Re: recommend the binary install as the path to guixSD?

On Thu 03 Mar 2016 02:27, myglc2 writes: > Isn't it straightforward to install guixSD on a new hard drive if you > have Guix running on a "foreign" distro? Maybe this is the right thing. Maybe the fastest path to a good GuixSD installation is via a minimal debian install + detrout's Guix packag

[PATCH]: Update GRUB menu entry to say (beta) instead of (alpha)

Hi, Current menu entry in GRUB: GNU with Linux-Libre 4.4.3 (alpha) Patched: GNU with Linux-Libre 4.4.3 (beta) Beta! :) PetterFrom 856ecb2a41e7a39faeca1323f068e792fbdc16ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Petter Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2016 10:47:39 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Updated GRUB menu entry to

Re: [PATCH 04/13] utils: Use '@' for separating package names and version numbers.

Mathieu Lirzin (2016-02-29 03:28 +0300) wrote: [...] > I have left the emacs interface untouched. Hm, I wonder why? You already had the required changes in your initial patch. Anyway, I'm attaching the patch with these changes. The only difference from your original patch is replacing 'package

[PATCH] po: Drop removed file 'weechat.scm'.

weechat has been merged into 'irc.scm' in e288f007. * po/packages/POTFILES.in: Drop removed file 'weechat.scm'. --- po/packages/POTFILES.in | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/po/packages/POTFILES.in b/po/packages/POTFILES.in index d77cb3b..60c6ab3 100644 --- a/po/packages/POTFILES

Build-dependency on guile-json

Hi, README says: > - optionally > [[http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/guile-json/][Guile-JSON]], for the > 'guix import pypi' command However, lacking guile-json, building guix fails with: LOAD (guix import github) Backtrace: In ice-9/boot-9.scm: 1724: 19 [%start-stack load-stack ...

[PATCH] gnu: Add powwow.

This patch adds powwow, a telnet client which can be used for MUDs. I just noticed I made 2 minor mistakes: +(home-page "http://www.hoopajoo/projects/powwow.html";) should be: +(home-page "http://www.hoopajoo.net/projects/powwow.html";) and +;; The following files are GPLv3+: +

Re: [PATCH] Update deeptools.

Leo Famulari writes: > On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 02:47:04PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: >> Hi Guix, >> >> the goal of this series of patches is to update deeptools. >> >> First I moved the “*-pysam” packages from python.scm to >> bioinformatics.scm, then updated them. Then added “pybigwig”, cl

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add powwow.

Nils Gillmann writes: > should be: > > +;; The following files are GPLv3+: > +;; config.guess, config.sub, depcomp > +(license (list license:gpl2+ license:gpl3+ What happened to the public domain stuff? “config.guess” and the like are produced by autoconf, so I wonder if they

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add powwow.

Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Nils Gillmann writes: > >> should be: >> >> +;; The following files are GPLv3+: >> +;; config.guess, config.sub, depcomp >> +(license (list license:gpl2+ license:gpl3+ > > What happened to the public domain stuff? It got re-licensed as GPL2+ with the a

Re: [PATCH] gnu: cups: Update to 2.1.3 (was gnu: cups: Update to 2.1.3 - request for help patching Makefiles)

swedebu...@riseup.net writes: >> I will focus on getting it to compile with the appropriate >> configure-flags and afterwards we can collaborate on creating a >> service for cups (with a config file). >> >> Patching is necessary because we want cups to write logs and state/run >> files to /var/c

Re: [PATCH] po: Drop removed file 'weechat.scm'.

Hi Justus, Is it not necessary to also do something about the other files that mention weechat's prevoius location? For example: --8<---cut here---start->8--- $ grep -r gnu/packages/weechat . ./po/packages/da.po:#: gnu/packages/weechat.scm:92 ./po/packages/da.p

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add Augeas.

Ludovic Courtès writes: > Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > >> Leo Famulari writes: >> +(build-system gnu-build-system) +;; Marked as "required" in augeas.pc +(propagated-inputs + `(("libxml2" ,libxml2))) > > I find it clearer to put the comment right below ‘propaga

GSoC strikes again

Hello! Good news! GNU has been accepted as a mentoring organization for Google’s Summer of Code (GSoC). So if you’d like to help Guix & GNU and on top of that get a paycheck, now is the time to see how you can help! Ideas have been collected for Guix, GuixSD, and the Shepherd at: https://lib

Re: [PATCH 1/1] gnu: perl: Replace with patched version [fixes CVE-2016-2381].

Leo Famulari skribis: > On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 10:52:58PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: [...] >> Otherwise LGTM, as long as you confirm that nothing goes really wrong >> once it’s applied. :-) > > Here are some things I tried: > > 1) Built and booted a VM with `guix system vm`. I don't know i

Re: [v2 0/1] Perl: Fix CVE-2016-2381

Leo Famulari skribis: > Here's version 2 of this patch. The differences are improved context in > perl-CVE-2016-2381.patch and a fixed typo in the commit message. LGTM! > I'm sending this with `git send-email` (Perl script) built on top of > this change. Woohoo! Thanks, Ludo’.

Re: [PATCH]: Update GRUB menu entry to say (beta) instead of (alpha)

Petter skribis: > Hi, > > Current menu entry in GRUB: >> GNU with Linux-Libre 4.4.3 (alpha) > > Patched: >> GNU with Linux-Libre 4.4.3 (beta) I like it! :-) Committed with a ChangeLog-style log. Thanks, Ludo’.

Re: [PATCH 1/2] svn-download: Respect current-http-proxy when downloading.

On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 05:39:21PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Of course you should keep using ‘string->uri’, no problem with that. > > I’m just saying that the code should explicitly check for the > ‘http_proxy’ environment variable instead of using the > ‘current-http-proxy’ SRFI-9 parameter

Re: [PATCH] po: Drop removed file 'weechat.scm'.

Justus Winter skribis: > weechat has been merged into 'irc.scm' in e288f007. > > * po/packages/POTFILES.in: Drop removed file 'weechat.scm'. Pushed, thanks! Chris Marusich skribis: > Is it not necessary to also do something about the other files that > mention weechat's prevoius location? For

Re: Build-dependency on guile-json

Justus Winter skribis: > Hi, > > README says: >> - optionally >> [[http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/guile-json/][Guile-JSON]], for the >> 'guix import pypi' command > > However, lacking guile-json, building guix fails with: Fixed in 7016184245a3cf53fbe062901babdc76b85a7319, thanks! Ludo'

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add powwow.

Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > Nils Gillmann writes: > >> should be: >> >> +;; The following files are GPLv3+: >> +;; config.guess, config.sub, depcomp >> +(license (list license:gpl2+ license:gpl3+ > > What happened to the public domain stuff? > > “config.guess” and the like are pr

Re: [PATCH 1/2] svn-download: Respect current-http-proxy when downloading.

Jookia <166...@gmail.com> skribis: > On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 05:44:18PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> > + (define proxy-config >> > +(if (current-http-proxy) >> > + (and-let* ((proxy-uri (string->uri (current-http-proxy))) >> > + (proxy-host (uri-host proxy-uri)) >> >

Re: [PATCH 04/13] utils: Use '@' for separating package names and version numbers.

Alex Kost skribis: > Sorry if it was discussed but why 'package-full-name' from (guix > packages) wasn't changed? I think I was afraid that existing uses in unexpected place would break, such as when using the full name as anchor names in HTML. But then I also remember a version of ‘package-ful

Re: thesis: guixsd should provide /usr/bin/env

Christopher Allan Webber skribis: > Ludovic Courtès writes: [...] >> One can already do: >> >> guix environment --container --ad-hoc coreutils \ >> --expose=$(which env)=/usr/bin/env >> >> Should we add a --fhs or --/usr/bin/env option to simplify this? >> >> Thanks, >> Ludo’. > > Would t

Re: Texlive-texmf

Andreas Enge skribis: > On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 10:34:23AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> We don’t want people to have to do that, do we? :-) >> Personally, I don’t want to have to think beyond “guix package -i >> texlive”. > > It is only about choice, you can always just install texlive if yo

Re: [PATCH] po: Drop removed file 'weechat.scm'.

Hi Chris :) Quoting Chris Marusich (2016-03-03 16:47:13) > Is it not necessary to also do something about the other files that > mention weechat's prevoius location? For example: > > --8<---cut here---start->8--- > $ grep -r gnu/packages/weechat . > ./po/packag

[WIP] Cross-compiler for arm-none-eabi

Hi Guix, attached is a patch blob providing the “embedded.scm” module. I’m using this cross-compiler semi-successfully to build so-called “patches” for the Axoloti audio development/prototyping board. I’m using the cross binutils at a particular git commit; the same applies to “gcc-arm-none-eabi

Re: [v2 0/1] Perl: Fix CVE-2016-2381

On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 05:37:39PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Leo Famulari skribis: > > > Here's version 2 of this patch. The differences are improved context in > > perl-CVE-2016-2381.patch and a fixed typo in the commit message. > > LGTM! Okay, pushed as d8173f21f7b4. > > > I'm sending

Guix Europe

Dear Guixers, some of you have already spotted documents concerning a mysterious entity called "Guix Europe" appear in the maintenance-git repo. So now I have a pleasant announcement to make... But wait - I am not going to write it all up a second time. Read on here: https://enge.fr/blog/2016/0

[PATCH 4/5] gnu: Add python-vobject.

* gnu/packages/python.scm (python-vobject, python2-vobject): New variables. --- gnu/packages/python.scm | 30 ++ 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+) diff --git a/gnu/packages/python.scm b/gnu/packages/python.scm index b168183..6d92b67 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/python.scm

[PATCH 2/5] gnu: python2-pyicu: Update to 1.9.2.

* gnu/packages/python.scm (python2-pyicu): Update to 1.9.2. --- gnu/packages/python.scm | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/gnu/packages/python.scm b/gnu/packages/python.scm index 1a2c88a..f168d15 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/python.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/python.sc

[PATCH 1/5] gnu: Add python2-atomicwrites.

* gnu/packages/python.scm (python2-atomicwrites): New variable. --- gnu/packages/python.scm | 9 - 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/gnu/packages/python.scm b/gnu/packages/python.scm index 131ec62..1a2c88a 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/python.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/p

[PATCH 5/5] gnu: Add khard.

* gnu/packages/mail.scm (khard): New variable. --- gnu/packages/mail.scm | 47 --- 1 file changed, 44 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/gnu/packages/mail.scm b/gnu/packages/mail.scm index 013954b..a34a4de 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/mail.scm +++

[PATCH 3/5] gnu: Split python2-pyicu into python-pyicu and python2-pyicu.

* gnu/packages/python.scm (python2-pyicu): Split variable into... (python-pyicu, python2-pyicu): ...both Python variants. (python-pyicu)[arguments]: Enable tests. --- gnu/packages/python.scm | 17 ++--- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/gnu/packages/python.

[PATCH 0/5] Add Khard and dependencies

These patches add the command-line address book Khard and its dependencies. I use it as described here: . I also took the opportunity to update python2-pyicu and create both Python variants. The warnings in the old python2-pyicu definition seem to no long

Re: [PATCH 5/5] gnu: Add khard.

On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 05:11:56PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote: > * gnu/packages/mail.scm (khard): New variable. > +(description "Khard is an address book for the console. It creates, > reads, > +modifies and removes CardDAV address book entries at your local machine. For > +synchronizing with

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add powwow.

Okay. Should I resubmit the patch, or can you work it out on the basis of this patch? thanks, -- ng irc://loupsycedyglgamf.onion:67/~NiAsterisk https://psyced.org:34443/NiAsterisk/ EDN: https://wiki.c3d2.de/Echt_Dezentrales_Netz/en

Server for Guix Hydra/Slave ?

So a friend is about to drop one of his dedicated servers, and we are discussing what to do with it... another tor relay, some other project, and I had the idea, wel maybe we could use it? It's a 36€ / year server (I don't believe in the security of OVH, but others say it's okay, I personally favo

Re: Server for Guix Hydra/Slave ?

Addition: no limitations in bandwidth per month. -- ng irc://loupsycedyglgamf.onion:67/~NiAsterisk https://psyced.org:34443/NiAsterisk/ EDN: https://wiki.c3d2.de/Echt_Dezentrales_Netz/en

Re: Server for Guix Hydra/Slave ?

Nils Gillmann writes: > So a friend is about to drop one of his dedicated servers, and we > are discussing what to do with it... another tor relay, some > other project, and I had the idea, wel maybe we could use it? > > It's a 36€ / year server (I don't believe in the security of OVH, > but othe

[PATCH 05/13] gnu: Add python-pyechonest.

* gnu/packages/music.scm (python-pyechonest, python2-pyechonest): New variables. --- gnu/packages/music.scm | 36 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+) diff --git a/gnu/packages/music.scm b/gnu/packages/music.scm index 1ad328e..cd5fcb1 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/mus

[PATCH 04/13] gnu: Add python-flask.

* gnu/packages/python.scm (python-flask, python2-flask): New variables. --- gnu/packages/python.scm | 28 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+) diff --git a/gnu/packages/python.scm b/gnu/packages/python.scm index da2c67c..b597952 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/python.scm +++ b/

[PATCH 02/13] gnu: Add python-munkres.

* gnu/packages/python.scm (python-munkres, python2-munkres): New variables. --- gnu/packages/python.scm | 23 +++ 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+) diff --git a/gnu/packages/python.scm b/gnu/packages/python.scm index 131ec62..da2c67c 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/python.scm +++ b/g

[PATCH 01/13] gnu: Add python-mutagen.

* gnu/packages/music.scm (python-mutagen, python2-mutagen): New variables. --- gnu/packages/music.scm | 26 ++ 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+) diff --git a/gnu/packages/music.scm b/gnu/packages/music.scm index d789cc3..f8d88c1 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/music.scm +++ b/gnu

[PATCH 00/13] Add beets and its dependencies

These patches add beets [0] and its dependencies. While beets has a rich ecosystem of plugins and optional features [1], this package creates a minimal beets that offers the core feature: to organize your music files based on their tags. Of course, whoever wants to add those plugins is welcome to

[PATCH 03/13] gnu: Add python-musicbrainzngs.

* gnu/packages/music.scm (python-musicbrainzngs, python2-musicbrainzngs): New variables. --- gnu/packages/music.scm | 22 ++ 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+) diff --git a/gnu/packages/music.scm b/gnu/packages/music.scm index f8d88c1..1ad328e 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/music.scm

[PATCH 06/13] gnu: Add python-pylast.

* gnu/packages/music.scm (python-pylast, python2-pylast): New variables. --- gnu/packages/music.scm | 35 +++ 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+) diff --git a/gnu/packages/music.scm b/gnu/packages/music.scm index cd5fcb1..4959f3b 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/music.scm ++

[PATCH 08/13] gnu: Add python2-pathlib.

* gnu/packages/python.scm (python-pathlib, python2-pathlib): New variables. --- gnu/packages/python.scm | 34 ++ 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+) diff --git a/gnu/packages/python.scm b/gnu/packages/python.scm index e9969f4..b148c7c 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/python.

[PATCH 12/13] gnu: Add python-rarfile.

* gnu/packages/python.scm (python-rarfile, python2-rarfile): New variables. * gnu/packages/patches/python-rarfile-fix-tests.patch: New file. * gnu-system.am (dist_patch_DATA): Add it. --- gnu-system.am | 1 + .../patches/python-rarfile-fix-tests.patch

[PATCH 07/13] gnu: Add python-responses.

* gnu/packages/python.scm (python-responses, python2-responses): New variables. --- gnu/packages/python.scm | 32 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+) diff --git a/gnu/packages/python.scm b/gnu/packages/python.scm index b597952..e9969f4 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/pytho

[PATCH 09/13] gnu: Add python-mpd2.

* gnu/packages/mpd.scm (python-mpd2, python2-mpd2): New variables. --- gnu/packages/mpd.scm | 33 + 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+) diff --git a/gnu/packages/mpd.scm b/gnu/packages/mpd.scm index 5a63772..27b3061 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/mpd.scm +++ b/gnu/packages

[PATCH 10/13] gnu: Add python-jellyfish.

* gnu/packages/python.scm (python-jellyfish, python2-jellyfish): New variables. --- gnu/packages/python.scm | 28 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+) diff --git a/gnu/packages/python.scm b/gnu/packages/python.scm index b148c7c..ac82a09 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/python.sc

[PATCH 13/13] gnu: Add beets.

* gnu/packages/music.scm (beets): New variable. --- gnu/packages/music.scm | 48 1 file changed, 48 insertions(+) diff --git a/gnu/packages/music.scm b/gnu/packages/music.scm index 4959f3b..2369442 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/music.scm +++ b/gnu/pack

[PATCH 11/13] gnu: Add python2-unicodecsv.

* gnu/packages/python.scm (python2-unicodecsv): New variable. --- gnu/packages/python.scm | 27 +++ 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+) diff --git a/gnu/packages/python.scm b/gnu/packages/python.scm index ac82a09..ce7d777 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/python.scm +++ b/gnu/package

Exim security update

I just updated Exim from 4.86 to 4.86.2, fixing CVE-2016-1531 [0]. "All installations having Exim set-uid root and using 'perl_startup' are vulnerable to a local privilege escalation. Any user who can start an instance of Exim (and this is normally *any* user) can gain root privileges. If you do n

[PATCH] gnu: lynx: Support HTTPS (SSL) connections

From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice * gnu/packages/lynx.scm (lynx)[inputs]: Add 'openssl'. [arguments]: Convert to list; add configure flag for SSL support. --- gnu/packages/lynx.scm | 30 +- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/gnu/packages/lynx.sc

Re: [PATCH] gnu: lynx: Support HTTPS (SSL) connections

On Fri, Mar 04, 2016 at 03:37:46AM +0100, tobias.geerinckx.r...@gmail.com wrote: > From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice > > * gnu/packages/lynx.scm (lynx)[inputs]: Add 'openssl'. > [arguments]: Convert to list; add configure flag for SSL support. Wow, thanks for this patch! Can you say if you learned an

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add Augeas.

On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 05:16:05PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > > Ludovic Courtès writes: > > > Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > > > >> Leo Famulari writes: > >> > +(build-system gnu-build-system) > +;; Marked as "required" in augeas.pc > +(propagated-inputs > +

Re: [PATCH] gnu: btrfs-progs: Update to 4.4.1.

On 28/02/2016, Leo Famulari wrote: > On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 10:41:42PM +0200, Efraim Flashner wrote: >> On Sat, 27 Feb 2016 01:17:04 +0100 >> Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: >> >> > * gnu/packages/linux.scm (btrfs-progs): Update to 4.4.1. > >> looks good to me! >> >> applied in 9c7f7e2d. > > Thanks

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add idle3-tools.

Hallo Guix, Perhaps I should have added that I did run `guix lint' on this without issues. Anyone fancy having a look? T G-R

Re: Python 3.5 start of update

On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 09:19:40PM -0800, Diane Trout wrote: > Hi, > > Attached is the patch I used for trying to update python 3 to 3.5. I disabled > a test and added an exception handler for some code calling pwd.getpwuid(0) > and the group equivalent. > > It builds outside of the python.scm

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add idle3-tools.

For example, I'm now no longer sure why I added a licence namespace nor whether that's a good idea. Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to throw a certain console browser out of a very high window. On 04/03/2016, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: > Hallo Guix, > > Perhaps I should have added that I did

GNU Guix diagram

Upon installing GuixSD a month ago I found it difficult to get a grip on GNU Guix' stucture. Because I like pictures I made a diagram showing what I think I now understand about how GNU Guix' works. I am thinking it might be helpful to Guix newcomers. Comments &/or corrections would be most welcome

Re: [PATCH] gnu: btrfs-progs: Update to 4.4.1.

On Fri, Mar 04, 2016 at 04:08:01AM +0100, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: > On 28/02/2016, Leo Famulari wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 10:41:42PM +0200, Efraim Flashner wrote: > >> On Sat, 27 Feb 2016 01:17:04 +0100 > >> Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: > >> > >> > * gnu/packages/linux.scm (btrfs-pr

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add idle3-tools.

On Fri, Mar 04, 2016 at 04:22:36AM +0100, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: > For example, I'm now no longer sure why I added a licence > namespace nor whether that's a good idea. I'm not sure either :) There are licenses and packages both named 'expat' and 'openssl', so when we need to use both the p