Re: Helping with Guix on Hurd: my notes

2017-04-27 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Maxim Cournoyer writes: H! Maxim > Thank you Jan for sharing these precious notes! At FOSDEM'17, Manolis [cc] inspired me with his talk to have a look at HURD and help. Sadly, the above recipe is all the help I found to offer until now, but hey. > I've saved your message; I had started looking

Re: Memory Usage

2017-04-27 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hello Rodger, Rodger Fox writes: > Thanks for the feedback on this. I think it was just my mistake. > This is what I was looking at: GiB Mem : 16.6/2.929 > After using 'free', which gives more reasonable output, I think top is > reporting a percentage. I never realized that, and it seems unintui

Re: [PATCH] import: Update Bioconductor release to 3.5.

2017-04-27 Thread Roel Janssen
Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Roel Janssen writes: > >> From de9f486828827b1d024cad4918eed3ed96202cc0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 >> From: Roel Janssen >> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 10:30:52 +0200 >> Subject: [PATCH] import: Update Bioconductor release to 3.5. >> >> * guix/import/cran.scm: Change Bioconduc

Mes 0.5 released

2017-04-27 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
I am pleased to announce the release of Mes 0.5, representing 249 commits over 4 months. Mes is now self-hosting, or rather it features a mutual self-hosting Scheme interpreter and C compiler: mes.c and mescc; a Nyacc-based C compiler backend that also works separately with Guile. * About M

Re: Planning for the next release

2017-04-27 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Leo Famulari writes: > On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 12:27:11AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> I’m going to be mostly away for a week, but it would be nice if we could >> release after that, wouldn’t it? >> >> I think we’ll have to postpone work on the installer though since that >> would leave too

Re: [PATCH] import: Update Bioconductor release to 3.5.

2017-04-27 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Roel Janssen writes: >> I’d be happy if you could take care of the mass update. I should note >> that sometimes new inputs are required. To find them I usually run the >> update in a separate branch where I’ve applied changes to import anew >> and compare with the existing package expression w

Re: ‘guix pull’ vs. transition to Guile 2.2

2017-04-27 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Jan Nieuwenhuizen skribis: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> Thoughts? Ideas? > > Great! With this patch applied to master I get > > > Testsuite summary for GNU Guix 0.12.0 > ===

Re: We need an RFC procedure [Re: Services can now have a default value]

2017-04-27 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > It’s a little unfortunate that packages are developed together with > everything else, because this means that there is no way for people to > opt out of breaking changes until the next release without also opting > out of getting any updates at all. It’s both a strengt

Re: Defining user services in Guix.

2017-04-27 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > Mekeor Melire writes: [...] >> And secondly, each user could have a user.scm e.g. like >> >> (user-configuration >> ; ... >> (aliases >> '( >> ("sysrec" "system reconfigure") >> ("pl" "pull")

Re: GuixSD bootable ISO-9669 image

2017-04-27 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Chris Marusich skribis: > Chris Marusich writes: > >> l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: >> There appear to be (at least) two problem that prevent this naive solution from working, which might point us in the right direction: First, the GRUB menu is trying to find

Re: Staging merged!

2017-04-27 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > Leo Famulari writes: > >> On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 02:33:13PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote: >>> I just merged master into staging and started a new evaluation. Barring >>> any new complications, I plan to merge staging into master later today. >> >> I merged the staging bra

Re: store reference detection (was Re: JARs and reference scanning)

2017-04-27 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Thomas Danckaert skribis: > From: Chris Marusich > Subject: Re: JARs and reference scanning > Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 22:34:02 -0700 > >>> I have to admit that I do not know at all how the reference >>> scanning and >>> dependency-tracking in the store works. >> >> As I understand it, the

Re: Guile 2.2 .go files are larger

2017-04-27 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! Andy Wingo skribis: > On Sat 22 Apr 2017 15:19, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > >> The closure of Guix built with 2.0 is 193.8 MiB; when built with 2.2, >> it’s 311.8 MiB. Guix itself goes from 66 to 150 MiB: >> >> $ du -ms >> /gnu/store/jh07pwbyf5dbpdd5q0nvgagqkgmh76nh-guix-0.12.

Re: store reference detection

2017-04-27 Thread Thomas Danckaert
From: l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) Subject: Re: store reference detection (was Re: JARs and reference scanning) Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2017 15:46:59 +0200 Really? Qt/WxWidgets “hide” store references by default? Not by default. But there are cases were I've been bitten: - Qt has a “QStringLi

OnApp Clouds [Fwd: [Ticket ID: 985993] Question on behalf of GNU Guix regarding special requirements of Orangewebsite VPS]

2017-04-27 Thread ng0
Hi, clouds are everywhere and this one wasn't mentioned here before so I have to ask. We need to teach our GuixSD how to fly among these systems. The skill we need to learn this time is "OnApp". Has anyone used it before? I'm totally unaware of most cloud solutions as I'm not professionally invol

[PATCH] doc: Fix spelling.

2017-04-27 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
* doc/cuirass.texi (Introduction): Fix typo and use American English spelling. --- doc/cuirass.texi | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/cuirass.texi b/doc/cuirass.texi index e5f29a6..ff5f7b0 100644 --- a/doc/cuirass.texi +++ b/doc/cuirass.texi @@ -70,7 +70,7

Re: We need an RFC procedure [Re: Services can now have a default value]

2017-04-27 Thread Petter
If I may make a suggestion, coming from a place of ignorance. How about a stable branch that would be opt-in? On Thu, 27 Apr 2017 15:29:53 +0200 l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote: > Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > > > It’s a little unfortunate that packages are developed together with > > everyth

Re: [PATCH] doc: Fix spelling.

2017-04-27 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hi Ricardo! On April 27, 2017 8:28:25 AM PDT, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: >* doc/cuirass.texi (Introduction): Fix typo and use American English >spelling. >--- > doc/cuirass.texi | 4 ++-- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > >diff --git a/doc/cuirass.texi b/doc/cuirass.texi >index e5f29a

Re: GuixSD bootable ISO-9669 image (was: Re: GuixSD on servers [Fwd: [rtracker.1984.is #131647] A question about VServer system specific requirements])

2017-04-27 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
>... -V gnu-disk-image /mnt/disk-image-partition-1. > xorriso : WARNING : -volid text does not comply to ISO 9660 / ECMA 119 rules That's because all characters in an ISO 9660 volume identification need to be one of "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789_". If you use more complicated labels you

Re: store reference detection (was Re: JARs and reference scanning)

2017-04-27 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Am 27.04.2017 um 15:46 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: > ‘propagated-inputs’ is one way to manually specify run-time references. > It works at the package level and not at the store level—that is, the > store item’s references are unaffected by what ‘propagated-inputs’ > contains. It’s usually enough for

Re: GuixSD bootable ISO-9669 image (was: Re: GuixSD on servers [Fwd: [rtracker.1984.is #131647] A question about VServer system specific requirements])

2017-04-27 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Something like this (totally untested): diff --git a/gnu/build/file-systems.scm b/gnu/build/file-systems.scm index 0cb84b8aa..be512d59c 100644 --- a/gnu/build/file-systems.scm +++ b/gnu/build/file-systems.scm @@ -230,6 +230,55 @@ Trailing spaces are trimmed." ^L ;;; +;;; ISO9660 file systems.

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add cool-retro-term.

2017-04-27 Thread Eric Bavier
On Wed, 26 Apr 2017 20:09:33 +0200 Petter wrote: > On Tue, 25 Apr 2017 22:36:27 -0500 > Eric Bavier wrote: > > > Could you ping the developer about porting some of these fixes to their > > fork? I think we'd want to create a local patch for at least the first > > commit. The others could wait