Re: MAME emulator is giving incentive to use non-free software

>I can assume you have verified it for compliance. Please also reconsider >if than free software distribution shall include malware GPL licensed >software, because we cannot know neither assume that people are going to >use it for malware purposes, even though it is malware. The FSDG already rul

Re: Patches to add s3cmd and python-magic

Hi, Chris Marusich skribis: > The purpose of s3cmd is to provide a command-line interface to Amazon S3 > and CloudFront, which are services. The only use for s3cmd is to enable > people to use those services. With that in mind, does s3cmd meet the > guidelines for inclusion, or does it not? I

Re: Patches to add s3cmd and python-magic

Chris Marusich skribis: > +(synopsis "Command line S3 Client and backup") “Command-line S3 client and backup tool”? > +(description > + "S3cmd lets you copy files from/to Amazon S3 (Simple Storage > +Service) using a simple to use command line client. Supports > +rsync-like backup,

Re: NEWS for 0.10.0

Rastus Vernon writes: > On Sun, 2016-03-27 at 23:38 +0200, Mathieu Lirzin wrote: > >> I think it would be reasonable to integrate this news in the current >> scheme by not making it top level.  What about moving this news in a >> category "Contribution" or "Community"? >> >> While speaking about

Re: [PATCH] gnu: r-devtools: Update to 1.10.0.

Roel Janssen writes: > Hello Ricardo, > > Thank you for your superfast review. > > Ricardo Wurmus writes: > >>> In this newer version, a new dependency was introduced (r-withr), which >>> I also added a package recipe for. >> >> Could you please split this into two separate patches? One adding

Re: Patches to add s3cmd and python-magic

Hi Ludo, Thank you for the thoughtful response. I've updated the s3cmd description per your suggestions. Please let me know if any additional changes are needed. I've also attached one more small patch which adds some information that I felt was missing from the Manual regarding the python-buil

Re: loudmouth, freetalk

Hi Jean Louis, > Regarding single line on the end, that is because I used: > > guix build -f file.scm > > to test it, as it has to evaluate to something. I suggest to do the following: * clone the guix repository * add the package definition to an existing file (such as “gnu/packages/m

Re: loudmouth, freetalk

Sure, but existing files don't work, I asked for assistance on that. It is not useful to add non-working package definitions, right? On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 12:17:38PM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > > Hi Jean Louis, > > > Regarding single line on the end, that is because I used: > > > > guix bui

Re: loudmouth, freetalk

Jean Louis writes: > Sure, but existing files don't work, I asked for assistance on that. It > is not useful to add non-working package definitions, right? Adding them to your local repository clone is not going to add the package definitions to Guix upstream automatically. I often add non-wor

Re: loudmouth, freetalk

Jean Louis writes: > Hello Nils, > > I was expecting you could test these 2 files and simply fix them. I will > of course study, but I cannot get it to work at this moment. It is easier to learn and package it with help of people here than to push the work in direction of others, only if you run

Re: NEWS for 0.10.0

I know I'm an exception, but the mere existence of that CODE-OF-CONDUCT file was the main reason for me to give Guix a try. Then I stayed for the rest. On 30/03/2016, Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer wrote: > I much prefer the current COC to both that of GNOME and Debian. +1 to this (and the rest of

Re: loudmouth, freetalk

I was under impression that I did tell. I am yet learning Guile, and did not go through all the functions from info guix. At this moment, I cannot contribute in the manner like you or other people. But I can send 95% of the finished package definition. freetalk, requires loudmouth. Loudmouth work

Re: Call for testing

Hullo Ludo', On 29/03/2016, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Tobias Geerinckx-Rice skribis: >> I spent most of my time so far reverse-engineering my machine's >> firmware to re-enable the well-hidden CPU virtualisation support >> required to even build the installer. > > Uh. What machine is this? (So

[PATCH] doc: Small fixes for typos and missing words.

>From 467315651e27c3ce3059b9fca38494879de50e5e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Roel Janssen Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 14:27:52 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] doc: Small fixes for typos and missing words. * doc/guix.texi (The Store Monad): Add a dot at the end of a sentence. (The Store Monad): Add "are" to

Re: [PATCH] doc: Small fixes for typos and missing words.

Roel Janssen writes: > Dear Guix, > > I noticed some typos and/or missing words when reading parts of the > manual. Instead of leaving it be, I attached a patch to fix them. > > I don't know how my commit message should look like in this case, so > please let me know when it is wrong. I think

Reproducible build: linux-libre kernel

Hello! I noticed that the linux-libre package we have is not a reproducible build using the command: guix build linux-libre --check --no-substitutes I did a bit of research into this these posts and blogs were helpful, as well as the mempo project: * *

Re: [PATCH] environment: Set a default value for PS1.

On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 12:39 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > David Thompson skribis: > >> From 10741ce4e09c5990e70c94f5ed650b3561d042a0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 >> From: David Thompson >> Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2016 21:20:19 -0400 >> Subject: [PATCH] environment: Set a default value for PS1. >> >> * gu

Re: [PATCH] doc: Small fixes for typos and missing words.

>From 467315651e27c3ce3059b9fca38494879de50e5e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Roel Janssen Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 14:27:52 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] doc: Small fixes for typos and missing words. * doc/guix.texi (The Store Monad): Add a dot at the end of a sentence. (The Store Monad): Add "are" to

[PATCH] gnu: Add r-variantannotation.

>From b973ee57f42e1e094d3dc377a5175de6ed252bc4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Roel Janssen Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 15:03:56 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] gnu: Add r-variantannotation. * gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm (r-variantannotation): New variable. --- gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm | 32

Re: [PATCH] environment: Set a default value for PS1.

On 03/28/2016 03:22 AM, David Thompson wrote: > +;; Set a reasonable default PS1. > +(setenv "PS1" "[ENV] \\u@\\h \\w\\$ ") > + Would it be an acceptable feature to let the user ask for their own PS1? I very often have to make sure my code works on both Python 2.7 and Python

Re: [PATCH] environment: Set a default value for PS1.

On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 9:28 AM, Cyril Roelandt wrote: > On 03/28/2016 03:22 AM, David Thompson wrote: >> +;; Set a reasonable default PS1. >> +(setenv "PS1" "[ENV] \\u@\\h \\w\\$ ") >> + > Would it be an acceptable feature to let the user ask for their own PS1? > I very of

Re: Reproducible build: linux-libre kernel

On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 01:16:13PM +0100, ra...@openmailbox.org wrote: > Hello! > > I noticed that the linux-libre package we have is not a reproducible build > using the command: guix build linux-libre --check --no-substitutes > > I did a bit of research into this these posts and blogs were help

Re: Translating package descriptions

28. Mar 2016 12:29 by l...@gnu.org: > Chris Marusich <> cmmarus...@gmail.com> > skribis: > >> Ben Woodcroft <>> b.woodcr...@uq.edu.au>> > writes: >> >>> 5) I speak fluent French, can I add a description and summary in >>> French? >>> >>> >>> I'm not sure on this sorry. >> >> I think Gu

[Patch] gst-plugins-base

Currently on both mips64 and on armhf gst-plugins-base doesn't build, and I'm not sure if it has any time recently. On arm, the orc related tests fail, and on mips orc fails to build entirely. Orc is a nice addition to gst-plugins-base, but it will build without it. This patch would have arm and mi

Re: loudmouth, freetalk

Nils Gillmann writes: > Jean Louis writes: > >> (define-public loudmouth >> (package >> (name "loudmouth") >> (version "1.4.3") >> (source (origin >> (method url-fetch) >> (uri (string-append >> "http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/l

Re: MAME emulator is giving incentive to use non-free software

IngeGNUe writes: >>I can assume you have verified it for compliance. Please also reconsider >>if than free software distribution shall include malware GPL licensed >>software, because we cannot know neither assume that people are going to >>use it for malware purposes, even though it is malware.

Re: Reproducible build: linux-libre kernel

ra...@openmailbox.org writes: > I noticed that the linux-libre package we have is not a reproducible > build using the command: guix build linux-libre --check > --no-substitutes > > I did a bit of research into this these posts and blogs were helpful, > as well as the mempo project: > *

Re: [PATCH 1/3] licenses: Add beerware license.

Alex Vong writes: > Leo Famulari writes: > >> On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 09:00:38AM -0700, Christopher Allan Webber wrote: >>> Leo Famulari writes: >>> >>> > On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 02:02:11PM -0700, Christopher Allan Webber wrote: >>> >> Efraim Flashner writes: >>> >> >>> >> > On Sat, 26 Mar 201

Re: NEWS for 0.10.0

On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 01:02:15PM +0200, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: There is nothing in the current coc which I particularly disagree with - all the examples of unacceptable conduct I personally consider unacceptable in all walks of life. Unfortunately, ???be excellent to each oth

Re: Reproducible build: linux-libre kernel

Thank you both for looking at the patch and the feedback! I've put these suggestions into this new version. 0001-gnu-linux-libre-Avoid-introducing-timestamps-into-th.patch Description: Binary data

Re: Reproducible build: linux-libre kernel

rain1 writes: > Thank you both for looking at the patch and the feedback! > > I've put these suggestions into this new version. Looks good. Pushed, thanks! Mark

Re: NEWS for 0.10.0

John Darrington writes: > On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 01:02:15PM +0200, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: > > There is nothing in the current coc which I particularly disagree with - > all the examples of unacceptable conduct I personally consider unacceptable > in all walks of life. > > Unf

Re: MAME emulator is giving incentive to use non-free software

Hi! Thanks Chris for the thoughtful comments and insightful examples! Christopher Allan Webber skribis: > I think this is a really bad path to go down. I hope we don't go down > it. Let's condemn proprietary software, but not make assumptions that > free software systems will only be used for

Re: [REQ/DISCUSSION] patch managing system

On 03/21/2016 04:48 PM, Mathieu Lirzin wrote: > To automate the repetitive tasks, Cyril Roelandt had started sometimes > ago to work on a bot that was continuously applying and building > incoming patches on top of master and report (by email) if things were > building correctly. I think that is a

Re: [PATCH] Add MilkyTracker to Guix

Kei Yamashita (2016-03-30 05:24 +0300) wrote: > Alright! This patch adds MilkyTracker successfully. It builds with > both ALSA and JACK support. I took a look at the PKGBUILD from Arch > Linux and the port dependencies from FreeBSD to make sure I had > everything in order. Hopefully it is clean as

Re: Patches to add s3cmd and python-magic

Chris Marusich skribis: > From dfdaa5de44cf713bda0a5d907cbcc3ee986aa3f5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Chris Marusich > Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2016 19:10:48 -0700 > Subject: [PATCH 1/3] gnu: Add python-magic. > > * gnu/packages/python.scm (python-magic, python2-magic): New variables. Applied. I’v

Re: Test suite failures building 0.10.0 on CentOS7

"Cook, Malcolm" skribis: > I am building and testing as follows: > > env -i PATH=${PATH} bash ## build in a clean shell > bld=$(mktemp -d) ## in a clean, new, empty directory > cd $bld > git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/guix.git --branch v0.10.0 guix@v0.10.0 > > cd guix@v0.10.0 Since

Re: [PATCH 3/3] import: Add Hackage updater.

Eric Bavier skribis: > On Mon, 28 Mar 2016 18:12:05 +0200 > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote: [...] >> It might be useful to honor a ‘cabal-package-name’ property in cases >> where guessing doesn’t work. That can always be added later, though. > > Sure. Let's save that for later. This sc

Re: NEWS for 0.10.0

taylanbayi...@gmail.com (Taylan Ulrich "Bayırlı/Kammer") skribis: > I much prefer the current COC to both that of GNOME and Debian. > > I think trying to be apolitical is naive. In practice it boils down to > accepting the status quo. In an unjust society, some injustices appear > normal, theref

inclusion of openrc init file

I am currently working on final debugging of Guix for Gentoo, I might have a OpenRC initsystem file for Guix (to be included, like the systemd one), but I can only test it when I have both - guix and guix-binary - fixed and running a succesful guix pull. The init file works, but there are last issu

Re: [PATCH] doc: Small fixes for typos and missing words.

Roel Janssen skribis: > From 467315651e27c3ce3059b9fca38494879de50e5e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Roel Janssen > Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 14:27:52 +0200 > Subject: [PATCH] doc: Small fixes for typos and missing words. > > * doc/guix.texi (The Store Monad): Add a dot at the end of a sentence.

Re: Reproducible build: linux-libre kernel

This is time-consuming but also very valuable work, so big thanks! Ludo’.

Re: MAME emulator is giving incentive to use non-free software

On 03/30/16 12:11, Mark H Weaver wrote: > IngeGNUe writes: > >>> I can assume you have verified it for compliance. Please also reconsider >>> if than free software distribution shall include malware GPL licensed >>> software, because we cannot know neither assume that people are going to >>> use

Re: [PATCH] environment: Set a default value for PS1.

"Thompson, David" skribis: > On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 9:28 AM, Cyril Roelandt wrote: >> On 03/28/2016 03:22 AM, David Thompson wrote: >>> +;; Set a reasonable default PS1. >>> +(setenv "PS1" "[ENV] \\u@\\h \\w\\$ ") >>> + >> Would it be an acceptable feature to let the use

Re: Translating package descriptions

skribis: > 28. Mar 2016 12:29 by l...@gnu.org: [...] >> Translations are handled by the Translation Project; all I do is to >> commit the updates we receive. :-) >> >> > http://translationproject.org/domain/guix-packages.html >> >> Vincent, if you’d like to help with the translation of packa

Re: [v2 0/2] Nmap

Leo Famulari skribis: > On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 09:50:59AM +0200, Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer wrote: >> Leo Famulari writes: >> >> > Here is another take on adding Nmap to our distribution. >> > >> > I have built on Taylan's WIP patch, so he retains the bulk of the credit >> > for his nice use

Re: [PATCH 2] gnunet: description (was Re: [PATCH] gnunet.scm -> various changes (description update, adds gnunet-svn, gnunet-gtk-svn, gnurl))

Nils Gillmann skribis: > Leo Famulari writes: [...] >>> + (description "GNUnet is a framework for secure, distributed, >>> peer-to-peer >>> +networking. The high-level goal is to provide a strong foundation of free >>> +software for a global, distributed network which provides security and

Re: [Patch] gst-plugins-base

Efraim Flashner writes: > Currently on both mips64 and on armhf gst-plugins-base doesn't build, and I'm > not sure if it has any time recently. On arm, the orc related tests fail, and > on mips orc fails to build entirely. Orc is a nice addition to > gst-plugins-base, but it will build without it

Re: [PATCH] gnu: add vte-ng

Mckinley Olsen (2016-03-30 02:52 +0300) wrote: > Package vte-ng, which is needed by termite terminal (which I hope to > package) Hello, this is a great patch for the first package! I have only a couple of nitpicks and one real question. > From c06b9fe54d33d6c8624426771fbb52606f751f58 Mon Sep 17

Re: inclusion of openrc init file

The only problem with the succesful building source version of Guix is, that guix pull works, up to the point where workers would be called, and for this small error message guix package: error: build failed: the build users group `guixbuild' has no members I have more than enough logs now. Irrit

Re: [Patch] gst-plugins-base

Mark H Weaver writes: > Here's one way to do it: > > (inputs > `(("cdparanoia" ,cdparanoia) >,@(if (any (cute string-prefix? <> (or (%current-target-system) > (%current-system))) > '("arm" "mips")) > '()

Re: [PATCH] doc: Small fixes for typos and missing words.

Ricardo Wurmus (2016-03-30 15:54 +0300) wrote: > Roel Janssen writes: > >> Dear Guix, >> >> I noticed some typos and/or missing words when reading parts of the >> manual. Instead of leaving it be, I attached a patch to fix them. >> >> I don't know how my commit message should look like in this c

RE: Test suite failures building 0.10.0 on CentOS7

Thanks Ludo', Thanks for the reminder about https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Running-the-Test-Suite.html I note there too that I should be emailing bug-g...@gnu.org instead of guix-devel. I've cc:ed it this time. What is the best going forward? I am building the release

Re: [PATCH 4] gnunet-gtk-svn (was Re: [PATCH] gnunet.scm -> various changes (description update, adds gnunet-svn, gnunet-gtk-svn, gnurl))

Leo Famulari writes: > On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 06:17:05PM +0200, Nils Gillmann wrote: >> From 4633dc3484390fa6e399084336e73879066b1760 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 >> From: Nils Gillmann >> Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2016 18:10:12 +0200 >> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add gnunet-gtk-svn. >> >> * gnu/packages/gnune

Re: [PATCH 3] gnunet-svn (was Re: [PATCH] gnunet.scm -> various changes (description update, adds gnunet-svn, gnunet-gtk-svn, gnurl))

Leo Famulari writes: > On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 07:49:48PM +0200, Nils Gillmann wrote: >> Leo Famulari writes: > > [...] > >> >> +(native-inputs >> >> + `(("pkg-config" ,pkg-config) >> >> + ("autoconf" ,autoconf) >> >> + ("automake" ,automake) >> >> + ("gettext" ,gnu-get

Re: Reproducible build: linux-libre kernel

On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 11:25:54PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > This is time-consuming but also very valuable work, so big thanks! Indeed! I'm really glad for this patch! Building with --rounds=2 right now :)

Re: [PATCH 2] gnunet: description (was Re: [PATCH] gnunet.scm -> various changes (description update, adds gnunet-svn, gnunet-gtk-svn, gnurl))

l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Nils Gillmann skribis: > >> Leo Famulari writes: > > [...] > + (description "GNUnet is a framework for secure, distributed, peer-to-peer +networking. The high-level goal is to provide a strong foundation of free +software for a glo

Re: [PATCH 1] gnurl (was Re: [PATCH] gnunet.scm -> various changes (description update, adds gnunet-svn, gnunet-gtk-svn, gnurl))

This patch: tested, builds without errors, line length issue fixed. >From 17c55d2d896d7aaca810a9f41c58694a6adadb9d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nils Gillmann Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 01:30:19 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] gnu: gnurl: Build with ca path. * gnu/packages/gnunet.scm (gnurl)[configure-flags

Re: [PATCH 3] gnunet-gtk build-input, homepage (was Re: [PATCH] gnunet.scm -> various changes (description update, adds gnunet-svn, gnunet-gtk-svn, gnurl))

Addressed comments I got so far, fixed by excluding home-page again and changing commit message. >From dbf39289e906076a69465a9ff30cd0b18691dc50 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nils Gillmann Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 01:58:33 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] gnu: gnunet-gtk: Add build-input. * gnu/packages/gnu

Re: [PATCH 3/6] gnu: gnome-documents

Hi, On 2016-03-29 14:21, l...@gnu.org wrote: ren...@openmailbox.org skribis: +(arguments + '(#:configure-flags '("--enable-nss"))) ; instead of OpenSSL. If there’s a particular reason for this choice, could you mention it in a comment? +(synopsis "Collection of POSIX-C functions

Re: [PATCH 2] gnunet: description (was Re: [PATCH] gnunet.scm -> various changes (description update, adds gnunet-svn, gnunet-gtk-svn, gnurl))

On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 01:02:51AM +0200, Nils Gillmann wrote: > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > > > Nils Gillmann skribis: > > > >> Leo Famulari writes: > > > > [...] > > > + (description "GNUnet is a framework for secure, distributed, > peer-to-peer > +networking. T

Re: [PATCH 3] gnunet-svn (was Re: [PATCH] gnunet.scm -> various changes (description update, adds gnunet-svn, gnunet-gtk-svn, gnurl))

On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 12:48:54AM +0200, Nils Gillmann wrote: > Leo Famulari writes: > > > On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 07:49:48PM +0200, Nils Gillmann wrote: > >> Leo Famulari writes: > > > > [...] > > > >> >> +(native-inputs > >> >> + `(("pkg-config" ,pkg-config) > >> >> + ("autoconf

Re: [REQ/DISCUSSION] patch managing system

On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 10:52:15PM +0200, Cyril Roelandt wrote: > On 03/21/2016 04:48 PM, Mathieu Lirzin wrote: > > To automate the repetitive tasks, Cyril Roelandt had started sometimes > > ago to work on a bot that was continuously applying and building > > incoming patches on top of master and r