Re: bug#38529: Make --ad-hoc the default for guix environment proposed deprecation mechanism

2019-12-13 Thread zimoun
Hi Gábor, On Thu, 12 Dec 2019 at 21:54, Gábor Boskovits wrote: > zimoun ezt írta (időpont: 2019. dec. 12., Csü > 17:47): >> Maybe I miss a point. Is the aim to conserve the "--ad-hoc" option >> with a different effect? Or why do we want to conserve this option >> name? >> It appears to me si

Re: Store channel specification in profile

2019-12-13 Thread zimoun
Hi Pierre, On Thu, 12 Dec 2019 at 23:35, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > > I've seen the "provenance" field mentioned a couple of times before, but > I can't see any "provenance" in my $PROFILE/manifest file. Am I missing > something? > > I install profiles with manifests. You have right. It is a bug

Re: Parallel downloads

2019-12-13 Thread Brett Gilio
Pierre Neidhardt writes: > Update: I've been using --max-jobs=2 by default for about 2 weeks now, > and it feels like a much smoother experience overall: faster downloads, faster > builds. > > This is obviously a very dumb "optimization" but at least it serves to > underline that Guix could still

NLNet grant "Next Generation Internet -- Search & discovery": I'm in!

2019-12-13 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Dear Guix community! I'm happy to let your know that my application to the NLNet "Next Generation Internet -- Search & Discovery" grant for Guix has been accepted! See https://nlnet.nl/project/GUIX/ (the description is misleading, see below). See also the European Union initiative website: https:

When to add rust packages?

2019-12-13 Thread John Soo
Hi Guix, I packaged a number of Rust programs that I use everyday (ripgrep, alacritty) or I found useful when learning Rust (racer). With the instability of the rust build system and package definition they are a lot to maintain. I would love to send patches for them but I don't want to burden yo

Re: wrap-program –> wrap-script

2019-12-13 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hello Ricardo, Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Hi Guix, > > I’ve just pushed a change to use wrap-script in one package. The > purpose of wrap-script is to wrap an executable without having to create > a separate wrapper shell script. It does this by prepending a Guile > script to the top of the file

Re: When to add rust packages?

2019-12-13 Thread ng0
Hi, I would send them as soon as you think they are usable, the "burden" is shared between people who are interested and work on maintaining them - you, or anyone else. No need to feel like it would be a burden to anyone.

Re: bug#38529: Make --ad-hoc the default for guix environment proposed deprecation mechanism

2019-12-13 Thread Gábor Boskovits
Hello, Let me try again :) zimoun ezt írta (időpont: 2019. dec. 13., P, 13:02): > > Hi Gábor, > > > On Thu, 12 Dec 2019 at 21:54, Gábor Boskovits wrote: > > > zimoun ezt írta (időpont: 2019. dec. 12., Csü > > 17:47): > > >> Maybe I miss a point. Is the aim to conserve the "--ad-hoc" option >

Re: bug#38529: Make --ad-hoc the default for guix environment proposed deprecation mechanism

2019-12-13 Thread zimoun
Hi Gábor, Sorry to be slow. :-) On Fri, 13 Dec 2019 at 17:28, Gábor Boskovits wrote: > So in a more algorithmic manner: > 1. if ad-hoc and inputs-of is present at the same invocation: fail > hard. (With an error like incompatible options present) > 2. if only ad-hoc is present, then print a de

Re: bug#38529: Make --ad-hoc the default for guix environment proposed deprecation mechanism

2019-12-13 Thread Gábor Boskovits
Hello Zimoun, zimoun ezt írta (időpont: 2019. dec. 13., P, 17:32): > > Hi Gábor, > > Sorry to be slow. :-) I probably just did not express myself clearly enough. > > On Fri, 13 Dec 2019 at 17:28, Gábor Boskovits wrote: > > > > So in a more algorithmic manner: > > 1. if ad-hoc and inputs-of is

Guix mirror: sourceware discussion report

2019-12-13 Thread zimoun
Dear, Currently "guix pull" from Savannah and issues can arise. As we recently experimented. Tobias and Ricardo recently discussed how to mirror the repo. IMHO, it is a good idea to mirror but not a good idea to locate it on Ricardo infrastructure, again. :-) Well, I propose to see if we can mirr

Re: The Guix Days: stream?

2019-12-13 Thread zimoun
Hi Pjotr, On Thu, 12 Dec 2019 at 19:40, Pjotr Prins wrote: > > If yes, second question: will the ICAB network be strong enough? How > > can we test? > > Nope. Going by other years you should not rely on that. It is > unstable. So it is a no go to stream, isn't it? I mean, how could we cast with

Re: Guix mirror: sourceware discussion report

2019-12-13 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Zimoun, I've replied on IRC as well, apologies if I repeat myself. :-) zimoun 写道: Currently "guix pull" from Savannah and issues can arise. As we recently experimented. Tobias and Ricardo recently discussed how to mirror the repo. IMHO, it is a good idea to mirror but not a good idea to loc

Fwd: GNU Guix POWER9 OpenStack application (was: New POWER9 machines for the Guix build farm?)

2019-12-13 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Tobias Geerinckx-rice 写道: PS: For the shorter term, I've applied for an 8-core POWER9 LE instance (with 16 GiB of RAM) for Guix at OSUOSL[1]. Assuming that it's accepted, it should be available within a week. Lance Albertson via RT 写道: On Thu Dec 12 17:21:37 2019, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote

Re: When to add rust packages?

2019-12-13 Thread John Soo
Thanks, I’ll be sending some patches as soon as I can. As you all know, rust packages have a lot of dependencies so it could take some time. - John

Re: When to add rust packages?

2019-12-13 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 02:57:00PM +, John Soo wrote: > Hi Guix, > > I packaged a number of Rust programs that I use everyday (ripgrep, > alacritty) or I found useful when learning Rust (racer). With the > instability of the rust build system and package definition they are a lot > to maintai

Re: NLNet grant "Next Generation Internet -- Search & discovery": I'm in!

2019-12-13 Thread Pjotr Prins
That is great news Pierre :) On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 03:48:37PM +0100, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > Dear Guix community! > > I'm happy to let your know that my application to the NLNet "Next > Generation Internet -- Search & Discovery" grant for Guix has been > accepted! > > See https://nlnet.nl/pr

Re: NLNet grant "Next Generation Internet -- Search & discovery": I'm in!

2019-12-13 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Pierre, Pierre Neidhardt 写道: I'm happy to let your know that my application to the NLNet "Next Generation Internet -- Search & Discovery" grant for Guix has been accepted! Yay! The second joyful announcement on guix-devel this week. 1. Parameterized packages (Previous discussion: h