Re: perl for arm-linux-gnueabihf

2019-01-19 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Gérald, > *guix build --target=arm-linux-gnueabihf* *perl* fails with the following > output: https://pastebin.com/QF0xKAmR Here’s the output copied from pastebin: --8<---cut here---start->8--- starting phase `remove-extra-references' Backtrace:

Install doc + templates overhaul

2019-01-19 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
I've just re-installed Guix from a 0.16 image. My first time in a year, and I've had the opportunity to have a fresh look at the installation manual. I've taken note of a few confusing points that gave me a hard time installing Guix (even the 2nd time :p) so here they are. I'll send a patch to a

Re: ‘sudo’ leaves PATH unchanged… so what?

2019-01-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hey, Caleb Ristvedt skribis: > I'd just like to add that if a user has guix installed for root but only > really keeps their user's guix up to date (I imagine a fairly common > situation), they're in for a weird situation when using sudo: a > bleeding-edge guix will complain about being outdated

Re: ‘sudo’ leaves PATH unchanged… so what?

2019-01-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Danny Milosavljevic skribis: > There's an environment variable "SUDO_USER" which still contains the name > of the original user. > > We could check SUDO_USER instead of USER if USER=root, otherwise check USER. Or perhaps we could ignore HOME when SUDO_USER is set, and instead honor /etc/passwd o

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add glibc-locales variants for older versions of glibc.

2019-01-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > Ricardo Wurmus writes: > >> * gnu/packages/base.scm (make-glibc-locales, make-glibc-utf8-locales): New >> procedures. >> (glibc-locales): Express in terms of make-glibc-locales. >> (glibc-utf8-locales): Express in terms of make-glibc-utf8-locales. >> (glibc-locales

Re: Swag for FOSDEM!

2019-01-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Chris! Christopher Baines skribis: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> Hello Guix! >> >> I realize we don’t have a coordinated plan to get stickers to FOSDEM, >> and maybe we should address that. :-) >> >> Is anyone willing to help with that? (We could consider reimbursing >> using the FSF fund

Re: 01/01: tests: docker: Run a guest guile inside the docker container.

2019-01-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Mark, Mark H Weaver skribis: > This introduces a duplicate field initializer in the expanded 'package' > object, because the 'dummy-package' macro introduces its own > 'build-system' field initializer. From (guix tests): > > (define-syntax-rule (dummy-package name* extra-fields ...) >

Re: ‘sudo’ leaves PATH unchanged… so what?

2019-01-19 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi Ludo, On Sat, 19 Jan 2019 23:52:59 +0100 Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Currently the ‘xdg-directory’ procedure (and thus ‘config-directory’, > which by default gives ~/.config/guix) does this: > > (or (getenv variable) > (and=> (or (getenv "HOME") >