Re: usage of guix import / adding a package

2020-10-12 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 07:43:56PM +0200, Zelphir Kaltstahl wrote: > Hello Julien! > > I think I did not yet reply to your e-mail yet. I put it off to "later" > and now it is much later. Sorry for my late reply and thank you for the > information already provided. > > Meanwhile I have come across

Re: usage of guix import / adding a package

2020-10-12 Thread Zelphir Kaltstahl
Hello Julien! I think I did not yet reply to your e-mail yet. I put it off to "later" and now it is much later. Sorry for my late reply and thank you for the information already provided. Meanwhile I have come across another case, where I would like to install a package from PyPI and where I do n

Re: Disable user profiles?

2020-10-12 Thread divoplade
Hello Sergiu, Le lundi 12 octobre 2020 à 21:54 +0300, Alexandru-Sergiu Marton a écrit : > Is there any way to disable the use of the Guix package manager for > users other than root on a Guix System? Maybe you could make the guix daemon socket only available to root. For this see the parameter -

Re: Characters - Guile Hacker Handbook

2020-10-12 Thread Wiktor Żelazny
On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 11:40:53AM +0200, Jérémy Korwin-Zmijowski wrote: > Today, I published a new chapter about characters : > https://jeko.frama.io/en/char.html Hi Jérémy, I saw it today on Hacker News and took a look. I liked the succinct style and frequent refactoring. I thought that turnin

Disable user profiles?

2020-10-12 Thread Alexandru-Sergiu Marton
Hi, Is there any way to disable the use of the Guix package manager for users other than root on a Guix System? I'm interested in creating a public server (in the manner of tilde.club), and the limitations of such a thing push me to not allow every user to install whatever they want. I'd like to h

Re: How to install previous versions?

2020-10-12 Thread zimoun
Hi, On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 at 15:58, Zelphir Kaltstahl wrote: > > guix search-guix-commit-for-package-with-version python-redis@3.3.8 --last > --> Revision c7011ff850420fdbe1319b3d218bd362f2f9d618 > guix search-guix-commit-for-package-with-version python-redis@3.3.8 --first > --> Revision f511

Re: How to install previous versions?

2020-10-12 Thread Zelphir Kaltstahl
Hi Zimoun! Thank you for your detailed reply! You've given me something to chew on. In the meantime I wrote down everything I understood so far here: https://notabug.org/ZelphirKaltstahl/guix-package-manager-tutorials/src/master/guide.org I'll try to get the "versions of packages from multiple GN

Characters - Guile Hacker Handbook

2020-10-12 Thread Jérémy Korwin-Zmijowski
Dear Guixters, Hope you are all fine ! As some of you may know, on my spare time, I am writing about Guile. With « The Guile Hacker Handbook » I want to help anyone interested in Guile to discover the language and, in fine, be able to create simple software. I adopted a "Test Driven Learning" st