core-updates merged!

2015-01-16 Thread Ludovic Courtès
I’ve just merged core-updates in ‘master’, yay! As a reminder, some of the cool things for packagers: • ‘search-path-specification’ can now specify files (instead of plain directories) or even file pattern (for example, ‘catalog.xml’ for libxml2, or maybe ‘\\.cmake$’ for CMake) This sh

[PATCH] gnu: ffmpeg: Augment rpath of libraries.

2015-01-16 Thread 宋文武
* gnu/packages/video.scm (ffmpeg)[arguments][add-lib-to-run-path]: Add $out/lib to the RUNPATH of libraries. --- gnu/packages/video.scm | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/gnu/packages/video.scm b/gnu/packages/video.scm index 2febd12..1b15577 100644 --- a/gnu

Re: gobject-introspection typelibs and shared libraries

2015-01-16 Thread Federico Beffa
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 10:42 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Federico Beffa skribis: > >> A different look at aesthetics: Back in the mid '90, when Linux was >> still an underground curiosity, many UNIX admins were starting to >> install GNU user-land applications. To avoid name clashes with the >>

Initrd regression fixed

2015-01-16 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Commit e48977e fixes a regression that was introduced with commit 7c594a2 a couple of days ago. Basically the fsck.ext[234] programs embedded in the initrd would be broken, leading to an exception from the initrd and to a REPL (which could just be left with “,q” to continue booting.) In related n

Re: wip-gobject-introspection

2015-01-16 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Federico Beffa skribis: > On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 9:51 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> Given that core-updates will soon be fully built (hopefully within 24h) >> and ready to be merged, I would prefer to wait until that is done, and >> then rebase wip-gobject-introspection on it and get it built.

Re: [PATCH] gnu: ffmpeg: Augment rpath of libraries.

2015-01-16 Thread Ludovic Courtès
宋文武 skribis: > * gnu/packages/video.scm (ffmpeg)[arguments][add-lib-to-run-path]: > Add $out/lib to the RUNPATH of libraries. [...] > -;; Add LIB to the RUNPATH of all the executables. > +;; Add LIB to the RUNPATH of all the executables and libraries. > (w

Re: Fwd: [gnu.org #954922] Vague "licensing" for the symbola font.

2015-01-16 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Ian Denhardt skribis: > Latest word on the Symbola font from the FSF: Thanks Ian for the update. I forgot the details, but IIRC Alex Kost was the initial submitter. What can be done here? Ludo’.

Re: gobject-introspection typelibs and shared libraries

2015-01-16 Thread Andreas Enge
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 10:42:42PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > If there’s consensus to install the symlink, that’s fine with me (if we > take that route, I would also suggest submitting a patch upstream so GCC > installs the symlink.) I am not in favour of adding such a symlink on our own and