Re: Trying to install Guix with Qemu

* On 2014 30 Sep 01:59 -0500, Ernesto Celis wrote: > I know this thread is about qemu, but as you said you are a VitrualBox > user, it may be interesting to you. > > Last weekend I was able to install Guix 0.7 on virtualBox with the USB > image provided by Guix developers. I put my notes on gitori

Re: Dates set to Dec 31 1969

* On 2014 27 Sep 09:35 -0500, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > It should be noted that it’s actually Jan. 1st 1970 UTC. :-) D'oh! Indeed. As I am six hours behind (America/Chicago) the system rightly interprets the beginning of the epoch UTC as the prior day here. All these years and that never dawned

Re: Dates set to Dec 31 1969

* On 2014 27 Sep 08:32 -0500, David Thompson wrote: > > This is by design in order to have more deterministic builds. If two > files have the same contents but have different timestamps, then they > will have different hashes. Thanks, David. That helps me understand the system a bit better. -

Dates set to Dec 31 1969

As much as I'd like to be six years old again in some aspects, I'm curious why most of the dates under /gnu/store and under ~/.guix-profile are set to Dec 31 1969? Yes, I know that this is just before the beginning of the Unix epoch, which must figure into the equation in some way. If this is in

Re: Possible error in the manual?

* On 2014 23 Sep 07:22 -0500, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Be aware that version X or Guix cannot contains a package of Guix > version X. So Guix 0.7 actually comes with a pre-0.7 snapshot. This > should be visible in the directory name in: > > readlink $(type -P guix) Embedded in the returned st

Re: Possible error in the manual?

* On 2014 23 Sep 05:09 -0500, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Nate Bargmann skribis: > > > Running 'guix --version' returns "guix (GNU Guix) 0.7" ... > > Could it be that this is actually a pre-0.7 installation? Or perhaps > ~/.config/guix/latest points to

Possible error in the manual?

Reading through the Guix manual I am in section "3.2 Invoking guix package" and tried the --show=package option. I receive the following error from Guix: $ guix package --show=emacs guix package error: show=emacs: unrecognized option Running 'guix package --help' indeed shows no opti

Re: Trying to install Guix with Qemu

* On 2014 21 Sep 13:56 -0500, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > This is weird, there’s no reason why it would be slower than whatever > else you did before. Are you running QEMU with ‘-enable-kvm’? Yes. The only difference that I could really see is that I chose to create my image in the qcow2 format rat

Re: Trying to install Guix with Qemu

* On 2014 20 Sep 15:36 -0500, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > FWIW a recipe to install the system in a VM was posted at > > (also read subsequent messages for troubleshooting.) Trying the method shown in the referenced thread, except fo

Re: Trying to install Guix with Qemu

* On 2014 20 Sep 15:36 -0500, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > FWIW a recipe to install the system in a VM was posted at > > (also read subsequent messages for troubleshooting.) Ahhh, thanks. I will check that out. > The best thing to

Trying to install Guix with Qemu

I've just started playing with Guix and would like to do so using Qemu rather than bare metal. As the GNU system is only available for Guix 0.7 as a USB drive image, this has posed a bit of a vexing problem to me. I am a Qemu novice (I usually use Virtual Box) but I did get it to boot the USB ima