Tiny Guix (and containers)

2017-10-25 Thread Pjotr Prins
I have been playing around with containers to create something for a book: https://gitlab.com/pjotrp/guix-notes/blob/master/CONTAINERS.org these are (Docker) images that can be run by anyone - which is great! Only (minor) issue is the containers are 1.4GB in size. These are the biggies in this

Re: Tiny Guix (and containers)

2017-10-25 Thread Pjotr Prins
Another route is to create a container using just the essential dependencies, like I did here: https://gitlab.com/pjotrp/guix-relocatable-binary-packages/blob/master/README.org Binary with dependencies distribution down to 18Mb. Of course locales won't work ;) And yes, I am still using relocatab

Expat in GuixSD, please update

2017-10-25 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Hi GuixSD team, from looking at [1] and [2] my impression is that GuixSD is still at version 2.2.2 with Expat, while there is version 2.2.4 with bugfixes upstream. Is there anything blocking an update on your side that needs fixing upstream? Best Sebastian [1] https://repology.org/metapack

Re: Expat in GuixSD, please update

2017-10-25 Thread Vincent Legoll
Hello, maybe you can try to submit a patch for review... That ought to be fairly easy -- Vincent Legoll

Re: Expat in GuixSD, please update

2017-10-25 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Sorry, no time. On 25.10.2017 16:05, Vincent Legoll wrote: > Hello, > > maybe you can try to submit a patch for review... > > That ought to be fairly easy >

Re: Guix on macOS

2017-10-25 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
Another thing that just came to my mind is the hard-coding of file name separators instead of using a combination of checkers to see if the 'file-name-separator-string matches the *target* system (as is briefly told in `info guile', the GNU Guile Scheme infopage). Although I don't know if macOS use

Re: Guix on macOS

2017-10-25 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
I hope they get more used to referring to GNU operating system, or GNU/Linux operating system too. I find it puzzling that most people call it Linux, the kernel (Linux) alone isn't an operating system, let alone usable without one. ;) Konrad Hinsen writes: > There are those nasty real-world con

Re: Expat in GuixSD, please update

2017-10-25 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Sebastian, Sebastian Pipping wrote on 25/10/17 at 14:58: > from looking at [1] and [2] my impression is that GuixSD is still at > version 2.2.2 with Expat, while there is version 2.2.4 with bugfixes > upstream. Thanks for the report! I see that 2.2.3 fixed a CVE, so I hurried up a patch[0]. Kin

Re: Expat in GuixSD, please update

2017-10-25 Thread Leo Famulari
On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 02:58:13PM +0200, Sebastian Pipping wrote: > Hi GuixSD team, > > > from looking at [1] and [2] my impression is that GuixSD is still at > version 2.2.2 with Expat, while there is version 2.2.4 with bugfixes > upstream. Is there anything blocking an update on your side tha

Re: Expat in GuixSD, please update

2017-10-25 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Leo Famulari wrote on 25/10/17 at 19:22: > Expat 2.2.3's release notes only mentioned CVE-2017-11742, which is a > Windows vulnerability and out of scope for Guix. And I didn't see > security issues disclosed in the 2.2.4 release notes. Ah, sorry to spread misinfo. I don't have Web access at the m

Re: Expat in GuixSD, please update

2017-10-25 Thread Leo Famulari
On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 07:29:28PM +0200, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: > Leo Famulari wrote on 25/10/17 at 19:22: > > Expat 2.2.3's release notes only mentioned CVE-2017-11742, which is a > > Windows vulnerability and out of scope for Guix. And I didn't see > > security issues disclosed in the 2.2.

POWER Support

2017-10-25 Thread oury.dustin
Are there plans to support POWER 8-9 systems for the GUIX package manager and GUIXSD? I had read about TALOS and was just curious about that support being worked on. -- Securely sent with Tutanota. Claim your encrypted mailbox today! https://tutanota.com 25. Oct 2017 13:36 by gnu-system-discuss

Re: POWER Support

2017-10-25 Thread Leo Famulari
On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 03:47:19PM +0200, oury.dus...@tutanota.com wrote: > Are there plans to support POWER 8-9 systems for the GUIX package > manager and GUIXSD? I had read about TALOS and was just curious about > that support being worked on. I haven't heard of anyone working on it, but we have

Re: FOSDEM 2018 Guile devroom

2017-10-25 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 10:25:47PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > > > “Free Java” is an interesting name for a devroom track. I guess I could > > talk about freedom problems with the Java culture of never building > > software recursively from source, and introduce how

Re: FOSDEM 2018 Guile devroom

2017-10-25 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 09:34:17AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hello! > > [- guile-devel] > > Thomas Danckaert skribis: > > > Just to get everybody excited: https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule > > includes (among others) devrooms for > > > > - “Package Management” > > > > - “HPC, Big Data an

Re: IcedTea is not linking correctly with libjvm.so

2017-10-25 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Roel Janssen writes: > gnu/packages/java.scm | 12 > 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/gnu/packages/java.scm b/gnu/packages/java.scm > index 95fba20e8..81cfdc132 100644 > --- a/gnu/packages/java.scm > +++ b/gnu/packages/java.scm > @@ -1404,6 +1404,18 @@ bootstrappin