Re: Providing a Guix System images catalog.

2020-05-26 Thread Mathieu Othacehe
Hey, >> That's pretty nice! > > +1! Thanks to both of you for your quick feedback! >> I wonder about how this composes; if I'd want to add say a guix-daemon >> service to the bare-hurd, how would I do that? > > How about leaving the ‘operating-system’ field of to #f or some > default value, a

Re: Can we increase the print width/column in daemon backtraces

2020-05-26 Thread Marius Bakke
Pierre Neidhardt writes: > Marius Bakke writes: > >> You can run it directly from a shell, and/or attach a debugger. > > Thanks for the tip. > > Any idea how to attach Geiser to it? The daemon is a C++ program, so I'm not sure that would work ... If you are trying to increase the trace width w

Re: Can we increase the print width/column in daemon backtraces

2020-05-26 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Marius Bakke writes: > The daemon is a C++ program, so I'm not sure that would work ... Hahaha, completely forgot :D -- Pierre Neidhardt https://ambrevar.xyz/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: MIPS support

2020-05-26 Thread Christopher Baines
Vincent Legoll writes: > To Christopher Baines >> At least the main blocker for me is the lack of substitutes for the >> things that fail to build with QEMU. So maybe one or a few machines >> which were able to build those specific things would be sufficient to >> provide some substitutes. > > I

Re: best practise between git-fetch vs url-fetch?

2020-05-26 Thread zimoun
Dear all, On Thu, 14 May 2020 at 18:16, Jack Hill wrote: > Heh, I'll take the bait. I also really appreciate how easy we make it for > people to exercise their software freedom and run modified software. How > best to make that possible and balance it with other usability constraints > (e.g. mir

What is guix-package-cache ?

2020-05-26 Thread Edouard Klein
Hi all ! I'm working on packaging some software. Because I'm not done submitting my patches to the official guix, but I still need to use my new packages I've created a git repo where I push my edits. I've created a channel to use this git repo instead of the official guix repo. When I tried to

Re: What is guix-package-cache ?

2020-05-26 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Afternoon Edouard, Edouard Klein 写道: I don't understand why guix feels the need to try to build it. So Guix isn't trying to build any packages (yet), just complaining that you're still using python2-prompt-toolkit-1 somewhere. I'm inclined to believe it: The log says: (repl-version 0 1 1

Re: What is guix-package-cache ?

2020-05-26 Thread Edouard Klein
Hi Tobias, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice writes: > Afternoon Edouard, > > Edouard Klein 写道: >> I don't understand why guix feels the need to try to build it. > > So Guix isn't trying to build any packages (yet), just complaining that you're > still using python2-prompt-toolkit-1 somewhere. I'm inclined

Re: [PATCH] Add Tor client only package definition

2020-05-26 Thread Andre Batista
Hi Ludo, dom 24 mai 2020 às 22:51:16 (1590371476), l...@gnu.org enviou: > Hi Andre, > > What difference does it make, for instance in terms of the total size > returned by “guix size tor-client” vs. “guix size tor”? Considering only the total size, the difference doesn't appear to be significant

Re: Updating the “pre-push” Git hook

2020-05-26 Thread Leo Famulari
On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 01:13:16PM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > Wait a minute... you're saying this is something that needs to be > configured on each committer's machine(s)? Yes, it was recommended in HACKING and then, after we removed that file, in the Commit Access section of the manual. W

Re: Vanilla Firefox recipe?

2020-05-26 Thread Christopher Lemmer Webber
[moving from help-guix to guix-devel] On help-guix this exchange occured when discussing trying to install Vanilla Firefox... two things struck me: - Firefox's source code is itself free, but it doesn't follow the FSDG (An assertion was made that Firefox was itself nonfree software, but th

Re: Vanilla Firefox recipe?

2020-05-26 Thread Christopher Lemmer Webber
(An obvious win from this also being that we will be able to have more Guix users running, on average, a more up-to-date on security browser more often.) Christopher Lemmer Webber writes: > [moving from help-guix to guix-devel] > > On help-guix this exchange occured when discussing trying to inst

Re: Vanilla Firefox recipe?

2020-05-26 Thread Leo Famulari
On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 01:27:40PM -0400, Christopher Lemmer Webber wrote: > So this page explains the problem: > > > https://libreplanet.org/wiki/List_of_software_that_does_not_respect_the_Free_System_Distribution_Guidelines > > "Problem: Recommends non-free addons and plugins; automatically

Re: Kernel module configuration service

2020-05-26 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi Brice, On Fri, 15 May 2020 19:31:51 + Brice Waegeneire wrote: > (1) Generate a config directory for modrope to use > (2) Load loadable kernel module by extending 'kernel-module-loader-service' [...] > ATM I need help with point number 1 in regard to putting in place the > config directory

Re: Kernel module configuration service

2020-05-26 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Could also have modprobe-config-directory-service and extra KMCS service and load them at different times in the boot process, I guess. pgprPG9vf0IBS.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Heads-up: hard reset of the 'staging' branch

2020-05-26 Thread Marius Bakke
Marius Bakke writes: > Marius Bakke writes: > >> I have pushed a 'staging2' branch where I did the following: >> >> 1) git rebase -i --rebase-merges 8229ce3116c1f522c7157ab2dcd50dc2d765686a~ >> >> 2) Moved 8229ce3116c1f522c7157ab2dcd50dc2d765686a after >> f00270d35a6ca814903a9392caedc29d449590

Re: Vanilla Firefox recipe?

2020-05-26 Thread Carlo Zancanaro
Hey Chris, On Wed, May 27 2020, Christopher Lemmer Webber wrote: > However, I wonder if, with a matter of just two patches, this could be > resolved: > > - Patch out the automatic download of Cisco's h.264 plugin. > - Add a warning banner *above* the extensions page, or simply switch it >to