Re: jfs, jfsutils?

2020-01-05 Thread Michael Zucchi
On 6/1/20 5:34 am, Gábor Boskovits wrote: 32-bit executables are disabled in my kernel and bootstrap.scm just assumes they work based on the architecture. I believe this is related to the method guix is bootstrapped on x86_64 currently. As far as I know there is a minimal boots

protect generations

2020-01-05 Thread Marco van Hulten
Hello— One of the great features of Guix is that one can roll back his profile. But I did a garbage collection (gc) that was too aggressive such that a relevant old profile disappeared. I presume this is gone forever. Is it possible to lock certain generations (of certain users) such that 'guix

Re: jfs, jfsutils?

2020-01-05 Thread Gábor Boskovits
Hello, Michael Zucchi ezt írta (időpont: 2019. dec. 31., K, 7:27): > > > Well it failed in 'make check' so I stopped going further as I didn't > want some other fault causing a mess. > > The critical detail is that my kernel has "CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION" turned > off. > > In my original query I inc

Two keyboard layouts with toggle in console

2020-01-05 Thread Kurshakov Dmitriy
Hi. Is it possible to write an operating system configuration having two different keyboard layouts (in my case -- "us" and "ru") with toggle (preferely by Caps Lock) for console? For now, I have /etc/config.scm with: (keyboard-layout (keyboard-layout "us" "altgr-intl")) under "operating-system

Re: How to use foreign-distro fonts without symlink hack?

2020-01-05 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Hi Jorge! jorge+l...@disroot.org (Jorge P. de Morais Neto) writes: > 1. Could this symlink cause problems for Debian applications? Should be fine. > 2. Why does not Guix `fc-cache' look in `/usr/share/fonts'? Because Guix does not know about files outside the store or the home directory. This

How to use foreign-distro fonts without symlink hack?

2020-01-05 Thread Jorge P. de Morais Neto
Hi. I use an updated Guix atop Debian buster on an x86-64 notebook. I had font problems in GNU Emacs. I took hours to recognize them as such and find the cause: Emacs was not using the fonts from Debian in `/usr/share/fonts'. I then worked around the problem by symlinking /usr/share/fonts to `~

Re: Looking for someone to host an Overdrive server (ARM build farm)

2020-01-05 Thread Christopher Baines
Pierre Neidhardt writes: > I have here in Paris an Overdrive machine which used to build ARM > package for Guix. Sadly I cannot get it online here at my apartment. > > Would anyone be able to host it? > > Ideally with minimal downtime. It just needs a reliable Internet > connection (via Ethern

Re: Strange behavior around guix package --show

2020-01-05 Thread Jacob MacDonald
> It should now be fixed with commit > ba42da245bdb50aa98eecfeea8d207cefa209d48. Fixed indeed. (Wish I understood why it only failed as non-root but oh well.)