Re: Postmortem of service downtime

2024-05-24 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hi Ludovic, Ludovic Courtès writes: > From Sunday May 19th to Tuesday may 21st, for about 36h, > bayfront.guix.gnu.org, the machine behind many services went down: > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-guix/2024-05/msg0.html > > Affected web sites and services included: > > guix.gn

XDG spec and ~/.config/guix/

2024-05-24 Thread Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
Hi, In ~/.config/guix/ I found a symbolic link called 'current' to /var/guix/profiles/per-user/lechner/current-guix. Does that comply with the XDG spec? [1] For backgroud, I am ditching the home-channels-service-type and plan to maintain the folder as a Git repo. Since 'current' is a computatio

Re: `make check` fails when trying to build from Git

2024-05-24 Thread Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
Hi Ashvith, On Fri, May 24 2024, Ashvith Shetty wrote: > I'll be [...] continuing this discussion on bug-g...@gnu.org, as I > think that it would be an apt place to discuss. It isn't. Any message sent to bug-g...@gnu.org will open a new, numbered report on debbugs.gnu.org. You could discuss y

Re: Upgrading Shepherd services

2024-05-24 Thread Attila Lendvai
> I see some services starting but no errors on the console. Also, there > is absolutely nothing in /var/log/messages. Would it help to diagnose > it using your Shepherd branch? yep, in two ways: my branch has extensive logging (and currently its default level is set to debug), and i also rework

Re: A different way to build GCC to overcome issues, especially with C++ for embedded systems

2024-05-24 Thread Jean-Pierre De Jesus Diaz
Hello, Adding to this conversation I have been making a arm-none-eabi toolchain with Newlib included as the default C standard library like in the official Arm toolchain but I'm not quite happy with the patches yet.[1] I haven't contributed it yet because it has been a bit hard adapting axoloti-*

Re: [shepherd] several patches that i deem ready

2024-05-24 Thread Attila Lendvai
> i've rebased my commits on top of the devel branch, and in the process i've > reordered them into a least controversial order for your cherry-picking > convenience: > > https://codeberg.org/attila-lendvai-patches/shepherd/commits/branch/various > > i just started a wave of deeper testing afte

Re: A different way to build GCC to overcome issues, especially with C++ for embedded systems

2024-05-24 Thread Sergio Pastor Pérez
Hi both of you. I want to echo Attila's sentiments. This is a valuable contribution, and creating a channel would serve as a central hub for other contributors. Thanks for sharing, Stefan. Have nice day. Sergio.

Re: `make check` fails when trying to build from Git

2024-05-24 Thread Ashvith Shetty
Hello again, sorry for the delay in reply. I'll be closing this conversation and continuing this discussion on bug-g...@gnu.org, as I think that it would be an apt place to discuss. On Sun, May 19, 2024 at 2:18 PM Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hi, > > Ashvith Shetty skribis: > > > $ file > /home/ash

Call for contribution to the Guix infrastructure

2024-05-24 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Since its inception, the Guix project has always valued its autonomy, and that reflects in its infrastructure: our servers run Guix System and exclusively free software, none of them is hosted by one of these transnational companies, and they’re administered by volunteers. Of course this comes at

watchdog triggered auto-rollback

2024-05-24 Thread raingloom
Since I've been experimenting with a foolproof unikernel based static website deployment lately, I realized I should write down this idea I've been chewing for a while: It would be very nice to have automatic system rollbacks when certain things break. One example is broken SSH config that makes a