Re: Thoughts on making Guix even better

2020-03-09 Thread Konrad Hinsen
Hi everyone, > The guix system transactions are NON-MODULAR. That is, you cannot selectively reconfigure certain parts of the system. For example, you either reconfigure the system as a whole (or) you do not reconfigure the system at all. Today's software systems are inherentl

Re: kmscon not working on MacBook

2020-03-09 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Sun, Mar 08, 2020 at 10:03:26PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > In the past, Mathieu, Florian, and others looked at similar issues on > some graphics boards. Perhaps there’s something we can do here to > special-case this hardware? > > Ludo’. The affected hardware is diverse and I see no patt

Is there a reason why guix-devel isn't listed here?

2020-03-09 Thread Nathan Dehnel
https://savannah.gnu.org/mail/?group=guix

Re: rust (build system) deficits

2020-03-09 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Am 08.03.20 um 21:10 schrieb John Soo: > Hmm. Can you elaborate more on “not able to build non-trivial rust > applications”? I'm working on packaging sequoia-openpgp.org. This requires nettle-sys, a FFI to nettle. nettly-sys "optionally" requires "nettle-src". I added a phase to "nettle-sys" to

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

2020-03-09 Thread Mathieu Othacehe
Hey, > Could you push to ‘master’ as well? > > In general, to minimize the risks of merge conflicts, I’m all for > pushing things on ‘master’ only (unless they entail full rebuilds of > course.) Eventually, they get merged to ‘core-updates’, ‘staging’, etc. Yes makes sense! Pushed to master!

Re: kmscon not working on MacBook

2020-03-09 Thread Vincent Legoll
Hello, On Mon, Mar 9, 2020 at 8:44 AM pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > None of these installers flicker; the screen is black or it runs fine. I also tried the installer on an old laptop (AMD CPU + GPU) on which the gui installer did not work, black screen. The manual installer run on an alter

Re: rust (build system) deficits

2020-03-09 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Mon, Mar 09, 2020 at 10:26:01AM +0100, Hartmut Goebel wrote: > Am 08.03.20 um 21:10 schrieb John Soo: > > Hmm. Can you elaborate more on “not able to build non-trivial rust > > applications”? > > I'm working on packaging sequoia-openpgp.org. > > This requires nettle-sys, a FFI to nettle. nett

Re: Is there a reason why guix-devel isn't listed here?

2020-03-09 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Nathan, Nathan Dehnel 写道： Is there a reason why guix-devel isn't listed here? https://savannah.gnu.org/mail/?group=guix It's there, but only visible to logged in members(?) because it's marked as ‘Private List (not advertised, subscribing requires approval)’ instead of ‘Public List’. In pr

Re: rust (build system) deficits

2020-03-09 Thread John Soo
Hi Hartmut, > On Mar 9, 2020, at 2:26 AM, Hartmut Goebel > wrote: > A second dependancy is "sequoia-openpgp", which requires rhe lalrpop parser generator for building. Now when building `sequioa-sqv`, I need to add all these dependencies again: - nettle-src, since it is "optional" for nettle

Re: rust (build system) deficits

2020-03-09 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Am 09.03.20 um 15:00 schrieb John Soo: >> - nettle-src, since it is "optional" for nettle-sys - and the phase was >> not executed. >> - bindgen, since it is required to build nettle-sys >> - lalrpop, since it is required for building sequoia-openpgp > > That is a lot of work! […] Also I found the

Re: kmscon not working on MacBook

2020-03-09 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" skribis: > On Sun, Mar 08, 2020 at 10:03:26PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> In the past, Mathieu, Florian, and others looked at similar issues on >> some graphics boards. Perhaps there’s something we can do here to >> special-case this hardware? >> >> Ludo’.

Re: [GSOC 2020] Guix Deploy, round 2!

2020-03-09 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! Gábor Boskovits skribis: > Ludovic Courtès ezt írta (időpont: 2020. márc. 8., Vas > 23:10): [...] >> What I miss the most, especially on the build farm, is the ability to >> tell ‘guix deploy’ which services to restart upon completion. >> Currently, like ‘guix system reconfigure’, it cons

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

2020-03-09 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Jan Nieuwenhuizen skribis: > 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/a2sylb94rm1b6qxcp5m

Re: rust (build system) deficits

2020-03-09 Thread John Soo
Hi Hartmut, > My point is less the work, but the non-transitive declarations: nettle-sys is an multi-indirect input for sequioa-sqv, still the later needs to specify these dependencies. Totally agree. I think everyone agreed, too. A few months ago we decided that the package inputs should match

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

2020-03-09 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Anyhow, thumbs up! I’m looking forward to merging it and having it > built on CI (we could offload to a Debian VM!)! My sentiments exactly! I’d be happy to put up a bunch of Debian GNU/Hurd VMs on the nodes behind ci.guix.gnu.org. -- Ricardo

Re: Thunar cannot launch gio-launch-desktop

2020-03-09 Thread Jan
Hello, it seems the issue is not Thunar-specific as Diego pointed out https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-patches/2020-03/msg00291.html I'm closing the issue then. Cool wrapper exercise though :) Jan Wielkiewicz

About guix mirror build script

2020-03-09 Thread tumashu
In China , guix substitute  download seem to be to slow, nearly unuseable. this week, I have found that NIX channels has been built China mirror successful with the help of 4 files: 1. https://github.com/tuna/tunasync-scripts/blob/master/nix.py 2. https://github.com/tuna/tunasyn