Re: Addition to gnu-build-system: make test.

2016-08-28 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hullo, On 28/08/16 14:23, John Darrington wrote: > Why not generalise that: > check-alias "test" which defaults to check. Or something similar. Sure. How about #:test-target? :-) (Not that calling it test-target instead of check-target isn't needlessly confusing already. Trips me up every time.

Re: [PATCH 1/2] gnu: Add keyutils.

2016-08-28 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Ludo', On 28/08/16 18:35, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > s/filesystems/file systems/ :-) Thank you for making my day. I thought the correct spelling was dead. I dread the first time I catch myself double-spacing sentences, though. > Did you mean ‘license:gpl2+’ for the second one? Indeed; already f

[PATCH] services: nginx: Actually check if configuration is valid.

2016-09-08 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
* gnu/services/web.scm (nginx-activation): Fix path to nginx binary. --- Hullo again! I suspect not many people run nginx (or dovecot, but that's a different matter) on Guix. The nginx activation script will now correctly print a non-fatal error if the configuration smells off. Why I'm mailing:

Re: [PATCH] services: nginx: Actually check if configuration is valid.

2016-09-08 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Dave, On 09/09/16 04:09, Thompson, David wrote: > Maybe this could be done at build-time instead? The nginx service points to a stateful configuration file, like /etc/nginx.conf, that isn't built or handled by Guix. I'd like that to change, but that will have to wait for now. > Would be nice to

Re: [PATCH] services: nginx: Actually check if configuration is valid.

2016-09-08 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hi Dave, On 09/09/16 04:29, Thompson, David wrote: > No, it doesn't. I wrote the nginx service. The config file used is > part of the g-expression and is absolutely not stateful. Wait. nckx@v5 ~$ sudo herd restart nginx Service nginx has been stopped. Service nginx has been started. nckx@v5 ~$

[PATCH 2/2] gnu: encfs: Update to 1.9.

2016-09-10 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
* gnu/packages/crypto.scm (encfs): Update to 1.9. [source]: Remove bundled TinyXML2 in a snippet. [build-system]: Switch to cmake-build-system. [arguments]: Remove autotools-related phases and configure-flags. Don't use bundled TinyXML2. [native-inputs]: Remove autoconf, automake, libtool, and pkg-

[PATCH 1/2] gnu: Add tinyxml2.

2016-09-10 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
@@ ;;; Copyright © 2016 Ben Woodcroft ;;; Copyright © 2016 Jan Nieuwenhuizen ;;; Copyright © 2016 ng0 +;;; Copyright © 2016 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice ;;; ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix. ;;; @@ -883,6 +884,27 @@ C++ programming language.") (home-page "http://www.grinninglizard.c

[PATCH] gnu: Add sslh.

2016-09-11 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
* gnu/packages/networking.scm (sslh): New variable. --- gnu/packages/networking.scm | 71 - 1 file changed, 70 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/gnu/packages/networking.scm b/gnu/packages/networking.scm index c4edbc3..1818b62 100644 --- a/gnu/pa

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add sslh.

2016-09-11 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Leo, Thanks! On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 02:32:08AM +0200, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: > (doc (string-append out "/share/doc") And for catching this. What's annoying is that I *always* miss this, I *know* that I always miss this, and I keep missing it anyway... Ki

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add sslh.

2016-09-12 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Efraim, Thanks! On 12/09/16 12:03, Efraim Flashner wrote: >> + (lambda* _ > ^^^ >Don't need the underscore here I don't see how that could work. Did you mean to drop the asterisk? If not, I'll need a bit more info. >

Re: [PATCH 2/2] gnu: encfs: Update to 1.9.

2016-09-12 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Ludo', On 12/09/16 15:42, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> + (snippet '(for-each delete-file-recursively >> + (find-files "internal" "tinyxml2") > > Note that the 2nd argument to ‘find-files’ is a regexp. Is this really > intended? It is. The directory to be deleted

Re: [PATCH 1/2] gnu: Add tinyxml2.

2016-09-13 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Ludo', On 12/09/16 15:40, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Does it honor an environment variable like XML_CATALOG_FILES that could > be put in ‘search-paths’? None that I can find, after a quick grep of the source ball for things like ‘env’ and ‘PATH’. Kind regards, T G-R signature.asc Description:

Re: [PATCH 2/2] gnu: encfs: Update to 1.9.

2016-09-13 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Ludo', On 13/09/16 14:11, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > However, ‘find-files’ does not include directories in its result, > unless you explicitly ask for it. So probably it should be: > > (for-each delete-file-recursively (find-files "internal" "^tinyxml2" > #:directories? #t)) Indeed, thanks. I'l

[PATCH] gnu: Add mcelog.

2016-09-14 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
* gnu/packages/linux.scm (mcelog): New variable. --- gnu/packages/linux.scm | 41 + 1 file changed, 41 insertions(+) diff --git a/gnu/packages/linux.scm b/gnu/packages/linux.scm index 3ec6514..fc4faa4 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/linux.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/l

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add mcelog.

2016-09-14 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
ill requires a snippet, unfortunately. > Tobias Geerinckx-Rice writes: >> +#:tests? #f)) ; tests must be run as >> root > Does all tests have to run as root? Yes. Each test wants to load modules & inject synthetic MCE events. The daemon will even fail to

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add mcelog.

2016-09-14 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Ludo', On 14/09/16 17:02, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Please align the #:. > Remove leading space here. Yup, I noticed :-) Thanks. Kind regards, T G-R signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add mcelog.

2016-09-14 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Marius, On 14/09/16 17:19, Marius Bakke wrote: > Another thing, I think the snippet should be moved to a phase, as AFAIK > origin snippets should be reserved for removing unwanted files, or for > reproducibility. Not if we use your suggested snapshot tarball, which rightly lack a .git directory.

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add mcelog.

2016-09-14 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Danny, Marius, Danny Milosavljevic writes: > DESTDIR is a feature which lets you install into a tempdir. The idea > is that you install it all there and then atomically replace the > ORIGINAL version at the non-DESTDIR location. Herp. I know all this, no idea how I managed to confuse them. On 1

Re: Mail to this list is slow?

2016-09-22 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
John & others, On 23/09/16 01:48, Leo Famulari wrote: > I had this experience, too. I assume it's some sort of spam mitigation. I can't speak for the FSF admins, but that[0] is almost certainly the reason. On the other hand, I often receive others' mail with delays up to several hours. I hope th

Re: [PATCH 4/6] gnu: linux-libre-beagle-bone-black: Remove kernel variant.

2016-09-27 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hullo, On 26/09/16 18:49, John Darrington wrote: > I vote that we make the reason for a commit to be compulsory. +1, s/commit/non-trivial commit/ I agree that it should be more strongly encouraged, if just to make people aware that it's actually allowed — plenty aren't. If no-one submits a prop

Re: [PATCH] gnu: lynx: Fix GnuTLS support.

2016-10-06 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Kei, On 07/10/16 03:28, Leo Famulari wrote: > On Thu, Oct 06, 2016 at 08:48:31PM -0400, Kei Kebreau wrote: >> HTTPS connections using lynx work on my machine with this patch. Would >> someone else like to see about this? > > Thanks for working on this! +1! On 07/10/16 03:28, Leo Famulari wrote:

Re: [PATCH] gnu: lynx: Fix GnuTLS support.

2016-10-06 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
On 07/10/16 03:56, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: > Interestingly, > > $ lynx https://google.com > > works just fin— (In the interest of balance, $ lynx https://duckduckgo.com works just fin– as well.) Kind regards, T G-R signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: 01/01: gnu: btrfs-progs: Update to 4.8.

2016-10-07 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
For those reading along: On 07/10/16 00:00, Leo Famulari wrote: > On Wed, Oct 05, 2016 at 08:07:35PM +0000, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice > wrote: >> nckx pushed a commit to branch master gnu: btrfs-progs: Update to >> 4.8. > > I noticed this failed to build on 32-bit machines

[PATCH] gnu: Add yadifa.

2016-10-25 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
00644 --- a/gnu/packages/dns.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/dns.scm @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ ;;; Copyright © 2016 Efraim Flashner ;;; Copyright © 2016 John Darrington ;;; Copyright © 2016 ng0 +;;; Copyright © 2016 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice ;;; ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix. ;;; @@ -23,6 +24,7 @@ (define-modul

[PATCH] gnu: Add radeontop.

2016-10-27 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
* gnu/packages/linux.scm (radeontop): New variable. --- Ahoy Guix, Like top, but for mediocre GPUs. I'm too ignorant of anything beyond x86 to know if supported-systems is needed or even makes sense here. Kind regards, T G-R gnu/packages/linux.scm | 44 +++

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add radeontop.

2016-10-28 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Ludo', On 28/10/16 15:49, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > We can add ‘supported-systems’ later if/when we have evidence that it > doesn’t build on other arches. OK! > You could move ‘home-page’ above ‘source’ and reference it here. Done. Nice to know that's not considered over-factorisation; I quite l

Re: [PATCH] Add php

2016-10-30 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Julien, On 30/10/16 13:08, Julien Lepiller wrote: > here is a patch to add php to guix. Excellent! I see you've broken into my machine (probably through PHP), stolen my bitrotting PHP 7 package and greatly improved it. Thanks! An incomplete review: > +(chdir "ext") [...] > +

Patent nonsense: zstd

2016-11-05 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Guix, I've had a package for the ‘zstd’ compressor lying about for quite some time — since before its weird appropriation by Facebook Inc. as a PR tool. Apart from that, it's nice. It's fast. Why not upstream it. While updating and cleaning it up for submission, I noticed a ‘PATENTS’ file[0] that

Re: Patent nonsense: zstd

2016-11-05 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
[...and now CC'ing the list because mail is hard.] Leo, On 05/11/16 19:56, Leo Famulari wrote: > My 2¢ are quoted from the GNU Free System Distribution Guidelines > [0], which Guix does follow: > > [...] they're often worded so as to make it hard to tell what they > do or don't cover, [...] I go

Re: [PATCH] improve nginx-service

2016-11-06 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hullo Julien, (Sorry for replying at a random point in the thread — it's the only part I have in this mailbox.) On 04/11/16 23:58, Hartmut Goebel wrote: > Am 04.11.2016 um 23:12 schrieb Julien Lepiller: >> I'd like to get these patches accepted first, but I'm already >> working on adding more co

[PATCH 2/2] gnu: progress: Update to 0.13.1.

2016-11-07 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
* gnu/packages/admin.scm (progress): Update to 0.13.1. [native-inputs]: Add pkg-config and which. [arguments]: Drop LDFLAGS (now handled by pkg-config) from #:make-flags. --- gnu/packages/admin.scm | 9 ++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/gnu/packages/admin.scm

[PATCH 0/2] Install ncurses .pc files; update progress

2016-11-07 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Guix, (Intended for core-updates, since it has ‘ncurses’ in the name.) Let ncurses install its pkg-config .pc files, and let an updated ‘progress’ use them instead of adding ever more work-arounds. Kind regards, T G-R Tobias Geerinckx-Rice (2): gnu: ncurses: Install pkg-config ‘.pc’ files

[PATCH 1/2] gnu: ncurses: Install pkg-config ‘.pc’ files.

2016-11-07 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
* gnu/packages/ncurses.scm (ncurses)[arguments]: Add ‘--enable-pc-files’ and ‘--with-pkg-config-libdir=’ to #:configure-flags. Create ‘non-wide’ compatibility symbolic links for ‘.pc’ files in the post-install-phase. [native-inputs]: Add pkg-config. --- gnu/packages/ncurses.scm | 22 ++

Re: Web site now uses Haunt

2016-11-10 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Ludo', On 10/11/16 15:40, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hello! (again! :-)) Well hello. I didn't see you there. This caught my attention: From: l...@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) To: Guile-devel Kind regards, T G-R signature.asc Description: OpenPGP dig

Re: [PATCH 1/2] gnu: Add stfl.

2016-11-11 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Efraim, (A detail:) Efraim Flashner schreef op 2016-11-10 18:22: "DESTDIR=\"\"") Are those quotes needed to work around some silliness in the Makefile? Otherwise, "DESTDIR=" should work just as well and is easier on the eyes. Kind regards, T G-R

[PATCH] gnu: Add httptunnel.

2016-11-14 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ ;;; Copyright © 2016 Clément Lassieur ;;; Copyright © 2016 ng0 ;;; Copyright © 2016 Arun Isaac +;;; Copyright © 2016 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice ;;; ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix. ;;; @@ -3830,3 +3831,40 @@ runs in a terminal or through your browser. It provides fast and

[PATCH] website: donate: Fix news URL typo.

2016-11-17 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
* website/www/donate.scm (donate-page): Fix news URL typo. --- ;-) (Great news, by the way!) website/www/donate.scm | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/website/www/donate.scm b/website/www/donate.scm index f10287e..83d08f0 100644 --- a/website/www/donate.scm +++

Re: Teams

2022-06-04 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
On 4 June 2022 12:07:15 UTC, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: >* Rust team [...] >Tobias Geerinckx-Rice OK what the hell. I'll also join Leo on a kernel/module/initrd team if they're interested. I think we should also have (natural) language 'teams' who can be pinged when

Re: maradns reproducibility fixes and the merits of picking a random number

2022-06-08 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Efraim Flashner 写道: I like the idea of forcing the program to segfault if it looks for /dev/urandom and it isn't there more than distributing a randomized prime number. +4 Or error out nicely. Don't let's ship such ‘features’. Kind regards, T G-R signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: D Packages in Guix

2022-06-21 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Tobias Platen 写道: I had a look at Inochi2D[1], which is written in D. D has its own packagemanager called dub, so a dub-importer will be needed to build Inochi2D with guix Such an importer would certainly be welcome. I recently encountered my first D package in the wild. However: there's

Re: maradns reproducibility fixes and the merits of picking a random number

2022-06-28 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hi, Vagrant said: > It is expensive to generate the random prime on some hardware, so doing > so at runtime might not be feasible in some cases... But in the same reply you're paraphrasing, upstream also says: > In 2010, I updated that homegrown hash compression > algorithm to also add a random

Re: maradns reproducibility fixes and the merits of picking a random number

2022-06-28 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
>I am at a loss as to what to do then ... nothing and just have it be >unreproducible? embed a specific random number? come up with better >upstreamable patches? From upstream's response and my own biases and my reading of the room here, I'd say #2. Kind regards, T G-R Sent on the go. Excuse

Re: maradns reproducibility fixes and the merits of picking a random number

2022-06-28 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
...I mean: as long as there's this second, run-time random term added to it as upstream says there is. I didn't audit the code to verify that. Kind regards, T G-R Sent on the go. Excuse or enjoy my brevity.

Re: How to reinstall the bootloader without guix system reconfigure?

2022-07-01 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hi, Guix System reinstalls GRUB every time for convenience, but there's no need to run 'guix' just to fix GRUB. You can reinstall it by hand if you know what you're doing, using GRUB's grub-install command. It doesn't even matter which distribution's GRUB you use, as long as it's not ancien

Re: How to reinstall the bootloader without guix system reconfigure?

2022-07-01 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
P.S.: I would have answered this on either list; the move from -help to -devel was not a factor. I didn't even notice. Kind regards, T G-R Sent on the go. Excuse or enjoy my brevity.

Re: Non-free data in Poppler test suite

2022-07-02 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hi, Mark's reply addresses everything that would worry me from an FSDG perspective and more -- thanks Mark! On 2022-07-01 15:12, Ludovic Courtès wrote: It may also be that this qualifies as fair use (AIUI, we’re talking about pages extracted from larger PDF files, right?). ...but from a cop

My GPG key just expired. I know.

2022-07-02 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hi, Just a pre-emptive note that, yes, I'm aware. Kind regards, T G-R Sent on the go. Excuse or enjoy my brevity.

Re: glibc-locales

2022-07-03 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
The intended use is NOT to use a package at all, see https://guix.gnu.org/en/manual/devel/en/html_node/Application-Setup.html#Locales-1 Strongly put (and very possibly missing something :-), this sounds like maintenance effort to support an antipattern. Kind regards, T G-R Sent on the go. Ex

Re: repl macro (metacommand?) for guix CLI (sub)commands

2022-07-04 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
>This is because each of those "CLI calls" end up running `(exit 0)` >at the end in some form or another. Should they? Is this an accepted pattern in the functional style to which Guix tries to adhere? (I don't know! It just caught me by surprise.) Kind regards, T G-R Sent on the go. Excus

Re: guix refresh to a specific version?

2022-07-05 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
They should even redirect from http: to https:, and here they do. Kind regards, T G-R Sent on the go. Excuse or enjoy my brevity.

Re: Could Guix System eventually run on top of HyperbolaBSD ? slightly off topic

2022-07-14 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
On 14 July 2022 10:23:49 UTC, zimoun wrote: > Well, I am missing where it is announced. Could you be more specific? https://www.hyperbola.info/news/announcing-hyperbolabsd-roadmap/ Far from 'recent' in my book. Whatever my opinion on WSL, Darwin, and the Hurd, I must concede that they at leas

Re: maradns reproducibility fixes and the merits of picking a random number

2022-07-19 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Ludovic Courtès 写道: Honestly, I don’t think it’s worth bothering about the non-substitutable trick. Agreed. In practice, maradns should be able to rely on /dev/urandom at run time, right? That is my understanding. Kind regards, T G-R signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Tom Lord passing

2022-07-19 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Thanks for sharing, even if accidental. What a shame. Kind regards, T G-R Sent on the go. Excuse or enjoy my brevity.

Re: User group during build process

2022-07-24 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hi Maya! So... You cannot change group ownership in the store. There are no additional user groups in the build environment. The chgrp failing is by design ('it's a feature, not a bug'), and there's no way to subvert this. The group is not required during the build process. The correct way

Re: User group during build process

2022-07-24 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hiya, On 24 July 2022 19:17:29 UTC, Maya wrote: > shouldn’t opensmtpd-service-type already extend setuid-program-service-type > with appropriate setuids? A matter of taste (I disagree with your characterisation 'useless'!), but I certainly wouldn't mind. Plenty of services do this for conveni

Re: python-pytest in references graph

2022-07-25 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hi Bengt, Berlin is currently in a degraded state (probably a Shepherd bug). The main Web site works, although it's probably not being updated, and last I checked substitutes did to, but issues. is down and I don't think Cuirass is building new substitutes. We can't remotely reset the machine

Updating linux-libre

2022-07-25 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hi, Just a heads-up so we don't needlessly burn energy like it's 2020: I'm (still) updating the linux-libres to the latest kernel.org versions, but it's taking one hell of a long time to deblob & build them all on a mere i7. I didn't realise it was this expensive! (And berlin is down, so n

Re: Welcome to our new committer!

2022-08-05 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hi Andrew, A big fat welcome from me as well. Savannah UI being what it is, I'm almost completely certain that I managed to make you a member of the ‘GNU Guix’ organisation there. You should be able to push to the Git repository. For my own future reference: did you get any automated mails a

Re: FSDG issues of SCUMMVM-based games

2022-08-05 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hi Liliana, Liliana Marie Prikler 写道: The packages - drascula, […] 1. Their license explicitly prohibits selling of the games themselves and may thus be qualified as non-free. Yep, it's pretty explicit, and I agree that it's an unreasonable restriction that makes the software non-free.

Re: FSDG issues of SCUMMVM-based games

2022-08-06 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
I've sent an e-mail to the FSF licencing department asking for their guidance on the matter. I erred on the side of netiquette caution and didn't CC this list. Either the inclusion of [a subset of] Drascula in Trisquel[0] is a similar oversight, or we're missing some legal subtlety. I'm hop

Re: sneek

2022-08-14 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
jgart 写道: Does anyone know what git repo sneek lives in? https://gitlab.com/dalepsmith/sneek Guix has nothing to do with its deployment or hosting though. That's all Dale. Kind regards, T G-R signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Who owns guix-mirror?

2022-08-16 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hi Philip, Philip Beadling 写道: I was wondering who owns the mirror as there is no public ownership declared on github.com? Is it owned by Guix or is it run by a trusted third party, etc? It's Marius Bakke (mbakke) and me (nckx). It probably wouldn't hurt to make that list public. Marius

Re: Who owns guix-mirror?

2022-08-16 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Oh, Maxime Devos 写道: . That's not some weird role-play — I wasn't part of the org when I wrote it. Kind regards, T G-R signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Who owns guix-mirror?

2022-08-16 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hi Marius, Marius Bakke 写道: (took me a while to find it): Indeed. Thanks for saving me that trouble. I've now done the same. Awesome logo, by the way! Thanks :-) Keeps the PRs away, or at least you can't prove otherwise. Kind regards, T G-R signature.asc Description: PGP signatu

Re: Who owns guix-mirror?

2022-08-17 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hi Lars-Dominik, Lars-Dominik Braun 写道: you could also enable “temporary interaction limits”[1] in your org account, which applies to all of its repositories. It’s only valid up to 6 months, but maybe better than nothing…? It is! Thank you. I've set it to ‘collaborators’ and added a calend

Re: FSDG issues of SCUMMVM-based games

2022-08-24 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
I got an auto-reply with a ticket number from the FSF, but no answer yet. I was aware of and unimpressed by Debian's rationalisations on the matter. Still, this isn't as clear-cut as (say) the Realtek drivers, so IMO we can afford to wait as long as is needed. Kind regards, T G-R Sent on the

Re: FSDG issues of SCUMMVM-based games

2022-08-25 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
In a strange coincidence (I mean, I assume they don't troll our lists...?), I just got a friendly reply to assure me we've not been forgot. Kind regards, T G-R Sent on the go. Excuse or enjoy my brevity.

Re: Fwd: [core-updates] libaio test fails on powerpc64le-linux due to kernel bug

2022-08-30 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Thiago, Done: - Ran ‘apt update && apt full-upgrade’ - rebooted - read [0] to figure out what Debian's weirdo unames mean. Thanks! T G-R [0]: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/509247/debian-linux-kernel-versioning signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [POSTMORTEM] Subkey is not authorized by .guix-authorizations

2022-09-05 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Ludovic Courtès 写道: I’m busy these days so I’d rather not commit to starting a discussion on this, but I’d suggest testing waters on #savannah on IRC. They weren't wild about it. We'd be asking for a lot from their perspective. I haven't given up on convincing them otherwise, but an altern

Re: branch master updated: gnu: gitolite: Wrap programs instead of using propagated inputs.

2022-09-05 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Thompson, David 写道: Will this build be retried at some point? Yes: now ;-) (There are no automatic retries.) Fresh new errors at . I would say these look fundamental and not transient, but if you say you built this at home, I don't know what

Re: Hostile takeover of the matrix room

2022-09-28 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
jbra...@dismail.de 写道: He probably spends his free time adopting kittens that have been abandoned in sub 0 blizzard weather, though that is speculation of course... I can neither confirm nor deny these foul accusations, nor that it is merely a front for building my deadly army of adorable

Re: Hostile takeover of the matrix room

2022-09-30 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hi Jacob, I recommend seeking help for your compulsive lying. Czechia's a great country, they don't deserve to be associated with abusive behaviour. Please remember that you've been banned from Guix for just this pattern of dishonesty, of which I'm only your latest victim. Don't take it pe

Re: substitute derivation: also substitute grafts?

2022-10-01 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Quick note: On 1 October 2022 17:29:03 UTC, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: >If substitutable was merely a hint that a daemon could be free to ignore >it wouldn’t be any worse than downloading a substitute vs building >something locally. Substitutability has legal implications in Guix, whether or not it s

Re: bug#58417: Installer script no longer works with `yes` utility

2022-10-11 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
[Shunted to guix-devel@] Jonas Freimuth 写道: bash -c 'yes | bash guix-install.sh' While this happens to work (again) now, that doesn't mean it always will or should be considered supported. We should reserve the right to ask future questions to which the safe/sane/common answer is ‘no’, wit

[PATCH mumi] view/html: Unambiguously imply date:YYYY-MM-DD.

2022-10-12 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
--- mumi/web/view/html.scm | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mumi/web/view/html.scm b/mumi/web/view/html.scm index 552d435..171fbf9 100644 --- a/mumi/web/view/html.scm +++ b/mumi/web/view/html.scm @@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ simple query language. Here is a list of suppo

Re: elogind configuration

2022-10-15 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hi Antonio! Antonio Carlos Padoan Junior 写道: I do not know why but "suspend" stopped working on my computer after a recent upgrade (pull & reconfigure). Do you still have a working system generation to compare? Does suspending without elogind work? E.g., using the more reliable ~ λ echo

Re: elogind configuration

2022-10-15 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Antonio Carlos Padoan Junior 写道: I will investigate further. All right! /run/current-system/profile/etc/elogind/logind.conf What made you find/look at this file? It's not used. I don't know why it exists. Oh, I was on the wrong track. :) Ah, so it exists as a funny prank! That's g

Re: https://guix.gnu.org/ is offline

2022-10-19 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Brendan Tildesley 写道: https://guix.gnu.org/ doesn't load for me and another person in IRC Thanks! You can follow along with debugging at . Kind regards, T G-R signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Antioxidant (new rust build system) update - 100% builds

2022-10-29 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hi Maxime, This is so great. It's been downright fun watching antioxidant steadily grow in power. Thank you so much for working on it! Kind regards, T G-R signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: guix open

2022-11-18 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
jgart 写道: what do you think of having a `guix open` command that opens the projects home-page in your $BROWSER? […] bloat? Yes — as ‘guix open’ — but it would make a nice addition to ‘guix show’. Kind regards, T G-R signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: guix open

2022-11-18 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
( 写道: How would that interact with ``guix package --show''? Perhaps it might be better to add a ``guix package --open'' option? Ah, damn, yes. I didn't think of that. (Actually, I think this nicely illustrates the folly of adding cute subcommands that should be options. It illustrates this

Re: nss-certs@3.81: server certificate verification failed. CAfile: /gnu/store/…/ca-certificates.crt CRLfile: none

2022-11-23 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hi Simon, zimoun 写道: Is it a bug in Guix nss-certs side? Or on Gitlab server side? No Guix bug, the server is misconfigured. It's incorrectly sending an ISRG Root X1 certificate, which chains to the expired DST Root CA X3. It should not send ISRG Root X1 at all. Kind regards, T G-R si

Re: Status of hibernation (suspend to disk) in Guix

2022-12-02 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Ivan Vilata i Balaguer 写道: But then I wonder if I may have rushed to post the patch, as I don't know whether hibernation is supposed to be more or less mature or supported in Guix (we may not want to encourage people to use a feature which may easily cause data loss)… Though it works quite we

Re: Winding down of Fosshost

2022-12-04 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hi Jonathan, indieterminacy 写道: Given Fosshost's place in the ecosystem: is this something which requires mitigating at the Guix end? I'm aware of two dealings with Fosshost in the past, neither of them crucial: - They hosted a Big Blue Button instance[0] only for the duration of our COVID

Re: What's missing from qutebrowser for text rendering?

2023-01-02 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Which fonts do you have installed? Kind regards, T G-R Sent on the go. Excuse or enjoy my brevity.

Re: What's missing from qutebrowser for text rendering?

2023-01-02 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Thanks. Could you try adding a few mainstays, such as Bitstream Vera & DejaVu, and make sure that fc-cache -rv returns no errors? (Some being ENOENT is fine). That usually placates IceCat, at least. Kind regards, T G-R Sent on the go. Excuse or enjoy my brevity.

Re: #:configure-flags flags #~'() or #:configure-flags flags #~()

2023-01-19 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hi! It's not about 'right' (why would grepping Guix return wrong code...? Impossible! :-). It's a matter partly of preference and partly of using the best tool for the job. Omitted from your second example is a call to list, and the #~ that both have in common is just syntactic sugar for (gex

Re: #:configure-flags flags #~'() or #:configure-flags flags #~()

2023-01-19 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
In this example, only #~'() makes sense. #~() is nonsensical here and will cause a syntax error when ungexped. Kind regards, T G-R Sent on the go. Excuse or enjoy my brevity.

Re: Unexpected error with #~(modify-phases

2023-01-27 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
You're probably missing (guix gexp), and the 'replace' syntax fails before Guile ever gets to expanding the '#~'. Kind regards, T G-R Sent on the go. Excuse or enjoy my brevity.

Re: Resurrecting top-notch continuous integration for Guile

2023-01-29 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hello, > (Speaking of which, I hereby ask fellow Guix hackers to voice any > concerns they may have regarding this use of project resources.) Please use project resources. Thank you. Kind regards, T G-R Sent on the go. Excuse or enjoy my brevity.

Re: adding motif to guix

2023-02-12 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hi! Not a review, but how is *tif ‘not an X toolkit’...? Why not just say it ‘uses *tif’, instead? Kind regards, T G-R Sent on the go. Excuse or enjoy my brevity.

Re: Oniro or Guix on Zephyr kernel?

2023-02-24 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hi, On 2023-02-24 19:36, Mitchell Schmeisser wrote: I don't think the guix daemon is technically required for the shepherd to boot (being the daemon is a shepherd process itself). No, not at all. I think this is a common (and not unreasonable!) assumption we Guixers forg

Re: [PATCH] download: Add url-fetch/xz-file.

2023-02-25 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hi Hilton, I agree with Ludo' and also wonder if a generic ‘url-fetch/compressed-file’ wouldn't be better. There are closure arguments to be made for this xz-only approach. I don't know if they're convincing. Cluebats welcome. (I was going to bring up ‘url-fetch/tarbomb’ as an example, bu

Re: Guix on Apple Silicon

2023-02-25 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Roman, On 2023-02-25 20:17, Roman Scherer wrote: I'm working on a channel to run Guix on an Apple M1. I wonder if there is interest in bringing some of its packages into Guix itself, provided licensing allows it. As long as they're FSDG-OK, I'd love to see this happen. Kind regards, T G-R S

Re: Requesting permission to post a job search in guix-devel

2023-02-28 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hi Andrea [on-list], So, good news. A majority of maintainers has awoken, and all agree that job searches are welcome on guix-devel@ as long as they: 1. are related to Guix, obviously not an issue here; 2. do not promote non-free software. Promotion would include applicants being ‘encourag

The package/inherit trap (was: gnu: stellarium: Enable ShowMySky.)

2023-03-03 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hi! Maxim Cournoyer 写道: Simon Tournier writes: It is not clear for me why you choose one over the other. From my current understanding, I would be tempted to always use 'package/inherit' and never plain 'inherit'. I also got confused by that in the past; Same. I think it's a rite of pas

Re: The package/inherit trap

2023-03-07 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hi, On 7 March 2023 17:46:50 UTC, Simon Tournier wrote: >Well, from my point of view, we have a trap because the documentation is >not clear. :-) Both. However, merely documenting something is not enough when we have the chance to fix misleading naming, as we do here. It would be nice to have

Re: Welcome new committers

2023-05-11 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Welcome (further) aboard, Josselin & Simon! You've both contributed tremendously to Guix over many years, and it is very much appreciated. Kind regards, T G-R Sent on the go. Excuse or enjoy my brevity.

Expect bayfront (bordeaux) downtime on 26 May

2023-05-19 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Bonjour! This is a service announcement for users of the bayfront (or bordeaux) substitute server, which also handles IRC logs IIRC, and probably some other rando services. That's most Guix users. The original French message follows. The TF;DR is that networking will probably be severed du

Re: A Forum for Guix Users

2023-07-15 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hi! I saw this thread mentioned in #guix. Csepp 写道: We could also bridge IRC to Matrix This will happen if EMS (representing ‘Matrix’ here) fixes the mysterious errors that are currently plaguing channels trying to migrate from portalled⁰ to plumbed⁰ rooms. Kind regards, T G-R [0]: http

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