Re: IceWeasel-UXP and IceDove-UXP

2019-07-20 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hello, guixuser writes: > Asking the new users to package what they want and suggesting > alternative applications; is like passively showing middle finger to > them. This idea seems to pop up from time to time, and I think it deserves a closer look. First of all, we're not asking you to do any

Re: Wiping /tmp?

2019-07-20 Thread Christopher Lemmer Webber
Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Christopher Lemmer Webber writes: > >> I'm sure there's something obvious, but what does one put in one's guix >> config so that /tmp is wiped by default on reboot? > > This is done by the “cleanup-service-type”. Huhm! It looks like this is already done by default in op

Re: Wiping /tmp?

2019-07-20 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Christopher Lemmer Webber writes: > I'm sure there's something obvious, but what does one put in one's guix > config so that /tmp is wiped by default on reboot? This is done by the “cleanup-service-type”. -- Ricardo

Re: Installation of Guix hangs

2019-07-20 Thread Tomasz Chrzczonowicz
I tried installing Guix again, this time I set up swap, an ssh server and went with graphical install, so the config.scm wasn't an issue. I ran "top" over ssh during the whole process and what it tells me is that when the system hung the RAM usage was around 50% and SWAP almost wasn't used. Whe

Re: A question about manifest for my profile

2019-07-20 Thread hub . lombard
- Mail original - De: "宋文武" À: "hub lombard" Cc: "Help Guix" Envoyé: Mercredi 17 Juillet 2019 15:14:38 Objet: Re: A question about manifest for my profile hub.lomb...@free.fr writes: >> Hi Guix! >> I generated a 'manifest-to-manifest.scm' manifest of all the packages >> installed in m

Re: Installation of Guix hangs

2019-07-20 Thread Tomasz Chrzczonowicz
Ooops, I pasted the link wrong. It should be: https://bin.privacytools.io/?d83007f4078192ad#XiaRi8vM3PKN0cYV2kSclA1h5ZEe/FjZMkDp2ztZSk8=

Re: Installation of Guix hangs

2019-07-20 Thread Tomasz Chrzczonowicz
> hi, > how much you wait?, maybe take a lot time. > The copying progressed fairly quickly until it stopped and didn't budge for, like several hours. > i think you must do a shell installation, but before install enable swap > 2GB partition manually. That's what I'm trying to do right now, bu

Re: IceWeasel-UXP and IceDove-UXP

2019-07-20 Thread Raghav Gururajan
> I think I can port icedove-uxp, and guixuser can use my code as a > template for iceweasel. It will help guixuser get comfortable with > porting and fixing packages, which would be important if guixuser is > to > remain a guix user. Hello Jesse! It is great to hear that you are willing to wor

Re: IceWeasel-UXP and IceDove-UXP

2019-07-20 Thread guixuser
> To be fair, > > - iceweasel-uxp has a different engine than icecat. > - There is no good email client like thunderbird. I'm stuck with > claws-mail, and I reallly don't like it. icedove-uxp would be a good > addition. Exactly. > - icedove-uxp and iceweasel-uxp are likely to have

Re: Installation of Guix hangs

2019-07-20 Thread Jovany Leandro G.C
On 2019-07-20 11:46, Tomasz Chrzczonowicz wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'm trying to install Guix 1.0.1.i686 on my old 1,6GHz, 1 GB RAM netbook. > > The installation hags during the "copying to /mnt" part. Is there a > way for me to troubleshoot the installation? > > Is my hardware too old for

Re: IceWeasel-UXP and IceDove-UXP

2019-07-20 Thread Jesse Gibbons
On Fri, 19 Jul 2019 23:50:20 +0200 Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > guixuser writes: > > >> We offer Icecat. > > > > OMG! Please read the bottom portion of my previous email. > > I did and offered an available alternative. > > Please note that your writing style comes across as needlessly > aggres

Re: Chances of installing Guix on the upcoming Pinebook Pro Laptop?

2019-07-20 Thread Jesse Gibbons
On Fri, 19 Jul 2019 16:27:32 -0600 Brian Woodcox wrote: > Hey Guix fans, > > As the subject line states, what are the chances? > > This unit is to be released soon from pine64.org. > > It’s arm based. > > I know a lot of you would like to upgrade from your Thinkpads. > > I was thinking of ge

Re: Wiping /tmp?

2019-07-20 Thread N
Christopher Lemmer Webber transcribed 124 bytes: > I'm sure there's something obvious, but what does one put in one's guix > config so that /tmp is wiped by default on reboot? There used to be a bug where it doesn't get wiped. Or was the workaround/fix for this to simply not do it anymore? You co

Re: Installation of Guix hangs

2019-07-20 Thread Tomasz Chrzczonowicz
> Hell, did you use the graphical installer? Maybe you can switch the > console by "Ctrl-Alt-F2" etc? Yes, I used the graphical installer. I tried pressing "Ctrl-Alt-F2" etc, but nothing happens. > I think it's fine, but 1G RAM may not be enough, you can try setup a > swap first. Thanks for the

Re: Installation of Guix hangs

2019-07-20 Thread 宋文武
Tomasz Chrzczonowicz writes: > Hello everyone, > > I'm trying to install Guix 1.0.1.i686 on my old 1,6GHz, 1 GB RAM netbook. > > The installation hags during the "copying to /mnt" part. Is there a > way for me to troubleshoot the installation? Hell, did you use the graphical installer? Maybe y

Installation of Guix hangs

2019-07-20 Thread Tomasz Chrzczonowicz
Hello everyone, I'm trying to install Guix 1.0.1.i686 on my old 1,6GHz, 1 GB RAM netbook. The installation hags during the "copying to /mnt" part. Is there a way for me to troubleshoot the installation? Is my hardware too old for the installation to work?

Re: Wiping /tmp?

2019-07-20 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Maybe not exactly what you want, but you can mount /tmp as tmpfs in memory: --8<---cut here---start->8--- (file-systems (cons* ... (file-system (mount-point "/tmp") (device "none")

Re: extending a service to create an extra directory

2019-07-20 Thread Robert Vollmert
On 20. Jul 2019, at 08:18, Reza Alizadeh Majd wrote: > On Thu, Jul 18, 2019, at 6:30 PM, Robert Vollmert wrote: >> >> I’m trying to set up nginx properly, and my config involves a >> cache directory, say /var/nginx/cache. To encode this properly, >> I’d like to to make my nginx service create tha