Re: Symlinks to generic names

2014-02-03 Thread Ludovic Courtès
John Darrington skribis: > On Sun, Feb 02, 2014 at 05:42:01PM +0100, Andreas Enge wrote: > On Sun, Feb 02, 2014 at 02:40:39PM +0100, John Darrington wrote: > > python3 -> python > > For python, the binary python is provided by python-2.7.6. The binary > python3 (and pyth

Re: Signed archives

2014-02-03 Thread Nikita Karetnikov
I’d like to see a signature in the wild. Are there any signed .narinfo files on hydra.nixos.org? I’ve checked GNU Hello [1]; it’s not signed. [1] http://hydra.nixos.org/6iqpvq3k2nlmfn3l59rsf3c57ji7jiyb.narinfo pgpTuQkQKLw91.pgp Description: PGP signature

[PATCH 2/2] dmd: Make config file if necessary when not run as root.

2014-02-03 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
* modules/dmd/support.scm (make-bare-init-file): new procedure to generate basic init file. (default-logfile): Check for init file, create it if necessary. --- modules/dmd/support.scm | 42 ++ 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+) diff --git a/modules/dmd/

[PATCH 1/2] dmd: Use ~/.dmd.d/ by default when not run as root.

2014-02-03 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
* modules/dmd/support.scm: Add copyright. (user-dmddir): New variable. (default-logfile): Use it instead of user-homedir. (default-persistency-state-file): Use it instead of user-homedir. (default-configfile): Use it instead of user-homedir, use init.scm as default name for configfile, en

dmd: make user-mode easier to use.

2014-02-03 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Hello, This patch series allows dmd to work out of the box in 'user-mode' after installation. To achieve this it ensures all dmd related files are stored in ~/.dmd.d/ when run in user-mode, and it creates a bare-bones configuration file for the user to start building upon if no configuration file

Re: university group willing to contribute to GUIX

2014-02-03 Thread Quiliro Ordóñez Baca
> Depending on what you really want to do, it might be that students > would be better off contributing to a well-established distro like > Trisquel. The university must present a result. What result will the students present? I must propose that so that they get interest in contributing. -- Sa

Re: [PATCH 2/3] gnu: boost: New module

2014-02-03 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! Thanks for looking into those big packages! John Darrington skribis: > + (alist-replace > +'configure > +(lambda* (#:key outputs #:allow-other-keys) > + (let ((out (assoc-ref outputs "out"))) > +(substitute* '("libs/config/configure" > +

Re: [PATCH 3/3] gnu: inkscape: New module

2014-02-03 Thread Ludovic Courtès
John Darrington skribis: > * gnu/packages/inkscape.scm: New file > * gnu-system.am: New file inkscape.scm Nice! You forgot to add the patch file to ‘gnu-system.am’ (also please follow the ChangeLog convention here.) OK to commit with this small change. Ludo’.

Re: [PATCH] gnu: file: Upgrade to 5.16.

2014-02-03 Thread Ludovic Courtès
John Darrington skribis: > * gnu/packages/file.scm (file): Upgrade to 5.16. Committed, thanks! Ludo’.

Back from FOSDEM

2014-02-03 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! I’ve just put the slides of my FOSDEM talk on-line: http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/guix-fosdem-20140201.pdf The talk went well. I think there were ~50 people in the room, including one Guix hacker (hi Alex! ;-)). Hopefully videos will be available soon. The first part of the talk w

Re: Gnunet-0.10.0 recipe

2014-02-03 Thread Andreas Enge
On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 09:54:04AM +0100, Andreas Enge wrote: > On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 12:33:20AM +0100, Sree Harsha Totakura wrote: > > Here's the new patch with Andreas' changes and Openssl included as a > > dependency. > Thanks, I will have a look later. Finally I made it. For checking purpose

Re: Gnunet-0.10.0 recipe

2014-02-03 Thread Andreas Enge
On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 05:05:37PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Note for upstream: It would be great to use GnuTLS instead of OpenSSL, > especially given that OpenSSL’s license may be incompatible with the GPL > in this case. >From my trials, I think openssl is used only for "make check". So it

Re: Gnunet-0.10.0 recipe

2014-02-03 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Andreas Enge skribis: > On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 05:05:37PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> Note for upstream: It would be great to use GnuTLS instead of OpenSSL, >> especially given that OpenSSL’s license may be incompatible with the GPL >> in this case. > > From my trials, I think openssl is us

Re: Gnunet-0.10.0 recipe

2014-02-03 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Andreas Enge skribis: > The "official" description printed with "make sync-descriptions" is different, > but in fact adds only this sentence: >The package includes gnunet-gtk, which provides a GTK+ graphical user >interface to the GNUnet service. > I think here the official description sh

Re: Gnunet-0.10.0 recipe

2014-02-03 Thread Sree Harsha Totakura
On 02/03/2014 11:17 PM, Andreas Enge wrote: > Just one last question: Is there a reason you did not add libmicrohttpd as > an input? Or should I add it again? I had forgotten to add it, nevertheless it should be added to the inputs as it is a direct dependency. But how did the build succeed if

Re: Gnunet-0.10.0 recipe

2014-02-03 Thread Sree Harsha Totakura
Hi Christian, Does GNUnet use openssl while building or is it used only during `make check`? Sree On 02/03/2014 11:57 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Andreas Enge skribis: > >> > On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 05:05:37PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >>> >> Note for upstream: It would be great to use Gn

Re: Installing a C tool chain

2014-02-03 Thread Mark H Weaver
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > To install a working C environment in your profile, run: > > guix package -i gcc binutils ld-wrapper glibc [...] > I believe this could be addressed by having a simple “toolchain” > meta-package with the sole purpose of propagating these 4 inputs, and b

Re: [PATCH 3/3] gnu: inkscape: New module

2014-02-03 Thread John Darrington
On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 10:20:22PM +0100, Ludovic Court??s wrote: John Darrington skribis: > * gnu/packages/inkscape.scm: New file > * gnu-system.am: New file inkscape.scm You forgot to add the patch file to ???gnu-system.am??? (also please follow the ChangeLog