Proposed environment variable to skip running tests

Hello! I would like to propose an environment variable that can be used to skip tests, e.g. export GUIX_SKIP_TESTS=1 This could be implemented by changing line 297 of guix/guix/build/gnu-build-system.scm: (define* (check #:key target (make-flags '()) (tests? (not target)) (t

Fwd: [PATCH] website: Add section section and links to code of conduct

For the section about IRC. Please add a bit that explains why you shouldn't say "hi guys" when you join IRC. Instead "Hi guix" or "Hi #guix" is recommended. Original Message Subject: [PATCH] website: Add section section and links to code of conduct Date: 2018-05-16 00:36 Fr

Re: Removing compilers that cannot be bootstrapped

On 2016-03-21 17:54, Thompson, David wrote: Haskell, OCaml, Chicken, and other compilers that we package have a serious issue that many of us are aware of: they cannot be built from source! They rely upon pre-built binaries of the same compiler. I understand that it's very inconvenient to not h

ffmpeg package update

7330ea03ee6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: rain1 Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 16:24:03 + Subject: [PATCH] * gnu/packages/video.scm: Upgraded version, supplied new hash and removed deprecated libquvi support. Renamed mipsdspr1 to mipsdsp. --- gnu/packages/video.scm | 8 +++- 1 file changed, 3

About collision encountered arbitrarily choosing ...

I was just thinking about the warnings you get after installing packages: warning: collision encountered warning: arbitrarily choosing because there are a lot of them and they generally don't matter or cause problems I have learned to ignore them.. but I just spotted this collision today: /

Re: On my way to my first patch, need review

On 2016-03-26 22:49, vinc...@cloutier.co wrote: Even though I don't know if I am accepted for GSoC yet, I thought it would be nice to start contributing now! :) I started by adding the gem wayback_machine_downloader (a very useful piece of software by the way). So I used `guix edit ruby` and I

Re: MAME emulator is giving incentive to use non-free software

? Jean Louis Jookia. I guess I should say a couple things since this all came about when I mentioned I packaged MAME <https://notabug.org/rain1/pkgs/src/master/rain/mame.scm> for guix, since it recently switched to GPL2. My opinion on this is pretty simple: MAME is free software. I

Warning: Don't install guile-next!

There is a problem on GuixSD: if you install the guile-next package, log out, log in again then the 'guix' tool is broken. Crashes with some ELF read error. It's really hard to fix because 'guix' is the tool you need to fix it. (I had to boot into an install CD and manually dig around, deletin

Reproducible build: linux-libre kernel

t it and see if they do get the same build? (On x86_64) /gnu/store/zbzs26xa68znnlgvgqchm4y7lxbnl4gg-linux-libre-det-4.5 Cheers. From 713017b65c9d5a03dcf709bb231113d2152558e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: rain1 Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 13:05:19 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] * gnu/packages/linux.scm: Add

Re: Reproducible build: linux-libre kernel

Thank you both for looking at the patch and the feedback! I've put these suggestions into this new version. 0001-gnu-linux-libre-Avoid-introducing-timestamps-into-th.patch Description: Binary data

guile-zenity package

ile-zenity + (package +(name "guile-zenity") +(version "0.1") +(source (origin + (method url-fetch/tarbomb) + (file-name "guile-zenity-ca94f01675.tar.gz") + (uri (string-append "htt

gst-libav version update

In order to fix the compile errors and I have bumped the version of gst-libav up to 1.8.0, the most modern version. From 291d304ec068f3720560957c210f77570d6730d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Raymond Nicholson Date: Mon,

mplayer version update

In order to fix the compile error I have bumped the version of mplayer up to 1.3.0, the most modern version. From 423c2717e00577e865bf416598b5481bfa812564 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Raymond Nicholson Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2016 21:20:11 +0100 Subject: [PAT

mutt version update

The newest version of mutt was released a couple days ago . It says "This stable release has an enormous number of changes". This patch bumps the version up to 1.6.0 (the latest). From 131e74a2dd3aa161fa4256ab37d7545ac7ddb0d4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Raymond Nicholson

pcmanfm version update

pcmanfm (and its library libfm) were at version 1.2.3 from 2 years ago. This patch updates them to 1.2.4, the most recent version from February.From 437fee1d56001da92b5b9cd65811d65b1316aec2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Raymond Nicholson Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2016 21:07:59 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] gnu:

The waf problem (running nondeterministic binary blobs at build)

Hello I think there is a danger in packaging programs that use the 'waf' build system. That may pass a regular source code audit. If you look at the last line of a waf file you may see strange text like this: #==> #BZh91AY&Ha