Re: GCDs on info-guix?

On 21 February 2025 14:23:51 UTC, Andreas Enge wrote: >I find this point valid. Can we just move the announcement to guix-devel >instead of info-guix, without requiring another GCD? > >info-guix should be announcements for users, and this is clearly a >developers' issue (mainly relevant to the peo

Re: GCDs on info-guix?

Hi Zimoun, Leo, On 21 February 2025 14:29:19 UTC, Simon Tournier wrote: >I think it’s about this message: Thanks! I assumed there was more. > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-guix/2025-01/msg0.html That's it!? That's ‘some discussion’ to complain about? (I'm not sure how that go

Re: GCDs on info-guix?

Hi Ludo', >> in the last 2 days I get mails from guix-info that really aren't worthy of >> the implied notification level. >> >> Subject: [GCD] Set search paths without program wrappers They are free to claim that about the announcement. I don't agree. I would rather (in hindsight) s/info-gu

Re: [GCD] Rename “main” branch

Hullo future participant in this thread, There's now a bug number to track all replies to this proposal. Please do, *before* replying, me a raging solid and change ‘guix-devel at gnu dot org’ to ‘76407 at debbugs dot gnu dot org’. Doesn't matter who you're responding to. Do not wait until aft

Re: [GCD] Set search paths without program wrappers

Hi Simon, I know that the GCD specifies info-guix@, but it doesn't say who makes that post. *That's* what I was ‘not sure’ about. I'm new here. Hi. If we settle on the GCD author CC'ing info-guix@ —great, less work for those with info-guix@ privileges! The only drawback is that these posts

Re: packages.guix.gnu.org is down

This is tracked at . Kind regards, T G-R Sent on the go. Excuse or enjoy my brevity.

Re: packages.guix.gnu.org is down

Hi Alexis, This is a fine mailing list :-) I prefer it to bug-guix@ even, but that's just me. The service is failing to start on bayfront because /var/lib/guix-packages-website/conf/plugins.scm ‘does not exist’. Exrept it does, although it's empty. I suspect that this is due to newly upgrade

Re: [GCD] Set search paths without program wrappers

Hi 宋文武, > Should I send an announce email to info-g...@gnu.org? I'm not sure, but go ahead. Note that it might take a while for me to see & approve. Thanks! T G-R Sent on the go. Excuse or enjoy my brevity.

Re: bug#65974: [PATCH 00/33] thirty something go packages

Hi Sharlatan, JSYK, you're sending encrypted messages to lists. See . I think this is the second one I've seen, so something's misconfigured on your end. Kind regards, T G-R Sent on the go. Excuse or enjoy my brevity.

Re: [GCD] Rename “main” branch

On 17 February 2025 17:40:45 UTC, Vivien Kraus wrote: >Maybe we could be a bit more explicit instead of “may be perceived as >harmful”, if the case needs to be made stronger. For instance, “the >current default, “master”, evokes a metaphor for a political >organization based on inequality. This is

Re: [GCD] Rename “main” branch

Hi, I'm replying mainly to restore the thread's subject line back from ‘none’. Z572, please try to keep an eye out for this if this is something your MUA likes to do. Anyway, the ‘guix time-machine --{commit,branch}’ thing would need to be tested before/if the GCD is accepted, but should not

Re: G-Golf in Guix - G-Golf pkg(s) name(s)

Hi, Regarding what Andreas said about libraries, thanks for pointing out g-wrap. It should also be named guile-g-wrap in Guix, as its only ‘binary’ does not make it any less of a library. I'll make that change the next time I touch the repo, if nobody else bothers to. Kind regards, T G-R

Re: Welcoming Steve as a new committer!

Steeeve! Welcome, Steve. Kind regards, T G-R Sent on the go. Excuse or enjoy my brevity.

Re: renaming of fpga.scm module

Hi, I *think* a renaming patch would just show up as a massive diff that will conflict with other minor changes. In that case it's better to keep the discussion ‘conceptual’ until the very end. However, confused: we already have (gnu packages electronics). Why not simply move any misclassifi

Re: Discussion with Codeberg volunteers

…and probably not, but has the subject of a ‘git.guix.gnu.org’ delegation come up (which would require some coöperation from the host for HTTPS)? I'm in favour of this Big Migration but it would be nice to anticipate the next one. Kind regards, T G-R Sent on the go. Excuse or enjoy my brevi

Re: Discussion with Codeberg volunteers

Hi Ludo', Thanks to everyone (Guix and Codeberg) who took the time to discuss this IRL. How did the ‘thousands of forks’ question come to be? Is is about humans deciding to store their personal guix clone on Codeberg? Possibly because (like GitHub) this is encouraged by the Web UI workflow? O

Slot available for Guix Days!

Hi all, Someone just removed their name from the list[0], which means there's 1 slot available for the Guix Days in Brussels, for both (tomorrow) Thursday & Friday. If you can still make it, please add you name to said wiki page. If attending only for one day, please clearly indicate which one

[URGENT, -ish] Re: Guix Days and Fosdem 2025

Hi Dan, There's an open slot for the Friday Guix Day. Are you still able to attend? Kind regards, T G-R Sent on the go. Excuse or enjoy my brevity.

Re: Programmer Dvorak keyboard layout

Oh, Finally managed to download the installer and attached is what I see as the list of US English layouts. Kind regards, T G-R Sent on the go. Excuse or enjoy my brevity.

Re: Programmer Dvorak keyboard layout

Ahoy fellow dvp user! Programmer Dvorak is the only layout I'm fluent in, so I'd notice its absence immediately. I never have. Nor is it new or obscure or silly like Colemak. The list of layouts presented by the installer is exhaustive. We've never curated it or ‘added’ anything. Such a req

Re: Guix org on Codeberg

On 31 December 2024 17:18:27 UTC, "John Kehayias via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." wrote: >I'm not sure how we can easily verify identities, even though I've >added my keys to Codeberg. Share your username here & sign the mail? > Maybe I'm missing something simple th

Re: mirrors of main guix repository at savannah

Hi Simon, Would you mind if I add your mirror to ? It used to advertise 'our' 'unofficial' mirror on GitHub, but they since removed (free) synchronisation. And they're GitHub. Kind regards, T G-R Sent on the go. Excuse or enjoy my brevity.

Re: Building from Git / Could not set character size

On 7 December 2024 21:06:01 UTC, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: >It's not going to fix your build …I mean, in the sense that the instructions you followed are not 'wrong', AFAIK. If it fixes anything that's a side-effect. Kind regards, T G-R Sent on the go. Excuse or enjoy my brevity.

Re: Building from Git / Could not set character size

Hi, On 7 December 2024 17:23:13 UTC, Tobias Alexandra Platen wrote: >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.

Re: About "Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender" when trying to respond to debbugs issues

Hi Zephir, On 19 November 2024 11:27:51 UTC, Zelphir Kaltstahl wrote: >I am guessing that debbugs does not support TLS Somewhat to my surprise, this is indeed the case! GNU Debbugs uses/is its own MX without STARTTLS support. Other gnu.org {,sub}domains such as this list use eggs.gnu.org, wh

Re: Expired Disarchive certificate

Hi all, Clark, Thanks for reporting this. I was able to manually renew the certificate (below). I went ahead and upgraded to ECDSA. I'm not myself a certbot user, so I'm not sure where to make the proper structural changes. Last I tried I think I edited some unused vestigial configuration.

Re: Why "update substitutes?"

Hi Felix, On 25 October 2024 20:50:46 UTC, "Felix Lechner via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." wrote: >Would it be more efficient to check whether a particular substitute is >available in an individual query (like DNS) and stop querying for that >substitute after a serve

Re: Why "update substitutes?"

On 26 October 2024 17:23:37 UTC, Suhail Singh wrote: >To be fair it didn't say "the list" Very fair, sorry. I wasn't even aware than my brain added the ‘the’ there. >would "updating list of available substitutes" be better? Well, I prefer my suggestion, but then I would, wouldn't I? ;-) You

Re: Why "update substitutes?"

On 26 October 2024 16:54:04 UTC, Suhail Singh wrote: >"Fetching list of available substitutes" would be clearer, IMHO. Less accurate though. We never care about or download a complete list of available substitutes. Kind regards, T G-R Sent on the go. Excuse or enjoy my brevity.

Re: Why "update substitutes?"

Hi Attila, On 25 October 2024 23:42:32 UTC, Attila Lendvai wrote: >i still don't really know what's happening there, but maybe something like >"fetching the registry" or "fetching metadata" would be more descriptive of it? Howsabout… ‘looking for suitable substitutes on ’ if we must change th

Re: HP Printer setup with Cups & hplip

On 24 October 2024 07:37:31 UTC, "Divya Ranjan via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." wrote: >Find the entire log in the attachment. … ;-) > proprietary plugin (color). Oh, (‘only for’?) ‘color’. Interesting. Maybe. PS: If you really did include an attachment, let me

Re: HP Printer setup with Cups & hplip

Hi, On 23 October 2024 11:13:36 UTC, "Divya Ranjan via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." wrote: > Currently there’s several issues, when I do `lsusb' I get P1102, not P1108. I > don’t know how that is happening. Devices and/or databases sometimes lie^Wcontain errors.

Re: Bootstrap a GNU source distribution from git

Hi Denis, On 30 September 2024 21:43:06 UTC, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli wrote: > what is Guix policy with >regard to source code when there are multiple providers (typically git >vs tarball)? There's never been an explicit policy as far as I'm aware. In the past decade the consensus has shifted fr

Re: error: %ensure-setuid-program-list: unbound variable

Hi Roman, On 26 September 2024 15:00:56 UTC, Roman Scherer wrote: >the error seems to be gone now. I'm not sure if it is because you >updated the commit a while ago Which commit was updated by Ludo' and when? (I'm responsible for the setuid-* removal and any possible breakage, hence my interes

Re: Rebuilding a package after removing a build step

While others have pointed out the workflow fix, On 2024-09-23 10:22, Konrad Hinsen wrote: If both packages have the same version, then the command line tools will warn about the ambiguous package specification. If the version numbers are different, then the tools will quietly choose the "newer"

Re: Fetchmail's fetchmail conf does not work on Gentoo

Do you know where that leading ':' is coming from? It's sometimes used as shorthand for 'true' in shell scripts, and 'true' is sometimes used as a low-effort 'no-op', but the 'exec' builtin (rightfully) doesn't care about any of that: moloch:~λ exec : -bash: exec: :: not found Kind regards

Re: Rebuilding a package after removing a build step

Hi Konrad, 'That is not possible.' You must somehow not have measured what you thought you measured. Probably not the answer you were looking for, but reassuring in its own way. Can you 'reproduce' this? It might still be enlightening to find out where things went wrong. Kind regards, T G-

Re: Request for assistance maintaining LibreWolf

Hullo Ian, On 28 August 2024 23:15:23 UTC, Ian Eure wrote: >Ludovic Courtès writes: >> I would suggest not creating a separate mailing list per team. […] >How does one request the creation of a browser-team mailing list? We'd ask the GNU sysadmins, but I agree with Ludo' here. Kind regards,

Re: Suggestion for a guix shell feature.

Hiyall, On 29 December 2023 03:58:27 UTC, Maxim Cournoyer wrote: >Guix doesn't/shouldn't make use of LD_LIBRARY_PATH, except in rare cases >to wrap binaries. It's better to patch the dlopen calls to use the >absolute shared library file name. Fully agree. Furthermore, '--ld-library-path' soun

Re: Western US mirroring?

I'm happy to assist but not currently available to be volunteered into leading the effort, sorry. Kind regards, T G-R Sent on the go. Excuse or enjoy my brevity.

Re: Western US mirroring?

[+CC the -maintainers alias for good measure] I can't speak for the collective but enthousiastic +1 from me. OSU should already have me on file as representing Guix (for the POWER9 VM) so let me know if I can expedite anything. Kind regards, T G-R Sent on the go. Excuse or enjoy my brevity.

Re: Shutting down qa.guix?

Hi Chris, I agree that Guix should step in to maintain the level of service that QA currently offers, by paying for hosting and sharing responsibility for system administration. Whether the software's maintained or improved is something over which we've historically had very poor control. T

Re: Upgrading Guix's security team

Great, I was waiting for someone to reply so's to glom on and ask to be included in the same commit to minimise noise. So, there. Kind regards, T G-R Sent on the go. Excuse or enjoy my brevity.

Re: How to properly package umbrella projects?

Side note: different subprojects have different licenses. That would not factor into my decision. Well, apart from adding a ‘license’ argument to the procedure, but there are other missing arguments (synopsis, description) from that rough example anyway. Kind regards, T G-R Sent from a W

Re: How to properly package umbrella projects?

Hi Horse, On 2023-10-08 7:52, Unstable Horse wrote: short question: a program I'm writing depends on gst-plugin-gtk4 which is a part of gst-plugins-rs[0]. What's the most appropriate way to package such a project: In the majority of cases, I would say: a single package (here, ‘gst-plugins-rs’

Re: A Forum for Guix Users

Hi! I saw this thread mentioned in #guix. Csepp 写道： We could also bridge IRC to Matrix This will happen if EMS (representing ‘Matrix’ here) fixes the mysterious errors that are currently plaguing channels trying to migrate from portalled⁰ to plumbed⁰ rooms. Kind regards, T G-R [0]: http

Expect bayfront (bordeaux) downtime on 26 May

Bonjour! This is a service announcement for users of the bayfront (or bordeaux) substitute server, which also handles IRC logs IIRC, and probably some other rando services. That's most Guix users. The original French message follows. The TF;DR is that networking will probably be severed du

Re: Welcome new committers

Welcome (further) aboard, Josselin & Simon! You've both contributed tremendously to Guix over many years, and it is very much appreciated. Kind regards, T G-R Sent on the go. Excuse or enjoy my brevity.

Re: The package/inherit trap

Hi, On 7 March 2023 17:46:50 UTC, Simon Tournier wrote: >Well, from my point of view, we have a trap because the documentation is >not clear. :-) Both. However, merely documenting something is not enough when we have the chance to fix misleading naming, as we do here. It would be nice to have

The package/inherit trap (was: gnu: stellarium: Enable ShowMySky.)

Hi! Maxim Cournoyer 写道： Simon Tournier writes: It is not clear for me why you choose one over the other. From my current understanding, I would be tempted to always use 'package/inherit' and never plain 'inherit'. I also got confused by that in the past; Same. I think it's a rite of pas

Re: Requesting permission to post a job search in guix-devel

Hi Andrea [on-list], So, good news. A majority of maintainers has awoken, and all agree that job searches are welcome on guix-devel@ as long as they: 1. are related to Guix, obviously not an issue here; 2. do not promote non-free software. Promotion would include applicants being ‘encourag

Re: Guix on Apple Silicon

Roman, On 2023-02-25 20:17, Roman Scherer wrote: I'm working on a channel to run Guix on an Apple M1. I wonder if there is interest in bringing some of its packages into Guix itself, provided licensing allows it. As long as they're FSDG-OK, I'd love to see this happen. Kind regards, T G-R S

Re: [PATCH] download: Add url-fetch/xz-file.

Hi Hilton, I agree with Ludo' and also wonder if a generic ‘url-fetch/compressed-file’ wouldn't be better. There are closure arguments to be made for this xz-only approach. I don't know if they're convincing. Cluebats welcome. (I was going to bring up ‘url-fetch/tarbomb’ as an example, bu

Re: Oniro or Guix on Zephyr kernel?

Hi, On 2023-02-24 19:36, Mitchell Schmeisser wrote: I don't think the guix daemon is technically required for the shepherd to boot (being the daemon is a shepherd process itself). No, not at all. I think this is a common (and not unreasonable!) assumption we Guixers forg

Re: adding motif to guix

Hi! Not a review, but how is *tif ‘not an X toolkit’...? Why not just say it ‘uses *tif’, instead? Kind regards, T G-R Sent on the go. Excuse or enjoy my brevity.

Re: Resurrecting top-notch continuous integration for Guile

Hello, > (Speaking of which, I hereby ask fellow Guix hackers to voice any > concerns they may have regarding this use of project resources.) Please use project resources. Thank you. Kind regards, T G-R Sent on the go. Excuse or enjoy my brevity.

Re: Unexpected error with #~(modify-phases

You're probably missing (guix gexp), and the 'replace' syntax fails before Guile ever gets to expanding the '#~'. Kind regards, T G-R Sent on the go. Excuse or enjoy my brevity.

Re: #:configure-flags flags #~'() or #:configure-flags flags #~()

In this example, only #~'() makes sense. #~() is nonsensical here and will cause a syntax error when ungexped. Kind regards, T G-R Sent on the go. Excuse or enjoy my brevity.

Re: #:configure-flags flags #~'() or #:configure-flags flags #~()

Hi! It's not about 'right' (why would grepping Guix return wrong code...? Impossible! :-). It's a matter partly of preference and partly of using the best tool for the job. Omitted from your second example is a call to list, and the #~ that both have in common is just syntactic sugar for (gex

Re: What's missing from qutebrowser for text rendering?

Thanks. Could you try adding a few mainstays, such as Bitstream Vera & DejaVu, and make sure that fc-cache -rv returns no errors? (Some being ENOENT is fine). That usually placates IceCat, at least. Kind regards, T G-R Sent on the go. Excuse or enjoy my brevity.

Re: What's missing from qutebrowser for text rendering?

Which fonts do you have installed? Kind regards, T G-R Sent on the go. Excuse or enjoy my brevity.

Re: Winding down of Fosshost

Hi Jonathan, indieterminacy 写道： Given Fosshost's place in the ecosystem: is this something which requires mitigating at the Guix end? I'm aware of two dealings with Fosshost in the past, neither of them crucial: - They hosted a Big Blue Button instance[0] only for the duration of our COVID

Re: Status of hibernation (suspend to disk) in Guix

Ivan Vilata i Balaguer 写道： But then I wonder if I may have rushed to post the patch, as I don't know whether hibernation is supposed to be more or less mature or supported in Guix (we may not want to encourage people to use a feature which may easily cause data loss)… Though it works quite we

Re: nss-certs@3.81: server certificate verification failed. CAfile: /gnu/store/…/ca-certificates.crt CRLfile: none

Hi Simon, zimoun 写道： Is it a bug in Guix nss-certs side? Or on Gitlab server side? No Guix bug, the server is misconfigured. It's incorrectly sending an ISRG Root X1 certificate, which chains to the expired DST Root CA X3. It should not send ISRG Root X1 at all. Kind regards, T G-R si

Re: guix open

( 写道： How would that interact with ``guix package --show''? Perhaps it might be better to add a ``guix package --open'' option? Ah, damn, yes. I didn't think of that. (Actually, I think this nicely illustrates the folly of adding cute subcommands that should be options. It illustrates this

Re: guix open

jgart 写道： what do you think of having a `guix open` command that opens the projects home-page in your $BROWSER? […] bloat? Yes — as ‘guix open’ — but it would make a nice addition to ‘guix show’. Kind regards, T G-R signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Antioxidant (new rust build system) update - 100% builds

Hi Maxime, This is so great. It's been downright fun watching antioxidant steadily grow in power. Thank you so much for working on it! Kind regards, T G-R signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: https://guix.gnu.org/ is offline

Brendan Tildesley 写道： https://guix.gnu.org/ doesn't load for me and another person in IRC Thanks! You can follow along with debugging at . Kind regards, T G-R signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: elogind configuration

Antonio Carlos Padoan Junior 写道： I will investigate further. All right! /run/current-system/profile/etc/elogind/logind.conf What made you find/look at this file? It's not used. I don't know why it exists. Oh, I was on the wrong track. :) Ah, so it exists as a funny prank! That's g

Re: elogind configuration

Hi Antonio! Antonio Carlos Padoan Junior 写道： I do not know why but "suspend" stopped working on my computer after a recent upgrade (pull & reconfigure). Do you still have a working system generation to compare? Does suspending without elogind work? E.g., using the more reliable ~ λ echo

[PATCH mumi] view/html: Unambiguously imply date:YYYY-MM-DD.

--- mumi/web/view/html.scm | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mumi/web/view/html.scm b/mumi/web/view/html.scm index 552d435..171fbf9 100644 --- a/mumi/web/view/html.scm +++ b/mumi/web/view/html.scm @@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ simple query language. Here is a list of suppo

Re: bug#58417: Installer script no longer works with `yes` utility

[Shunted to guix-devel@] Jonas Freimuth 写道： bash -c 'yes | bash guix-install.sh' While this happens to work (again) now, that doesn't mean it always will or should be considered supported. We should reserve the right to ask future questions to which the safe/sane/common answer is ‘no’, wit

Re: substitute derivation: also substitute grafts?

Quick note: On 1 October 2022 17:29:03 UTC, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: >If substitutable was merely a hint that a daemon could be free to ignore >it wouldn’t be any worse than downloading a substitute vs building >something locally. Substitutability has legal implications in Guix, whether or not it s

Re: Hostile takeover of the matrix room

Hi Jacob, I recommend seeking help for your compulsive lying. Czechia's a great country, they don't deserve to be associated with abusive behaviour. Please remember that you've been banned from Guix for just this pattern of dishonesty, of which I'm only your latest victim. Don't take it pe

Re: Hostile takeover of the matrix room

jbra...@dismail.de 写道： He probably spends his free time adopting kittens that have been abandoned in sub 0 blizzard weather, though that is speculation of course... I can neither confirm nor deny these foul accusations, nor that it is merely a front for building my deadly army of adorable

Re: branch master updated: gnu: gitolite: Wrap programs instead of using propagated inputs.

Thompson, David 写道： Will this build be retried at some point? Yes: now ;-) (There are no automatic retries.) Fresh new errors at . I would say these look fundamental and not transient, but if you say you built this at home, I don't know what

Re: [POSTMORTEM] Subkey is not authorized by .guix-authorizations

Ludovic Courtès 写道： I’m busy these days so I’d rather not commit to starting a discussion on this, but I’d suggest testing waters on #savannah on IRC. They weren't wild about it. We'd be asking for a lot from their perspective. I haven't given up on convincing them otherwise, but an altern

Re: Fwd: [core-updates] libaio test fails on powerpc64le-linux due to kernel bug

Thiago, Done: - Ran ‘apt update && apt full-upgrade’ - rebooted - read [0] to figure out what Debian's weirdo unames mean. Thanks! T G-R [0]: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/509247/debian-linux-kernel-versioning signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: FSDG issues of SCUMMVM-based games

In a strange coincidence (I mean, I assume they don't troll our lists...?), I just got a friendly reply to assure me we've not been forgot. Kind regards, T G-R Sent on the go. Excuse or enjoy my brevity.

Re: FSDG issues of SCUMMVM-based games

I got an auto-reply with a ticket number from the FSF, but no answer yet. I was aware of and unimpressed by Debian's rationalisations on the matter. Still, this isn't as clear-cut as (say) the Realtek drivers, so IMO we can afford to wait as long as is needed. Kind regards, T G-R Sent on the

Re: Who owns guix-mirror?

Hi Lars-Dominik, Lars-Dominik Braun 写道： you could also enable “temporary interaction limits”[1] in your org account, which applies to all of its repositories. It’s only valid up to 6 months, but maybe better than nothing…? It is! Thank you. I've set it to ‘collaborators’ and added a calend

Re: Who owns guix-mirror?

Hi Marius, Marius Bakke 写道： (took me a while to find it): Indeed. Thanks for saving me that trouble. I've now done the same. Awesome logo, by the way! Thanks :-) Keeps the PRs away, or at least you can't prove otherwise. Kind regards, T G-R signature.asc Description: PGP signatu

Re: Who owns guix-mirror?

Oh, Maxime Devos 写道： . That's not some weird role-play — I wasn't part of the org when I wrote it. Kind regards, T G-R signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Who owns guix-mirror?

Hi Philip, Philip Beadling 写道： I was wondering who owns the mirror as there is no public ownership declared on github.com? Is it owned by Guix or is it run by a trusted third party, etc? It's Marius Bakke (mbakke) and me (nckx). It probably wouldn't hurt to make that list public. Marius

Re: sneek

jgart 写道： Does anyone know what git repo sneek lives in? https://gitlab.com/dalepsmith/sneek Guix has nothing to do with its deployment or hosting though. That's all Dale. Kind regards, T G-R signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: FSDG issues of SCUMMVM-based games

I've sent an e-mail to the FSF licencing department asking for their guidance on the matter. I erred on the side of netiquette caution and didn't CC this list. Either the inclusion of [a subset of] Drascula in Trisquel[0] is a similar oversight, or we're missing some legal subtlety. I'm hop

Re: FSDG issues of SCUMMVM-based games

Hi Liliana, Liliana Marie Prikler 写道： The packages - drascula, […] 1. Their license explicitly prohibits selling of the games themselves and may thus be qualified as non-free. Yep, it's pretty explicit, and I agree that it's an unreasonable restriction that makes the software non-free.

Re: Welcome to our new committer!

Hi Andrew, A big fat welcome from me as well. Savannah UI being what it is, I'm almost completely certain that I managed to make you a member of the ‘GNU Guix’ organisation there. You should be able to push to the Git repository. For my own future reference: did you get any automated mails a

Updating linux-libre

Hi, Just a heads-up so we don't needlessly burn energy like it's 2020: I'm (still) updating the linux-libres to the latest kernel.org versions, but it's taking one hell of a long time to deblob & build them all on a mere i7. I didn't realise it was this expensive! (And berlin is down, so n

Re: python-pytest in references graph

Hi Bengt, Berlin is currently in a degraded state (probably a Shepherd bug). The main Web site works, although it's probably not being updated, and last I checked substitutes did to, but issues. is down and I don't think Cuirass is building new substitutes. We can't remotely reset the machine

Re: User group during build process

Hiya, On 24 July 2022 19:17:29 UTC, Maya wrote: > shouldn’t opensmtpd-service-type already extend setuid-program-service-type > with appropriate setuids? A matter of taste (I disagree with your characterisation 'useless'!), but I certainly wouldn't mind. Plenty of services do this for conveni

Re: User group during build process

Hi Maya! So... You cannot change group ownership in the store. There are no additional user groups in the build environment. The chgrp failing is by design ('it's a feature, not a bug'), and there's no way to subvert this. The group is not required during the build process. The correct way

Re: Tom Lord passing

Thanks for sharing, even if accidental. What a shame. Kind regards, T G-R Sent on the go. Excuse or enjoy my brevity.

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

Ludovic Courtès 写道： Honestly, I don’t think it’s worth bothering about the non-substitutable trick. Agreed. In practice, maradns should be able to rely on /dev/urandom at run time, right? That is my understanding. Kind regards, T G-R signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Could Guix System eventually run on top of HyperbolaBSD ? slightly off topic

On 14 July 2022 10:23:49 UTC, zimoun wrote: > Well, I am missing where it is announced. Could you be more specific? https://www.hyperbola.info/news/announcing-hyperbolabsd-roadmap/ Far from 'recent' in my book. Whatever my opinion on WSL, Darwin, and the Hurd, I must concede that they at leas

Re: guix refresh to a specific version?

They should even redirect from http: to https:, and here they do. Kind regards, T G-R Sent on the go. Excuse or enjoy my brevity.

Re: repl macro (metacommand?) for guix CLI (sub)commands

>This is because each of those "CLI calls" end up running `(exit 0)` >at the end in some form or another. Should they? Is this an accepted pattern in the functional style to which Guix tries to adhere? (I don't know! It just caught me by surprise.) Kind regards, T G-R Sent on the go. Excus

Re: glibc-locales

The intended use is NOT to use a package at all, see https://guix.gnu.org/en/manual/devel/en/html_node/Application-Setup.html#Locales-1 Strongly put (and very possibly missing something :-), this sounds like maintenance effort to support an antipattern. Kind regards, T G-R Sent on the go. Ex

My GPG key just expired. I know.

Hi, Just a pre-emptive note that, yes, I'm aware. Kind regards, T G-R Sent on the go. Excuse or enjoy my brevity.

Re: Non-free data in Poppler test suite

Hi, Mark's reply addresses everything that would worry me from an FSDG perspective and more -- thanks Mark! On 2022-07-01 15:12, Ludovic Courtès wrote: It may also be that this qualifies as fair use (AIUI, we’re talking about pages extracted from larger PDF files, right?). ...but from a cop

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