Re: GNOME 3.30.x

2019-07-12 Thread Timothy Sample
Hi Raghav, Raghav Gururajan writes: > Hello Timothy Sample! > > I saw the tread (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-05/ > msg00119.html) and wanted to include you in this (currently-messaging) > thread (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-07/msg00119. > html). ☺ I

Re: core-updates freeze

2019-07-12 Thread Marius Bakke
Kei Kebreau writes: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> Hello! >> >> Marius Bakke skribis: >> >>> The core-updates branch is now (almost!) ready for prime time. >> >> Yay! >> >>> This is turning out to be one of the biggest merges ever[*], currently >>> representing 433 commits from 15 people, with

“Towards Guix for DevOps”

2019-07-12 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Guix! Jakob wrote a lovely post about the ongoing work implementing ‘guix deploy’ as part of GSoC: https://gnu.org/s/guix/blog/2019/towards-guix-for-devops/ Check it out! Ludo’.

Re: Expat 2.2.7 with security fixes has been released / CVE-2018-20843

2019-07-12 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Hi Jack, On 12.07.19 01:17, Jack Hill wrote: > I'm pleased to let you know that we've applied the fix for > CVE-2018-20843 in GNU Guix as of > 5a836ce38c9c29e9c2bd306007347486b90c5064 [0]. We elected to backport the > patch that fixed the problem instead of upgrading due to a change in the > expa

Re: GNOME 3.30.x

2019-07-12 Thread Raghav Gururajan
> I have been keeping an eye on this, and I broadly agree with you. > However, there are some more serious GNOME problems that I would like > to > work on before worrying about the list of packages. Here are a > couple > of examples: > > • GNOME 3.30 does not use the right timezone > • We a

Re: Expat 2.2.7 with security fixes has been released / CVE-2018-20843

2019-07-12 Thread Jack Hill
Hi Sebastian, On Fri, 12 Jul 2019, Sebastian Pipping wrote: On 12.07.19 01:17, Jack Hill wrote: We elected to backport the patch that fixed the problem instead of upgrading due to a change in the expat abi with 2.2.7 [1]. [1] https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/36424#2 thanks for the update

how to make fonts available to a service?

2019-07-12 Thread Robert Vollmert
Hi all, I’m a bit at a loss right now with respect to how to make fonts available to system services. I’m running a service that uses rsvg-convert (from package librsvg) to raster some SVG graphics. However, it appears that the default fonts are missing some Unicode character. It seems that I ca

Re: Expat 2.2.7 with security fixes has been released / CVE-2018-20843

2019-07-12 Thread Marius Bakke
Sebastian, Thank you very much for reaching out downstream! Sebastian Pipping writes: > Hi Jack, > > > On 12.07.19 01:17, Jack Hill wrote: >> I'm pleased to let you know that we've applied the fix for >> CVE-2018-20843 in GNU Guix as of >> 5a836ce38c9c29e9c2bd306007347486b90c5064 [0]. We electe

We should disable dmesg for unprivileged users by default

2019-07-12 Thread Alex Vong
Hello Guix, I think we should set /proc/sys/kernel/dmesg_restrict to 1 by default to prevent unprivileged users from reading the kernel ring buffer (since it could expose sensitive information about the system). Debian does this. I don't know about other distros. Cheers, Alex signature.asc Des

rsa4096/0x090B11993D9AEBB5 2014-08-11 [SC] [expired: 2019-07-08]

2019-07-12 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Ludo', Your key on Savannah expired on the 8th, causing scary warnings for end users. Could you update it? Kind regards, T G-R signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Help needed fixing linux-libre-5.2 on aarch64

2019-07-12 Thread Mark H Weaver
The 'kernel-updates' includes a preliminary commit to update linux-libre to version 5.2. Berlin has built it successfully on all supported architectures except for aarch64, where it fails: https://ci.guix.gnu.org/build/1448778/details I would be grateful if someone with access to aarch64 hardw

Re: We should disable dmesg for unprivileged users by default

2019-07-12 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
And we could make it an operating system option then? -- Pierre Neidhardt https://ambrevar.xyz/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature