Re: Packaging Jami progress

2019-11-16 Thread Jan
On Fri, 15 Nov 2019 10:07:38 +0100 Pierre Neidhardt wrote: Hello, When can I expect our changes to be merged? There's a new Jami version (20191115.5.b0a579d), I would like to update it to, but a strange conflict stops me from running "git pull". I also can't investigate the issue, until webkit-gt

Re: Overhauling the cargo-build-system

2019-11-16 Thread John Soo
Hi all, I agree with this: > The whole point of package management is that you can use module > building blocks. By having to specify the sub-dependencies in a top > level definition kinda breaks the whole modular thing. It is quite frustrating to have to specify transitive dependencies at the t

Re: Overhauling the cargo-build-system

2019-11-16 Thread Martin Becze
> It is quite frustrating to have to specify transitive dependencies at > the top level. I’m not sure what else is to be done, though. How about having something like "propagated-input" for rust source dependencies? The top level package could use the source deps as development-inputs so the

Re: Overhauling the cargo-build-system

2019-11-16 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Martin Becze skribis: > Sorry for digging up and old issue, but i just saw commit > 86e443c71d4d19e6f80cad9ca15b9c3a301c738c > >> It makes for a very large package definition, but we > wouldn't have to ensure thousands of other rust libraries built so we > > The whole point of package man

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Support publishing build events

2019-11-16 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Chris, Christopher Baines skribis: > --- > Makefile.am | 8 +- > bin/cuirass-send-events.in | 90 +++ > src/cuirass/base.scm| 9 ++- > src/cuirass/database.scm| 142 +--- > src/cuirass/http.scm| 24

Re: [PATCH 2/2] Support publishing evaluation events

2019-11-16 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Christopher Baines skribis: > --- > src/cuirass/base.scm | 5 + > src/cuirass/database.scm | 6 +- > src/cuirass/http.scm | 9 + > 3 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/src/cuirass/base.scm b/src/cuirass/base.scm > index fd10e35..943a4f2 100644

Re: guix pull failed after 8 hours

2019-11-16 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Chris, Chris Marusich skribis: > I've been updating some systems with a fairly old version of Guix, so > perhaps that contributed to the very long "guix pull" times. It felt > like Guix wanted to compile the whole world just to run "guix pull". Could it be that those old systems were talkin

Re: Profiles/manifests-related command line interface enhancements

2019-11-16 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Konrad, Konrad Hinsen skribis: > YAML is for kids. Real managers won't settle for less than full XML. ;-) > > Seriously, as a power user, I am perfectly happy with Guile for > everything. I certainly don't want less. And for now, it's safe to > assume that most Guix users are power users. The

Re: Profiles/manifests-related command line interface enhancements

2019-11-16 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Howdy! Konrad Hinsen skribis: >> I think having ephemeral + persistent and declarative + imperative is >> cool—I’d call that “flexible” rather than “messy”. :-) > > I agree. What's messy is how the concepts map to commands. How many Guix > users understand that profiles are persistent environme

Re: #850644: RFP: Guix in Debian

2019-11-16 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Vagrant, Vagrant Cascadian skribis: > On 2019-05-28, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: >> On 2019-05-16, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: >>> So in a bit of a focused run of packaging, I've been chasing the >>> dependency chain necessary to get guix building on Debian: > > Summary: all the dependencies are in

Re: Missing fonts when compiling latex documents

2019-11-16 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Pierre Neidhardt skribis: > Sorry for the troubles, indeed only the big "texlive" package is fully > functional with Guix at the moment. Hmm, is this accurate? I mean, all the packages uses ‘texlive-union’ internally, and with the texlive profile hook, we should now be able to make do w

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Support publishing build events

2019-11-16 Thread Christopher Baines
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hi Chris, > > Christopher Baines skribis: > >> --- >> Makefile.am | 8 +- >> bin/cuirass-send-events.in | 90 +++ >> src/cuirass/base.scm| 9 ++- >> src/cuirass/database.scm| 142 +--

Re: Missing fonts when compiling latex documents

2019-11-16 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Pierre Neidhardt writes: > Sorry for the troubles, indeed only the big "texlive" package is fully > functional with Guix at the moment. This statement could be misunderstood. The individual texlive packages work pretty well for many use cases. I myself have been using them since they have be

Re: [PATCH 2/2] Support publishing evaluation events

2019-11-16 Thread Christopher Baines
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Christopher Baines skribis: > >> --- >> src/cuirass/base.scm | 5 + >> src/cuirass/database.scm | 6 +- >> src/cuirass/http.scm | 9 + >> 3 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) >> >> diff --git a/src/cuirass/base.scm b/src/cuirass/bas

Re: Stackage LTS 14

2019-11-16 Thread Timothy Sample
Hi, Marius Bakke writes: > I've read some of the changes and they LGTM. If Cuirass is happy, I > think you can go ahead and merge the branch. \o/ I just put everything together and rebased it all on master, fixing several typos as I did so. :) It seems that “ghc@8.6.5” has changed a few day

gnome-characters

2019-11-16 Thread Raghav Gururajan
Hello Guix! So I was able to successfully package 'gnome-characters'. The following is the package definition. I have attacted the package definition (gnome-characters.scm) with this email. This is the first time for me with packaging. Can anyone help me how to move forward from here, to integrat

Why is the default $HOME /homeless-shelter?

2019-11-16 Thread Jesse Gibbons

Re: gnome-characters

2019-11-16 Thread sirgazil
On Sat, 16 Nov 2019 19:50:12 -0500 Raghav Gururajan wrote > Hello Guix! > > So I was able to successfully package 'gnome-characters'. The following > is the package definition. I have attacted the package definition > (gnome-characters.scm) with this email. > > This is t

Re: Overhauling the cargo-build-system

2019-11-16 Thread Martin Becze
> What I would have liked is to somehow replace the #:cargo-inputs > argument (which is build-system-specific and thus “opaque”) with regular > ‘native-inputs’ or ‘inputs’ field. That would be lovely! I always wondered why "#:cargo-inputs" existed.

Re: Overhauling the cargo-build-system

2019-11-16 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Sat, Nov 16, 2019 at 10:33:32PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hello! > > Martin Becze skribis: > > > Sorry for digging up and old issue, but i just saw commit > > 86e443c71d4d19e6f80cad9ca15b9c3a301c738c > > > >> It makes for a very large package definition, but we > > wouldn't have to ensu