Re: Python 2 retirement — what should Guix do?

2018-06-18 Thread Pjotr Prins
On Sun, Jun 17, 2018 at 11:15:36PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Softening the policy to add “python2-” packages sounds like a good way > to move forward. For new packages, it’s quite simply: just don’t > provide the “python2-” variant unless it’s required. For existing > packages, it seems tri

Cpufreq governor service?

2018-06-18 Thread swedebugia
Hi I am trying to install GuixSD on a 4-core Samsung laptop. It gets too hot and shuts off when I run guix pull utilizing multiple cores. I would like to limit the cpu frequency via the program cpufreq-set which is available already. How would I go about doing this in config.scm? -- Cheers Swe

Help with config.scm (Was: Re: Cpufreq governor service?)

2018-06-18 Thread swedebugia
Forget about the former questions I just found the tlp-service-type. Instead I would like some help succeeding with this config.scm: https://paste.debian.net/1029654/ Error from guix: root@antelope /home/sdb# guix system reconfigure /etc/config7.scm /etc/config7.scm:20:16: error: invalid field sp

Re: Suboptimal experience

2018-06-18 Thread swedebugia
Hi On June 17, 2018 9:51:51 PM GMT+02:00, Dan Partelly wrote: >HI Mark [...] > For any “guix system …. “ the message was: > >guix: system: command not found . I experienced this as well today after guix pull from 0.14 to commit http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=b4eae997fe

Re: Help with config.scm (Was: Re: Cpufreq governor service?)

2018-06-18 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
swedebu...@riseup.net writes: > Forget about the former questions I just found the tlp-service-type. > > Instead I would like some help succeeding with this config.scm: > https://paste.debian.net/1029654/ > > Error from guix: > root@antelope /home/sdb# guix system reconfigure /etc/config7.scm >

Re: Suboptimal experience

2018-06-18 Thread Dan Partelly
Well, retried again a git pull today. It broke with no backtrace (an exception while printing backtrace) ERROR: In procedure private-lookup: No variable bound to define-module* in module (guile) cannot build derivation for /gnu/store/sha…guix-32eb44240-modules.drv: 1 dependencies could not be b

Re: Suboptimal experience

2018-06-18 Thread Julien Lepiller
Le 2018-06-18 17:01, Dan Partelly a écrit : Well, retried again a git pull today. It broke with no backtrace (an exception while printing backtrace) ERROR: In procedure private-lookup: No variable bound to define-module* in module (guile) cannot build derivation for /gnu/store/sha…guix-32eb44240

Re: Suboptimal experience

2018-06-18 Thread Dan Partelly
> > Thank you for your advice :) I think you're right: we are still beta, so > errors are to be expected from time to time. We should fix them before we > go 1.0. That said, the system is robust enough that you can always recover > from said errors. > Good. Now, give current state of affairs

Re: Suboptimal experience

2018-06-18 Thread Nils Gillmann
Dan Partelly transcribed 1.0K bytes: > > > > > > Thank you for your advice :) I think you're right: we are still beta, so > > errors are to be expected from time to time. We should fix them before we > > go 1.0. That said, the system is robust enough that you can always recover > > from said err

Re: Videos

2018-06-18 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Guix, A while ago I proposed this: > I’d like us to produce a series of short videos (< 4 mins each) that > introduce functional package management with Guix. > > This is supposed to be aimed at people who are intimidated by the manual > and wouldn’t know where to begin reading. Each of the v

Re: preparing the next release v0.15.0

2018-06-18 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Guix, I wrote almost 6 days ago: > Here are a bunch of things that we should look into: > > * Outstanding patches. There are many patches in the queue at > guix-patches[1] that we should go through, comment on, and/or apply > before the release. Who would like to join a task force to do

Re: preparing the next release v0.15.0

2018-06-18 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
I'd be happy to help unfortunately this month is hectic for me. Had it been July or August I would have been more free. Sorry :( -- Pierre Neidhardt signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: preparing the next release v0.15.0

2018-06-18 Thread Kei Kebreau
Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Hi Guix, > > I wrote almost 6 days ago: > >> Here are a bunch of things that we should look into: >> >> * Outstanding patches. There are many patches in the queue at >> guix-patches[1] that we should go through, comment on, and/or apply >> before the release. Who wo