Re: Cross-compilation broken on canonical packages.

Hey Ludo, > Do we need to do it for ‘lower-object’? I think that one is (almost) > always called from a gexp compiler where it’s explicitly passed ‘system’ > and ‘target’. Yes because of lower-object call in "system-derivation" procedure of (gnu services). > Also, a test or two would be welco

Re: System test manifest

Thanks! Ludovic Courtès writes: > There are probably a couple of things to > improve in ‘guix weather’ to make it more convenient, such as adding a > flag to list missing substitutes. That'd be great indeed! > My next goal is to have a manifest for “release-critical things” that > one can agai

Re: Plan for a release!

Hi Guix, In addition I think issue #38544 (gparted segfaults) should be addressed before a release. I would imagine that partitioning is an activity that happens a lot around new installs. - John

`guix build hello' now succeeds on the Hurd

Hi Guix! The situation on the Hurd starts to look pretty good janneke@debian:~/src/guix$ ./pre-inst-env guix build hello --no-offload /gnu/store/a2sylb94rm1b6qxcp5mqvgiyx9szipz7-hello-2.10 janneke@debian:~/src/guix$ /gnu/store/a2sylb94rm1b6qxcp5mqvgiyx9szipz7-hello-2.10/bin/hello

Re: `guix build hello' now succeeds on the Hurd

Congratulations!! On Fri, 2020-03-06 at 11:15 +0100, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Hi Guix! > > The situation on the Hurd starts to look pretty good > > janneke@debian:~/src/guix$ ./pre-inst-env guix build hello --no-offload > /gnu/store/a2sylb94rm1b6qxcp5mqvgiyx9szipz7-hello-2.10 > jan

[GSOC 2020] Introduction and asking for feedback

Hello everyone, My name is Alberto Flores, I am an student from Mexico, I've been part of the #guix IRC channel as 'happy_gnu' and 'Blackbeard'. I've used Guix for a few years, both as a package manager and distribution. I want to apply to Google Summer of Code. The ideas I am most interested

Re: 01/02: gnu: fmt: Use HTTPS and git-fetch.

Hello Pierre, guix-comm...@gnu.org writes: > ambrevar pushed a commit to branch master > in repository guix. > > commit 744f445c920f60e9080f42866c802184a1503a80 > Author: Pierre Neidhardt > AuthorDate: Thu Mar 5 10:34:21 2020 +0100 > > gnu: fmt: Use HTTPS and git-fetch. > > * gnu/pa

Re: `guix build hello' now succeeds on the Hurd

Hi Jan, Le 03/06, Jan Nieuwenhuizen a écrit : > The situation on the Hurd starts to look pretty good > > janneke@debian:~/src/guix$ ./pre-inst-env guix build hello --no-offload > /gnu/store/a2sylb94rm1b6qxcp5mqvgiyx9szipz7-hello-2.10 > janneke@debian:~/src/guix$ > /gnu/store/a2sylb94

Re: planned downtime for ci.guix.gnu.org this Friday

Ricardo Wurmus writes: > on Friday (March 6) the head node and the big storage for > ci.guix.gnu.org will need to be moved to a different aisle in the MDC > data centre. This will require a short downtime as we need to shut off > ci.guix.gnu.org for a little while. We will also take some time

Re: Plan for a release!

sirgazil writes: > > I'm not sure, but the problem of launching applications from > application menus may be related to the issue of launching > applications when double-clicking files in file managers (Thunar, > Caja, etc.) when there is more than one Desktop Environment or Window > Manager avai

Re: Plan for a release!

Jan writes: > On Thu, 05 Mar 2020 13:42:29 + > jbra...@dismail.de wrote: > >> tl;dr Xfce worked fine, and MATE failed to launch any applications. >> > > Hello everyone, > > actually Xfce has been broken for several months already, was too lazy > to report the issue and another one got 0 rep

Thunar cannot launch gio-launch-desktop

Jan writes: > The first issue: > When right clicking at a file in Thunar and running "open with", an > error window appears telling it couldn't run "gio-launch-desktop" child > process, because it couldn't find such a file or directory. Maybe Thunar needs to be wrapped with glib:bin, which pro

Re: 01/02: gnu: fmt: Use HTTPS and git-fetch.

Pierre Neidhardt writes: > Duh, I confused these with the github generated archive, sorry about > that. > > Is there any preference between git-fetch and url-fetch? url-fetch requires less bandwidth, and does not depend on 'git'. Though the most important distinction is that uploaded releases s

Re: Thunar cannot launch gio-launch-desktop

On Fri, 06 Mar 2020 17:51:46 +0100 Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > > Maybe Thunar needs to be wrapped with glib:bin, which provides > gio-launch-desktop. Would you like to give this a try? The only thing that comes to my mind when someone says "wrapper" is tortilla with chicken, but I can try tinkerin

Re: 02/02: gexp: Default to current target.

Hi Mathieu, guix-comm...@gnu.org skribis: > mothacehe pushed a commit to branch core-updates > in repository guix. > > commit a6bf7a9745f39afca7412f6627d24dc42ebf8075 > Author: Mathieu Othacehe > AuthorDate: Fri Mar 6 10:06:54 2020 +0100 > > gexp: Default to current target. > > * gu

Re: branch core-updates updated: gnu: guix: Fix cross-compilation.

Hi, it’s me again! :-) guix-comm...@gnu.org skribis: > commit b4335cfb55ced138ce07cf5d0a29c06fa6e6d1c5 > Author: Mathieu Othacehe > AuthorDate: Fri Mar 6 13:49:40 2020 +0100 > > gnu: guix: Fix cross-compilation. > > * gnu/packages/package-management.scm (guix)[native-inputs]: Add a

"make dist" broken by German cookbook translation

It looks like the commit adding the German translation for the cookbook f98e83a17fa30587520e858231ec9c61f3624ecd broke "make dist". in an environment built using: guix environment --pure guix --ad-hoc git imagemagick running: ./bootstrap && ./configure --localstatedir=/var && make -j4 && ma

Re: "make dist" broken by German cookbook translation

On Fri, Mar 06, 2020 at 11:19:27AM -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > It looks like the commit adding the German translation for the cookbook > f98e83a17fa30587520e858231ec9c61f3624ecd broke "make dist". > Sorry! I should have tested more. Fixed in 895e6e8af657d28527f7cccf68eab7319f50fba5. Reg

Re: planned downtime for ci.guix.gnu.org this Friday

On 3/6/20 10:45 AM, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: It is too bad that it continues to have that post assualting Richard Stallman's crditbility.  You would help your project a great deal to remove that from your blog. Aviva > Ricardo Wurmus writes: > >> on Friday (March 6) the head node and the big s

Re: Thunar cannot launch gio-launch-desktop

Jan writes: > On Fri, 06 Mar 2020 17:51:46 +0100 > Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > >> >> Maybe Thunar needs to be wrapped with glib:bin, which provides >> gio-launch-desktop. Would you like to give this a try? > > The only thing that comes to my mind when someone says "wrapper" is > tortilla with chi

Re: "make dist" broken by German cookbook translation

On 2020-03-06, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > On Fri, Mar 06, 2020 at 11:19:27AM -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: >> It looks like the commit adding the German translation for the cookbook >> f98e83a17fa30587520e858231ec9c61f3624ecd broke "make dist". > > Sorry! I should have tested more. Fix

Re: Thunar cannot launch gio-launch-desktop

On Fri, 06 Mar 2020 22:51:36 +0100 Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > In many packages we use “wrap-program” (and in a few we use > “wrap-script”) to create a shell script that sets environment > variables and then calls the actual program. > > The Thunar executable could perhaps be wrapped with a shell sc