Re: Docker and singularity containers

2018-09-13 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Pjotr Prins writes: > BTW I notice Rstudio is missing in Guix. Any reason for that? It’s here: https://github.com/BIMSBbioinfo/guix-bimsb/blob/master/bimsb/packages/staging.scm#L95 Problems are the use of GWT, which I haven’t been able to build from source yet. Rstudio Desktop is here

Re: Guix build output insufficient

2018-09-13 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Pjotr Prins writes: >> So I ran >> >>guix build --log-file >> /gnu/store/wk9qbhmdzs62mp40casrndcgm3p50m3b-diamond-0.9.22.drv >> >> which gave me >> >> >> /var/log/guix/drvs/wk/9qbhmdzs62mp40casrndcgm3p50m3b-diamond-0.9.22.drv.bz2 >> >> which contains the build log for this failed build

Blog: Guix packaging tutorial

2018-09-13 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Hi! I'd like to post a blog article which would serve as a packaging tutorial. A rough outline: --8<---cut here---start->8--- 0. Introduction The perks of Guix, what it means to have a full-fledged programming language at hand for package management (e.g. inhe

Re: Blog: Guix packaging tutorial

2018-09-13 Thread Pjotr Prins
On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 12:50:58PM +0200, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > Hi! > > I'd like to post a blog article which would serve as a packaging > tutorial. Great idea. I have some material on Guix-notes already you may want to reuse: https://gitlab.com/pjotrp/guix-notes/blob/master/HACKING.org The

Re: Blog: Guix packaging tutorial

2018-09-13 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Pierre, > I'd like to post a blog article which would serve as a packaging > tutorial. This is an excellent idea! > --8<---cut here---start->8--- > 0. Introduction > The perks of Guix, what it means to have a full-fledged programming > language at hand fo

Re: Blog: Guix packaging tutorial

2018-09-13 Thread Pjotr Prins
On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 01:53:16PM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > > 1. General > > Go through the various fields of the `package` record. > > GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH, `guix build` and `guix package`. > > I have mixed feelings about recommending GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH to new > contributors. I think that gene

Re: Blog: Guix packaging tutorial

2018-09-13 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello Pierre, nice idea! I agree with Ricardo's suggestions. You could have a look at the slides of a talk I gave at GHM 2013 in the "maintenance" git repo, inside the talks/ghm-2013/andreas directory. Some things are outdated (we did not have the macros to manipulate build phases yet). There I

Re: libvirt with modified QEMU and OVMF

2018-09-13 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Lars Böckel writes: > Thanks for sharing your idea about it. I cannot pull right now but i > think ...nvram = " ovmf "/F... would not work since you would have to > call the complete path of the package. “ovmf” is a package variable. It would automatically be replaced with the full path to th

Racket: Move DrRacket to a separate output?

2018-09-13 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Hi there, Wouldn't it make sense to move DrRacket to a separate output? I take that most advanced users use something else (who said Emacs?) and DrRacket might eat up a decent amount of disk space + extra dependencies by itself. Arch Linux provides racket and racket-minimal: the latter is stripp

Re: https://issues.guix.info

2018-09-13 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Just noticed something: on http://issues.guix.info/help, the "submitter" example suggests "author:ludo" instead of "submitter:ludo" :) -- Pierre Neidhardt https://ambrevar.xyz/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature