[gnu.org #1524186] [guix] request to decommission hydra.gnu.org

2020-05-28 Thread Andrew Engelbrecht via RT
On Sun May 17 18:56:37 2020, l...@gnu.org wrote: > "Andrew Engelbrecht via RT" skribis: > > > I'm Andrew, a sysadmin at the FSF. > > > > We recently received a request to decommission hydra.gnu.org, an old > > build server that we host. I'm checking in with the Guix development > > community wit

Re: Should guix track package aliases?

2020-05-28 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, zimoun skribis: > On Sun, 10 May 2020 at 12:08, Vincent Legoll wrote: > >> Used googl often being used to approximate it, crudely but effectively. > > The big question is how to build such database. > Wikidata? There’s also the Common Platform Enumeration (CPE), the thing used to refer to

Re: [OUTREACHY]: Integration of desktop environments into GNU Guix

2020-05-28 Thread Raghav Gururajan
@Danny I am in the process of updating/debugging gnome packages one-by-one. I have started with gnome-sdk packages. I initially thought I could finish up all gnome-sdk and send patches at once. But it will not be efficient use of your time, while I am generating patches. So I have attached a few w

Re: [OUTREACHY]: Integration of desktop environments into GNU Guix

2020-05-28 Thread Raghav Gururajan
Hi Danny! > Also, gnome-photos doesn't set PYTHONPATH, so it won't be able to use > pygobject, > right? Ah, thanks for the catch. I will fix it when I get to that package. Regards, RG. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [OUTREACHY]: Integration of desktop environments into GNU Guix

2020-05-28 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi RG, thanks for the patches! In my opinion, in patch 1 you are goading Guix to keep a reference to .../bin/true . coreutils is an implicit build input anyway, so no need to do that stuff. And if you do it, it looks as if you want it to keep a reference to coreutils at runtime (it doesn't, but

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

2020-05-28 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Pierre Neidhardt skribis: > Ricardo Wurmus writes: > >> diff --git a/nix/libstore/build.cc b/nix/libstore/build.cc >> index 29266f1dd6..94609e07f5 100644 >> --- a/nix/libstore/build.cc >> +++ b/nix/libstore/build.cc >> @@ -2247,6 +2247,7 @@ void DerivationGoal::runChild() >> String