Re: Booth at FOSDEM (Brussels), 4-5 Feb 2023?

On 18.10.22 18:59, zimoun wrote: Hi, As the winter, FOSDEM 2023 is coming… https://fosdem.org/2023 Three questions: 1. do we run for a booth? 2. who is in? 3. who is volunteer to make that happens? Count me in as volunteer for the booth. I'll can help from Friday afternoon until

Re: Guile-Gcrypt 0.4.0 released

On 03.12.22 23:45, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: On 2022-12-01, Ludovic Courtès wrote: I’m pleased to announce Guile-Gcrypt version 0.4.0: git clone https://notabug.org/cwebber/guile-gcrypt.git cd guile-gcrypt git checkout v0.4.0 # or 425554d4327eeeb60c39e3d4a1b7bc5e36b63953 git tag -v

Separate packages for wayland variants

Happy new year fellow Guix hackers, I wonder how we usually deal with package variants for wayland support. In my case I want to make keepassxc working more nicely on sway. It is as simple as adding `qtwayland-5` to its input list. Increasing its size from 1271.8 MiB to 1303.5 MiB. Indicators f

Re: FOSDEM: Meeting on Wednesday evening?

Am 31.01.23 um 16:31 schrieb Andreas Enge: Am Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 11:31:55PM +0100 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: I’ll be in Brussels on Wednesday afternoon, Feb. 1st. As was tradition in the good’ol times, I propose that interested parties meet in the bar called “Au Bon Vieux Temps”, downtown, let’

Re: Google Summer of Code?

On 08.02.23 10:45, Pjotr Prins wrote: I think we can add a few projects. Happy to co-mentor. I created a wiki page at libreplanet: https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/GSoC-2023 I added a list of unique project ideas from 2018 to 2021, removing those already done. Yeah, there are some done

Re: PSA for LUKS users

Am 20.04.23 um 06:03 schrieb Vagrant Cascadian: On 2023-04-19, Felix Lechner via wrote: Given the broad popularity of LUKS full-disk encryption among our fellow Guix users, I thought the community might appreciate reading about potentially weak key-derivation functions in older LUKS installation

Update MATE to 1.24

Hi folks, as the next release is approaching fast, I thought it would be nice to have MATE 1.24 in. Compared to other desktop environments (hi GNOME) updating is straight forward. I tested MATE 1.24 in a VM. There are two problems: * MATE suffers from https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/38135, so y

Re: Update MATE to 1.24

On 25.03.20 18:09, Marius Bakke wrote: > There is an easy workaround for this problem though: installing > glib:bin. We could propagate it for now, or simply add it to > %base-packages. I added glib:bin to my config.scm and MATE can start applications again. Propagating to %base-packages seems li

Re: Update MATE to 1.24

I have opened bugs for the issues, so we don't loose them. On 25.03.20 22:32, Jonathan Brielmaier wrote: > Other findings > == > * You can't shutdown or reboot. There is now button in MATE nor in GDM > after logging outhttp://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi

Re: Update MATE to 1.24

On 25.03.20 22:58, sirgazil wrote: > Other problems I noticed in 1.22 were: > > * Overlapping icons in panel applets. I added some applets to the panel. Their icons doesn't overlap. At least not to my eyes :) > * Not possible to add/remove workspaces. You mean the workspace switcher in the applet

Re: Update MATE to 1.24

On 30.03.20 22:42, sirgazil wrote: > > > * Not possible to add/remove workspaces. > > You mean the workspace switcher in the applet panel? Or do you mean that > > one cannot reduce/increase the number of shown workspaces (default: 4)? > > This also doesn't work at 1.24. > > When I right-clicked

Re: Guix System on a GCE VM -- Success

On 08.04.20 05:16, elaexuo...@wilsonb.com wrote: > The boot problem fix boils down to this: > > (initrd-modules (cons "virtio_scsi" %base-initrd-modules)) > > Referencing Google's documentation on operating system requirements [2], we > see > that their VMs run with Virtio-SCSI controllers; ho

Re: Compressed ISO image got bigger

On 13.04.20 16:42, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > • The uncompressed ISO of rc2 is 2.6 times smaller than that of rc1. That is nice. > Thoughts? Ideas? In my understanding the size of the xz compressed iso is only relevant for downloading. So a matter of bandwith and your internet connection. The

Guix System video review on YouTube

Hi fellow guix hackers, Guix System got a video review on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKsXecNJ_nE As it's in German and was quite a little bit negative (title: "Guix System distribution - a disaster"), I watched it and noted every issue he stumbled across. Although the reviewer was

Re: Guix System video review on YouTube

On 27.04.20 11:08, zimoun wrote: >> * There is no /etc/os-release file. I think it was proposed a while ago, >> but the patch was rejected. > > Naive question: what is useful for? > And what does it mean on rolling-release distro? If you log into a system, its a canonical way to find out which sys

Re: Guix System video review on YouTube

On 28.04.20 13:04, Bengt Richter wrote: >>> So I would propose an interface like: >>> $ guix search vim >>> | Name | Synopsis | Version | Outputs >>> | >>> +---++--+-+ >>> | vim | Text editor based

Re: Towards a graphical installer?

On 11/05/2020 15:27, Mathieu Othacehe wrote: > A way to move forward with the installer could be to propose an ISO > image starting a desktop-environment by default. The attached patch > modifies the installation image so that it starts a GNOME session. The > installer is then automatically started

Re: Icedove package needs update, following IceCat 68.9.0 update.

On 03.06.20 03:26, Mark H Weaver wrote: > Earlier, I wrote: > >> I just pushed the IceCat-68.9.0 security update to the master branch of >> Guix, along with a graft for NSS. >> >> However, I just noticed that we now have Icedove in Guix, and that it's >> based on 'icecat-source'. This is all good

Re: Icedove package needs update, following IceCat 68.9.0 update.

On 03.06.20 10:44, Jonathan Brielmaier wrote: > There is a Thunderbird 68.8.1 with only 3 patches. None of them seems to > be security relevant. I'm working on the update. My laptop just needs > some time to built that stuff... I made a patch see http://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/41701

Re: Icedove package needs update, following IceCat 68.9.0 update.

On 04.06.20 09:08, Jonathan Brielmaier wrote: > On 03.06.20 10:44, Jonathan Brielmaier wrote: >> There is a Thunderbird 68.8.1 with only 3 patches. None of them seems to >> be security relevant. I'm working on the update. My laptop just needs >> some time to built that s

Re: GNOME minimal

On 09.06.20 14:21, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > Hi! > > I've defined a minimal GNOME this way: > > --8<---cut here---start->8--- > (define-public gnome-minimal > (package > (inherit gnome) > (name "gnome-minimal") > (propagated-inputs > ;; Keep na

Re: [ICEDOVE]: Critical Information for Thunderbird 78

On 28.06.20 01:24, Raghav Gururajan wrote: > Hello Guix! > > I just got the following pop-up on icedove and wanted to inform you all. > > *** START *** > > Critical Information for Thunderbird 78 > > If you depend on the security of OpenPGP messages for important > purposes, then please do NOT manu

Re: Pushed a fix (?) for ACL key location

On 12.07.20 03:44, Christopher Lemmer Webber wrote: > Commit 6680880f9b8dceb4f2f3f91bd2b13c659b53835e pushed out a new version > of Guix, and it looks like it wasn't possible to build new systems from > that because the filename for the "Berlin ACL key" changed. (Or at > least, I couldn't run "gui

Re: Pushed a fix (?) for ACL key location

On 12.07.20 14:33, Marius Bakke wrote: > Jonathan Brielmaier writes: > >> On 12.07.20 03:44, Christopher Lemmer Webber wrote: >>> Commit 6680880f9b8dceb4f2f3f91bd2b13c659b53835e pushed out a new version >>> of Guix, and it looks like it wasn't possible to buil

How to package inputrc

Hi folks, an annoying thing for me in a default Guix installation is the lack of an inputrc definition[0]. So while using the shell I miss going through my bash history via "page up"/"page down" keys. To tackle this issue I created a simple inputrc and copied to `/etc/inputrc`: ``` # alternate ma

ARM build machines

Hi fellow hackers, after recent discussions about our Softiron OverDrive in IRC, I thought it might be a good idea to have look what options for powerful ARM machines are around. That was some weeks ago. Today there where another discussions on IRC about building packages on ARM, so I sent in my

Re: IceCat-78.2 preview on 'wip-icecat-78' branch; need icedove-78.

Am Mon, 7 Sep 2020 15:57:37 -0400, Mark H Weaver schrieb: > Hi Jonathan, and other fellow Guix! > > I've pushed a preview of IceCat-78.2 to the 'wip-icecat-78' branch on > Savannah. It's ready for early testing by interested parties. It works > well enough that I've switched to it as my primary b

Re: IceCat-78.2 preview on 'wip-icecat-78' branch; need icedove-78.

On 08.09.20 19:09, Jonathan Brielmaier wrote: >> Jonathan: you seem to be the defacto maintainer of our IceDove package. >> Would you like to work on updating it to 78 on the 'wip-icecat-78' >> branch? We have about 2 weeks before IceCat 78 must be pushed to >>

Re: IceCat-78.2 preview on 'wip-icecat-78' branch; need icedove-78.

On 15.09.20 12:52, Mark H Weaver wrote: Hi Jonathan, Jonathan Brielmaier writes: I had a look. It's at the moment two WIP patches here: https://gitlab.com/jonsger/Guix/-/tree/wip-icedove-78 Thanks very much for working on it. Icedove 78 needs nss >= 3.53.1 and we have only 3.52

Re: IceCat-78.2 preview on 'wip-icecat-78' branch; need icedove-78.

On 22.09.20 21:00, Jonathan Brielmaier wrote: On 15.09.20 12:52, Mark H Weaver wrote: Hi Jonathan, Jonathan Brielmaier writes: I had a look. It's at the moment two WIP patches here: https://gitlab.com/jonsger/Guix/-/tree/wip-icedove-78 Thanks very much for working on it. Icedove 78

Re: 03/03: publish: Provide server's signing key.

On 31.10.20 11:33, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hi Jonathan, > > Jonathan Brielmaier skribis: > >> I think this commits lacks a bit of documentation. Users should get >> known of this fact, admins as well as "consumers" of guix publish. >> >> It's

Re: Hunspell dictionaries

On 31.10.20 21:03, paul wrote:> Dear Guixers, I was packaging an Italian dictionary for Hunspell, when I found this link listing all the Hunspell dictionaries supported by Libreoffice [0]. This lead me to think about a function for defining dictionary packages (very much based on aspell-diction

Re: Make guix-publish's URL identical to cache file name

Hi Peng Mei Yu, first of all a big thank you for making the Guix experience in China much nicer! I'm running myself a smaller cuirass+publish server and I have configured the caching on the nginx side and not with `guix publish`. So my cache resides in: /var/cache/nginx/nar/ For me it has a dra

Yet another new committer

Hi fellow Guix hackers, I'm happy to announce that effective of today I have commit access to our git repository. My commits (and this mail) are signed with following PGP key: 81416036E81A5CF78F801071ECFC83988B4E4B9F Which also can be found at: https://keys.openpgp.org/vks/v1/by-fingerprint/8

[Guix Day] Feedback (was: [Guix Day] Join the conference!)

On 21.11.20 23:11, Julien Lepiller wrote: Hello Guixers! We are looking forward to see you all during the Guix Day event on Sunday November 22! As a reminder, here is the schedule again. A day after I'm pretty happy that I joined the Guix Days yesterday :) It was very pleasant experience. So

Why is BigBlueButton slow on GuixSystem (was: Re: Thank you for participating in the Guix Day!)

On 25.11.20 19:24, Leo Famulari wrote> On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 06:50:41PM +0100, Michael Rohleder wrote>> Browser is icecat 78.5.0-guix0-preview1 with all extensions disabled,>> except "Surfingkeys". Computer is something like this (neofetch):> > [...]> > Hm... it seems unlikely that this comp

Re: When substitute download + decompression is CPU-bound

Super interesting findings! On 14.12.20 23:20, Ludovic Courtès wrote: 2. Use Zstd like all the cool kids since it seems to have a much higher decompression speed: . 630 MB/s on ungoogled-chromium on my laptop. Woow. Not only decompression speed

Re: Identical files across subsequent package revisions

On 23.12.20 23:06, Mark H Weaver wrote: Hi Taylan, Taylan Kammer writes: My second thought: it's surprising that IceCat supposedly changes so much between releases. I suppose the reason is that this analysis is on a per-file basis, and IceCat is mostly a massive binary. FYI, here's the reas

Re: Linux-Libre-LTS

On 24.12.20 11:15, Mark H Weaver wrote: Thoughts? I have one concern. It seems to me that the main reason to specify an LTS kernel is to avoid the unscheduled breakage that can occur when updating to a new kernel release series (i.e. to a new major+minor version). Using "linux-libre-lts" woul

Re: Installation report

Interesting one. Its nice how far the installer went! On 30.12.20 10:24, Efraim Flashner wrote: (ins)efraim@3900XT ~$ guix environment --ad-hoc neofetch -- neofetch .. `. efraim@3900XT `--..```..` `..```..--` - .-:///-:::. `-:::

Re: Linux-Libre-LTS

On 29.10.20 04:32, Raghav Gururajan wrote: [...] Thoughts? A problem with the approach pushed is that it's not easy to spot `linux-libre-lts`. As its only a variable and not a package: `guix show` and `guix package -A` wont find it.

Re: Cuirass logo - artwork.

On 08.01.21 10:31, Mathieu Othacehe wrote:> I think it would be nice to give the project a nice logo that could be displayed on the web interface, and maybe on an hypothetical project page. It would be, so we can have a favicon :) And I can find my cuirass server better in the forest of browser

Re: Staging branch [substitute availability]

Am Thu, 14 Jan 2021 09:39:41 +0100, Mathieu Othacehe schrieb: > First, I still need to connect the four overdrives machine to the new > Cuirass remote building mechanism, and I would need some help for that > (asked on guix-sysadmins). But, I'm not sure it will much improve the > situation. > > Lon

Re: Staging branch [problem with node-10.22]

On 22.01.21 21:46, Leo Famulari wrote: On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 05:30:53PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote: Using `guix weather`, we can check substitute availability for the staging branch: -- master branch aarch64: 66% x86_64: 93% i686: 85% armhf: 51% staging branch aarch64: 44% x86_64: 80% i68

Re: GNOME 3.34 in GNU Guix and security

Am 11.03.21 um 09:08 schrieb Ricardo Wurmus: Léo Le Bouter writes: I must come to the conclusion that using GNOME 3.34 in GNU Guix right now is just straight out insecure. I would advise we either, get rid of GNOME, backport all individual security patches (they can be numerous..), or upgrade

Re: [opinion] CVE-patching is not sufficient for package security patching

On 16.03.21 12:10, Léo Le Bouter wrote: For these reasons, I suggest that we always strive to update packages to their latest versions and that I think it is security relevant to always do so. Of course, new code could *introduce* new vulnerabilities but I am not trying to debate this, it's that

Re: Are gzip-compressed substitutes still used?

On 17.03.21 18:12, Ludovic Courtès wrote: (See for the initial message.) Here’s an update, 1.5 month later. This time I’m looking at nginx logs covering Feb 8th to Mar 17th and using a laxer regexp than in the message above,

Re: Have GPGPU support in guix?

On 04/26/2018 05:18 AM, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > > Joshua Branson writes: > >> That's actually a really good point. I forgot about that. Isn't radeon >> close to having free drivers? > > I thought it was entirely free already, isn't it? > To my understanding, it's AMDGPU that is partly propr

Re: Have GPGPU support in guix?

On 26/04/2018 10:04, Mark H Weaver wrote: > What about firmware? Do we know which AMD Radeon cards, if any, can be > used without including nonfree software in the OS? I'm not aware of an AMD/ATI Radeon card which doesn't need nonfree firmware. The in-tree firmware in kernel goes back until ATI R

Re: Help sending package.

Maybe you should use a different mail provider. Hotmail is known to have sometimes issues like this. On 6/12/18 1:07 PM, Fis Trivial wrote: > > Fis Trivial writes: > >> Please help sending this package to guix-patches list. I got blocked due >> to various reasons (It's not something bad, it's ju

Re: RFC: Portability should be a higher priority for Guix (was Re: 01/01: build-system/meson: Really skip the 'fix-runpath' phase on armhf.)

On 7/5/18 12:32 AM, Kei Kebreau wrote: >> I'm open to suggestions. Do you see any solution to the problem of how >> to attract more non-x86_64 users, given our current policies? >> >> Thanks, >>Mark > > I am interested in helping with non-x86_64 issues. Particularly, helping > with i

The state of guix in (open)SUSE

epo. Thanks to all those people who helped us with packaging, in particular Ludovic! Happy Hacking Your friendly SUSE packagers Tomas Cech and Jonathan Brielmaier [0] https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/devel:languages:misc [1] https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/security:tls [2] https://b

Re: The state of guix in (open)SUSE

On 8/14/18 3:25 PM, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: >> openSUSE Leap 15 >> In the standard repositories guix is still on 0.14 and there are now >> plans from our side to change that. > > ‘Now’ or ‘no’? No :( But Leap 15.1 should get the most recent version of guix, when it's got released in a year o

Re: System configuration on non-native Guix (SuSE/Debian)

On 8/19/18 10:47 PM, Pjotr Prins wrote: > On Sun, Aug 19, 2018 at 09:19:15PM +0200, Amirouche Boubekki wrote: >>Le dim. 19 août 2018 à 08:02, Pjotr Prins >><[1]pjotr.publi...@thebird.nl> a écrit : >> >> With the recent SuSE announcement I hope Guix gets taken up as a >> package ma

Re: FOSDEM 2019 (ACTION: please register or mail)

On 8/24/18 11:23 AM, Pjotr Prins wrote: > Who wants to come to a separate 2 day GNU Guix event? > > That is the Thursday Jan 31st and/or Friday Feb 1st right before > FOSDEM. I.e., 4 days of hacker nirvana. > > FOSDEM is really great. Look at last year's schedule for Saturday > > https://archi

Re: bootstrap: i686-linux now builds without binutils, gcc seeds

On 9/23/18 6:09 PM, Joshua Branson wrote: > Jan Nieuwenhuizen writes: > >> Ludovic Courtès writes: >> >> Hi! >> >> Yay! I think the way forward to reduce them further that I like best is >> to assume Guile and start building a Gash/Geesh and the other utilities >> from there. >> > > Can you lin

Re: Long term plan for GuixSD security: microkernels, ocap, RISC-V support

On 9/24/18 5:24 PM, Joshua Branson wrote: > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: >> We could also mention MINIX, which many of us are already using daily. >> :-) > > That's pretty awesome! I didn't realize gnu developers were using > MINIX. I guess it is a little different as you might think.

Re: Trying to crosscompile for POWER9

On 10/16/18 8:08 PM, Tobias Platen wrote: > Hello, > > When I try to compile GUIX for POWER9 an old version of GCC is used. > How do I use the gcc version used for cross compiling. > > ./pre-inst-env guix build --target=powerpc64le-linux hello > > checking if powerpc64le-linux-gcc supports > bin

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

On 10/26/18 12:41 AM, Luther Thompson wrote: > On Wed, 24 Oct 2018 11:57:15 +0200 > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote: >> If you use berlin.guixsd.org, everything is fine; if you don’t, now is >> the time to add it to your substitute URLs! See >>

Guix gets a distribution called PantherX

. Though I couldn't find any of the team members in some Guix commits or patches... Kind Regards Jonathan Brielmaier [0] https://wiki.pantherx.org/PantherX-compared-to-other-distributions/ [1] https://www.pantherx.org/about/ [2] http://www.panther-mpc.com/panther-alpha/

My experiences with GuixSD

Hello Guix, two weeks ago I got a new desktop computer. I decided to remove the ubuntu on it and tried to install GuixSD on it. I'm not a super-linux-crack just an "average" user. I'll describe my experiences and ask some questions/give some input (indicated with "=>"). 1. I had a hard time duri

Re: My experiences with GuixSD

Am 11.09.2017 um 01:33 schrieb Mark H Weaver: Jonathan Brielmaier writes: 4. Icecat... I had to restart it like every five minutes because it doesn't show websites. Yes, I disabled all those add-ons (LibreJS etc.). It was not usable for me, really not. Could you elaborate more precise

Re: My experiences with GuixSD

Am 11.09.2017 um 18:39 schrieb Maxim Cournoyer: > Hi Jonathan, > > Jonathan Brielmaier writes: > > [...] > >> 2. After booting in the installed GuixSD the fonts were awful and I >> didn't get them to a better state. > > I also was dismayed at the font

Re: Can't download signing key for Guix 0.13.0

Hello Oge, I checked that command on my machine an it worked as intended :) If you want to search on pgp.mit.edu you have to ad "0x" before the key. You can find the key here: https://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?search=0x3CE464558A84FDC69DB40CFB090B11993D9AEBB5&op=index Jonathan On 06/11/17 10:

Re: anyone going to 34c3 / Chaos Congress?

Hi, I will be there too :) Count me in for a small meetup (maybe some hours or so). Jonathan On 07/12/17 15:03, ng0 wrote: > Hi, > > I'm going to be in Leipzig for the 34c3 at the end of this month. > > Is there anyone else of us who will be there and would like to > meetup? > As far as I kno

[PATCH] website: donate: Add overdrive1.guixsd.org.

* website/apps/base/templates/donate.scm (donate-t): Add table row for overdrive1.guixsd.org. --- website/apps/base/templates/donate.scm | 10 ++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/website/apps/base/templates/donate.scm b/website/apps/base/templates/donate.scm index 9c263b0..

[core-updates-frozen] Blockers for working system

Hi Guix folks, here are the blockers which prevent me from using core-updates-frozen on my personal machine. So those 14 derivations failed for me this morning: /gnu/store/fm4wk6zf8zir5qgc7m0fb52i9vrc1a21-gnome-calculator-3.34.1.drv -> fixed: 67b8aa91f7 /gnu/store/mszx21cxrhsi1r1hx66fjb6qp2v4y3

Re: Adding Substitute Mirrors page to installer

On 02.12.21 10:36, zimoun wrote: Hi, On Wed, 1 Dec 2021 at 23:49, raid5atemyhomework wrote: From 41b174da1e38b71563405f1be48331fbe0e5700d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: raid5atemyhomework Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2021 23:45:37 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add substitute mirrors page to installer.

Re: Patch adding POWER9 cross compile support

On 2/27/19 7:29 PM, Tobias Platen wrote: > I succesfully crosscompiled GNU Hello and all its dependencies including > glibc for POWER9. Without my patch glibc will fail to build. I am using > the core-updates branch, since the default branch uses an outdated > version of GCC. > > Tobias Nice! And

Re: Failure to build powerpc64le-linux glibc

On 3/27/19 7:01 AM, Tobias Platen wrote: > Hello, > > I have tried to cross compile the bootstrap binaries for ppc64le using > > ./pre-inst-env guix build --target=powerpc64le-linux bootstrap-tarballs > > but the build failed again, it seems that this is a known bug that > affects other architectur

Re: Guix gets a distribution called PantherX

". They also have a quite ambitious vision to have a 100% decentralized system by 2022, which doesn't require any central server. On 2/11/19 6:58 PM, Jonathan Brielmaier wrote: Hi Guix folks, following a link from bug#34435 I found a pretty interesting website: https://www.pantherx.org

Re: Status update on 1.0

Am 29.03.19 um 19:56 schrieb Ricardo Wurmus:> One of the GNOME update branches (for 2.28?) has already been merged > into staging. There are rumours of crashes, though, so this will > require testing by more people. I checked out staging and built a slightly adjusted desktop.tmpl image with "guix

Re: Status update on 1.0

On 4/10/19 6:56 PM, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > > Hi Jonathan, > > thank you for testing this! > >> - at somepoint Gnome crashes, a screenshot of the error message is >> attached (gnome_freeze.png) > > I see OOM killer is mentioned. How much RAM did you allocate to the VM? 4GiB

Re: Transmission BitTorrent Client

Am 26.04.19 um 19:35 schrieb Raghav Gururajan: > Hello Guix! > > I tried installing the package "Transmission". It is not showing up in > GNOME Menu. Typing "transmission" on terminal also not starting the > application. But I can see the package installed in my user profile. The problem here is t

Re: GNU Guix 1.0.0 released

On 5/5/19 4:49 PM, Tobias Platen wrote:>> Ludovic, on behalf of the Guix team. > Yesterday I installed Guix 1.0.0 on my Vikings D16 server.  I found out > that there are boostrap binaries ready for 32bit PowerPC. I tried to run > those on my Talos II, I expected a failure, but everything works fine

Re: Setting up a Hurd build node

Am 08.05.19 um 00:12 schrieb Ricardo Wurmus> Weird! This is all very familiar, because that’s where I stopped when I > last tried all of this. I gave up when I couldn’t figure out why tar > segfaulted. Maybe you could include the bug-h...@gnu.org mailing list or ask Hurd hackers directly :)

Re: guix package --search slow ?

On 5/15/19 3:34 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > We could probably improve the cold-cache timings by adding synopses and > descriptions to the package cache that ‘guix pull’ builds in > ~/.config/guix/current/lib/guix/package.cache, but that would also make > that cache bigger. Not sure if it’s worth

Running Guix System on Hetzner Cloud

o_pci")) (swap-devices (list "/dev/sda1")) (file-systems (cons* (file-system (mount-point "/") (device (uuid "713cf8af-e503-45f9-9a10-a0c5a4ce709b" 'ext4)) (type "ext4")

Re: Running Guix System on Hetzner Cloud

On 6/6/19 12:37 PM, n...@n0.is wrote: > Jonathan Brielmaier transcribed 93K bytes: >> Hi fellow Guix hackers, >> >> the last weekend I tried to install Guix system on the Hetzner Cloud[0]. >> First I tried to use Ubuntu, install Guix with the installer script and >&

Re: GNU Guix 1.0.1 released

On 5/19/19 11:43 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > We are pleased to announce the release of GNU Guix 1.0.1. > > This is a bug-fix release primarily addressing one major issue in the > graphical installer of the standalone Guix system, as well as less > critical issues. Guix 1.0.1 is now finally availa

Re: 01/02: Revert "gnu: openssh: Clean-up custom install phase."

On 6/27/19 8:16 AM, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: > Mark, > > Mark H Weaver wrote: >> I don't doubt that reverting these commits was the right thing to do, >> but it would be good to know _why_ they were reverted.  Can you provide >> a link to a relevant discussion, or else explain it here? > > They

Re: Permissions error during libhandy build - looking for tips

On 7/7/19 6:41 PM, Jonathan Frederickson wrote: > Hi! I'm trying to package libhandy for Guix, but I'm running into some > issues. libhandy uses Meson for builds - I'm not super familiar > with it, but it looks like something during the installation process is > trying to write to a path in /gnu/st

Re: Permissions error during libhandy build - looking for tips

On 7/7/19 11:40 PM, Jonathan Frederickson wrote:>> So there are two options from here: >> - bring meson to install libglade-handy.so to the libhandy package >> - don't intall libglade-handy.so at all > > Is the former the usual method for providing libraries like this? If > I'm interpreting this co

Re: Permissions error during libhandy build - looking for tips

On 7/8/19 11:23 AM, Jonathan Brielmaier wrote: > As I (also) per ordered a Librem 5, I dream as well from running Guix > system on it. Maybe I'll open a tracker bug to track all the things we > need to run Guix on Librem 5 :) I just went ahead, feel free to add stu

Re: Fixing evolution-data-server on core-updates

So am I right in the assumption to use the patch proposed at: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evolution-data-server/issues/137 Could you then prepare this patch for core-updates? On 7/15/19 6:09 AM, Timothy Sample wrote: > Hi all, > > While testing core-updates I found that evolution-data-server d

Re: Status update+patches:Re: I managed to build guix natively on Debian GNU/Hurd , what's next?

On 20.09.19 20:48, Svante Signell wrote: > find /gnu/store -name "make-bootstrap.scm"|grep guix-packages- > source/gnu/packages|wc -l > 12 > Which one to patch?? > There are also .cache files... > > Confusing as ever. Seem like the time to learn will be long! The /gnu/store is read-only, you shoul

Re: Help needed packaging rust-cbindgen, a dependency of IceCat 68

On 22.10.19 08:23, Mark H Weaver wrote: > Hello fellow Guix, > > I have good news and bad news. The good news is that thanks to the > heroic efforts of Amin Bandali , a recently appointed > co-maintainer of GNU IceCat, there now exists a preliminary version of > IceCat 68 that builds successfully

Re: GNOME Core Applications

I have a patch for gnome-contacts bit rotting around: https://gitlab.com/jonsger/Guix/commit/6c4103783ec937026e270c347b471673eb6ee0aa I think it build but didn't start. Back then it was required to base it on top of core-updates. But I think it now can be done on top of master. On 13.11.19 08:04

State of the powerpc64le port

Hello fellow Guix hackers, recently I just gave the powerpc64le-linux thing another try, as I'm missing Guix to much on my main machine (POWER9)... Work is happening on a personal branch. It still in a WIP state and force-pushing can occur: https://gitlab.com/jonsger/Guix/tree/wip-master-powerpc6

Re: New POWER9 machines for the Guix build farm?

On 28.11.19 01:50, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: Fellow Guix, The Guix sysadmins are considering buying shiny hardware for the ci.guix.gnu.org build farm, and it would be awesome if that included our first POWER9 machine(s)! This would be very neat. So please, share your expertise and experie

Re: Running Guix on a Hetzner Virtual Machine

On 08.12.19 18:50, Christopher Baines wrote: > Hey, > > I just succeeded in setting in getting Guix running on a virtual server > hosted by Hetzner. > > They don't offer an ISO image for Guix (yet… I've submitted a ticket), > so I installed from the rescue system. The only snag was virtio_scsi > Li

Re: new micro release to address bug 36074 for new binary installs on foreign distributions with systemd

On 02.01.20 20:21, Danny Milosavljevic wrote: > There were also changes to the DVD bootloader (grub-mkrescue) which would be > important to release. Adding the requirement on guile-json 3.x.x which is on master for 7 months or so now. Makes it easier to use guix-master on foreign distros, which yo

Re: Testing the installer

On 12.01.20 23:13, Ludovic Courtès wrote: Hello Guix! One of the lessons from the 1.0.0 screw-up was that we should test the graphical installer itself: https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/gnu-guix-1.0.1-released/ I think we should try to do that before the next release; not doing it means testi

Re: Meeting in Brussels on Wednesday evening?

On 28.01.20 12:21, Ludovic Courtès wrote: The tradition is to meet in this lovely bar called “Au Bon Vieux Temps” that has great beers as well as soft drinks: https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=50.84833&mlon=4.35205#map=19/50.84833/4.35205 I wont make it, but I have a better OSM link her

Using the Hetzner Cloud

Hi folks, as promised on the Guix Days in Bruxelles I asked Hetzner[0] if they could provide us some free VMs in their cloud[1]. A few days ago they came back go to me. Sadly they can't provide us free VMs, but they will give us 30 EUR credit for the first month. As they bill hour-wise and offer

Re: Using the Hetzner Cloud

On 17.02.20 17:55, Ellen Papsch wrote:> a few days ago I requested the Guix installer from Hetzner as well. I > gave them the ISO URL from Guix website. They mounted it without > modification, which prevented boot due to the image being compressed. I > had to supply the uncompressed image, which bo

Re: Using the Hetzner Cloud

On 17.02.20 18:15, Alex Sassmannshausen wrote:> This is by far the fastest way of deploying to Hetzner VMs I've found > yet. > > It also means you can use Hetzner's CLI for creating and managing your > VMs. > > It's on my to do list to create a solid guix deploy server creation > module for guix.

Re: Plan for a release!

On 24.02.20 23:55, Vincent Legoll wrote:>> • (Optionally) have an automated test that installs the binary tarball >> on Debian or similar. > > I'm (slowly) working on this. I have some bash script doing the work, but > that cannot be run from guix itself because it requires libguestfs. So I'm

Re: Call for contribution to the Guix infrastructure

Hello Ludo, Am 24.05.24 um 15:51 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: • Hosting We’re looking for people who can host machines and help out whenever physical access is needed. More specifically: - We need hosting of “small” machines such as single-board computers (AArch64, RI