Re: Packaging FreeCAD

2019-01-11 Thread Paul Garlick
Hi John, This is good news indeed for Guix-using engineers and architects. I shall follow developments with interest. I can look after the OpenCASCADE dependency too. This package is due an update but upstream development has been slow of late. Debian have switched to the OCCT version for Free

how to fix state-broken affected user services? (Re: GNOME 3.30: help needed!)

2019-01-11 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hi all, Ricardo Wurmus writes: [...] > Success! GNOME 3.30 works just fine. The gnome-shell segfaulted(!) > because of stale state this is one of the worst bugs a user can experience, and very few users are able to debug it properly (and experienced users like me find it very time wasting to

Re: how to fix state-broken affected user services? (Re: GNOME 3.30: help needed!)

2019-01-11 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Giovanni, >> Success! GNOME 3.30 works just fine. The gnome-shell segfaulted(!) >> because of stale state > > this is one of the worst bugs a user can experience, and very few users > are able to debug it properly (and experienced users like me find it > very time wasting to debug them) Ye

Video on reproducible genomics pipeline

2019-01-11 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Guix! For those of you interested in “reproducible science”, this presentation by Ricardo efficiently demonstrates the benefits of Guix and shortcomings of “containers” in this context: https://guix-hpc.bordeaux.inria.fr/blog/2019/01/pigx-paper-awarded-at-the-international-conference-on-

Re: how to fix state-broken affected user services? (Re: GNOME 3.30: help needed!)

2019-01-11 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hi Ricardo, plz could you confirm what did you deleted to make GNOME run again? application_state file or the whole directory? Ricardo Wurmus writes: [...] >> please Ricardo could you attach the relevant debug info? > > I don’t have any debug info other than what I posted. I didn’t look at >

Re: how to fix state-broken affected user services? (Re: GNOME 3.30: help needed!)

2019-01-11 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Giovanni Biscuolo writes: > plz could you confirm what did you deleted to make GNOME run again? > application_state file or the whole directory? I deleted the whole directory. I *also* reset my dconf customizations, but this was not sufficient. I had to delete that directory. I’ll look for

Re: 07/07: gnu: emacs-ghub: Update to 3.2.0.

2019-01-11 Thread Jelle Licht
Mark H Weaver writes: > Hi Jelle, > [...] > > In toplevel form: > magit-reset.el:30:1:Error: Cannot open load file: No such file or directory, > graphql > make[1]: *** [Makefile:65: magit-reset.elc] Error 1 > make[1]: Leaving directory > '/tmp/guix-build-emacs-magit-2.13.0.drv-0/magit-2.13.0/

Re: bug#34020: [PATCH 0/2] Re-purpose '--verbosity' to something useful

2019-01-11 Thread ng0
Would you be open for a patch which adds BSD familiar -v behavior? In other words, multiple v increase the verbosity level, like -vv is more verbose than -v. I'll have to check the actual changes first, haven't had access to something which runs plain Guix in a while. On Fri, 11 Jan 2019 12:15:41

Re: Packaging Jami (ex GNU Ring)

2019-01-11 Thread swedebugia
Pierre Neidhardt skrev: (10 januari 2019 14:19:34 CET) > >swedebugia writes: >> I put it in messaging.scm. Is that suitable? > >Maybe not. From qaul.net: > >> qaul.net implements a redundant, open communication principle, in >which >> wireless-enabled computers and mobile devices can directly fo

Re: ASDF Builder (Common Lisp) & "package-inferred-system" Packages

2019-01-11 Thread Katherine Cox-Buday
Pierre Neidhardt writes: > I've packaged a lot of Lisp packages, none of which seem to suffer > from a naming issue. This is a newer style of ASDF system. I don't think any of the things we have packaged use this style (yet). > Do you have an example in mind? I have 41 packages almost ready to

New file "tests/docker-inception.scm" with small problem

2019-01-11 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi, there's a new branch "wip-docker-test" which has a new (non-system) test tests/docker-inception.scm . You can run it via: make TESTS=tests/docker-inception.scm check Unfortunately, it fails with some inscrutable qemu error message: qemu-system-x86_64: -virtfs local,path=/home/dannym/sr

Re: Packaging Jami (ex GNU Ring)

2019-01-11 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
And now both libringclient and ring-client-gnome build! Sadly gnome-ring fails to start: --8<---cut here---start->8--- > /gnu/store/6q1ysbyki4v1zidbcndvyrchm3jncs58-ring-client-gnome-20190108.1.8659b2c/bin/gnome-ring > --debug GLib-GIO-Message: 19:30:42.058

Re: Packaging FreeCAD

2019-01-11 Thread John Soo
Hey Paul, I did not know Debian changed their version of opencascade. I will have to double check that they are using OCCT for FreeCAD still. - John > On Jan 11, 2019, at 1:35 AM, Paul Garlick > wrote: > > Hi John, > > This is good news indeed for Guix-using engineers and architects. I >

Re: 07/07: gnu: emacs-ghub: Update to 3.2.0.

2019-01-11 Thread Mark H Weaver
Jelle Licht writes: > Mark H Weaver writes: > >> Hi Jelle, >> [...] >> >> In toplevel form: >> magit-reset.el:30:1:Error: Cannot open load file: No such file or directory, >> graphql >> make[1]: *** [Makefile:65: magit-reset.elc] Error 1 >> make[1]: Leaving directory >> '/tmp/guix-build-emacs-

Re: New file "tests/docker-inception.scm" with small problem

2019-01-11 Thread Marius Bakke
Danny Milosavljevic writes: > Hi, > > there's a new branch "wip-docker-test" which has a new (non-system) test > tests/docker-inception.scm . > > You can run it via: > > make TESTS=tests/docker-inception.scm check > > Unfortunately, it fails with some inscrutable qemu error message: > > qemu-s

GRUB fallback mechanism [was Re: Brain storming cool Guix features]

2019-01-11 Thread Leo Famulari
On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 05:48:39PM +0100, L p R n d n wrote: > - Currently, I think the only way for a GuixSD installation to break is > if something goes wrong with the bootloader. Might be nice to have a > tool (in the install image I suppose) to recover the bootloader. > Maybe 'guix system