Re: bootstrap-tarballs fails

2017-06-29 Thread ng0
rennes transcribed 1.0K bytes: > Hello, > > Currently compiling './pre-inst-env guix build --target=i586-pc-gnu > bootstrap-tarballs' on core-updates fails with: Some days before you I was able to reproduce this for x86_64. > -- > phase `set-paths' succeeded after 0.0 seconds > starting phase `i

Re: Looking to contribute

2017-06-29 Thread cinder88
On 6/28/2017 at 9:49 AM, "Danny Milosavljevic" wrote: > >Hi and welcome, Thanks for for the excellent post. It looks like there's a good community here. >If there are bugs on system update, you can roll back by selecting >another entry in the bootloader menu (a new one is created >everytime

Re: Looking to contribute

2017-06-29 Thread Katherine Cox-Buday
cinde...@hushmail.com writes: > I'm a mathematician, which means I'm lazy and want to do things the > right way once so I don't have to do them again. The way that modern > operating systems work, with their one huge environment and no > tracking of state, is insane and unsustainable. (How many ti

Re: Looking to contribute

2017-06-29 Thread Alex Vong
cinde...@hushmail.com writes: [...] > I'm a big fan of Alan Kay, and one thing he always made clear is that > there should be no separation between the language and the operating > system. I've found that many of the problems which plague modern OSes > are the same which plague C. Which is why a sy

Re: Looking to contribute

2017-06-29 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi Leo, On Wed, 28 Jun 2017 11:01:45 -0400 Leo Famulari wrote: > This seems very high to me. I had >100 system generations over 6 months > with less than 100 GB, although that was not a graphical system. I have a graphical system with fluxbox, some electrical engineering & FPGA programs, D, R

Re: Looking to contribute

2017-06-29 Thread Pjotr Prins
On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 09:22:46AM -0400, cinde...@hushmail.com wrote: > telling Portage (the package manager) to meet the specs. Then I > remembered using NixOS a while back, which had exactly solved that > problem! And when I heard of a Nix-based, libre system using Scheme, > I knew I was home.

Re: linux-libre@4.1 lacks Stack Clash mitigation; reaches EOL soon

2017-06-29 Thread Mark H Weaver
linux-4.1.42 has just been released, which includes a backport of the Stack Clash mitigation. Hopefully the corresponding linux-libre release will be out in the next day or so. If you're impatient, you could cherry-pick the following two commits: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/gi

Re: Looking to contribute

2017-06-29 Thread Mekeor Melire
Danny Milosavljevic writes: > Wait. AFAIK one cannot delete system generations [yet]. Has that changed? > > But deleting user [package] generations works, yes. Somewhere on the mailing-list I found out that you can delete a system generation like this: $ rm /var/guix/profiles/system-N-li

The current state of Aarch64 on Guix

2017-06-29 Thread Efraim Flashner
Currently Aarch64 support in guix is pretty good, as long as you don't mind compiling for yourself :). Potential downfalls are too little RAM (I limited my boards to 2GB minimum) and using an SD card. For building packages I made sure that between RAM and swap I have at least 6 GB, which I don't re

Re: FW: [oss-security] accepting new members to (linux-)distros lists

2017-06-29 Thread Marius Bakke
Leo Famulari writes: > It was hinted at ~1 week ago in the public "Stack Clash" discussion on > oss-security, but now there has been an announcement: the private > linux-distros early-notice security discussion and coordination mailing > list is accepting new members: > > http://seclists.org/oss-

Local caching behavior affected by network state

2017-06-29 Thread Leo Famulari
I've noticed confusing behavior regarding the memoized cache, which depends on the state of the network connection. I have a built package in my store and I am connected to the internet: $ ./pre-inst-env guix build gss substitute: updating list of substitutes from 'https://example.com'... 100.0%

Evaluation of master failed on Hydra

2017-06-29 Thread Mark H Weaver
The evaluation of 'master' (commit 588b22575) on Hydra failed with the following error. Mark Backtrace: In unknown file: ?: 19 [call-with-input-string "(apply (module-ref (resolve-interface '(hydra-eval-guile-jobs)) 'eval-guile-jobs) (cdr (comma nd-line)))" ...] In ice-9/command-line.

Re: linux-libre@4.1 lacks Stack Clash mitigation; reaches EOL soon

2017-06-29 Thread Mark H Weaver
Mark H Weaver writes: > linux-4.1.42 has just been released, which includes a backport of the > Stack Clash mitigation. Hopefully the corresponding linux-libre release > will be out in the next day or so. I just pushed the update to linux-libre-4.1.42. Mark