On 01/16/2018 at 23:01 Chris Marusich writes:
> George myglc2 Clemmer writes:
>
>> I want to speed up IceCat on my GuixSD headless server. I am using
>> XQuartz/MacOS over 1000BaseT to reach a server with 3.4GHz Intel E3-1240
>> V3 CPU and SSD storage. ISTM this is about as fast as one can make a
On Wed, 17 Jan 2018 18:58:08 -0500
Quiliro Ordonez Baca wrote:
> I am not sure if this has been asked before. But I live in a place where
> there is no network link and I would like users to install different
> softwares there.
>
> Is it possible to have a machine connect to the net every so oft
On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 15:20:44 -0800, Leo Famulari wrote:
> You can use (source #f) with the trivial build system for metapackages.
>
> Check out the package definitions of 'gnome' and
> 'gnome-default-applications' in gnu/packages/gnome.scm for some
> examples.
Ah, great, thank you! I tried lo
Just go to a nearby public place with internet access and bring a
laptop. Install away. And come back with all the package tarballs.
On 01/17/2018 05:58 PM, Quiliro Ordonez Baca wrote:
> I am not sure if this has been asked before. But I live in a place where
> there is no network link and I would
I am not sure if this has been asked before. But I live in a place where
there is no network link and I would like users to install different
softwares there.
Is it possible to have a machine connect to the net every so often so
that it updates all available substitutes (or source if substitutes a
On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 02:05:28PM -0500, Mike Gerwitz wrote:
> With that said, I'm having trouble creating a package: it wants a
> `source' field, but this is a metapackage of sorts, and I didn't intend
> on having any source files; I can generate them using the builder and
> trivial-build-system.
I was running:
$ sudo guix system reconfigure config.scm --fallback
but it has taken 12 hours on a Core2Duo with 2GB in RAM. So I tryed:
$ sudo -i guix pull
but it reports errors:
$ sudo -i guix pull
Password:
Updating from Git repository at 'https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git'...
Backtrac
On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 21:25:19 -0500, Mike Gerwitz wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 17:30:42 +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> Perhaps you could define a package that simply runs “fc-cache” with the
>> fonts it has as inputs, and then pass that to ‘guix environment’.
>
> Oh, interesting; I wouldn'
