Grafting segfault

2020-03-29 Thread Gábor Boskovits
Hello Guix, Pulling from an older guix version yesterday, I have noticed that on system reconfigure the grafting sometimes failed with sigsegv. After several retries, segfaulting always on different packages, the system build finished successfully. I do not have a way to reliable trigger this pro

Re: kmscon not working on MacBook

2020-03-29 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 05:53:11PM +0100, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 03:26:05AM +0100, Bengt Richter wrote: > > Are you a member of the video group? > > Indeed the issue was that the gdm user was not a member of the video > group. […] I will push if nobody object

Re: Potential for a race condition with latest-repository-commit

2020-03-29 Thread Christopher Baines
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hi, > > Christopher Baines skribis: > >> So one of the things that's currently restricted to doing by one job at >> a time in the Guix Data Service is running latest-repository-commit from >> the (guix git) module. >> >> Previously this was more of a problem for the Gu

Re: Use genimage for disk-image creation.

2020-03-29 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Danny Milosavljevic skribis: > from the standpoint of ARM it would be really good to be able to reuse > genimage config files from buildroot. Well, we can have a parser. :-) >From an engineering viewpoint, it seems weird to add a C parser that basically shells out to other tools when we c

Re: Cannot build guix from git due to .po file errors

2020-03-29 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Marius Bakke skribis: > Marius Bakke writes: > >> Ludovic Courtès writes: >> >>> Hi Vagrant, >>> >>> Vagrant Cascadian skribis: >>> e...@boldquot.po:4591: format specifications in 'msgstr[0]' are not a subset of those in 'msgid_plural' /gnu/store/p50cw1g05g566bkbr6ylcibqffhha8w4

Re: Experiment in generating multi-layer Docker images with guix pack

2020-03-29 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Chris, Christopher Baines skribis: [...] >> I think a layering algorithm like Graham Christensen’s above requires >> knowledge of the reference graph, meaning that layering can only be >> computed on the build side, using #:references-graphs. In that case, it >> could be that you can’t have

How do I set GUIX_GITHUB_TOKEN correctly?

2020-03-29 Thread sirgazil
Hi, I've been packaging software hosted on GitHub without problems for some days, but recently, running "guix lint -L . python-commonmark" (a package I'm defining on https://gitlab.com/sirgazil/guix-channel-x/-/blob/master/sirgazil-x/packages/python.scm#L67) failed and a message suggested to c

Re: core-updates frozen!

2020-03-29 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! Jan Nieuwenhuizen skribis: > For the record...it's even better: The GCC, binutils and glibc > removal mentioned above is already in master; so our next release will > bootstrap from ~135MB like blog post mentions! > > The Core-updates bootstrap (code named "Scheme-only bootstrap") removes >

Re: Proxy settings wrt guix daemon

2020-03-29 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Vincent, Vincent Legoll skribis: > but as mentionned in [3], this will not fly in the > case of an intermittently available proxy, as guix > system-reconfigure will depends on this working > properly to reset it back to no proxy usage. > > There is an issue about the problem [4], but it > doe

Re: Use genimage for disk-image creation.

2020-03-29 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi Ludo, On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 16:44:39 +0200 Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Oh, really? I’m surprised partitioning causes problems (though I’m > not familiar with embedded dev!). Well, maybe not that bad, but it's pretty bad. It's because the boot sector for ARM, for some unfathomable reason, is not

Re: Grafting segfault

2020-03-29 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! Gábor Boskovits skribis: > Pulling from an older guix version yesterday, I have noticed that on > system reconfigure the grafting sometimes failed with sigsegv. > > After several retries, segfaulting always on different packages, the > system build finished successfully. I do not have a way

Re: Grafts, revisited

2020-03-29 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Guix! Ludovic Courtès skribis: > To address that, I think we need a better way to handle “dynamic > dependencies”. The ‘wip-build-accumulator’ branch does that by taking > advantage of ‘with-build-handler’. On that branch, grafts no longer use > substitute info. Instead, they just build

Mailing lists and debbugs currently not working

2020-03-29 Thread Leo Famulari
As reported on help-debbugs and the #guix IRC channel, the mailing lists and debbugs are currently not working. I'm not sure if this message will go through. It seems to manifest as silent failure of mail delivery, and debbugs not responding to commands. There are a couple messages here about the

Re: core-updates frozen!

2020-03-29 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Ludovic Courtès writes: >> The Core-updates bootstrap (code named "Scheme-only bootstrap") removes >> >> Awk, Bash, the GNU Core Utilities, Grep, Gzip, Sed, and Tar. >> >> and replaces them with Gash and Gash-Utils! > > That’s worth a second blog post! :-) Yes, let's do that when core-updates

Re: Mailing lists and debbugs currently not working

2020-03-29 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Good news, Leo, your email went through :) -- Pierre Neidhardt https://ambrevar.xyz/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Use genimage for disk-image creation.

2020-03-29 Thread Mathieu Othacehe
Hey! > I’m completely sold to the idea. :-) I'm glad you like it! > Looking at ‘image-ext2.c’ reveals that genimage actually just shells out > to mke2fs. Indeed, I discovered that ‘mke2fs -d /my/root’ copies > /my/root as the image’s root directory. Likewise, for ISO, it just > shells out t

Re: Use genimage for disk-image creation.

2020-03-29 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2020-03-29, Danny Milosavljevic wrote: > Hi Ludo, > > On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 16:44:39 +0200 > Ludovic Courtès wrote: > >> Oh, really? I’m surprised partitioning causes problems (though I’m >> not familiar with embedded dev!). > > Well, maybe not that bad, but it's pretty bad. > > It's because the

March update on data.guix.gnu.org (Guix Data Service)

2020-03-29 Thread Christopher Baines
Hey, This follows on from the email I sent back in February [1]. 1: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2020-02/msg00268.html As it turns out, quite a lot has happened over the last month and a bit! In summary, this email talks about: - Providing database dumps, and how this works -

Re: Brainstorming features for issues.guix.gnu.org

2020-03-29 Thread Björn Höfling
Hi Ricardo, On Thu, 26 Mar 2020 09:49:12 +0100 Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > Hello Guix! > > I want issues.guix.gnu.org to become more useful for all of us. It’s > easy to get lost in a deluge of bug reports and patch submissions, so > our tools should allow us to stay afloat. > > Do you use issues

native or not

2020-03-29 Thread Vincent Legoll
Hello, I've been having a first look at guix data service. And looking at the guix lint page, I saw the "should probably be native input" warnings, and gave it a try on sudo, naively thinking it would benefit something (maybe a container or vm image size). Is there a way to see any benefit from

Re: Linphone

2020-03-29 Thread Raghav Gururajan
Maxim and Ricardo! >>> Did Ricardo's suggestion help? I'm interested in Linphone on Guix! The >>> more VoIP options we have on the table in the times we're in, the better >>> :-). If you have more issues, do reach out, and I'll see if I can lend a >>> hand. >> >> Danny's idea fixed it. It was a t

[URGENT, ACTION REQUIRED] GSoC final proposal submission deadline

2020-03-29 Thread Gábor Boskovits
To all GSoC applicants: According to the GSoC 2020 timeline the final deadline for submitting a proposal is: March 31 18:00 UTC You can find further information here: https://google.github.io/gsocguides/student/writing-a-proposal Please make sure that your final PDF proposal is submitted on the

[GSOC 2020] Final proposal

2020-03-29 Thread Alberto EFG
Hello, this is my final proposal for GSoC, there is still time to do some changes in case anyone has feedback, otherwise this is it :) proposal-final.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document

Re: [GSOC 2020] Final proposal

2020-03-29 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Alberto, > Hello, this is my final proposal for GSoC, there is still time to do > some changes in case anyone has feedback, otherwise this is it :) Thank you for this thorough proposal! For 8.5 it would be good to provide criteria that allow us to evaluate your progress. Being able to look

Re: native or not

2020-03-29 Thread Mathieu Othacehe
Hello Vincent, > Is there a way to see any benefit from these changes > (without building a vm or container image each time) ? > > Are those changes useful to do on their own ? Well yes it may reduce the closure size of the package (run `guix size sudo`) to get it. It can also fix cross-compil