Re: Shepherd log rotation service

2024-07-21 Thread Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
Hi Ludo', On Sat, May 18 2024, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > I’ve just pushed a simple log rotation service for Shepherd: I have a patch removing rottlog from all Guix "services" that use the Shepherd's :log-file feature, which works fine. Do I need to provide a Guix "service" for the log rotation?

Re: Should we document how to detect if build machines are reachable before trying to offload?

2024-07-21 Thread Tomas Volf
On 2024-07-21 16:26:41 +, Vincent Legoll wrote: > Hello, > > On Sun, Jul 21, 2024 at 12:57 PM Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > > I guess this is probably what we should permit: building locally when we > > cannot offload. > > > > Does that make sense? > > > > What about making "build locally" not a

Re: Should we document how to detect if build machines are reachable before trying to offload?

2024-07-21 Thread Vincent Legoll
Hello, On Sun, Jul 21, 2024 at 12:57 PM Ludovic Courtès wrote: > I guess this is probably what we should permit: building locally when we > cannot offload. > > Does that make sense? > What about making "build locally" not a special case, but just "offloading to localhost" ? Maybe as an implici

Re: Should we document how to detect if build machines are reachable before trying to offload?

2024-07-21 Thread Sergio Pastor Pérez
Hello. > I guess this is probably what we should permit: building locally when we > cannot offload. > > Does that make sense? Yeah, makes sense. Regards! Sergio.

System log (syslogd) for the Shepherd

2024-07-21 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Guix! I recently pushed a ‘wip-syslogd’ branch in the Shepherd, which should be ready to merge in ‘devel’ in the coming days. It implements an in-process “system log” service that does the same job as good’ol syslogd as currently used in Guix System (info "(inetutils) syslogd invocation").

Re: Reducing "You found a bug" reports

2024-07-21 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Simon Tournier skribis: > On Mon, 17 Jun 2024 at 14:59, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > >>> It doesn’t feel great to tell users to report a bug for things that >>> aren’t bugs. They’re either closed, or never followed up on; it’s a >>> poor experience on both ends. >> >> I agree, it’s pretty bad.

Re: EU NGI funding cut engagement opportunity

2024-07-21 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! Ekaitz Zarraga skribis: > On 2024-07-21 01:15, Juliana Sims wrote: >> Greetings comrades, >> As many of you are likely already aware, the European Union has >> recently made plans to cut funding to its Next Generation Internet >> (NGI) initiative which funds hundreds of FOSS projects, includ

Re: Update default Golang version on go-team branch

2024-07-21 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Sharlatan, Sharlatan Hellseher skribis: > I had a courage to refresh the default Goang version to build packages > from 1.17 to 1.21 as all version before it are already EoL. After > rebuilt 900+ packages locally I've fixed some failing to build packages. > > The packages in golang-build w

Re: ‘core-updates’ rebased: testing needed!

2024-07-21 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Leo Famulari skribis: > On Mon, Jun 17, 2024 at 11:30:37PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> 1. Checking whether your favorite packages build and work. > > Libreoffice is blocked on core-updates, due a build failure of > libetonyek, caused by a bug in Boost: > > https://issues.guix.gnu.org/72040

Re: ci.guix.gnu.org is getting back to life

2024-07-21 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Ludovic Courtès skribis: > • We upgraded the Honeycombs (AArch64) and POWER9 build machines. At > this stage 3 AArch64 and 2 POWER9 build machines are fully > operational behind ci.guix: > > https://ci.guix.gnu.org/workers > > Another Honeycomb, grunewald, is undergoi

Re: Should we document how to detect if build machines are reachable before trying to offload?

2024-07-21 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Sergio Pastor Pérez skribis: >> Do you remember exactly under what circumstances it hangs? I think >> ‘guix offload’ should handle that situation gracefully and we should fix >> it if it does not. > > Yeah. It happens when I have a build machine configured like so and I > disconnect it from

Re: Sustainable funding and maintenance for our infrastructure

2024-07-21 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Simon Tournier skribis: > Well, from my perspective, the question is architecture per > architecture. I mean, I think it’s doable to find sponsor (companies or > academic institutions) for x86_64 because it’s commonly used. And > that’s not the case for less used others. In the past we got don

Re: EU NGI funding cut engagement opportunity

2024-07-21 Thread indieterminacy
On 2024-07-21 01:15, Juliana Sims wrote: Greetings comrades, As many of you are likely already aware, the European Union has recently made plans to cut funding to its Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiative which funds hundreds of FOSS projects, including many related to Guix itself. The c

Re: EU NGI funding cut engagement opportunity

2024-07-21 Thread Ekaitz Zarraga
On 2024-07-21 01:15, Juliana Sims wrote: Greetings comrades, As many of you are likely already aware, the European Union has recently made plans to cut funding to its Next Generation Internet (NGI) initiative which funds hundreds of FOSS projects, including many related to Guix itself.  The c