/run/setuid-programs via the Shepherd?

2024-06-07 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi, Could the ideas around systemd's new run0 tool [1][2] which executes privileged programs via the init process, also help Guix? Kind regards Felix [1] https://mastodon.social/@pid_eins/112353324518585654 [2] https://lwn.net/Articles/971866/

Re: State of core-updates

2023-03-15 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi Andreas, On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 7:57 AM Andreas Enge wrote: > > Somehow the sending of store items when offloading poses problems Somehow I think I see a similar problem with 'guix deploy,' which I have to restart manually several times in order to complete the store transfer. In my case, th

Proposing commit access for 'unmatched-paren'

2022-11-15 Thread Felix Lechner
; for commit access. Thank you! Kind regards, Felix Lechner P.S. Anyone who reads this and agrees with me, please chime in by replying to this message. Thanks!

Re: FSDG-compatibility of APSL-2.0

2022-06-17 Thread Felix Lechner
er considering the relative strength of the parties, as a matter of sound public policy. Perhaps the weighing of those factors played a role in why Apple's attempt to stipulate a venue did not render the license unfree. Kind regards, Felix Lechner P.S. To my knowledge, I do not use or own any Apple products.

Re: maradns reproducibility fixes and the merits of picking a random number

2022-06-06 Thread Felix Lechner
DNS because it’s ... remarkably secure." [1] Since many distributions have the same issue, upstream could perhaps offer the patch as a build switch to enable a build-time seed only when needed. Thank you for your hard work on Guix! As a newbie I'll say, what a great distro. Thanks, everyone! Kind regards, Felix Lechner [1] https://maradns.samiam.org/

Re: A corner case of broken reproducibility

2022-05-25 Thread Felix Lechner
rk well. Due to precautions I was able to go back in as the root user and adjust the permissions. The only unexpected part was that the symbolic links for per-user profiles encode the relationship between user name and uid. Good luck and kind regards, Felix Lechner

Re: Test US mirror for bordeaux.guix.gnu.org and slow downloading of substitutes

2022-05-24 Thread Felix Lechner
US (run on Guix). Kind regards Felix Lechner * * * $ wget https://bordeaux.guix.gnu.org/nar/lzip/078vr3r8mn3yrwzwxw64hmcyshic9p3q-stellarium-0.21.0 --2022-05-24 15:41:57-- https://bordeaux.guix.gnu.org/nar/lzip/078vr3r8mn3yrwzwxw64hmcyshic9p3q-stellarium-0.21.0 Resolving bordeaux.guix.gnu.org (bordea

Re: Adding custom X Keyboard layout definitions

2022-05-16 Thread Felix Lechner
e ones I use. Kind regards, Felix Lechner