Re: Fwd: Writing an Accessible Guix ISO

2023-05-14 Thread Csepp
Hunter Jozwiak writes: > Howdy, > > Here is a project I am interested in getting into Guix in some fashion, > copied from my email I sent to help-guix a while back. Any mentorship > and/or help pointers would be appreciated, and I appologize for the double > posting. > > -- Forwarded

Housekeeping for disk-related packaging

2023-05-14 Thread Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
Hi, The locations for disk-related packages evolved inconsistently over time and now seem to be in need of adjustment. Here are some examples: sdparm (SCSI): disk.scm hdparm (ATA): linux.scm --> disk.scm sg3-utils (SCSI): scsi.scm lsscsi (SCSI): linux.scm --> scsi.scm I'd be hap

Re: What's needed to get things building for i586-gnu (the hurd) post core-updates?

2023-05-14 Thread Josselin Poiret
Hi Ludo and Chris, Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hello! > > Probably the main issue is that childhurds now fail to boot: > > https://issues.guix.gnu.org/62307#23 > > We can still build “new” i586-gnu binaries on an “old” childhurd, of > course, but to me that’s doing that is less of a priority. [

Re: What's needed to get things building for i586-gnu (the hurd) post core-updates?

2023-05-14 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Sun, May 14, 2023 at 05:55:20PM +0200, Josselin Poiret wrote: > Hi Ludo and Chris, > > Ludovic Courtès writes: > > > Hello! > > > > Probably the main issue is that childhurds now fail to boot: > > > > https://issues.guix.gnu.org/62307#23 > > > > We can still build “new” i586-gnu binaries on

Defaulting to MAC-based names for network interfaces

2023-05-14 Thread Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
Hi everyone, Upon personal reflection, a declarative operating system like Guix probably ought to use only predictable interface names. More details about this proposal, including the text below, are available in Bug#63508. While shorter names like 'eno1' offer an indisputable convenience and be