 avril 2024 at 05:21, John Kehayias via Bug reports for GNU Guix wrote: > I've just pushed, as b47ae1ecc43baaf726701ab2d2f810ecfaa75428, Cool! Thank you for crossing the finish line. Cheers, simon