Re: 02/09: guix: store: Make register-items transactional, register drv outputs

2019-02-13 Thread Caleb Ristvedt
Changes made, though I'm not quite sure about this part: > Could you add a test in tests/store-database.scm for this bit? > >> +(when (derivation-path? real-file-name) >> + (register-derivation-outputs)) Should that be a separate test or an extension of "register-path"? Currentl

Re: New topic: asking for help

2019-02-13 Thread Björn Höfling
Hi Laura, On Mon, 11 Feb 2019 11:29:02 -0300 Laura Lazzati wrote: > Hi Guix! > > Another topic is about asking for help, that is very useful for people > even when reading the documentaiton. > > This should include this mailing-list (ie, how to fill the form, maybe > sth about the CoC?), and I

Re: New topic: packaging

2019-02-13 Thread Björn Höfling
On Mon, 11 Feb 2019 11:38:21 -0300 Laura Lazzati wrote: > Hi Guix again! > > Another topic is about showing how to package. > > Gábor suggested maybe using my experience about creating a new R > package. > > My idea is to show how to look for a package that is not packaged, > package it and th

Re: English Voice Wanted

2019-02-13 Thread Björn Höfling
On Tue, 12 Feb 2019 11:51:07 -0300 Laura Lazzati wrote: > Hi! > > > Good. Just a note for you: If you recently "guix pulled", you may > > have noticed that aegisub is broken since 2019-02-09 15:14:59. You > > can still use the old installed version. I will commit the final > > fix tonight, so af

Re: Tracking and inspecting how Guix changes over time

2019-02-13 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Christopher Baines writes: >> For an automated system like this, it’s a bit different, so using a >> container makes a lot of sense. I’d suggest having an option directly >> in (guix inferior) to allow users to choose whether to run an inferior >> in separate name spaces. WDYT? > > That sound

[urgent] GNU Guix in Outreachy May 2019 round?

2019-02-13 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Guix, the next Outreachy round of internships will take place from May 2019 to August 2019. As a community we would need to decide very soon whether we would like to participate in the upcoming round. To make that decision we need to have people come forward who would like to be mentors or co

Re: bug#34211: error running container: mingetty cannot find ttys

2019-02-13 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hello, Giovanni Biscuolo writes: [...] > I'll try to remove term-tty[1..6] manually from services declaration, if > I manage to "manually" solve this I'll report here I tried but failed, I'm removing both mingetty and console-font from %base-services list: --8<---cut here-

Re: Guix-HPC activity report

2019-02-13 Thread Pjotr Prins
Hi Ludo, What is required to get institutes on the list? With UTHSC, we have the intention of running Guix on HPC. Provisioning Singularity containers may be key. Not quite there yet. Obviously we are running Guix on GeneNetwork. Pj. On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 02:51:27PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wro

virtual network interfaces in container

2019-02-13 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hello devel! please is there any wip on implementing virtual network interfaces in "guix system container"s? AFAIU now the only way to have a container with virtualized network interfaces is to use "guix system docker-image", right? Thanks! Giovanni -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera IT Infrastructu

Re: virtual network interfaces in container

2019-02-13 Thread Thompson, David
On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 12:55 PM Giovanni Biscuolo wrote: > > Hello devel! > > please is there any wip on implementing virtual network interfaces in > "guix system container"s? Not that I know of. I punted on that when I wrote the container implementation because it's a lot of extra work and comp

librsync update? [was Re: 01/01: gnu: Add burp.]

2019-02-13 Thread Leo Famulari
On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 09:23:21AM -0500, guix-comm...@gnu.org wrote: > commit 7b9b203a52fd31558d0d5c424da0dfb5f7dceef6 > Author: Ricardo Wurmus > Date: Wed Feb 13 15:22:59 2019 +0100 > > gnu: Add burp. > > * gnu/packages/backup.scm (burp): New variable. [...] > +(inputs > +

Re: librsync update? [was Re: 01/01: gnu: Add burp.]

2019-02-13 Thread Leo Famulari
On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 01:10:26PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote: > Can burp use the new version? If so I'll add it while keeping the old > librsync for those other packages. Okay, I grepped the burp source code and answered my own question: Yes, it is aware of the new librsync. So I will send a patch

Re: It's time to build "guix deploy"

2019-02-13 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hi devel! I'm *very* interested in this development... actually remote provisioning of operating system - and services configuration - is the reason I'm here :-) "guix deploy infrastructure.scm" it's everyone dream, no? :-O unfortunately I'm still not able to help in this development, I'm writin

Re: Getting a copy of the Cuirass (berlin.guixsd.org) database

2019-02-13 Thread Björn Höfling
On Sun, 10 Feb 2019 13:21:57 + Christopher Baines wrote: > Would someone be able to make a copy of the Cuirass database > available? It might be useful when tinkering with Cuirass, as it > contains some realistic data. Hi Chris, I'm not sure if anybody else responded to you, but I have a da

Re: 01/01: Merge branch 'staging'

2019-02-13 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Mark, Mark H Weaver skribis: > guix-comm...@gnu.org writes: > >> civodul pushed a commit to branch master >> in repository guix. >> >> commit 50a93adc05b611836e740c4b55571890f4c6770a >> Merge: 722ac64 69fb26d >> Author: Ludovic Courtès >> Date: Sat Feb 9 15:14:59 2019 +0100 >> >> Merge

Re: Getting a copy of the Cuirass (berlin.guixsd.org) database

2019-02-13 Thread Christopher Baines
Björn Höfling writes: > On Sun, 10 Feb 2019 13:21:57 + > Christopher Baines wrote: > >> Would someone be able to make a copy of the Cuirass database >> available? It might be useful when tinkering with Cuirass, as it >> contains some realistic data. > > Hi Chris, > > I'm not sure if anybody

Re: virtual network interfaces in container

2019-02-13 Thread Christopher Baines
Giovanni Biscuolo writes: > please is there any wip on implementing virtual network interfaces in > "guix system container"s? > > AFAIU now the only way to have a container with virtualized network > interfaces is to use "guix system docker-image", right? So, a while back, I did send a patch to

Re: Guix Emacs: use XRandr rather than Gdk?

2019-02-13 Thread Benjamin Slade
Hi Ricardo & Guix-devel, On 2019-02-12T07:59:13-0700, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > This is done by x-display-monitor-attributes-list, which is defined > in src/xfns.c. It uses Gdk when Emacs is configured to USE_GTK (the > code that sets the source to “Gdk” is in an #ifdef). > We build Emacs wit

Re: manage /boot/grub/grub.cfg without installing grub binaries to disk

2019-02-13 Thread Raghav "RG" Gururajan
Hello Guix! Yes, there should be a way to make "guix system" to generate and maintain grub configuration (grub.cfg) in /boot directory but not actually installing the bootloader in the disk. It would be awesome, if this can be implemented in version 1.0 before it get released. Regards, Raghav

Public key (and mailing list issue)

2019-02-13 Thread Brett Gilio
Hi everybody, I am sending this email on behalf of a friend trying to install the Guix binary using the shell script. It appears his email is being rejected as "inappropriate by the moderator." for some unknown reason. I think it might be a spam-filter mechanism against his @gmail.com mailing addr

Public key missing for Guix installation script?

2019-02-13 Thread evan . straw99
Hello, Tried to post this once before but it got rejected from the mailing list for some reason. I'm trying to install GNU Guix using the installation script (https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/plain/etc/guix-install.sh) . Early on, there is a GPG verification step that fails due to a miss

Re: It's time to build "guix deploy"

2019-02-13 Thread swedebugia
Hi :) ons 2019-02-13 klockan 20:04 +0100 skrev Giovanni Biscuolo : Ricardo Wurmus writes: Thompson, David writes: Other thoughts? Just for reference: to update Berlin build nodes I use this script: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/maintenance.git/tree/hydra/install-ber

Re: virtual network interfaces in container

2019-02-13 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hello David, "Thompson, David" writes: [...] >> please is there any wip on implementing virtual network interfaces in >> "guix system container"s? > > Not that I know of. I punted on that when I wrote the container > implementation because it's a lot of extra work and complexity. It > can cert