Re: Roadmap for Guix 1.0

2018-08-20 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Amirouche Boubekki writes: >> I’ve pushed to guix/maintenance.git a list of things that IMO we should >> do or might want to do for 1.0, with the understanding that 1.0 should >> happen in 2018 (or early 2019 at the latest!). :-) >> >> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/maintenance.git/t

Re: core-updates schedule

2018-08-20 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi there! Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > Ricardo Wurmus writes: [...] >> This is a reminder about the “core-updates” branch. Our plan was to >> freeze the branch on <2018-08-06 Mon> and aim to merge the branch into >> “master” on <2018-08-20 Mon>, dependent on how long it takes to fix all >> prob

Re: Graft hooks

2018-08-20 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Timothy, Timothy Sample skribis: > The basic idea would be to add a field (or use a property) to the > package record. Let’s call it “graft-hook”. It would be Scheme code > that gets run after grafting takes place, giving us a chance to patch > special things like checksums. The hook wo

Re: The state of guix in (open)SUSE

2018-08-20 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice skribis: > Jonathan Brielmaier wrote: >> Hello Guix, >> >> during the last weeks we worked hard to bring guix 0.15 to >> (open)SUSE. >> Further then the "simple" version bump, we also improved the package >> of >> guix :) > > Wonderful! Thank you, Tomas, & anyone els

Re: core-updates schedule

2018-08-20 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hi there! > > Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > >> Ricardo Wurmus writes: > > [...] > >>> This is a reminder about the “core-updates” branch. Our plan was to >>> freeze the branch on <2018-08-06 Mon> and aim to merge the branch into >>> “master” on <2018-08-20 Mon>, depende

Re: Closing issues from commits

2018-08-20 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Marius, Marius Bakke skribis: > Marius Bakke writes: > >> Hello, >> >> It would be convenient (for me, at least) to have a server-side git hook >> that can close debbugs issues. It would grep the commit message for >> '^Fixes: ' and automatically send an >

Re: Help needed: Updating GHC to 8.4.3

2018-08-20 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > GHC 8.0 had been patched with > "ghc-dont-pass-linker-flags-via-response-files.patch" to avoid using > response files with the linker, because our ld-wrapper doesn’t seem to > behave right in some edge case that GHC depends on. I tried porting the > patch to GHC

Re: System configuration on non-native Guix (SuSE/Debian)

2018-08-20 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Pjotr Prins skribis: > One thing I have always wanted to do is use Guix' system configuration > capabilities on top of Debian. But, so far, I have no idea how to go > about that. One thing you could try, though it’s probably not as nice as what you’d expect ;-), is to run a GuixSD contai

Re: Bootstrap Tarballs for alpha-linux Targets

2018-08-20 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Nils Gillmann skribis: > Is this an entire range of CPUs with no differences wrt binary compability? Alphas were 64-bit processors that were discontinued in the early 2000s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_Alpha Ludo’.

Re: Help needed: Updating GHC to 8.4.3

2018-08-20 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Ludo, > Hello, > > Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > >> GHC 8.0 had been patched with >> "ghc-dont-pass-linker-flags-via-response-files.patch" to avoid using >> response files with the linker, because our ld-wrapper doesn’t seem to >> behave right in some edge case that GHC depends on. I tried port

Re: core-updates schedule

2018-08-20 Thread Marius Bakke
Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> Today I’ll try switching to glibc 2.28, and if it works well, I’d like >> to make it the last big change in ‘core-updates’. > > Marius was working glibc 2.28 and that was the last big change I wanted > to allow into core-updates. I don’t kno

Re: core-updates schedule

2018-08-20 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Marius Bakke skribis: > Ricardo Wurmus writes: > >> Ludovic Courtès writes: >> >>> Today I’ll try switching to glibc 2.28, and if it works well, I’d like >>> to make it the last big change in ‘core-updates’. >> >> Marius was working glibc 2.28 and that was the last big change I wanted >