Re: Shepherd log rotation service

Hi Felix, Felix Lechner skribis: > On Sat, May 18 2024, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > >> I’ve just pushed a simple log rotation service for Shepherd: > > I have a patch removing rottlog from all Guix "services" that use the > Shepherd's :log-file feature, which works fine. Do I need to provide a > G

Status of python-team branch

Hi Guix! I'd like to check who is working on python-team branch to prepare it for the merge? Especially I'd need to test a fresh version of python-attrs which involves rebuild of 1000+ packages: --8<---cut here---start->8--- > ./pre-inst-env guix refresh --lis

Re: Does anyone use i686-linux? [was Re: bug#67535: ci.guix.gnu.org 'Cannot allocate memory' while building for i686-linux]

Efraim Flashner skribis: > On Fri, Jul 26, 2024 at 02:51:49PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote: >> For a long time we've not been able to build linux-libre on i686-linux >> because the source unpacking process runs out of memory. > > I believe if we limit the unpacking process to not more than 8 cores w

Re: Weary of PAM? Do it in Guile!

Hi Felix, Felix Lechner via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." skribis: > People can now write PAM modules in GNU Guile. Not just sysadmins but > regular users, too. You can read more here: > > https://juix.org/guile-pam/ > > If you like it, you can also convert you

Re: /etc/subuid and /etc/subgid support

Hi Paul, paul skribis: > I just sent a couple of patches [0] adding a full Scheme > implementation of the bits of Shadow that read and write /etc/subuid > and /etc/subgid, and some logic to handle generic requests from users > that don't care about specific ranges but just want to have some > su

Re: Request for commit access

Hi Artyom, "Artyom V. Poptsov" skribis: > I want to apply for commit access in GNU Guix. I think I could help > with some packages (as I usually do now), but maybe just a little bit > faster. It seems that GNU Guix could use another helping hand as > there's sometimes a shortage of people who

Re: Call for testers for bootloader subsystem rewrite!

Hi Lilah, Lilah Tascheter skribis: > I just submitted a patchset containing a full rewrite of Guix's > bootloader subsystem, as in its current state, it was only really meant > to support GRUB. Seeing as we support a large variety of bootloaders, > and a bug in this subsystem could be disasterou

Re: I'm a new contributor and would like advice

Hi Hazel, Hazel Cooney skribis: > before finishing. It said it was "building profile with (some number) > packages", and it took at least 2 minutes on that stage only no > matter the size of the package. This is surprisingly long, indeed. Do you use an SSD or a rotating disk? As Felix mentio

Re: Proposal: Differentiate products more clearly (Cycle 01)

El 6/08/24 a las 10:26, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) escribió: Hello Luis. I very much like your Guix download page mock-ups that make the download pages give clear instructions. They avoid referring to the manual; this is better at least to many users (who currently probably download the Guix ta

Re: Call for testers for bootloader subsystem rewrite!

On Mon, Aug 12, 2024 at 04:28:15PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hi Lilah, > > Lilah Tascheter skribis: > > > I just submitted a patchset containing a full rewrite of Guix's > > bootloader subsystem, as in its current state, it was only really meant > > to support GRUB. Seeing as we support a

Re: Status of python-team branch

Hi, > I'd like to check who is working on python-team branch to prepare it for > the merge? I don’t think anyone is actively working on it right now. #71408 is the place where any updates should be if there were any. CC’ing a few people who have contributed to the branch or stated they have inter

Re: Status of python-team branch

Lars-Dominik Braun writes: > Hi, > >> I'd like to check who is working on python-team branch to prepare it for >> the merge? > > I don’t think anyone is actively working on it right now. #71408 is > the place where any updates should be if there were any. CC’ing a few > people who have contribute

Re: Reproducer for failing shepherd startup

Hi Attila, On Tue, Jul 02 2024, Attila Lendvai wrote: > i forgot to add that it's fixed Okay, then there is still another problem. I am unable to reconfigure my systems via 'guix deploy' when a timer is enabled already. I am trying to add a second timer. The command stalls with messages like

Re: Sustainable funding and maintenance for our infrastructure

On Thu, Aug 1, 2024, at 6:11 PM, Marek Paśnikowski wrote: > I believe there exists a way to relatively quickly and cheaply get access to > more > computing power and possibly storage: DistCC + P2P distribution of the > data. It could be implemented as system services which individual > administrat