Hydra serving source tarballs

Hi, I just observed that `guix build' is downloading source tarballs from Hydra. Is this supposed to be a feature? If so, what is the rationale behind not trying to download the source ball from mirrors or upstream download addresses? Regards, Sree

Re: [PATCH 1/2] gnu: Add virtualenv.

Cyril Roelandt skribis: > * gnu/packages/python.scm (python-virtualenv, python2-virtualenv): New > variables. OK, please push. Ludo’.

Re: [PATCH 2/2] gnu: Add pip.

Cyril Roelandt skribis: > * gnu/packages/python.scm (python-pip, python2-pip): New variables. Looks good to me. One question though: > +(arguments > + `(#:tests? #f)) ; The tests try to access the Internet. How hard would it be to either skip the tests that access the network, or patc

Re: Problems with handicapped 'bash' from glibc package

Mark H Weaver skribis: > The 'bash' in the glibc package is handicapped in at least two ways: > > * It can't set the locale, because it looks for locales in > /nix/store/-glibc-intermediate-2.18-locales > > * It can't look up anything from NSS, such as passwd dat

Re: Hydra serving source tarballs

On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 01:34:26PM +0100, Sree Harsha Totakura wrote: > I just observed that `guix build' is downloading source tarballs from > Hydra. Is this supposed to be a feature? If so, what is the rationale > behind not trying to download the source ball from mirrors or upstream > download

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The reason why the transport tests are failing is that gnurl is not being built with HTTPS protocol support and these tests expect gnurl to have those. The HTTPS support was not built into gnurl because pkg-config was not available as native inputs during configure time. This patch fixes the abov

[PATCH] gnu: gnunet: Fix failing testcases.

* gnu/packages/gnunet.scm (gnurl): Add pkg-config. * gnu/packages/patches/gnunet-fix-tests.patch: Append fix for integration testcases. --- gnu/packages/gnunet.scm |8 +--- gnu/packages/patches/gnunet-fix-tests.patch | 12 2 files changed, 17 insertions(

Re: Hydra serving source tarballs

Sree Harsha Totakura skribis: > I just observed that `guix build' is downloading source tarballs from > Hydra. Is this supposed to be a feature? If so, what is the rationale > behind not trying to download the source ball from mirrors or upstream > download addresses? Downloads are normal deri

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Sree Harsha Totakura skribis: > The reason why the transport tests are failing is that gnurl is not being > built with HTTPS protocol support and these tests expect gnurl to have those. > The HTTPS support was not built into gnurl because pkg-config was not > available as native inputs during con

Re: [PATCH] gnu: gnunet: Fix failing testcases.

Sree Harsha Totakura skribis: > * gnu/packages/gnunet.scm (gnurl): Add pkg-config. > * gnu/packages/patches/gnunet-fix-tests.patch: Append fix for integration > testcases. Pushed, thanks! Ludo’.

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On 02/12/2014 06:36 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > It would be nice if GNUnet’s ‘configure’ script would check whether > gnurl has HTTPS support. It now does. :-) Sree

Re: Problems with handicapped 'bash' from glibc package

l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Mark H Weaver skribis: > >> The 'bash' in the glibc package is handicapped in at least two ways: >> >> * It can't set the locale, because it looks for locales in >> /nix/store/-glibc-intermediate-2.18-locales >> >> * It ca

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On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 06:36:13PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > It would be nice if GNUnet’s ‘configure’ script would check whether > gnurl has HTTPS support. Concurred. Or maybe make pkg-config a mandatory input and stop when it is not found. Ever so often I see a package that states "feature

Re: Problems with handicapped 'bash' from glibc package

On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 05:39:35PM +, Mark H Weaver wrote: > While we're on the subject of 'bash', should we be applying the patches > in http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/bash-4.2-patches/ ? Is there a chance of convincing the bash people to release bash 4.2.1? It seems absurd to off-load the work

Guix under GNU’s umbrella for GSoC?

Hello! So it is Summer of Code time again. If you have ideas, let’s discuss them, and then send an HTML fragment for . Looks like we have the GNUnet idea that we could copy/paste from last year. Anything else? If you are an eligible stud

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Andreas Enge skribis: > On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 06:36:13PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> It would be nice if GNUnet’s ‘configure’ script would check whether >> gnurl has HTTPS support. > > Concurred. Or maybe make pkg-config a mandatory input and stop when it > is not found. Ever so often I se

Re: Problems with handicapped 'bash' from glibc package

Andreas Enge skribis: > On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 05:39:35PM +, Mark H Weaver wrote: >> While we're on the subject of 'bash', should we be applying the patches >> in http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/bash-4.2-patches/ ? > > Is there a chance of convincing the bash people to release bash 4.2.1? > It s

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On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 09:30:53PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > I think this is largely because the official PKG_CHECK_MODULES Autoconf > macro doesn’t fail by default when pkg-config is not found (which may or > may not be a good idea, depending on the package.) Then it is the authors' respons

Re: Problems with handicapped 'bash' from glibc package

l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Andreas Enge skribis: > >> On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 05:39:35PM +, Mark H Weaver wrote: >>> While we're on the subject of 'bash', should we be applying the patches >>> in http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/bash-4.2-patches/ ? >> >> Is there a chance of convinci

[PATCH] gnu: ratpoison: Patch to use $SHELL instead of /bin/sh

I'm not entirely sure this will be wanted, but it bugged me that ratpoison has /bin/sh hardcoded in its source code. WDYT? Mark >From 2218f563424e4154ee24f5f9fdeb1b6e00ffae7f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark H Weaver Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 00:42:41 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] gnu: ratpoiso