install: invalid user ‘root’

Hi. I'm trying to build Xawtv in GuixSD to use my webcamera during screencasts. I wrote package defintion for xawtv, it passes configuration and build phases, but fails on install phase with error: /gnu/store/6908gy3pws0ccys49ni98idwnicchlr2-coreutils-8.26/bin/install: invalid user ‘root’ What do

Re: I need examples of Shepherd services without GuixSD

ng0 (2017-08-20 13:35 +) wrote: > As IRC wasn't very responsive: > > Does someone of you keep their Shepherd user-services, for shepherd running on > non-GuixSD systems (side by side with systemd for example), online somewhere? I have my Shepherd user config at

Re: Emacs font question

Thanks Niall, fontconfig was indirectly installed so fc-cache wasn't in my .guix-profile/bin instead it was using fc-cache on arch. running: guix package -i fontconfig fc-cache -vfr Fixed it. Still curious on why it picked up Hack but not DejaVu, I assume it was using Hack install on arch and

Re: How'd Guix end up in the Gnu project?

Hi Liam, I wasn’t around when this happened, but often when packages join GNU there isn’t much of a story to be told. Guix clearly fits into the bigger picture painted by GNU. One of the core ideas of GNU is to give users more freedom and the tools to meaningfully exercise that freedom. The Hu

Re: Emacs font question

Try installing fontconfig if not installed already and then refresh the font cache with fc-cache -f or fc-cache -vfr Relevant past discussions: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-11/msg00477.html https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2017-05/msg00021.html https://list