Guix Christmas

2020-05-15 Thread Ben Sturmfels
Hi Folks, Between the continuous improvements in speed, the high availability of substitutes, the arrival of PostGIS, QGIS and Geary and now Gnome 3.34, Python 3.8 and IceDove... it feels to me like Guix Christmas! Guix System has been my primary OS for a year or two now, but in the last few mont

Packaging Jitsi SIP Communicator

2017-11-07 Thread Ben Sturmfels
d9i9kxc7ywfwwaz3zgs4z-jitsi-2.10.drv - 1 builder for `/gnu/store/hxpb6xvx324d9i9kxc7ywfwwaz3zgs4z-jitsi-2.10.drv' failed to produce output path `/gnu/store/kz7kwgm25xk83fc69immm80dazv9gb6x-jitsi-2.10' note: keeping build directory `/tmp/guix-build-jitsi-2.10.drv-0' guix build: error:

Re: Packaging Jitsi SIP Communicator

2017-12-18 Thread Ben Sturmfels
Hi Julien, Thomas, Ludovic and Chris, Thanks very much for your tips on my Jitsi building adventures from a few weeks back! I’ll keep you posted on the progress. Regards, Ben On Wed, 08 Nov 2017, julien lepiller wrote: > Le 2017-11-08 05:01, Ben Sturmfels a écrit: >> Hi Folks, &

Overriding PostGIS install directories

2018-01-18 Thread Ben Sturmfels
s I can see the change in /tmp/guix-build-postgis-2.4.2.drv-7/postgis-2.4.2/configure.ac, but it seems that the corresponding "configure" file is unchanged, so I'm obviously missing something. Any thoughts on this or a better approach? Regards, Ben Ben Sturmfels Sturm Software En

Re: Overriding PostGIS install directories

2018-01-19 Thread Ben Sturmfels
Hi Ludo, On Fri, 19 Jan 2018, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > However, I’d recommend simply patching ‘configure’ itself in a snippet, > using ‘substitute*’. That way, you won’t have to add these dependencies > and extra phase. Thanks, substitute* is much neater and changing configure directly is worki

Re: Missing Secure and Private Communication Applications in Guix

2019-04-30 Thread Ben Sturmfels
On 01/05/19 03:16, Dexter Morgan wrote: >[9] Twinkle (https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Twinkle) Hi Dexter, Twinkle is in Guix too - I use it every day and it works very well. For what it's worth, I wouldn't recommend packaging Ekiga. I've tried it many times on other operating systems over the

Naming of native-inputs/inputs/propagated-inputs

2019-07-22 Thread Ben Sturmfels
Hi Folks, On the rare occasion I dip into Guix packaging, I rely on Pierre's tutorial[1] because it has the least confusing definition of "native-inputs" "inputs" and "propagated-inputs". Before that tutorial existed, I don't think I properly understood the difference. I know this is superficial,

Re: Naming of native-inputs/inputs/propagated-inputs

2019-07-23 Thread Ben Sturmfels
On Tue, 23 Jul 2019, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > The difference between “native-inputs” and “inputs” is not about whether > they are needed at build time or runtime. The difference only really > comes into play when cross-building. “native-inputs” must be of the > host architecture, while “inputs” a

Re: Guix beyond 1.0: let’s have a roadmap!

2019-07-26 Thread Ben Sturmfels
Sorry, same as Robert, I've lost the original mail. >> Ludovic Courtès writes: >> >> [...] >> >>> What do *you* want Guix to address in the future? >>> >>> #+TITLE: GNU Guix Beyond 1.0—A Road Map I'd love to be able to annotate user and system generations with some text, so that the text is show