Re: can't get past commencement in test-env

2019-09-24 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Caleb! Caleb Ristvedt skribis: > gcc-boot0 in (gnu packages commencement) compiles subtly differently > when built in a chroot (for example, by an installed daemon) compared to > when built without root privileges (for example, in > test-env). Specifically, the presence of this line in the bu

Re: Possible Outreachy proposal looking for mentor

2019-09-24 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Mathieu, Mathieu Othacehe skribis: > I'd be glad to mentor this project. However, I have no experience in > developing accessibility features. Would someone with some knowledge on > that point be willing to help me? Julien (Cc’d) looked a bit into it during the Guile/Guix Days in Strasbou

Re: Updates on the guix home manager

2019-09-24 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Julien Lepiller skribis: > more configurations supported, although it's still very limited. I now > have configurations for hexchat, keepassxc, openbox and ssh as well as > some generic functions that can be used as an escape hatch for software > that is not yet configurable with services

Re: (hidden) wrapper+dependencies inconsistency=manifest fails?

2019-09-24 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! zimoun skribis: > This command lists the dependencies of the "guix" package. > > guix package --show=guix | recsel -p dependencies > > Then this command fails: >guix package --show=autoconf-wrapper > > It is expected because the "wrapper" is not a "real" package and it is > not exposed.

Re: guix describe -p and Guix commit?

2019-09-24 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, zimoun skribis: > How to track from which channel and commit the packages in a profile come > from? Pro tip: open the ‘manifest’ file of the profile, and search for “provenance”. You’ll see things like: --8<---cut here---start->8--- ("openssl"

Let’s merge ‘core-updates’!

2019-09-24 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Guix! The ‘core-updates’ branch is in a good shape now, and I think we should go ahead and merge in the coming days! Please try to upgrade your system and your user profile to see if anything’s wrong for you (I did that a few days ago and I’m happy!). You can test, for example, with: gu

Re: Possible Outreachy proposal looking for mentor

2019-09-24 Thread Gábor Boskovits
Hello, Ludovic Courtès ezt írta (időpont: 2019. szept. 24., K, 9:46): > Hello Mathieu, > > Mathieu Othacehe skribis: > > > I'd be glad to mentor this project. However, I have no experience in > > developing accessibility features. Would someone with some knowledge on > > that point be willing t

Re: Possible Outreachy proposal looking for mentor

2019-09-24 Thread Julien Lepiller
Le 24 septembre 2019 10:45:39 GMT+02:00, "Gábor Boskovits" a écrit : >Hello, > >Ludovic Courtès ezt írta (időpont: 2019. szept. 24., K, >9:46): > >> Hello Mathieu, >> >> Mathieu Othacehe skribis: >> >> > I'd be glad to mentor this project. However, I have no experience >in >> > developing acces

Re: Let’s merge ‘core-updates’!

2019-09-24 Thread zimoun
Hi, On Tue, 24 Sep 2019 at 10:18, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > You can test, for example, with: > > guix pull --branch=core-updates -p /tmp/new Maybe I have something twisted but I get this error: --8<---cut here---start->8--- building package cache... /builde

Summary Re: Need help: ... GNU/Hurd ...

2019-09-24 Thread Svante Signell
On Sun, 2019-09-22 at 10:45 +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > > > Replacing the cross-built versions with dynamically built native versions of > > xz > > and guile-2.0, I did come further, but need help interpreting the log file, > > attached: make-boot0-4.2.1.drv.gz. Where is the real error? > > I

Re: Let’s merge ‘core-updates’!

2019-09-24 Thread Mikhail Kryshen
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hello Guix! > > The ‘core-updates’ branch is in a good shape now, and I think we should > go ahead and merge in the coming days! > > Please try to upgrade your system and your user profile to see if > anything’s wrong for you (I did that a few days ago and I’m happy!).

Improving source code coverage at Software Heritage

2019-09-24 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Guix! You may remember the ‘archival’ checker for ‘guix lint’: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/37224 As noted in that issue, its main limitation is that it cannot perform “save” requests for source tarballs. Thus, tarballs that aren’t already on SWH don’t get archived. The issue ment

Re: guix describe -p and Guix commit?

2019-09-24 Thread zimoun
Hi Ludo, Thank you for explaining. On Tue, 24 Sep 2019 at 10:06, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > zimoun skribis: > > > How to track from which channel and commit the packages in a profile come > > from? > > Pro tip: open the ‘manifest’ file of the profile, and search for > “provenance”. You’ll see

Re: (hidden) wrapper+dependencies inconsistency=manifest fails?

2019-09-24 Thread zimoun
Hi Ludo, Thank you for explaining. On Tue, 24 Sep 2019 at 10:01, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > zimoun skribis: > > Therefore, you cannot chain: > > > > guix package -i `guix package --show=guix | recsel -P dependencies` > > > > guix package: error: autoconf-wrapper: package not found for version

Re: Improving source code coverage at Software Heritage

2019-09-24 Thread zimoun
Hi, On Tue, 24 Sep 2019 at 17:41, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > The issue mentions writing a “lister” for the SWH code base (in > Python). Good news! lewo of NixOS has started writing such a thing: > > https://forge.softwareheritage.org/D2025 Nice ! > It should be able to ingest data in a form

Re: Updating a package

2019-09-24 Thread Divan Santana
>> ./pre-inst-env guix build emacs-exwm > >> Should I do this after updating a package? make check to check all tests >> pass? > > In this case not really--since "make check" tests guix the package manager. > You didn't change the package manager, so it wouldn't help. > >>Or rather the CI does th

Re: Does it make sense to package debops?

2019-09-24 Thread Divan Santana
Hartmut Goebel writes: > I just wonder whether I should package debops, a collection of ansible > roles for managing Debian systems. > > Shall I? I for one would greatly appreciate this since I run guix and am using debops to manage other systems. So if you do, that would be great! On a side