Re: Maybe a way to get a few more developpers to work on Guix ?

2023-06-23 Thread pinoaffe
Nicolas Graves via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." writes: > ... code generation through LLMs. This could itself help Guix generate > (and fix) package definitions. I really don't think that that'd be a good match for Guix. Writing package definitions is easy, can be

Re: Maybe a way to get a few more developpers to work on Guix ?

2023-06-23 Thread Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
On 2023-06-23 09:02, pinoaffe wrote: > Nicolas Graves via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." > writes: > > In other words, I don't think a LLM could make it easier/faster to write > package definitions. I mostly agree, what might be useful however would be the capacity t

Re: Corrupt substitute in test

2023-06-23 Thread Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
Hi Hilton, On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 12:28 AM Hilton Chain wrote: > > You can download the tarball with "build --source", optionally with > "--no-substitutes" if the substitute still doesn't work for you. There is always something to learn in Guix. I also added --no-substitutes, and my test ran (a

package definition question: installation into system directory

2023-06-23 Thread Andy Tai
Hi, I was trying to create a package definition for xrdp. when testing the package build, its fails at installation step: libtool: install: /gnu/store/a5i8avx826brw5grn3n4qv40g514505c-coreutils-9.1/bin/install -c .libs/xrdp-sesman /gnu/store/6rfpjdc3vcsfw3yi1cr42g81pd1lw63l-xrdp-0.9.22.1/sbin/xrdp

Re: package definition question: installation into system directory

2023-06-23 Thread Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
Hi Andy, On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 11:44 AM Andy Tai wrote: > > Hi, I was trying to create a package definition for xrdp. > > cannot create directory ‘/etc/xrdp’: Permission denied Installation paths must be located inside the output folder. The paths always point into the store. > make[3]: *** [

Re: PSA for RAID users in Guix System (mdadm)

2023-06-23 Thread Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
Hi, > the raid-device-mapping in Guix > checks whether all component devices are present before assembling an > array . [2] That check will prevent your system from booting when one > of your disks has failed. A patch series for that bug was submitted for review. [1] The fix was tested over seve