Re: mips64el machine - mrustc

2018-09-29 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello Danny, I have a mips64 machine (the mini-pc desktop version of Mark's laptop, with only one core). It is excruciatingly slow (if I remember well, just compiling guix takes a few hours) and makes a tractor like noise, so I turned it off and moved it to my closet. But I could take it out again

Re: Blog: Guix packaging tutorial

2018-09-29 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Pierre Neidhardt skribis: >> s/conventionally.*/typically used for read-only global variables/ > > But aren't they generated in scope? I think we should mention this, or else > new users try to access them out of scope. I’m not sure what you mean by “generated in scope”. The ‘%’ conven

Re: ~/.guix-profile/manifest usage with "guix package -m [manifest]" / "guix pack -m [manifest]" etc..

2018-09-29 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, YOANN P skribis: > No offense, but, even if didn't try too many times to understand Guile > Scheme, even if i really love Guix, the last time i tried to contribute > (http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=6e0efe8cd5c85e7b83808b466c626484274def8d) > I really was not comfo

Re: SeaGL 2018 Accepts Guix-Themed Talk: "Everyday Use of GNU Guix"

2018-09-29 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Chris, Chris Marusich skribis: > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > >> Hi Chris! >> >> Chris Marusich skribis: >> >>> I recently submitted a Guix-themed talk proposal for SeaGL 2018 [1], a >>> local GNU/Linux conference that takes place in November here in Seattle, >>> and I'm happy to

Re: Guix swallows waiting messages

2018-09-29 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Ricardo, Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > I just reconfigured my system and upgraded packages at the same time. > While “guix package -u” was building the latest Guix I noticed that > “guix system” was awfully quiet. > > Turns out that it was waiting for the ongoing build of Guix to be > finished, b

Re: mips64el machine - mrustc

2018-09-29 Thread Mark H Weaver
Andreas Enge writes: > Hello Danny, > > I have a mips64 machine (the mini-pc desktop version of Mark's laptop, > with only one core). It is excruciatingly slow (if I remember well, just > compiling guix takes a few hours) and makes a tractor like noise, so I > turned it off and moved it to my clo

Re: Blog: Guix packaging tutorial

2018-09-29 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Pierre, thank you for writing this draft! This is a good start. Below are some comments about the beginning and some general thoughts about the idea of a tutorial. > I'm not satisfied with the advanced example: I took ~mg~ because it has a lot > of > typical customization (snippets, input

Re: Guix swallows waiting messages

2018-09-29 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hi Ricardo, > > Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > >> I just reconfigured my system and upgraded packages at the same time. >> While “guix package -u” was building the latest Guix I noticed that >> “guix system” was awfully quiet. >> >> Turns out that it was waiting for the on

Re: 02/02: services: Add Gitolite.

2018-09-29 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi Christopher, m...@cbaines.net (Christopher Baines) writes: > cbaines pushed a commit to branch master > in repository guix. > > commit 258a6d944ed891fa92fa87a16731e5dfe0bac477 > Author: Christopher Baines > Date: Fri Jul 13 20:39:46 2018 +0100 > > services: Add Gitolite. > > *

Re: SeaGL 2018 Accepts Guix-Themed Talk: "Everyday Use of GNU Guix"

2018-09-29 Thread Chris Marusich
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > I think a title, abstract, and link to the SeaGL web site would be > enough. It’d be great if you could commit this to guix-artwork.git, and > then I can take care of putting it on line. Sounds good! I've committed an announcement in commit bfe3af6a197f0