Re: Guix org on Codeberg

2025-01-04 Thread Luis Felipe
On 29/12/24 10:35, Raghav Gururajan wrote: Guix Committers! There's org created for Guix on Codeberg to setup mirrors for Guix's repositories. Please let me know if you'd like to become owner of the namespace and I'll add you. Reference: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg-e.V./requests/issues/498

Re: Bootstrapped Zig now available in Guix master.

2025-01-04 Thread Timothy Washington
Hi there Hilton, This is a great achievement and I appreciate your work on this. I have my eye on packaging Ghostty for geeks when I came across your work here. Are you also eyeing packaging Ghostty as well? If not, then don't mind me. If so, is there anything a Zig and Guix noob can help with? T

Re: New committer

2025-01-04 Thread Ekaitz Zarraga
On 2025-01-03 6:24 PM, Ian Eure wrote: Hello Guixers, I’ve applied for, and received, my commit bit! The manual says to send a signed email to say so, so that’s what I’m doing. By way of introductions: I’ve been using Linux since around 1995, when I installed Slackware off floppy disks I mad

Re: handling package tests requiring root?

2025-01-04 Thread Leo Famulari
On Wed, Jan 01, 2025 at 05:13:28AM -0500, 45mg wrote: > The only approach I'm aware of is to just ignore such tests. Examples of > this I've seen: It's fine to ignore these tests. We don't need to run every single upstream test if it's too inconvenient.

Re: On a Guile-based Build-Tool complimenting Guix

2025-01-04 Thread Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
Hi all! I just want to mention some theoretical benefits that could arise from using a Guix-aware build-system. A Guix-aware build system could improve upon the traditional timestamp-based rebuilding heuristic by using a content address heursitic. This benefits developers using the Guix-aware b

Re: Bootstrapped Zig now available in Guix master.

2025-01-04 Thread Timothy Washington
Hey Hilton, thanks for the feedback. These were the general paths I was looking at. A . Manually Guix shell with zig Build regular Ghostty. Here, I'd follow the official direction on Building Ghostty from Source. https://ghostty.org/docs/install/build Build Ghostty with guix + custom build step