Re: GNOME in Guix

2020-11-04 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi, I've checked guile-gi test/insanity.scm again to find "hard" evidence. For that, I've just checked out guile-gi anew, then ran test/insanity.scm. Steps: (1) git clone https://github.com/spk121/guile-gi.git guile-gi (2) cd guile-gi (3) git checkout b454a99b65f927e947faab17d25bd3499829c1b4 #

New Russian PO file for 'guix-manual' (version 1.2.0-pre2)

2020-11-04 Thread Translation Project Robot
Hello, gentle maintainer. This is a message from the Translation Project robot. A revised PO file for textual domain 'guix-manual' has been submitted by the Russian team of translators. The file is available at: https://translationproject.org/latest/guix-manual/ru.po (We can arrange things

Re: GNOME in Guix

2020-11-04 Thread Leo Prikler
Hi, Am Mittwoch, den 04.11.2020, 09:08 +0100 schrieb Danny Milosavljevic: > Hi, > > I've checked guile-gi test/insanity.scm again to find "hard" > evidence. > > For that, I've just checked out guile-gi anew, then ran > test/insanity.scm. > > Steps: > [...] > That's it. It fails. Okay, but it al

Re: A public Lisp programming interface provide feature like `guix environment --container`

2020-11-04 Thread Zhu Zihao
Leo Prikler writes: > launch-environment/container still assumes the command to be a shell > script, which I think is not quite what you want. You probably want to > take a look at call-with-container from (guix build linux-container) or > child-hurds. I just read the source code of call-with-c

Re: Etymology of derivation

2020-11-04 Thread zimoun
Hi Arun, On Mon, 02 Nov 2020 at 00:57, Arun Isaac wrote: > I am translating Guix to the Tamil language. Tamil doesn't yet have a > very standardized technical vocabulary, and I mostly coin terms on my > own. Most often, I construct calques of existing English words, and it > sounds alright. But,

Re: RFC: subcommand to pause/resume builds

2020-11-04 Thread Bengt Richter
Hi all, On +2020-11-03 14:53:07 +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hi, > > John Soo skribis: > > > I was looking to pause a long build today and asked on IRC how to > > accomplish pause/resume. It seems this is possible already with the > > following: > > > > kill --signal SIGSTOP|SIGCONT {pids-o

Re: A public Lisp programming interface provide feature like `guix environment --container`

2020-11-04 Thread Leo Prikler
Am Mittwoch, den 04.11.2020, 18:05 +0800 schrieb Zhu Zihao: > Leo Prikler writes: > > > launch-environment/container still assumes the command to be a > > shell > > script, which I think is not quite what you want. You probably > > want to > > take a look at call-with-container from (guix build l

Re: A public Lisp programming interface provide feature like `guix environment --container`

2020-11-04 Thread Zhu Zihao
Leo Prikler writes: > For the record, what you do want is something à la > (call-in-container-environment THUNK MANIFEST . KWARGS) > where manifest is the Guix environment manifest, THUNK is a procedure > to call with 0 arguments and KWARGS is a list of options for things you > might want to set

Release: Docker Image? DockerHub? skopeo?

2020-11-04 Thread zimoun
Hi, Some days ago, we discussed on #guix about releasing Docker images ready-to-use. And you pointed your project: https://gitlab.com/daym/guix-on-docker/ First question for Danny: is it ready to include it to the release? Include meaning communicate about it – with the status experimental.

Make guix-publish's URL identical to cache file name

2020-11-04 Thread Peng Mei Yu
Hi, This proposal aims to solve an old problem. Make it easier to setup a mirror server for the official substitute server and prevent future complaints from China residents about network speed. Due to the national firewall(i.e. The GFW) deployed on every backbone networks within China and it's

Re: Make guix-publish's URL identical to cache file name

2020-11-04 Thread Jonathan Brielmaier
Hi Peng Mei Yu, first of all a big thank you for making the Guix experience in China much nicer! I'm running myself a smaller cuirass+publish server and I have configured the caching on the nginx side and not with `guix publish`. So my cache resides in: /var/cache/nginx/nar/ For me it has a dra

Re: Release: Docker Image? DockerHub? skopeo?

2020-11-04 Thread Jelle Licht
Hello, zimoun writes: > Some days ago, we discussed on #guix about releasing Docker images > ready-to-use. And you pointed your project: > > https://gitlab.com/daym/guix-on-docker/ [snip] > Fourth question for Jelle: do you have time to add examples to the > Cookbook using the package ’skop

Re: GNOME in Guix

2020-11-04 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi, On Wed, 04 Nov 2020 10:45:06 +0100 Leo Prikler wrote: > But we already know all this from our earlier discussion. I *know* you already know that--but "we" don't. I want someone to actually proceed further, because I cannot. Hence I posted this on guix-devel (for the first time with an eas

Re: GNOME in Guix

2020-11-04 Thread Leo Prikler
Hi, Am Mittwoch, den 04.11.2020, 14:43 +0100 schrieb Danny Milosavljevic: > Hi, > > On Wed, 04 Nov 2020 10:45:06 +0100 > Leo Prikler wrote: > > > But we already know all this from our earlier discussion. > > I *know* you already know that--but "we" don't. I want someone to > actually > procee

Re: Releasing guix binary in Docker format too?

2020-11-04 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi Ludo, On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 17:42:36 +0200 Ludovic Courtès wrote: > zimoun skribis: > > > The tool is 'skopeo' and packaged in Guix. > > > > However, push to DockerHub requires an account (by Guix project) which > > requires... probably non-free JS, at least once. > > Hmm OK. Users of Doc

Re: Release: Docker Image? DockerHub? skopeo?

2020-11-04 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi zimoun, On Wed, 04 Nov 2020 12:05:28 +0100 zimoun wrote: > Some days ago, we discussed on #guix about releasing Docker images > ready-to-use. And you pointed your project: > > https://gitlab.com/daym/guix-on-docker/ > > First question for Danny: is it ready to include it to the release?

“guix pack -RR r“ fails?

2020-11-04 Thread zimoun
Dear, Using Guix fd0ef0e, I run: --8<---cut here---start->8--- rsync -av --progress\ $(guix pack -RR --save-provenance \ -S /bin=bin \ -S /etc=etc

New Tamil PO file for 'guix' (version 1.2.0-pre2)

2020-11-04 Thread Translation Project Robot
Hello, gentle maintainer. This is a message from the Translation Project robot. A revised PO file for textual domain 'guix' has been submitted by the Tamil team of translators. The file is available at: https://translationproject.org/latest/guix/ta.po (We can arrange things so that in the

Re: Hunspell dictionaries

2020-11-04 Thread paul
Hi Jonathan, On 11/1/20 10:41 AM, Jonathan Brielmaier wrote: On 31.10.20 21:03, paul wrote:> Dear Guixers, I was packaging an Italian dictionary for Hunspell, when I found this link listing all the Hunspell dictionaries supported by Libreoffice [0]. This lead me to think about a function for

Re: Make guix-publish's URL identical to cache file name

2020-11-04 Thread Peng Mei Yu
Hi Jonathan, Jonathan Brielmaier writes: > I'm running myself a smaller cuirass+publish server and I have > configured the caching on the nginx side and not with `guix publish`. > > So my cache resides in: > /var/cache/nginx/nar/ > > For me it has a dramatic speed up on my German server reaching

Re: [PATCH] Automatically set `geiser-guile-load-path' from .dir-locals

2020-11-04 Thread Christopher Lemmer Webber
Maxim Cournoyer writes: > Hello Guix! > > I've been experimenting with the following modification to the > .dir-locals file shipped with Guix, that allows setting per-buffer > variables within Emacs when visiting a file in the same directory (or in > one of its sub-directories). > > This makes lif

Re: [PATCH] Automatically set `geiser-guile-load-path' from .dir-locals

2020-11-04 Thread Christopher Lemmer Webber
Also, I hope this email isn't interpreted as being dismissive or negative about what looks like it's probably a real usability improvement for hacking on Guix! I just thought my experience indicated maybe there are additional considerations to address. Christopher Lemmer Webber writes: > Maxim C

RFC: subcommand to pause/resume builds

2020-11-04 Thread John Soo
Hello Guix, I just sent a patch to normalize the output of processes with bug number 44460. The allows me to compose recutils with kill to get the desired effect of pausing all process trees for the things I want without any convoluted implementation.I think I would be sat