(ping!) Re: [PATCH 1/2] daemon: Fix '--version'.

2016-08-28 Thread Alex Vong
Hi, Alex Vong writes: > Hi guixes, > > This one and the next patch fix '--version' of guix-daemon and > guix-register. Currently, they are not working, which is the reason why > help2man gives error when building from source. > > > From 06d97b6de29aedeec7efe6f

Re: [PATCH 1/2] daemon: Fix '--version'.

2016-08-29 Thread Alex Vong
Hello, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Hi! > > Alex Vong skribis: > >> This one and the next patch fix '--version' of guix-daemon and >> guix-register. Currently, they are not working, which is the reason why >> help2man gives error when bu

Re: [PATCH 1/2] daemon: Fix '--version'.

2016-08-31 Thread Alex Vong
Hi Ludovic, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Hi Alex, > > Alex Vong skribis: > [...] > >> I get this output instead: >> >> $ LC_ALL=C ./guix-daemon --version >> ./guix-daemon: unrecognized option '--version' >> Try `guix-daemo

Re: [PATCH 1/2] daemon: Fix '--version'.

2016-09-01 Thread Alex Vong
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Alex Vong skribis: > [...] >> >> I think you have isolated the problem! This test case does not work for >> me. >> >> >> I get the following output after building with >> (g++ -O2 -flto version.cxx): > &g

[PATCH] gnu: vlc: Add inputs.

2016-09-01 Thread Alex Vong
e vlc build system 3. Our vlc was built with fast-math disabled as explained in the comment. However, this is actually not necessary, vlc would built with '-ffast-math -fno-finite-math-only'. >From 56ca3c305354522fdfb7fd9a7fe1e8d57f1a8d87 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Vong Date

Re: Feedback, ideas, discussion: tracking patches, discussions, bugs.

2016-09-01 Thread Alex Vong
Hi, I think I share the same concern as you do, currently the mailing list is too crowded and it is difficult to find the relevant bit. Below are my opinions on it: While it may not be as user-friendly as web-based bug tracker these days, I think the Debian bug tracking system is still better t

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add mtd-utils.

2016-09-02 Thread Alex Vong
Alex Kost writes: > Ludovic Courtès (2016-09-01 15:13 +0300) wrote: > >> Danny Milosavljevic skribis: >> >>> On Wed, 31 Aug 2016 22:59:11 +0200 >>> l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote: >>> Are there GPLv2 license headers that lack the “or any later version” wording, or anything that e

Re: Feedback, ideas, discussion: tracking patches, discussions, bugs.

2016-09-02 Thread Alex Vong
ng0 writes: > Alex Vong writes: > >> Hi, >> >> >> I think I share the same concern as you do, currently the mailing list >> is too crowded and it is difficult to find the relevant bit. Below are >> my opinions on it: >> >> >> While i

Re: Tracking package submissions with Debbugs

2016-09-02 Thread Alex Vong
Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> I suppose it wouldn’t handle patch series very well though, would it? >> Or people would have to send the “cover letter” of the series first, and >> then send the rest to n...@debbugs.gnu.org once a number has been >> assigned? > > Or could w

Re: Tracking package submissions with Debbugs

2016-09-03 Thread Alex Vong
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Alex Vong skribis: > >> Ricardo Wurmus writes: >> >>> Ludovic Courtès writes: >>> >>>> I suppose it wouldn’t handle patch series very well though, would it? >>>> Or people would have to send th

Re: Tracking package submissions with Debbugs

2016-09-03 Thread Alex Vong
Efraim Flashner writes: > On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 02:39:12PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> Hi Alex! >> >> Alex Vong skribis: >> >> > While it may not be as user-friendly as web-based bug tracker these >> > days, I think the Debian bug tracking

Re: Tracking package submissions with Debbugs

2016-09-05 Thread Alex Vong
Andreas Enge writes: > Hello, > > using debbugs corresponds to a suggestion I made a while ago, so I am > obviously in favour of it... > > On Sun, Sep 04, 2016 at 10:37:02AM +0800, Alex Vong wrote: >> > I think it would make sense to have the one bug report for the &qu

Re: [PATCH] gnu: vlc: Add inputs.

2016-09-06 Thread Alex Vong
Hi David and Efraim, Thanks for the review. Efraim Flashner writes: > On Sat, Sep 03, 2016 at 06:15:48PM +0200, David Craven wrote: >> Hi Alex, >> >> I'm not sure we need all those dependencies =) Can you explain what >> they are for? If you are adding dependencies to vlc why did you leave >>

Re: Should java .jar-filenames include the version?

2016-09-09 Thread Alex Vong
Hello, I prefer including the version. Consider the following situation. Package foo has version A and B, both installing to path ~/.guix-profile/share/java/ (symlink to store). When the user installs both version A and B, there will be a conflict. Please note that I do not know java very well. Wi

Re: [PATCH] gnu: vlc: Add inputs.

2016-09-09 Thread Alex Vong
David Craven writes: >> Sorry, I don't understand what do you mean by libinput-minimal? I didn't >> add any packages with a "-minial" suffice. As for the necessities of >> those dependencies, those dependencies are added one by one. The >> procedure is as followed: >> 1. I build from source and c

[PATCH 1/3] gnu: vlc: Add liba52 as inputs.

2016-09-09 Thread Alex Vong
1459.3 MiB, the new closure size (without samba) is 1589.5 MiB and the new closure size (with samba) is 1681.8 MiB. Thanks, Alex >From 6ed11031c136d7cff6fef60cc8e8fdb22dfb342e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Vong Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2016 00:06:26 +0800 Subject: [PATCH 1/3] gnu: vlc: Add lib

[PATCH 2/3] gnu: vlc: Add configure flags.

2016-09-09 Thread Alex Vong
>From 066bee5d7795c6caf2376be4a38e2cf0b397ef98 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Vong Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2016 00:32:03 +0800 Subject: [PATCH 2/3] gnu: vlc: Add configure flags. * gnu/packages/video.scm (vlc)[arguments]: Add configure flags to enable most fast-math optimizations. ---

[PATCH 3/3] gnu: vlc: Add inputs.

2016-09-09 Thread Alex Vong
>From b9e30604e432586c89c5e33b27ba609852efd399 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Vong Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 02:30:57 +0800 Subject: [PATCH 3/3] gnu: vlc: Add inputs. * gnu/packages/video.scm (vlc)[inputs]: Add eudev, faad2, fluidsynth, gnome-vfs, gst-plugins-base, gtk+-2, jack-2, lib

guix-pull prints stack trace

2016-09-09 Thread Alex Vong
Hello, It seems the commit c41d97b causes guix-pull to print stack trace. Here is the stack trace: === In ice-9/psyntax.scm: 989: 19 [scan ((define-module (gnu packages tex) #:use-module ...)) () ...] 279: 18 [scan ((#(synt

Re: guix-pull prints stack trace

2016-09-10 Thread Alex Vong
taylanbayi...@gmail.com (Taylan Ulrich "Bayırlı/Kammer") writes: > Alex Vong writes: > [...] > > The bug I introduced to guix pull (while speeding it up) that has a tiny > chance of causing a thread race related error has never been fixed. > Maybe it's related t

Re: [PATCH] gnu: icecat: correct useragent to GNU GuixSD.

2016-09-10 Thread Alex Vong
Hello, Jan Nieuwenhuizen writes: > Hi! > > Attached simple patch fixes spreading of theh terribly ignoring lie that > I would be running Windows NT. > > I'm probably displayng unimaginable ignorance here but it's beyond me > why a project like Firefox would hardcode such a default. > While this

[PATCH] gnu: openldap: Use gnutls.

2016-09-16 Thread Alex Vong
= Is the rfc documents considered fsf-free? Otherwise, we will have to remove them and repack the source. >From ecffd2252b0f6778919b97903c5419cbd5a06f4f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Vong Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2016 00:03:05 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] gnu: openldap: Use gnutl

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add sendmail

2016-09-16 Thread Alex Vong
Hello, Thanks for the patch. I do not know how to set up a mail server, so I can only comment on generic things. You will have to wait for sysadmin to help :) John Darrington writes: > * gnu/packages/mail.scm (sendmail): New variable. > --- > gnu/packages/mail.scm | 80 > +

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add sendmail

2016-09-17 Thread Alex Vong
Hi, John Darrington writes: > They need more than that. They need the binary to be installed > setuid. So these > cannot be run as package tests. They must be tested after the > as-yet-to-be-written > service is installed. But I'll update the comment to make it more clear. > I see, so this i

Re: “guile-next” failed — but actually didn’t

2016-09-18 Thread Alex Vong
Hi, Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Hi Guix, > > Hydra lists the build for “guile-next” at version 2.1.4 as failed, even > though, according to the logs, it has been built successfully. This > causes the “guile2.2-*” packages to be marked as failed, too. > > See https://hydra.gnu.org/build/1473033 > >

Re: [PATCH] small patchseries to add the irc bot limnoria.

2016-09-18 Thread Alex Vong
Hello, ng0 writes: [...] > +(arguments > + `(#:tests? #f)) > +(home-page "https://github.com/ProgVal/Limnoria";) > +(synopsis "Modified version of Supybot (an IRC bot and framework)") > +(description > + "Modified version of Supybot with Python 3 and IRCv3 support, > +emb

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add sendmail

2016-09-24 Thread Alex Vong
Alex Kost writes: > John Darrington (2016-09-17 12:11 +0200) wrote: > >> On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 05:38:26PM +0800, Alex Vong wrote: > [...] >> > > + "contrib/mmuegel" "devtools/bin/configure.sh") >>

Re: [PATCH] gnu: openldap: Use gnutls.

2016-09-24 Thread Alex Vong
Hello, Jan Synáček writes: > On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 6:21 PM, Alex Vong wrote: >> Hello, > > Hi, > >> The following patch does what the title says. The link of the bug >> <http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi/Incoming?id=7430;page=17> is no >> long

Re: [PATCH] gnu: openldap: Use gnutls.

2016-09-27 Thread Alex Vong
Efraim Flashner writes: > On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 11:11:02AM +0900, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> Efraim Flashner skribis: >> >> > On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 12:21:10AM +0800, Alex Vong wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> >> >> The following pat

Re: gnu: Add emacs-rudel.

2016-09-27 Thread Alex Vong
2,7 @@ > ;;; Copyright © 2016 David Thompson > ;;; Copyright © 2016 Matthew Jordan > ;;; Copyright © 2016 Roel Janssen > -;;; Copyright © 2016 ng0 > +;;; Copyright © 2016 ng0 > ;;; Copyright © 2016 Alex Griffin > ;;; Copyright © 2016 Nicolas Goaziou > ;;; Copyright © 2016

Re: [PATCH 3/3] gnu: vlc: Add inputs.

2016-10-10 Thread Alex Vong
f73bc602a3c14cb7563df731b18b506423e27046 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Vong Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 02:30:57 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] gnu: vlc: Add inputs. * gnu/packages/video.scm (vlc)[inputs]: Add eudev, faad2, gtk+-2, jack-1, libass, libavc1394, libbluray, libcaca, libdca, libdvdnav, libdvdread

Re: [PATCH 3/3] gnu: vlc: Add inputs.

2016-10-10 Thread Alex Vong
Hello, Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Alex Vong writes: > > >> * gnu/packages/video.scm (vlc)[inputs]: Add eudev, faad2, fluidsynth, >> gnome-vfs, gst-plugins-base, gtk+-2, jack-2, libass, libavc1394, >> libbluray, libcaca, libdca, libdvdnav, libdvdread, libmpe

ghostscript vulnerabilities

2016-10-12 Thread Alex Vong
Hello, Below are from the security announcement list: Salvatore Bonaccorso writes: > - > Debian Security Advisory DSA-3691-1 secur...@debian.org > https://www.debian.org/security/ Salva

[SECURITY] [PATCH] gnu: libraw: Update to 0.17.2.

2016-10-14 Thread Alex Vong
Hi, I find out that our libraw (0.17.0) is vulnerable to CVE-2015-{8366, 8367}[0], which is fixed in 0.17.1[1]. The patch below updates libraw to 0.17.2. From 4618436db68adbb74f01eb8e771a448cd20e415f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Vong Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2016 21:45:47 +0800 Subject: [PATCH

Re: [SECURITY] [PATCH] gnu: libraw: Update to 0.17.2.

2016-10-14 Thread Alex Vong
Leo Famulari writes: > On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 10:02:58PM +0800, Alex Vong wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I find out that our libraw (0.17.0) is vulnerable to CVE-2015-{8366, >> 8367}[0], which is fixed in 0.17.1[1]. The patch below updates libraw

Re: ghostscript vulnerabilities

2016-10-16 Thread Alex Vong
crit : > > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > > Hello Didier and all, > > We are wondering about the applicability to GNU Ghostscript of the > recent vulnerabilities discovered in AGPL Ghostscr

[PATCH] gnu: Add python2-rpython.

2016-10-29 Thread Alex Vong
Hello, This patch adds the RPython toolchain, which can be used to implement interpreters and virtual machines, for examples Pypy. Right now it supports only Python 2. From 685faf110cddbf80b3a390b86baa1e5b5cee3b80 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Vong Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2016 18:10:00 +0800

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add python2-rpython.

2016-10-29 Thread Alex Vong
Hartmut Goebel writes: > Am 29.10.2016 um 13:28 schrieb Alex Vong: >> + (uri (string-append >> + "https://pypi.python.org/packages/00/2e/"; >> + "69319934a6049b368c05845eaab100ecea2213a96e59fb14416a0a6c5648/" >> +

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add python2-rpython.

2016-10-29 Thread Alex Vong
Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Marius Bakke writes: > >> Alex Vong writes: >> >>> * gnu/packages/python.scm (python2-rpython): New variable. >> >> [...] >> >>> +;;; The RPython toolchain currently does not support Python 3. >>^^^ >

Re: Posts in languages other than English on help-guix?

2018-03-03 Thread Alex Vong
Hello, This is the traditional Chinese version: 訂閱「Help」郵件群組以電郵從GuixSD及GNU Guix社群取得支援。你可以使用正體、繁體中文發送訊息。 The locale should be zh_TW (for Taiwan), zh_HK (for Hong Kong) and zh_mo (for Macau). Should I use a let to avoid duplication? Cheers, Alex l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Hello

Re: Language tag for traditional Chinese

2018-03-06 Thread Alex Vong
Hello Tobias, Ludo, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice writes: > Ludo', Alex, > > On 2018-03-05 9:45, l...@gnu.org wrote: >>> The locale should be zh_TW (for Taiwan), zh_HK (for Hong Kong) and >>> zh_mo >>> (for Macau). Should I use a let to avoid duplication? >> >> As long as the above sentence is intelligi

a92d97266 seems to break master

2018-05-21 Thread Alex Vong
Hello Guix! a92d97266dffcd1ab5c40a379005a7db1fc3dad4 seems to breaks master with the following error: make[2]: *** No rule to make target 'gnu/packages/patches/pius.patch', needed by 'all-am'. Stop. Doing a 'git whatchanged' show that 'gnu/packages/patches/pius.patch' was not commited into the

Re: Packaging a free Firefox

2018-05-21 Thread Alex Vong
Hello, Mark H Weaver writes: > Pjotr Prins writes: > >> On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 12:57:22PM -0500, Christopher Lemmer Webber wrote: >>> > Under the conditions (for packaging torbrowser) I talked about >>> > with Torbrowser-project >>> > it is okay to ship it fully branded. I will have to get bac

Re: a92d97266 seems to break master

2018-05-22 Thread Alex Vong
Andreas Enge writes: > Hello, > > On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 12:56:55AM +0800, Alex Vong wrote: >> a92d97266dffcd1ab5c40a379005a7db1fc3dad4 seems to breaks master with the >> following error: >> make[2]: *** No rule to make target >> 'gnu/packages/patches/

I have no name!

2018-05-22 Thread Alex Vong
Hello, Today, after finish running `guix --uprade`, I find that the bash prompt become `I have no name!@debian`. Also, running emacs gives `Error (initialization): User alexvong1995 has no home directory`. Does anyone know what is the problem? I run guix on foreign distro (debian testing). Cheers

Re: I have no name!

2018-05-22 Thread Alex Vong
Clément Lassieur writes: > Hi Alex, > > Alex Vong writes: > >> Hello, >> >> Today, after finish running `guix --uprade`, I find that the bash prompt >> become `I have no name!@debian`. Also, running emacs gives >> `Error (initialization): User alexvong1

Re: Videos

2018-05-30 Thread Alex Vong
Catonano writes: > 2018-05-29 17:45 GMT+02:00 Julien Lepiller : > > Le 2018-05-29 16:48, Ricardo Wurmus a écrit : > > Hi Guix, > > I’d like us to produce a series of short videos (< 4 mins each) that > introduce functional package management with Guix. > > This is supposed to be aimed at peo

Re: Videos

2018-06-05 Thread Alex Vong
swedebugia writes: > Hi. > > On May 31, 2018 11:17:48 AM GMT+02:00, Pierre Neidhardt > wrote: >> >>Maybe a little off-topic, but if there ever is a need for GIFs, I've >>recently worked on an Emacs package for high quality/compression ratio >>GIF recordings: > > Have you read this? > https://www

Re: my latest blog post

2018-06-07 Thread Alex Vong
Hello Catonano, Catonano writes: > I just published my latest blog post > > In this post I discuss Guix > > And I discuss Guile too > > I understand that the language is strong and I expect someone to be upset > > But I feel this is due > > Happy reading > > http://catonano.v22018025836661967.ni

Re: Use https in 'gnu/packages/mp3.scm'

2018-09-04 Thread Alex Vong
Alex Vong writes: > Tags: patch > > Hello, > > The following patches update urls in 'gnu/packages/mp3.scm' to use > https. For the package 'eyed3', I update it to use the redirected url. > > Cheers, > Alex Sorry, I meant to send the mail to guix-patch! signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Use https in 'gnu/packages/mp3.scm'

2018-09-04 Thread Alex Vong
Tags: patch Hello, The following patches update urls in 'gnu/packages/mp3.scm' to use https. For the package 'eyed3', I update it to use the redirected url. Cheers, Alex signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Heads-up: New dependency on Guile-Gcrypt

2018-09-04 Thread Alex Vong
Is master FTBFS because of this update? I get the following error when running make: == Updating ./doc/version.texi MAKEINFO doc/guix.info Updating ./doc/version-fr.texi MAKEINFO doc/guix.fr.info CXX nix/nix-daemon/gui

Re: Heads-up: New dependency on Guile-Gcrypt

2018-09-05 Thread Alex Vong
ing deps shouldn't be cause. l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Hi Alex, > > Alex Vong skribis: > >> CXXLDguix-daemon >> /usr/bin/ld: nix/nix-daemon/guix_daemon-guix-daemon.o: in function `main': >> /home/alexvong1995/scm/guix/ni

Re: Removing configure flags?

2018-09-10 Thread Alex Vong
Danny Milosavljevic writes: > Hi, > > you can replace the entire "configure" phase. > > Search for "replace 'configure" in gnu/packages/*.scm . > > You can find the entire block when you search for "--enable-fast-install" > comments in gnu/packages/*.scm . > You can look at 'zlib' in 'compressio

Re: [outreachy] am I in the right track to contribute

2018-10-09 Thread Alex Vong
Hello, Welcome to guix! Laura Lazzati writes: > Hi everyone! > > I don't know if is it OK to be telling you what I am/ I've been doing > these days, I kind of like doing so to have feedback, and also to let > you know > > I installed guix on a VM with an Ubuntu distro and it worked fine - i > r

Using 'λ'

2018-10-13 Thread Alex Vong
Hello guix, Should we allow the use of 'λ' in guix? I think we have discussed it before, but I forget why it was rejected. Running 'rgrep' on source shows 7 uses of it. I think it is syntactically more pleasant and it encourges the use of short functions (at least for me!). Cheers, Alex signatu

Re: Using 'λ'

2018-10-13 Thread Alex Vong
Hi T G-R, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice writes: > Alex, > > Alex Vong wrote: >> Hello guix, >> >> Should we allow the use of 'λ' in guix? I think we have discussed >> it >> before, but I forget why it was rejected. Running 'rgrep' on sou

Re: Making javadoc reproducible

2018-10-13 Thread Alex Vong
Hello, Vagrant Cascadian writes: > On 2018-10-12, Björn Höfling wrote: >> On Fri, 12 Oct 2018 19:35:51 +0200 >> Gábor Boskovits wrote: >>> Gábor Boskovits ezt írta (időpont: 2018. okt. >>> 12., P, 19:00): >>> > I've tracked down the javadoc timestamp problem. >>> > There is a command line flag

Re: Using 'λ'

2018-10-14 Thread Alex Vong
Chris Marusich writes: > Efraim Flashner writes: > >> On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 04:51:48PM +0800, Alex Vong wrote: >>> Hello guix, >>> >>> Should we allow the use of 'λ' in guix? I think we have discussed it >>> before, but I forget why i

'package-name-version' and 'strip-store-file-name' does the same thing with different ways

2018-10-15 Thread Alex Vong
Hi guix, Currently, I am attempting to create clojure-build-system. In the process of doing so, I discover 2 procedures with different names actually does the same thing with different ways. The 2 procedures are 'package-name-version' and 'strip-store-file-name'. 'strip-store-file-name' is defin

Re: 'package-name-version' and 'strip-store-file-name' does the same thing with different ways

2018-10-16 Thread Alex Vong
Hi Ludo, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Hello Alex, > > Alex Vong skribis: > >> I think we should remove the ones not defined in (guix build utils) and >> provide 'package-name-version' as alias for 'strip-store-file-name' in >> (gu

Re: [PATCH 0/3] gnu: javacc: Bootstrap from javacc-4 instead of bootstrap binary.

2018-10-17 Thread Alex Vong
Hello Julien, I have tested the patches just now. All of them still apply. But I don't have push right. Can someone please push it for me? Thanks, Alex signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Should 'build-expression->derivation' be used for new build systems?

2018-10-18 Thread Alex Vong
Hello, I noticed that in the (guix derivations) module, 'build-expression->derivation' is marked as deprecated. However, I see that all build systems currently living in the (guix build-system ...) namespaces are still using it. Is this intended or will this be changed eventually? If this is going

Re: 'package-name-version' and 'strip-store-file-name' does the same thing with different ways

2018-10-19 Thread Alex Vong
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Hello Alex, > > Alex Vong skribis: > >> Btw, I also noticed that the procedure 'flatten' are defined in >> (gnu services telephony), (gnu services web) and (guix import utils). >> [I was about to define my own versi

Re: hydra.gnu.org off-line for maintenance

2018-10-26 Thread Alex Vong
Hello, For myself, I use the following option: --substitute-urls='https://berlin.guixsd.org https://mirror.guixsd.org https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org https://hydra.gnu.org' I choose 'berlin.guixsd.org' to be the default because it seems to build substitutes faster than 'hydra.gnu.org'. Cheers,

Re: Leiningen follow-up

2018-10-30 Thread Alex Vong
ctive compilation is not working properly yet. The patches are included below for your reference. I also include 5 packages for testing purpose. From 3e9074b84bbae63c8e4c636257954db59b12279c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Vong Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2018 17:58:00 +0800 Subject: [PATCH 01/11] gnu

A simple Clojure build system is now ready (was Re: Leiningen follow-up)

2018-10-31 Thread Alex Vong
eers, Alex Alex Vong writes: > Hello Brett, > [...] signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: hydra.gnu.org off-line for maintenance

2018-10-31 Thread Alex Vong
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice writes: > Alex, > > Alex Vong wrote: >> For myself, I use the following option: >> >> --substitute-urls='https://berlin.guixsd.org >> https://mirror.guixsd.org https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org >> https://hydra.gnu.org' > &

push right for trivial commits

2018-11-02 Thread Alex Vong
Hello, I finally have my savannah account recovered after forgetting about it for a year[0]. Can I have push right for trivial commits (e.g. version bumps)? Do I need to give my GPG key? [0]: https://savannah.gnu.org/support/?109377 signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [Post Installation]: Unable to guix pull

2018-11-03 Thread Alex Vong
Hello, Yes, hydra is currently off-line for maintainence. You can find the relevant thread here[0]. It was suggested to use 'https://berlin.guixsd.org' as the primary source of substitutes. For examples, I add the following option to 'guix-daemon.service': --substitute-urls='https://berlin.guix

Re: [Post Installation]: Unable to guix pull

2018-11-03 Thread Alex Vong
Alex Vong writes: > Hello, > > Yes, hydra is currently off-line for maintainence. You can find the > relevant thread here[0]. It was suggested to use > 'https://berlin.guixsd.org' as the primary source of substitutes. > > For examples, I add the following

Re: Nano: disable hard wrapping by default

2018-11-06 Thread Alex Vong
swedebugia writes: > On 2018-11-06 19:43, swedebugia wrote: >> Hi >> >> I stumpled on this hard-wrapping default behavior when editing >> .bash_profile on GuixSD >> >> It is super annoying. >> >> Could we disable it by default? >> >> According to the FAQ this exist: >> >> "With --disable-wrapping

Re: Nano: disable hard wrapping by default

2018-11-06 Thread Alex Vong
swedebugia writes: [...] > > That is what soft wrapping is for (soft wrap = on screen only, hard > wrap = break lines with \n to fit on screen whatever the cost). > > Soft wrapping is supported with: --softwrap > > Arch/Antergos has this: > > $ nano -V >  GNU nano, version 3.1 >  Kompileringsflag

Re: push right for trivial commits

2018-11-10 Thread Alex Vong
Hi Ludo, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Hi Alex, > > Alex Vong skribis: > >> I finally have my savannah account recovered after forgetting about it >> for a year[0]. Can I have push right for trivial commits (e.g. version >> bumps)? Do I need to give my

Re: push right for trivial commits

2018-11-12 Thread Alex Vong
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Hi Alex, > > Alex Vong skribis: > >> l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > > [...] > >>> I’ve added you to the group on Savannah, so you now have commit access. >>> >>> Please upload the OpenPGP

Re: push right for trivial commits

2018-11-12 Thread Alex Vong
Alex Vong writes: > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > >> Hi Alex, >> >> Alex Vong skribis: >> >>> l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: >> >> [...] >> >>>> I’ve added you to the group on Savannah, so you now have c

Re: push right for trivial commits

2018-11-13 Thread Alex Vong
Nils Gillmann writes: > Alex Vong transcribed 1.1K bytes: >> l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: >> >> > Hi Alex, >> > >> > Alex Vong skribis: >> > >> >> l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: >> > >> > [...] &

Re: Nano: disable hard wrapping by default

2018-11-15 Thread Alex Vong
swedebugia writes: [...] >>> >>> Having said that, this line wrapping thing is a very bad default, and I >>> think we should change it. Nano is one of the editors in the GuixSD >>> installer. It needs to be easy to use. >>> >>> If we change the default in our package, we need to file a bug upstre

How to fix wrong version number in package?

2018-11-16 Thread Alex Vong
Hello, I realize that for emcas-picpocket[0], the official version is in fact given in picpocket.el[1]. I previously mistakenly used the version given by melpa. How to switch to the correct version w/o breaking upgrade? The old wrong version was '20180610.1059' and the new correct version is 40.

Re: [bug#33347] [PATCH 4/4] gnu: teeworlds: Update to 0.7.0 [fixes CVE-2018-18541].

2018-11-21 Thread Alex Vong
Hello everyone, I think Leo may be busy since he hasn't reply yet. Should I just push given the CVE fix? Cheers, Alex Alex Vong writes: > Leo Famulari writes: > >> On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 09:36:25PM +0800, Alex Vong wrote: >>> Well, I though we have a policy to rem

Re: [bug#33347] [PATCH 4/4] gnu: teeworlds: Update to 0.7.0 [fixes CVE-2018-18541].

2018-11-21 Thread Alex Vong
Leo Famulari writes: > On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 10:41:08PM +0800, Alex Vong wrote: >> I think Leo may be busy since he hasn't reply yet. Should I just push >> given the CVE fix? > > Yes, please push :) Pushed as 6e35bad0a9d00f1eb94bb427ad856c219655e95d..f9e5caf9bae93f

Re: push right for trivial commits

2018-11-21 Thread Alex Vong
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: [...] > > Hmm? I think it neither works nor doesn’t work with Savannah because > AIUI Savannah simply stores the keys. Or am I missing something? > I think ECC key works with commit signing precisely because commit signing simply requires Savannah to store

Re: How to fix wrong version number in package?

2018-11-21 Thread Alex Vong
Alex Vong writes: > Hello, > > I realize that for emcas-picpocket[0], the official version is in fact > given in picpocket.el[1]. I previously mistakenly used the version given > by melpa. How to switch to the correct version w/o breaking upgrade? The > old wrong version was &

Re: push right for trivial commits

2018-11-22 Thread Alex Vong
Leo Famulari writes: > On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 04:07:33AM +0800, Alex Vong wrote: >> I think ECC key works with commit signing precisely because commit >> signing simply requires Savannah to store the key. However, for >> functionalities provided by Savannah (e.g. sending

supporting EOL ruby in Guix

2018-11-22 Thread Alex Vong
Hello, I find out that ruby 1.8, 2.1 and 2.2 are all EOL. Do we still intend to support them (say because they are needed in web development)? If so, I think we should provide security updates. I have look into Debian LTS support[0]. For 1.8, the LTS support has gone as Debian old old stable[1] i

Re: Move Clojure and Femtolisp

2018-11-23 Thread Alex Vong
Hello Pierre, Pierre Neidhardt writes: > Hi! > > I've noticed that Femtolisp and Clojure are part of lisp.scm. > In my opinion Femtolisp should belong to scheme.scm, while Clojure > should probably end up in a separate clojure.scm file. > > Thoughts? For femtolisp, I think we could move it if i

Re: Move Clojure and Femtolisp

2018-11-23 Thread Alex Vong
Pierre Neidhardt writes: >> For clojure, I move it from 'java.scm' to 'lisp.scm' because it is a >> lisp. But is 'lisp.scm' actually for common lisp only? > > It's customary to refer to Common Lisp as "lisp" only. > I see! [...] > > Clojure is effectively a different language and won't run any

Re: Happy birthday!

2018-11-23 Thread Alex Vong
Gábor Boskovits writes: > Happy birthday Guix! > Laura Lazzati ezt írta (időpont: 2018. > nov. 23., P, 15:12): >> >> Happy birthday Guix :) >> >> Happy birthday Guix! :) signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Octave & QtOctave

2018-11-24 Thread Alex Vong
Hello, Brett Gilio writes: > Hey all, > > Happy guix birthday! > > Quick question, why is the octave package split up into two different > public definitions, rather than just having the QtOctave-GUI being a > "gui" output, like it is for transmissionBT and some others? > I would also want to kn

Re: supporting EOL ruby in Guix

2018-11-24 Thread Alex Vong
b800): From 4abe2e6cca013422a20b06104e5ab1230446a6cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Vong Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2018 06:34:10 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] gnu: ruby-1.8: Fix CVE-2013-4164, CVE-2014-{8080,8090}, CVE-2015-1855, CVE-2017-{0898,10784,17405,17742,17790} and CVE-2018-{6914,8777,8778,8779,8

Should we rename qtoctave to octave and octave to octave-cli? (was Re: Octave & QtOctave)

2018-11-25 Thread Alex Vong
kage because making > it just an output would still pull in Qt and the size difference > is huge. > > Alex Vong transcribed 856 bytes: >> Hello, >> >> Brett Gilio writes: >> >> > Hey all, >> > >> > Happy guix birthday! >> > &g

Re: util-linux and perl rename

2018-11-25 Thread Alex Vong
Hi Thorsten, Thorsten Wilms writes: > Hi Guix! > > I already had a "rename" binary via util-linux. Then I installed the > package "rename", resulting in another "rename" binary, as I prefer > the Perl version. This was a success in that I got what I wanted. > > However, should this name clash be

Re: util-linux and perl rename

2018-11-26 Thread Alex Vong
Mark H Weaver writes: > Alex Vong writes: > >> Thorsten Wilms writes: >> >>> I already had a "rename" binary via util-linux. Then I installed the >>> package "rename", resulting in another "rename" binary, as I prefer &g

Re: Octave & QtOctave

2018-12-04 Thread Alex Vong
erwise, looks good to me! Here is a patch I made earlier but it was not tested, feel free to cherry-pick what is needed: From 2b04caa66c17da257dfb4f4ccb94e8d629b95e53 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Vong Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2018 03:39:40 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Rename "octave"

Re: Octave & QtOctave

2018-12-05 Thread Alex Vong
Kei Kebreau writes: > Alex Vong writes: > >> Hello Kei, >> >> Kei Kebreau writes: >> >> [...] >>> >>> Here are two tentative patches that make the changes we've discussed. >>> Also, should we make a deprecated-package defin

Re: Octave & QtOctave

2018-12-06 Thread Alex Vong
Kei Kebreau writes: > Alex Vong writes: > >> Kei Kebreau writes: >> >>> Alex Vong writes: >>> >>>> Hello Kei, >>>> >>>> Kei Kebreau writes: >>>> >>>> [...] >>>>> >>>

Re: Language tag for traditional Chinese

2018-12-07 Thread Alex Vong
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Hello, > > Alex Vong skribis: > >> Tobias Geerinckx-Rice writes: >> >>> Ludo', Alex, >>> >>> On 2018-03-05 9:45, l...@gnu.org wrote: >>>>> The locale should be zh_TW (for Taiwan),

[SECURITY] Which packages bundle sqlite?

2018-12-17 Thread Alex Vong
Hello Guix, Recently, a remote execution vulnerability is discovered in sqlite[0][1]. Apart from updating the sqlite package, I think we need to update all packages bundling sqlite as well. What do you think? Cheers, Alex [0]: https://blade.tencent.com/magellan/index_en.html [1]: https://www.re

Re: [SECURITY] Which packages bundle sqlite?

2018-12-17 Thread Alex Vong
I also want to know should we graft in this case since updating sqlite would cause ~4000s rebuilts. Besides, how to deal with packages that inherit sqlite when grafting? (e.g. sqlite-with-fts5 and sqlite-with-column-metadata) Thanks, Alex Alex Vong writes: > Hello Guix, > > Recently,

Plan for Guix security (was Re: Long term plan for GuixSD security: microkernels, ocap, RISC-V support)

2018-12-25 Thread Alex Vong
Hello everyone, For microkernel, sel4 being a formally verified microkernel (developed by security researchers?) looks promising to me. Maybe someday we can rebase hurd on top of it (replacing mach)... For ocap, I've no idea about it. I've heard of apparmor and selinux but not ocap. Btw, debian

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