Re: Regards from Outreachy applicant

2018-10-08 Thread alex sassmannshausen
On Sun, 7 Oct 2018, 21:50 Laura Lazzati, wrote: > Hi everyone, > > My name is Laura and I am applying for the outreachy program. > > I have already introduced myself in the IRC channel, but I am also > doing so here. > > I'm an Information Systems Engineer from Argentina, who graduated with > hon

Re: Regards from Outreachy applicant

2018-10-08 Thread Gábor Boskovits
Laura Lazzati ezt írta (időpont: 2018. okt. 7., V, 21:32): > Hi everyone, > > My name is Laura and I am applying for the outreachy program. > > Hello Laura, Welcome to the list! > I have already introduced myself in the IRC channel, but I am also > doing so here. > > I'm an Information Systems

Re: Tracker & Gnome

2018-10-08 Thread Nils Gillmann
Brett Gilio transcribed 560 bytes: > Hi all. > > I am still fairly new to the concept of packaging for Guix. I also, from > time to time, enjoy hacking on GNOME components. One of the components > that I am currently lacking is tracker-sparql-2.0. I am pretty certain > this is due to the tracker p

RE: [bootstrappable] Re: GNU Mes 0.18 released

2018-10-08 Thread Orians, Jeremiah (DTMB)
> What is M2 Planet? My project https://github.com/oriansj/M2-Planet That is both written in Assembly: http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/stage0.git/tree/stage2/cc_x86.s (That can be bootstrapped from a hex0 monitor) And in C (That it can self-host from) That way you can build it with any C com

Re: Blog: Guix packaging tutorial

2018-10-08 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Pierre, Pierre Neidhardt skribis: > Find the last revision attached. I've taken all comments into > consideration and I'm quite happy with the result. Neat! I like it too, I’d say we can go frmo here. > I've found a much better advanced example: libgit2. > The only thing is... it does

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

2018-10-08 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Ricardo Wurmus skribis: >> My thinking is that if there was an easy way to produce “manifests as >> passed to ‘guix package -m’” from profiles, it would be a handy: an easy >> way for someone that has gone down the incremental path to switch to >> manifests and an easy way to update one's

Re: guile-next package needs new native-search-paths

2018-10-08 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, "Thompson, David" skribis: > There's just one small issue: The native search paths are wrong. They > are using the 2.2 search paths currently and thus you can't use it > as-is to develop projects that depend on other Guile libraries. The > fix is just to add this to the package recipe: >

Re: Packaging Inferno

2018-10-08 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Diego, Diego Nicola Barbato skribis: > I have written a package definition for Inferno and I would like to know > if it would make sense to add it to Guix. I am asking because I am not > sure if it is compatible with the FSDG (bundled fonts, trademarks, ...) > and if it would be of any us

Re: rootless Guix

2018-10-08 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > it would be nice if we could simplify the case where a user does not > have root access, but the system supports user namespaces. > > Currently, a user would have to perform a number of non-obvious steps to > somehow run the Guix daemon in an environment where th

Re: Tracker & Gnome

2018-10-08 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Brett, To complete what Nils wrote, Tracker is indeed lagging behind on master: --8<---cut here---start->8--- $ guix refresh tracker gnu/packages/gnome.scm:5715:13: tracker would be upgraded from 1.12.3 to 2.0.4 --8<---cut here---e

Re: Packaging Inferno

2018-10-08 Thread Nils Gillmann
Ludovic Courtès transcribed 1.9K bytes: > Hello Diego, > > Diego Nicola Barbato skribis: > > > I have written a package definition for Inferno and I would like to know > > if it would make sense to add it to Guix. I am asking because I am not > > sure if it is compatible with the FSDG (bundled

Re: Blog: Guix packaging tutorial

2018-10-08 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Pierre, > Find the last revision attached. I've taken all comments into > consideration and I'm quite happy with the result. I like it! Thanks for your patience. Here are some more comments: * In the section “A "Hello World" package” you use the word “commandline”, but it should be “co

Re: [bootstrappable] Re: GNU Mes 0.18 released

2018-10-08 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Orians, Jeremiah (DTMB) writes: >> What is M2 Planet? > My project https://github.com/oriansj/M2-Planet > > That is both written in Assembly: > http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/stage0.git/tree/stage2/cc_x86.s (That can > be bootstrapped from a hex0 monitor) > And in C (That it can self-host

Re: Tracker & Gnome

2018-10-08 Thread Brett Gilio
Ludovic Courtès writes: Hello Brett, To complete what Nils wrote, Tracker is indeed lagging behind on master: --8<---cut here---start->8--- $ guix refresh tracker gnu/packages/gnome.scm:5715:13: tracker would be upgraded from 1.12.3 to 2.0.4 --8<-

Re: Tracker & Gnome

2018-10-08 Thread Björn Höfling
On Mon, 08 Oct 2018 14:42:31 -0500 Brett Gilio wrote: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > > > Hello Brett, > > > > To complete what Nils wrote, Tracker is indeed lagging behind on > > master: > > > > --8<---cut > > here---start->8--- > > $ guix refresh tracker > > g

Re: Tracker & Gnome

2018-10-08 Thread Brett Gilio
Björn Höfling writes: On Mon, 08 Oct 2018 14:42:31 -0500 Brett Gilio wrote: Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hello Brett, > > To complete what Nils wrote, Tracker is indeed lagging behind > on > master: > > --8<---cut > here---start->8--- > $ guix refresh

Re: Blog: Guix packaging tutorial

2018-10-08 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Pierre, > Ricardo Wurmus writes: >> * I wonder if maybe we should avoid using “guix package” for the first >> example and use “guix build” instead. The reason is that “guix >> package” might cause additional builds to be performed dependent on >> the state of the user’s default profil

Re: Tracker & Gnome

2018-10-08 Thread Leo Famulari
On Mon, Oct 08, 2018 at 02:42:31PM -0500, Brett Gilio wrote: > I tried passing guix refresh -u tracker to the terminal and am getting > this output > > guix refresh: error: mkstemp!: Read-only file system > > I am going to try and dissect this from the documentation, but I wanted > to pass it alo

Re: Tracker & Gnome

2018-10-08 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Ludovic Courtès writes: > In fact, I see that Ricardo upgraded Tracker in ‘wip-gnome-updates’: > > > https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?h=wip-gnome-upgrades&id=dd9110df3ad1efaf5cf716f6be5b710b5d348400 > > Ricardo, do you think we could cherry-pick it on ‘master’? ‘guix > ref

Re: Tracker & Gnome

2018-10-08 Thread Brett Gilio
Ricardo Wurmus writes: Ludovic Courtès writes: In fact, I see that Ricardo upgraded Tracker in ‘wip-gnome-updates’: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?h=wip-gnome-upgrades&id=dd9110df3ad1efaf5cf716f6be5b710b5d348400 Ricardo, do you think we could cherry-pick it on ‘mas

Re: Blog: Guix packaging tutorial

2018-10-08 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
> > I assumed we would just build the package, not build and install. When > > packaging something, the common thing to do is to build, change, build > > again, … and in the end maybe install (or submit to the mailing list). > > Maybe you are right. I'll see if I can adjust this. Hmm... The pr

Re: Blog: Guix packaging tutorial

2018-10-08 Thread Benjamin Slade
This will be extremely helpful, Pierre! Thanks for putting it together. I looked at an early version of this; I don't know if it has changed since, but one thing that would be useful to a brief checklist of steps outlined somewhere. —Ben -- Benjamin Slade - https://babbagefiles.xyz `(pgp_fp

Re: Blog: Guix packaging tutorial

2018-10-08 Thread Benjamin Slade
Hi Pierre, Maybe it really falls outside of the scope of this packaging tutorial since some of it is not about creating packages per se but about how to submit them ...But I was thinking about something a bit like Pjotr's list, though with a bit more detail. (E.g. things like using `git forma

Matrix & Nheko Packaging

2018-10-08 Thread Brett Gilio
Hi all, In my time using GuixSD I have had some relative success in not only learning the environment, but also getting some of my peers to switch. As with Guix still being very much a growing project, we all know the excitement and struggle that comes with the repository lacking some essent

Re: Matrix & Nheko Packaging

2018-10-08 Thread Arun Isaac
Sometime back, I was working on packaging nheko. If I remember correctly, I managed to get it working, but I couldn't figure out how to get tests running properly either for nheko or one of its dependencies. Anyways, my work is not up to submission quality, and is lost somewhere in my git stash.

Re: Tracker & Gnome

2018-10-08 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Brett, > I'm not sure it is possible to cherry pick it, unless I am getting > something wrong. When I refresh tracker and try to build it using guix > build it is throwing a build error. > > /gnu/store/wyf1zrn2skakkc9indjz30v6lgc2zq2c-module-import/guix/build/utils.scm:616:6: > In procedure i