Re: 'core-updates' Q4 2019

2019-11-22 Thread Kei Kebreau
Hello again Miguel, I apologize for the delay. My semester at university is becoming busier as final exams get closer! On Fri, 2019-11-08 at 01:58 +0100, Miguel Arruga Vivas wrote: > Hi Kei, ... > > > - The patch for gedit contains a reference to libgd, wouldn't it > > > be > > >clearer for

Re: 'core-updates' Q4 2019

2019-11-07 Thread Miguel Arruga Vivas
Hi Kei, Kei Kebreau writes: > Miguel Arruga Vivas writes: > Boot and login worked properly for me after I cleared the contents of > my /var/lib/gdm directory (if it's unclear why that directory > matters, see > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-10/msg00421.html > for a quick ov

Re: 'core-updates' Q4 2019

2019-11-06 Thread Timothy Sample
Hi Kei, Kei Kebreau writes: > `git push --force-with-lease` doesn't seem to work on the WIP branch. > This is a good thing in general, but how do I rewrite history? Do I > just delete the remote WIP branch and recreate a new one with the > appropriate changes? Yup! This is what I do for “wip-h

Re: 'core-updates' Q4 2019

2019-11-06 Thread Kei Kebreau
On Wed, 2019-11-06 at 12:46 -0500, Leo Famulari wrote: > On Tue, Nov 05, 2019 at 06:38:05PM -0500, Kei Kebreau wrote: > > > - The patch for libdazzle only changes the xorg-server, as it > > > already > > >is at version 3.33.90 in master. It still makes sense as a > > > patch, > > >but the

Re: 'core-updates' Q4 2019

2019-11-06 Thread Leo Famulari
On Tue, Nov 05, 2019 at 06:38:05PM -0500, Kei Kebreau wrote: > > - The patch for libdazzle only changes the xorg-server, as it already > >is at version 3.33.90 in master. It still makes sense as a patch, > >but the title indicates a version downgrade. > > > > Good catch! I'd correct thi

Re: 'core-updates' Q4 2019

2019-11-05 Thread Kei Kebreau
Miguel Arruga Vivas writes: > Hi Kei, > > Kei Kebreau writes: >> Update: Please check out the new wip-gnome-updates branch of the Guix >> git repository for continued updates. The contents of the notabug.org >> link given above will be changed to a notice that says to do this. > > Thank you ver

Re: 'core-updates' Q4 2019

2019-11-04 Thread Miguel Arruga Vivas
Hi Kei, Kei Kebreau writes: > Update: Please check out the new wip-gnome-updates branch of the Guix > git repository for continued updates. The contents of the notabug.org > link given above will be changed to a notice that says to do this. Thank you very much for this huge effort. I've been p

Re: 'core-updates' Q4 2019

2019-11-01 Thread Kei Kebreau
Kei Kebreau writes: > Timothy Sample writes: > >> Hi Kei, >> >> Kei Kebreau writes: >> >>> Anyone want to see the 54 patches and possibly help me root around for >>> the issue? >> >> I would love to take a look at it! I’ve been a little tied up, but I >> should have some time tomorrow or the n

Re: 'core-updates' Q4 2019

2019-10-26 Thread Timothy Sample
Hi Marius, Marius Bakke writes: > LGTM. It needs a corresponding entry in doc/guix.texi though. Pushed with an update to the docs. Thanks for the suggestion and review! -- Tim

Re: 'core-updates' Q4 2019

2019-10-26 Thread Kei Kebreau
"pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" writes: > On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 11:07:06PM -0400, Timothy Sample wrote: >> There’s a “glib-or-gtk?” flag for the Meson build system. Setting it to >> “#t” in the “mutter” package makes GDM and GNOME work in a VM. > > Thank you for investigating, I suppose this fixe

Re: 'core-updates' Q4 2019

2019-10-24 Thread Marius Bakke
Timothy Sample writes: > Hi Marius, > > Marius Bakke writes: > >> Timothy Sample writes: >> >>> [1] It’s not obvious, but if you edit the GDM configuration file >>> generation code in “gnu/services/xorg.scm”, you can enable debug output >>> for GDM. The debug output is usually extremely helpfu

Re: 'core-updates' Q4 2019

2019-10-23 Thread Timothy Sample
Hi Marius, Marius Bakke writes: > Timothy Sample writes: > >> [1] It’s not obvious, but if you edit the GDM configuration file >> generation code in “gnu/services/xorg.scm”, you can enable debug output >> for GDM. The debug output is usually extremely helpful! > > Could that be exposed as a to

Re: 'core-updates' Q4 2019

2019-10-23 Thread Marius Bakke
Timothy Sample writes: > [1] It’s not obvious, but if you edit the GDM configuration file > generation code in “gnu/services/xorg.scm”, you can enable debug output > for GDM. The debug output is usually extremely helpful! Could that be exposed as a toggle in the service configuration? signatu

Re: 'core-updates' Q4 2019

2019-10-23 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 11:07:06PM -0400, Timothy Sample wrote: > There’s a “glib-or-gtk?” flag for the Meson build system. Setting it to > “#t” in the “mutter” package makes GDM and GNOME work in a VM. Thank you for investigating, I suppose this fixes your issue. webkitgtk failed again for me th

Re: 'core-updates' Q4 2019

2019-10-22 Thread Timothy Sample
Hi again, Timothy Sample writes: > I’ll report back if I have good luck with fsck and am able to do more > testing. :) I was able to build everything and start testing. To use “guix system vm” I had to disable tests in QEMU due to a failure. I did not investigate it. This turned up in the l

Re: 'core-updates' Q4 2019

2019-10-21 Thread Timothy Sample
Hi Kei and Florian, "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" writes: > On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 11:29:33PM -0400, Kei Kebreau wrote: >> I've pushed my changes to the following repository for anyone who wants >> to take a look: >> >> https://notabug.org/kei/guix-gnome-updates > > I tried reproducing your fai

Re: 'core-updates' Q4 2019

2019-10-21 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 11:29:33PM -0400, Kei Kebreau wrote: > I've pushed my changes to the following repository for anyone who wants > to take a look: > > https://notabug.org/kei/guix-gnome-updates I tried reproducing your failure but webkitgtk failed to build. make[2]: Leaving directory '/tmp

Re: 'core-updates' Q4 2019

2019-10-19 Thread Kei Kebreau
Timothy Sample writes: > Hi Kei, > > Kei Kebreau writes: > >> Anyone want to see the 54 patches and possibly help me root around for >> the issue? > > I would love to take a look at it! I’ve been a little tied up, but I > should have some time tomorrow or the next day. I think it would be > ea

Re: 'core-updates' Q4 2019

2019-10-19 Thread Timothy Sample
Hi Kei, Kei Kebreau writes: > Anyone want to see the 54 patches and possibly help me root around for > the issue? I would love to take a look at it! I’ve been a little tied up, but I should have some time tomorrow or the next day. I think it would be easiest to push it to some world-readable

Re: 'core-updates' Q4 2019

2019-10-17 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Kei Kebreau writes: > Ricardo Wurmus writes: > >> Kei Kebreau writes: >> >>> I have news! The good part is that I got 54 packages to build on top of >>> master. The bad part is that when I try to use the resulting packages as >>> my system configuration, my computer gets stuck in tty1, and at

Re: 'core-updates' Q4 2019

2019-10-17 Thread Kei Kebreau
Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Kei Kebreau writes: > >> I have news! The good part is that I got 54 packages to build on top of >> master. The bad part is that when I try to use the resulting packages as >> my system configuration, my computer gets stuck in tty1, and attempting >> to switch to Xorg on

Re: 'core-updates' Q4 2019

2019-10-17 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Kei Kebreau writes: > I have news! The good part is that I got 54 packages to build on top of > master. The bad part is that when I try to use the resulting packages as > my system configuration, my computer gets stuck in tty1, and attempting > to switch to Xorg on tty7 leaves my screen frozen

Re: 'core-updates' Q4 2019

2019-10-17 Thread Kei Kebreau
Marius Bakke writes: > Kei Kebreau writes: > >> Ludovic Courtès writes: >> >>> Hello Kei, >>> >>> Kei Kebreau skribis: >>> I have the GNOME 3.32 branch! I'm building it on top of the new core-updates as you read this message. If everything still builds, I'll immediately send my

Re: 'core-updates' Q4 2019

2019-10-15 Thread Marius Bakke
Kei Kebreau writes: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> Hello Kei, >> >> Kei Kebreau skribis: >> >>> I have the GNOME 3.32 branch! I'm building it on top of the new >>> core-updates as you read this message. If everything still builds, I'll >>> immediately send my changes to the guix-patches mailing

Re: 'core-updates' Q4 2019

2019-10-14 Thread Kei Kebreau
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hello Kei, > > Kei Kebreau skribis: > >> I have the GNOME 3.32 branch! I'm building it on top of the new >> core-updates as you read this message. If everything still builds, I'll >> immediately send my changes to the guix-patches mailing list for review >> and testing.

Re: 'core-updates' Q4 2019

2019-10-12 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Kei, Kei Kebreau skribis: > I have the GNOME 3.32 branch! I'm building it on top of the new > core-updates as you read this message. If everything still builds, I'll > immediately send my changes to the guix-patches mailing list for review > and testing. Shouldn’t you instead base it on ‘

Re: 'core-updates' Q4 2019

2019-10-11 Thread Kei Kebreau
Marius Bakke writes: > Guix, > > As you know, the "quarterly" core-updates rebuild took almost a full > year this previous cycle. There are already 35 commits on the > 'core-updates-next' branch, and I've heard rumors of a GNOME 3.32 branch > lurking somewhere. > > To prevent this work from rott

Re: 'core-updates' Q4 2019

2019-10-11 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Svante Signell skribis: > On Thu, 2019-10-10 at 16:32 +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> Hi! >> >> Mathieu, I guess you can go ahead and rename ‘core-updates-next’ to >> ‘core-updates’ if nobody’s done it yet. >> >> Let’s get the ball rolling! > > What's the status of the GNU/Hurd port with

Re: 'core-updates' Q4 2019

2019-10-10 Thread Svante Signell
On Thu, 2019-10-10 at 16:32 +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hi! > > Mathieu, I guess you can go ahead and rename ‘core-updates-next’ to > ‘core-updates’ if nobody’s done it yet. > > Let’s get the ball rolling! What's the status of the GNU/Hurd port with this core-updates release, better or worse

Re: 'core-updates' Q4 2019

2019-10-10 Thread Mathieu Othacehe
Hey Ludo, > Mathieu, I guess you can go ahead and rename ‘core-updates-next’ to > ‘core-updates’ if nobody’s done it yet. Done! We have a new core-updates branch open. Mathieu

Re: 'core-updates' Q4 2019

2019-10-10 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! Mathieu Othacehe skribis: >> To prevent this work from rotting away, I propose that we start the >> branch as early as next month. With luck, users will be able to >> cross-compile Guix System for arbitrary toys come December ;-) >> >> Thoughts? Let’s do that! > Seems like a good plan :)

Re: 'core-updates' Q4 2019

2019-10-09 Thread Mathieu Othacehe
Hey Marius, > To prevent this work from rotting away, I propose that we start the > branch as early as next month. With luck, users will be able to > cross-compile Guix System for arbitrary toys come December ;-) > > Thoughts? Seems like a good plan :) Mathieu

'core-updates' Q4 2019

2019-10-08 Thread Marius Bakke
Guix, As you know, the "quarterly" core-updates rebuild took almost a full year this previous cycle. There are already 35 commits on the 'core-updates-next' branch, and I've heard rumors of a GNOME 3.32 branch lurking somewhere. To prevent this work from rotting away, I propose that we start the