Re: Substitute authorization and binaries

2018-11-04 Thread swedebugia
Hi Please post questions like these to the help-guix@gnu.org mailing list instead. (remove guix-devel when you reply) On 2018-11-05 02:33, bre...@posteo.net wrote: Hi all, I authorized guix to use the berlin server so I can install guixsd without having to build the derivations locally. The

Re: nssd on foreign distro

2018-11-04 Thread Gábor Boskovits
Hello, Quiliro Ordonez ezt írta (időpont: 2018. nov. 4., V, 17:13): > > https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/guix.html#Name-Service-Switch-1 > says we must install nss. I have done: > guix package -i nss > on my common user. But I do not know how to start the service. Is this > package rea

Re: why does this system build but won't reconfigure?

2018-11-04 Thread George Clemmer
Oh DUH! Never mind, I guess my 'sudo guix system reconfigure' is using the ancient guix version installed in root. Arf! George Clemmer writes: > Hi, > > I built a new system w/ 'guix system' using Guix from Git > v0.15.0-3115-g7571ec357 (please see below & sys.scm). > > But 'system reconfigure'

why does this system build but won't reconfigure?

2018-11-04 Thread George Clemmer
Hi, I built a new system w/ 'guix system' using Guix from Git v0.15.0-3115-g7571ec357 (please see below & sys.scm). But 'system reconfigure' fails when > 6 sites didn't have linux-libre-4.17.6 source (guix-reconfigure-linux-libre-4.17.6.log) This puzzles me ... Given that the system is built, wh

Re: Issue with install of GuixSD 0.15.0 regarding guix-artwork-6998d30.drv

2018-11-04 Thread Leo Famulari
On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 04:01:32PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote: > On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 01:26:23PM -0700, Brian Woodcox wrote: > > Your right. > > > > I think port 9418 needs to be open. > > > > So scratch that one from the list. > > > > > >> On 2018-11-04 16:41, Brian Woodcox wrote: > > >> This

nscd on foreign distro

2018-11-04 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hola Quiliro, Quiliro Ordonez skribis: > https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/guix.html#Name-Service-Switch-1 > says we must install nss. I have done: Note that it says you must install nscd (part of the GNU C Library), not “nss”, and you must install it from your host distro. If you’re

Re: Berlin substitute server "Bad Read-Header-Line header: #

2018-11-04 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Giovanni Biscuolo skribis: > Leo Famulari writes: > >> Most of the substitutes I am requesting from are >> failing as shown below. Using --fallback does work. > > [...] > >> guix/ui.scm:1583:12: In procedure run-guix-command: Bad >> Read-Header-Line header: # > > same here For the reco

Re: New info-guix mailing list for important announcements

2018-11-04 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Alex Vong skribis: > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > >> Hello Guix! >> >> We have created a new mailing list for announcements: releases, build >> farm news, security advisories, incompatibilities, etc. >> >> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-guix >> > Will future announ

Re: removal of induces installation of other package

2018-11-04 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Am 04.11.2018 um 23:34 schrieb Leo Famulari: > On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 11:20:22PM +0100, Hartmut Goebel wrote: >> I experienced an even more irritating behavior: >> >> On a system which I hadn't touched for long, I switched a profile - from >> an old one it's predecessor. Even in this case guix sta

Re: removal of induces installation of other package

2018-11-04 Thread Leo Famulari
On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 11:20:22PM +0100, Hartmut Goebel wrote: > I experienced an even more irritating behavior: > > On a system which I hadn't touched for long, I switched a profile - from > an old one it's predecessor. Even in this case guix started to download > substitutes and build software.

Re: removal of induces installation of other package

2018-11-04 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Hi, Am 04.11.2018 um 22:06 schrieb Leo Famulari: > If you have updated Guix (`guix pull`) since your last profile was > created, the collection of software required to build profiles may have > been updated. So, now you need that software in order to make the new > profile. > > It's a bit counteri

Re: removal of induces installation of other package

2018-11-04 Thread Leo Famulari
On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 04:09:16PM +0100, Marco van Hulten wrote: > I removed a package, but this resulted in other packages being built: [...] > It takes a long time. Why does this happen? When you manage your installed packages with Guix, for example with `guix package --remove`, you create a

Re: Issue with install of GuixSD 0.15.0 regarding guix-artwork-6998d30.drv

2018-11-04 Thread Leo Famulari
On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 01:26:23PM -0700, Brian Woodcox wrote: > Your right. > > I think port 9418 needs to be open. > > So scratch that one from the list. > > > >> On 2018-11-04 16:41, Brian Woodcox wrote: > >> This is my last error while installing GuixSD 0.15.0. > >> > >> So rsgj5syf4azvg4y8

Re: Issue with install of GuixSD 0.15.0 regarding guix-artwork-6998d30.drv

2018-11-04 Thread Brian Woodcox
Your right. I think port 9418 needs to be open. So scratch that one from the list. > >> On 2018-11-04 16:41, Brian Woodcox wrote: >> This is my last error while installing GuixSD 0.15.0. >> >> So rsgj5syf4azvg4y80gqbr94gr4i9226y-guix-artwork-6998d30-checkout.drv is >> trying to download git cl

Re: Issue with install of GuixSD 0.15.0 regarding guix-artwork-6998d30.drv

2018-11-04 Thread swedebugia
Hi On 2018-11-04 16:41, Brian Woodcox wrote: This is my last error while installing GuixSD 0.15.0. So rsgj5syf4azvg4y80gqbr94gr4i9226y-guix-artwork-6998d30-checkout.drv is trying to download git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/guix/guix-artwork.git But I get the following error: Cloning int

Re: Finally installed GuixSD 0.15.0 into a VM on Mac OSX

2018-11-04 Thread swedebugia
Hi On 2018-11-04 17:04, Brian Woodcox wrote: So it finally happened after a few days of trying and the excellent help here. Thanks to all. I have a VirtualBox VM running on Mac OSX High Sierra. Congratulations! I just succeded installing, resizing & guix pulling via the 0.15 binary VM imag

nssd on foreign distro

2018-11-04 Thread Quiliro Ordonez
https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/guix.html#Name-Service-Switch-1 says we must install nss. I have done: guix package -i nss on my common user. But I do not know how to start the service. Is this package really necessary? If it is, must it be on root and not on a normal user? Or should it

Finally installed GuixSD 0.15.0 into a VM on Mac OSX

2018-11-04 Thread Brian Woodcox
So it finally happened after a few days of trying and the excellent help here. Thanks to all. I have a VirtualBox VM running on Mac OSX High Sierra. Took a few days to compile everything from sources using --substitute-urls="https://berlin.guixsd.org”. Don’t do this unless you are very patie

Issue with install of GuixSD 0.15.0 regarding guix-artwork-6998d30.drv

2018-11-04 Thread Brian Woodcox
This is my last error while installing GuixSD 0.15.0. So rsgj5syf4azvg4y80gqbr94gr4i9226y-guix-artwork-6998d30-checkout.drv is trying to download git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/guix/guix-artwork.git But I get the following error: Cloning into 'guix-artwork'... fatal: unable to connect to

removal of induces installation of other package

2018-11-04 Thread Marco van Hulten
Hi— I removed a package, but this resulted in other packages being built: $ guix package -r evince The following package will be removed: evince 3.28.2 /gnu/store/0453w20ldm1pxhbbginwi35ri2w2b7vi-evince-3.28.2 Building /gnu/store/2gf7ndczpg99kbcy5vap5q1lpg1wf8hm-texinfo-6.5.tar.xz.dr

Re: Build failure on nss-3.36.1

2018-11-04 Thread Björn Höfling
On Sat, 3 Nov 2018 21:46:02 -0600 Brian Woodcox wrote: > Hi Björn, > > You nailed it. > > Of course, I am not too certain how to use the guix git-checkout > command. > > Do you or anyone else have an example of how you would build this > after downloading it? > > I’ve done a bit of search,

Re: Shepherd and Guille

2018-11-04 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
I also gave it a quick read and I tend to agree with Vladimir: this article comes off as a rant (like most other articles on this website according to the author) with poor arguments and poor understanding of engineering and the bigger picture of computing. In my opinion, the style betrays the wri