Recommend order for package fields?

2021-11-15 Thread zimoun
Hi, On Sun, 07 Nov 2021 at 13:40, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Guix-patches via wrote: > So the de-facto ordering of common fields is something like: > > name > version > source > build-system > outputs ; a bit inconsistent, yes, and sometimes put after *inputs > arguments ; to the build-system >

Re: "Trojan Source" (CVE-2021-42574 and CVE-2021-42694): can 'guix lint' help someway?

2021-11-15 Thread zimoun
Hi, On Tue, 9 Nov 2021 at 18:10, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Giovanni Biscuolo skribis: > > Is there a way for "guix lint" to check for the listed (other?) > > "dangerous" codepoints and warn code reviewers? > > That would be an expensive operation since that means unpacking the > source and readi

default tar format for "make dist" and patch file length

2021-11-15 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
When running "make dist", guix apparently uses a very old tar format (presumably for maximal compatibility with tar implementations), which has a hard limit of 99 characters. For this reason, there is a guix lint check for filename lengths, but there are quite a few lint warnings in guix master an

Fwd: Multiple profiles with Guix Home

2021-11-15 Thread Liliana Marie Prikler
--- Begin Message --- Hi Guix, I want to wholly support your suggestion. I have been wondering from the getgo why enabling multiple user profiles felt so hacky to begin with -- and guix home seems like a perfect candidate to do the extra work. Unfortunately, I am not on the techy side of thing

Fwd: Re: Multiple profiles with Guix Home

2021-11-15 Thread Liliana Marie Prikler
--- Begin Message --- Bonjour Olivier, Am Sonntag, den 14.11.2021, 08:19 + schrieb Olivier Rojon: > I'm not sure if this belongs to guix-devel or the guix issue tracker, > but I was unable to make multiple profiles work with guix home. Is that the reason why you posted it to neither? Since