Hi,
On Tue, 12 Nov 2024 21:59:42 +0900
Maxim Cournoyer wrote:
> Great. That said, I wouldn't be against stopping building i686
> packages on our build farm. Nobody has shown much interested in
> fixing the broken ones or hunting down test failures... it seems
> better to focus our energy elsewh
Hi,
On Wed, 30 Oct 2024 12:03:26 +
Steve George wrote:
Here's some feedback on the proposal below.
> # Audience
> The audience for this survey are all Guix users and contributors
> [^1]. This means:
>
> - Guix user: anyone who uses all or part of Guix, whether as their
> operating system
On Thu, 31 Oct 2024 16:44:22 +0100
Ekaitz Zarraga wrote:
> I think we could do with Framasoft:
> https://framasoft.frama.io/framaforms/en/
The downside of framaforms is that they block Tor.
Denis.
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Hi,
On Sun, 3 Nov 2024 15:19:04 +0200
Efraim Flashner wrote:
> Announcing the initial release of shepherd-run!
>
> Do you have experience with systemd and systemd-run? Do you wish you
> were able to quickly and easily add a simple service to your (user or
> system) shepherd instance?
>
> Using
On Sun, 27 Oct 2024 18:56:11 +0100
Andreas Enge wrote:
> Also, there is some magic in etc/git/gitconfig in the Guix
> repository: When you do a "git send-email" to guix-patc...@gnu.org
> with a commit touching any of the Go team files above, the team
> members will be automatically cc-ed.
Yes, thi
On Sat, 26 Oct 2024 23:11:17 +0100
Sharlatan Hellseher wrote:
> Take a look at the current effort of unbundle (gnu packages ipfs) -
> kubo. Bit by bit and we nearly unweaved the rainbow.
Thanks a lot, that was the part that I lacked. I assumed I needed to do
all 500 at once because go didn't prov
On Mon, 21 Oct 2024 16:18:56 +0200
Andreas Enge wrote:
> > As I understand, packaging too many dependencies would create
> > complications for the maintenance.
>
> Is that true? It looks opposite to the general Guix philosophy;
> once you have invested all the work of checking the licenses, it wo
Hi,
Sorry for the delay,
On Sun, 22 Sep 2024 13:21:30 -0400
Superfly Johnson wrote:
> The Azure SDK for Go
> (https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/releases) has many
> sub-packages within the same directory and the guix import method
> won't work directly. I think the best solution for p
On Tue, 10 Sep 2024 18:21:17 -0400
Greg Hogan wrote:
> With Guix embracing the chaos of rolling releases, and a presumption
> that users will `guix pull` soon after installation, I count only
> three motivations to tag a new release: 1) replacing an old release
> with an outdated Guix unable to s
On Thu, 17 Oct 2024 21:18:16 +0200 (CEST)
wearefromuniverse--- via wrote:
> Hi,
Hi,
> For this we need to adapt Guix OS to replace fedora, the main
> operating system of Qubes OS. To run Guix OS inside VM Qubes we need
> a GNU Guix OS virtual machine. We need to ensure that this virtual
> machine
On Tue, 01 Oct 2024 10:20:54 +
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote:
> >Since Guix also checks the hash of the source code an idea to improve
> >things could also be to modify Guix to allow the use of external
> >tools to bootstrap the download of source code through version
> >control and for instance
Hi,
On Sun, 29 Sep 2024 19:52:13 +0200
Vivien Kraus wrote:
> GNU sources are usually shipped as tarballs with some pre-compiled
> sources included. This can be a bit scary at times, so the question
> now is, can we skip the tarballs and build everything from
> human-authored sources?
In some cas
Hi again,
On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 06:30:26 +0200
Liliana Marie Prikler wrote:
> If in some one to five years we still find no practical way of using
> ScummVM with only free software, that might be a reason to remove it
> then.
With lot of help from anthk_ #hyperbola I finally found a practical way
t
On Mon, 17 Jul 2023 21:35:00 +
Martin Baulig wrote:
> If I use the unmodified service and with the (operating-system (user
> ...)) entry, it works sometimes, but not reliably due to having two
> conflicting entries for the 'postgres' user.
I see. So if I touch too much my system it could break
On Mon, 17 Jul 2023 18:06:04 +
Martin Baulig wrote:
> Hello,
Hi,
> I have a bit of an unusual setup, as I am running GNU Guix in a VM on
> a Synology NAS. Unfortunately, their DSM software sucks quite badly,
> but I am currently stuck with this hardware as I don't have the
> budget to replac
On Sun, 16 Jul 2023 08:47:41 +
Fernando Oleo Blanco wrote:
> Dear Guix community,
Hi,
> Why did I tell all of this?
> Because I would like to add GCC-Ada to Guix and I am fully aware of
> the work that the Guix and the #bootstrappable people are doing
> towards a fully transparent compilatio
On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 06:30:26 +0200
Liliana Marie Prikler wrote:
> Note, that this discussion started IIRC a year ago and we have
> practically known about actually existing FSDG violations since then.
> My approach here is quite simple and pragmatic: Remove the games which
> obviously violate the
On Sun, 18 Jun 2023 10:19:06 +0200
Liliana Marie Prikler wrote:
> I've tracked the checksum to the header in which it was declared, and
> it says
> /* MD5 of (the beginning of) the described file.
> Optional. Set to NULL to ignore. */
> const char *md5;
> (Comment reformatted to fit into
On Thu, 15 Jun 2023 19:34:32 +0200
Liliana Marie Prikler wrote:
> I don't think we need to be that harsh on ScummVM itself, it being a
> virtual machine.
>
> Compare it to Wine: the tools to create Windows binaries with free
> software only are limited (albeit existing if we discount the
> neces
ant), about the list of software to exclude from FSDG
distributions, about adding new distros in the list, etc.
[2]https://www.ucw.cz/draci-historie/index-en.html
[3]https://www.ucw.cz/draci-historie/src/doc/compiling-the-game.txt
[4]https://agistudio.sourceforge.net/#requirements
[5]https://g
On Sat, 24 Dec 2022 03:49:30 +
"jgart" wrote:
> Hi Guixers,
Hi,
> Should GNU Guix be a small core of packages (and services?)?
I think it would also make sense to consider first find the features we
want, and then look at how to get them, to see if that works better for
us.
For instance if
On Wed, 07 Dec 2022 15:45:01 +0100
"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" wrote:
> Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli writes:
> > Is there any policies or past decisions of the Guix project on
> > packaging big generated data files?
>
> commit 183db725a4e7ef6a0ae5170b
On Thu, 08 Dec 2022 14:46:51 +0100
Csepp wrote:
> Could ZIM files be downloaded over bittorrent as fixed output
> derivations? They can be pretty huge. Also if the system started
> seeding them as well, that would be pretty cool.
I've no idea how to generate fixed output derivations.
As for BiT
Hi,
Is there any policies or past decisions of the Guix project on
packaging big generated data files?
I've added packages for software like kiwix-tools and navit that both
work offline but that also need data files to be useful.
Navit is a (car) navigation software that need maps. The maps can
On Sun, 27 Nov 2022 10:35:13 -0800
Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> It also makes me wonder if "advanced" will stand the test of
> time. Someday Guix-style systems might just be status quo, and thus no
> longer advanced. Guix of course will likely evolve over time... maybe
> it will still hold qualities
Hi,
On Wed, 31 Aug 2022 09:26:21 -0400
Maxim Cournoyer wrote:
> > commit 23152ff70f0ed4966d8207846f54c793d7cb4f86
> > Author: Petr Hodina
> > AuthorDate: Tue Jan 4 06:58:51 2022 +0100
> >
> > gnu: Add fwupd.
> >
> > * gnu/packages/firmware.scm (fwupd): New variable.
> >
> >
On Tue, 30 Nov 2021 15:22:04 +
raid5atemyhomework wrote:
> Hello Denis,
Hi,
> > While thinking about this very weird case of combining GPL and CDDL
> > code together, I wonder if the fact that we can't redistribute
> > binaries still makes it free software.
>
> AS I understood from early wr
On Fri, 26 Nov 2021 12:34:55 -0800
Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> On 2021-11-26, Denis Carikli wrote:
> > Or disable zfs as a dependency of Gnome?
>
> This specific point is a bit dated; the issue was both introduced and
> shortly after reverted in early July:
>
> 61ccd756e5ff73b2f8dc3449df537f1c
On Fri, 26 Nov 2021 16:28:04 +0100
Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli wrote:
> But I wonder if a license that forbid binary redistribution would
> still be considered free or not.
When we'll have more infos on if that is free or if we consider it as
free until proven otherwise, we sti
On Wed, 24 Nov 2021 12:02:11 -0800
Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> On 2021-11-24, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli wrote:
> > On Wed, 24 Nov 2021 13:03:18 +0100
> > "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 01:45:19AM +0
On Wed, 24 Nov 2021 13:03:18 +0100
"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 01:45:19AM +0100, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
> wrote:
> > If that's the case then it would also be legal to redistribute
> > binaries too as long as they are dy
On Wed, 24 Nov 2021 00:50:04 +0100
Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 23 Nov 2021 18:29:22 +0100
> Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>
> > When consensus cannot be met, maintainers have the last say.
> >
> > But again, my understanding is that
Hi,
On Tue, 23 Nov 2021 18:29:22 +0100
Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> When consensus cannot be met, maintainers have the last say.
>
> But again, my understanding is that there’s no new decision to be made
> here.
If I understood correctly Florian, the argument here is that it is safe
to redistribute
On Mon, 22 Nov 2021 19:10:48 +0100
"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" wrote:
> I don’t actually care about ZFS myself, but there should be a decision
> because I think current badly supported ZFS makes people here unhappy.
For people that really want the ZFS kernel module, would using an extra
channel f
ZFS and their patches is bad. Maybe their patches
> would be for the RFC model to decide?
>
> As for Denis’ arguments
> <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2021-11/msg00101.html>:
>
> IANAL but I would dispute this:
>
> On Sun, Nov 21, 2021 at 02:33
On Sat, 20 Nov 2021 03:34:26 +0100
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote:
> Hi Denis,
Hi,
> but did you mean to include a reference to someone who disagrees?
I forgot to look for references on that.
> Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli [wrote]:
> > Even in source code form[1].
> That&#x
On Sat, 3 Jul 2021 21:46:29 +0100
Domagoj Stolfa wrote:
> Hi:
>
> On Sat, Jul 03, 2021 at 10:16:54PM +0200, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote:
> > Maxime,
> >
> > Maxime Devos 写道：
> > >
> >
> > That's a very good idea if possible.
>
> Why can substitutes not be offered for ZFS as a standalone modu
On Fri, 30 Apr 2021 01:43:37 +0200
Leo Le Bouter wrote:
> I think that the technicality of software development must be
> redefined so that the hierarchy between the experienced and the
> beginner disappears [...]
I've been thinking a lot about these topics, and there are radical
solutions that c
On Fri, 4 Dec 2020 19:49:37 +0100
Danny Milosavljevic wrote:>
> Now I want to make it boot it from SATA instead.
The question is what "boot from SATA" means here, it could mean
different things:
- Have u-boot on the microSD card and load the rootfs from the SATA
HDD/SSD.
- Make the bootrom load
On Sun, 15 Nov 2020 22:24:29 +0100
raingloom wrote:
> Alpine already achieves an incredibly tiny install size by splitting
> packages into many outputs. We could and should do the same.
> As far as I know, they do not have parameterized packages.
That also depends on how far you want to go.
Last
On Thu, 01 Oct 2020 15:54:06 +0200
zimoun wrote:
> > I also tried on another machine with the following configuration:
> > - Architecture: x86-64
> > - Host distribution: Parabola x86_64 without guile-json installed
> > - Guix architecture: x86_64
> > - Guix environment command: 'guix environment
Hi,
I'd like to send a patch to add a bootloader (u-boot) package for a
single board computer. The patch is trivial and it's already
ready.
However before sending the patch, I'm supposed to build it within Guix
source code and to test it.
I've been trying many variations of 'guix environment --p
On Sat, 16 Feb 2019 12:16:41 +0100
Gábor Boskovits wrote:
> It seems to me, that there is a whole bunch of people interested in
> this, but due to lack of resources or for some other reasons nothing
> is really happening. Do you know any we we could help getting this
> resolved?
This is a very go
On Tue, 14 Feb 2017 19:43:48 +0100
David Craven wrote:
> Hi Denis,
Hi,
>
> > With that we can still use WiFi by ignoring the intel wifi card and
> > using an USB wifi card instead.
>
> [Thunderbolt] poses a much larger security issue,
> that I would not actually gain anything from replacing
On Fri, 3 Feb 2017 15:37:32 +0100
David Craven wrote:
> This leads to two models of loading the firmware that runs on the MCU.
>
> 1. The peripheral does not contain persistent storage and the firmware
> is loaded by the linux kernel through a standard API.
When using the Linux kernel, the firmw
On Mon, 4 Apr 2016 22:23:17 +
alírio eyng wrote:
> Felipe Sanches:
> >MAME provides an interactive debugger
> so mame is not just an emulator.
> it is a emulator, disassembler and debugger.
> this is relevant information i can't see in official documentation,
> thanks.
>
[...]
> a interest
On Sat, 2 Apr 2016 08:48:58 +
alírio eyng wrote:
> On 4/2/16, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli wrote:
> > Why not just requiring some documentation along the emulator that
> > documents at least one fully free software that can run on it.
> this is missing some complexit
On Wed, 30 Mar 2016 16:30:17 -0600
Isaac David wrote:
> Hi,
Hi,
> My view was that while useless in a 100% free environment just
> having them installed and inspecting their user interfaces wouldn't
> violate your freedom in any way. A free emulator with free
> dependencies wouldn't be unethical
On Tue, 29 Mar 2016 16:31:40 +
alírio eyng wrote:
> these are the approaches i can think:
> *extremely conservative (eliminating false positive errors)[1]
> removing all emulators
> *conservative (eliminating false positive errors)[1]
> make packages/executables like game1-emulator1, game1-
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