Packaging SlimeVR-Server

2024-12-20 Thread Tobias Alexandra Platen
I had a look at the SlimeVR Server which is written in Java and uses the gradle build system. It also comes with a gui written in Javascript and a Nix Flake: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SlimeVR/SlimeVR-Server/refs/heads/main/flake.nix I guess that I have to make two packages: slimevr-server

Re: Shepherd in Debian

2024-12-12 Thread Tobias Alexandra Platen
This is definitively interesting. Currenltly my plan is to use Shepherd on my smartphone which has both Debian and Android installed. On top of Debian I have a working guix install and guix is also shared on Android. I also plan to use guix-android: https://framagit.org/tyreunom/guix-android On Th

Building from Git / Could not set character size

2024-12-07 Thread Tobias Alexandra Platen
I tried to build guix from git, when I noticed the failed build with: Error: Could not set character size make[2]: *** [Makefile:7547: doc/images/service-graph.png] Error 1 I am following this manual page: https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Building-from-Git.html ... and cloned the latest ver

Re: guix package -i kicad will fait with #error "Unsupported CPU architecture" on my Talos II

2024-12-01 Thread Tobias Alexandra Platen
Confimed, it is working. On Sun, 2024-12-01 at 15:50 +0200, Efraim Flashner wrote: > On Sat, Nov 30, 2024 at 08:59:02PM +, Ian Eure wrote: > > Hi Tobias, > > > > On Sat, Nov 30, 2024, at 8:18 PM, Tobias Alexandra Platen wrote: > > > When I try to install Kicad,

Re: guix package -i kicad will fait with #error "Unsupported CPU architecture" on my Talos II

2024-12-01 Thread Tobias Alexandra Platen
On Sat, 2024-11-30 at 20:59 +, Ian Eure wrote: > Hi Tobias, > > On Sat, Nov 30, 2024, at 8:18 PM, Tobias Alexandra Platen wrote: > > When I try to install Kicad, I'll get the following output: > > > > The following derivations will be built: > >   /gnu/

guix package -i kicad will fait with #error "Unsupported CPU architecture" on my Talos II

2024-11-30 Thread Tobias Alexandra Platen
When I try to install Kicad, I'll get the following output: The following derivations will be built: /gnu/store/5rinv8djwjz0bdami6nr6cm3zj382fsb-libcxi-1.0.1- 0.5b6f8b5.drv /gnu/store/x26zsx3fw74vhfc35i79fansmlmhl0cc-libfabric-1.22.0.drv /gnu/store/nfj2qvhyxvfc7x5fkdlyg2z1wnpqw9cz-openmpi-4.

Re: Understanding how guix selects a bootloader variant

2024-11-04 Thread Tobias Alexandra Platen
Thats the one I was looking for On Sun, 2024-11-03 at 20:23 +0200, Efraim Flashner wrote: > powerpc-*) platform=ieee1275 ;; >     powerpc64-*) platform=ieee1275 ;; >     powerpc64le-*) platform=ieee1275 ;;

Understanding how guix selects a bootloader variant

2024-11-03 Thread Tobias Alexandra Platen
I am currently trying to build a virtual machine image for powerpc64le. So I intend to fix known errors, starting with the bootloader: configure: error: platform "efi" is not supported for target CPU "powerpc64le". The right bootloader variant for anything powerpc, starting from G4 is openfirmware.

guix system init config.scm mnt failed with kernel module not found

2024-10-31 Thread Tobias Alexandra Platen
Hello, After a long time, I tried running "guix system init config.scm mnt" on my Talos II which failed, as I expected: gnu/build/linux-modules.scm:278:5: kernel module not found "uas" "/gnu/store/gi6layj85kmkwk0s6x415zwsmzczh2vv-linux-libre- 6.11.5/lib/modules" I guess that the "USB Attached S

Thinking about doing a Talk at FOSDEM

2024-10-31 Thread Tobias Alexandra Platen
Hello, I recently had a look at FOSDEM's accepted developer rooms and I am thinking of doing a talk this year again. Last year I did my first talk "Using the ECP5 for Libre-SOC prototyping" last year, this year I think of doing a talk about my recent and future work on Guix: My plans are getting

Re: EU NGI funding cut engagement opportunity

2024-07-23 Thread Tobias Alexandra Platen
I am a long time user of Guix and have been planning getting started into GNU Mes (which I want to port to the PowerISA). So I'll sign the open letter. On Sun, 2024-07-21 at 15:14 +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hi! > > Ekaitz Zarraga skribis: > > > On 2024-07-21 01:15, Juliana Sims wrote: > >

Re: Trying to update my Guix on Android

2024-07-07 Thread Tobias Alexandra Platen
I copied those files from my debian system, will try with guix system later: adb push /etc/protocols /system/etc/ adb push /etc/services /system/etc/ adb push /etc/resolv.conf /system/etc/ And none of the files differ OnePlus6T:/etc # diff protocols /system/etc/protocols OnePlus6

Porting GNU Mes to the PowerPC

2024-07-03 Thread Tobias Alexandra Platen
I am currently reading the documentation of GNU Mes, and have been thinking of doing a port to PowerPC / POWER ISA. https://www.gnu.org/software/mes/manual/mes.html#Porting-GNU-Mes

Trying to update my Guix on Android

2024-07-03 Thread Tobias Alexandra Platen
I folled this old blog post from April 24, 2018: https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2018/guix-on-android/ I installed Guix some long time ago, new I tried a guix pull because my instance is too old. I remember that I once got emacs working. guix package: warning: Your Guix installation is 87 days old.

How to fix Git information file contains no revision

2024-06-27 Thread Tobias Alexandra Platen
I'm trying to package wxformbuilder, the lastest stable version. The programs seems do depend on version information from git, so it does not build on the guix system. CMake Warning at /tmp/guix-build-wxformbuilder-4.2.1.drv- 0/source/cmake/revision-git-properties.cmake:57 (message): Git informa

Missing packages in guix, was Nice meetup 22/06/2024

2024-06-22 Thread Tobias Alexandra Platen
Soon I'll package wxFormBuilder which I need for my work with Kicad 7. Then I'll attempt to fix the bug that kicad does not find the standard footprint library on my Talos II. Finally I'll package libsurvive and try to get guixandrouid working.

Re: Nice meetup 22/06/2024

2024-06-22 Thread Tobias Alexandra Platen
I'll probably participate in the next meetup if it is Germany or France. Last time I participated in a Guix event was 10 Years of Guix in Paris. There I also plan to introduce my new hardware project which will be supported by Guix, and is designed with Respects Your Freedom Certification in mind.

Re: Come watch a live stream coding session for the Hurd

2024-06-20 Thread Tobias Alexandra Platen
I'm planing to do something similar with my libsurvive project, as I am developing hardware that "Respects Your Freedom". I will present how I use guix in some of those livestreams.

Re: GNU Mes 0.26.1 released

2024-06-12 Thread Tobias Alexandra Platen
Good news, I'd be interested in doing a port of Mes to the PowerPC architecture. Unfortunately in the last few month I did not have many time to work with Mes and Guix. I am also thinking of doing a FOSDEM talk next year, as I did this year for the first time. Tobias Alexandra On Sat, 2024-06-08

Using Guix for hardware development

2024-06-05 Thread Tobias Alexandra Platen
Since the version included in Debian is too old, I am using kicad packaged via guix on my Talos II. This seems to work well, except that OpenGL is using software rendering. I was able to open my old design of my lighthouse project. Next I will try to get OpenGL and Vulkan working with my GPU. The

Re: Guix role in a free society

2024-03-18 Thread Tobias Alexandra Platen
I am transgender and plan to contribute to Guix soon. Mostly submitting packages and so on. I never saw any violation of the code of conduct, but this does not mean they do not exist. On Mon, 2024-03-18 at 20:26 +0200, MSavoritias wrote: > > On 3/18/24 20:16, Tomas Volf wrote: > > On 2024-03-18

Trying to use guix-android

2024-02-20 Thread Tobias Alexandra Platen
I added the guix-android channel[1] and did a guix pull. Then in a new terminal window I started guix repl, and followed the instructions in the readme. But I got a: guix repl GNU Guile 3.0.9 Copyright (C) 1995-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Guile comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for deta

Gaming on Guix

2024-02-11 Thread Tobias Alexandra Platen
I am a libre game developer and I plan to package my game that I am currently working on for Guix. On the long term I also want to make a scalable distribution service that one can self host and which allows paying for games using GNU Taler. Once the user has payed they can get substitutes, if they

Re: Guix at 37C3 Chaos Communication Congress in late Dec?

2023-12-11 Thread Tobias Alexandra Platen
Unfortunately this year I won't make it to the Chaos Communication Congress, so I'll watch the live steam. But in 2015 I when I lived in Hamburg, I was part of the Congress. Tobias Alexandra Am Montag, dem 11.12.2023 um 21:15 +0100 schrieb Wilko Meyer: > > Hi Fabio, > > Fabio Natali writes: >

Re: Patch Review Flow

2023-12-10 Thread Tobias Alexandra Platen
This is also interesting for me, since I have created my first patch for guix: adding libsurvive as a package. Alex

Re: How to get nginx and letsencrypt working on the guix system

2023-10-31 Thread Tobias Alexandra Platen
shepherd: Starting service nginx... .. Throw to key `%exception' with args `("#<&invoke-error program: \"/gnu/store/8dgzjx9iirxqbwdcr9nfagjp0mn9g4qy-nginx-1.23.3/sbin/nginx\" arguments: (\"-c\" \"/gnu/store/ywl1y1p77sbcm4nf9nahn6q9cndw637f- nginx.conf\" \"-p\" \"/var/run/nginx\") exit-

How to get nginx and letsencrypt working on the guix system

2023-10-31 Thread Tobias Alexandra Platen
I installed the guix system on a virtual machine, and changed the config as documented in the guix manual under 12.9.19 Web Services: (service certbot-service-type (certbot-configuration (email "tpla...@posteo.de") (certificat

Re: Integration with QubesOS & FSDG

2023-10-30 Thread Tobias Alexandra Platen
If we run QubesOS on POWER9 or future PowerISA 3.1 hardware, no non- free blobs will be needed. I do not trust Intel and AMD anyway, so I plan to migrate away from Radeon to a future freedom respecting GPU. On Fri, 2023-10-27 at 23:41 +, Skyler wrote: > Hello, > > Would you be able to accept

Re: Guix Days and Fosdem 2024

2023-09-28 Thread Tobias Alexandra Platen
On Thu, 2023-09-28 at 03:06 +0200, Pjotr Prins wrote: > On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 03:34:59PM -0400, Christine Lemmer-Webber > wrote: > > Very excited for FOSDEM / Guix Days 2024!  Definitely think there's > > been > > plenty happening in Spritely-land that we'll have some things we > > want to > > ge