Re: using texlive class from a private texmf tree

2019-12-06 Thread Myles English
Andreas, Thanks a lot for your reply. I have tried what you suggested but It still doesn't work. on [2019-12-04] at 20:33 Andreas Enge writes: > I am using a private class without problems from > > On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 01:36:57PM +, Myles English wrote: >> In what

using texlive class from a private texmf tree

2019-11-26 Thread Myles English
Hello guix, I don't know if the problem I am having is with texlive or Guix. How do I use my own (xe)latex class with the guix texlive? Why does using a private texmf.cnf to specify the path to my class not work? Does anyone have a setup that works or any suggestions what else can be tried? In

Re: libGL error: No matching fbConfigs or visuals found

2019-06-10 Thread Myles English
on [2019-06-07] at 10:46 Myles English writes: > Running glxgears installed by guix on an up-to-date Arch Linux gives the > following error: > > $ LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose /home/myles/.guix-profile/bin/glxgears > libGL: screen 0 does not appear to be DRI2 capable > libGL:

libGL error: No matching fbConfigs or visuals found

2019-06-07 Thread Myles English
Hello, Running glxgears installed by guix on an up-to-date Arch Linux gives the following error: $ LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose /home/myles/.guix-profile/bin/glxgears libGL: screen 0 does not appear to be DRI2 capable libGL: OpenDriver: trying /gnu/store/r4vm5vdfr08p560phwjbx27vl095v58r-mesa-18.3.5/li

Re: fetching git submodule using (uri (recursive? #t))

2019-06-04 Thread Myles English
sive bounces". Myles On Mon, 3 Jun 2019 at 23:30, Myles English wrote: > on [2019-05-28] at 14:18 I wrote: > > > I am trying to build this package that uses git submodules but the > > (recursive? #t) doesn't seem to have any effect. > > Thanks to bavier and reepc

Re: fetching git submodule using (uri (recursive? #t))

2019-06-03 Thread Myles English
on [2019-05-28] at 14:18 I wrote: > I am trying to build this package that uses git submodules but the > (recursive? #t) doesn't seem to have any effect. Thanks to bavier and reepca on IRC #guix who figured out this happens when the package definition is changed (by e.g., adding "(recursive? #t)"

fetching git submodule using (uri (recursive? #t))

2019-05-28 Thread Myles English
Hello guix, I am trying to build this package that uses git submodules but the (recursive? #t) doesn't seem to have any effect. I understand that it would be preferable to replace the submodules with separate packages but the modules themselves are quite specific to the main package, e.g. https:/

Re: Kernel panic while building VM

2017-06-20 Thread Myles English
on [2017-06-20] at 17:31 Marius Bakke writes: > Myles English writes: > >> Hello, >> >> Trying to build a VM I get a kernel panic. Any idea why? >> >> Thanks, >> Myles >> >> guix system vm-image --image-size=1G --fallback pim-server.

Kernel panic while building VM

2017-06-20 Thread Myles English
Hello, Trying to build a VM I get a kernel panic. Any idea why? Thanks, Myles guix system vm-image --image-size=1G --fallback pim-server.scm `/gnu/store/gh9pvc82l21g0hz5108wk2ggwv0a72yc-guile2.2-gnutls-3.5.9/bin/gnutls-serv' -> `/fs/gnu/store/gh9pvc82l21g0hz5108wk2ggwv0a72yc-guile2.2-gnutls

getting started with a VM

2017-06-19 Thread Myles English
Hello, I have been using Guix as a package manager for a while and would like to try GuixSD as a VM. I am having trouble getting started and have a few questions if you don't mind. What needs to be considered when choosing whether to install on a VM from the USB image[1] or using the pre-built V

Re: guix offload, (test returned #)

2017-03-06 Thread Myles English
Hi Ludo', on [2017-03-06] at 10:52 Ludovic Courtès writes: > Myles English skribis: > >> Two hosts, setup the same as far as I can see, behave differently when >> trying to offload builds, any idea how I can get more information on >> what the # might indicate

guix offload, (test returned #)

2017-02-19 Thread Myles English
Hello, Two hosts, setup the same as far as I can see, behave differently when trying to offload builds, any idea how I can get more information on what the # might indicate? Looking at guix/scripts/offload.scm:551 suggests the result is not a string. $ guix offload test guix offload: testing 2 b

Re: guix-daemon might be unmounting filesystems

2017-02-15 Thread Myles English
on [2017-02-15] at 11:17 Alex Kost writes: > Myles English (2017-02-14 10:49 +) wrote: > >> About one time out of ten when I use a guix command my filesystems, >> including /home, become unmounted and I have to manually remount them. > > Hm, maybe you added your u

Re: guix-daemon might be unmounting filesystems

2017-02-15 Thread Myles English
on [2017-02-14] at 16:45 Leo Famulari writes: > On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 10:49:54AM +0000, Myles English wrote: >> >> About one time out of ten when I use a guix command my filesystems, >> including /home, become unmounted and I have to manually remount them. >> >&

guix-daemon might be unmounting filesystems

2017-02-14 Thread Myles English
Hello, About one time out of ten when I use a guix command my filesystems, including /home, become unmounted and I have to manually remount them. I am not sure this is because of guix-daemon or systemd or even my zsh config but in the logs I get something like this: Feb 14 09:57:39 bill guix-dae

Re: Recursively propagate build-system 'arguments' to dependency packages?

2017-02-07 Thread Myles English
Hello Fede, Eric, on [2017-02-07] at 15:15 Federico Beffa writes: > Eric Bavier writes: > >> On Mon, 06 Feb 2017 21:09:33 +0000 >> Myles English wrote: >> >>> Trying to define a package to be compiled by ghc-8, and I think all of >>> its dependencies

Recursively propagate build-system 'arguments' to dependency packages?

2017-02-06 Thread Myles English
Trying to define a package to be compiled by ghc-8, and I think all of its dependencies must also be compiled by ghc-8 rather than ghc (which is version 7). This is easy to do with one package, e.g..: (define-module (my-packages myhaskell) ... #:use-module ((gnu packages haskell) #:prefix has

Re: REPL example session for overriding a package?

2017-01-24 Thread Myles English
on [2017-01-24] at 14:56 Ludovic Courtès writes: > Myles English skribis: > >> I am trying to make a package that inherits from an existing package and >> overrides a *minimum* number of elements of the original package >> definition. >> >> Probably the mo

REPL example session for overriding a package?

2017-01-24 Thread Myles English
Hello, I am trying to make a package that inherits from an existing package and overrides a *minimum* number of elements of the original package definition. Probably the most efficient way to do this would be to try out some things in the REPL using tools from (gnu packages). Having read a bit a

haskell: ghc-8 can't find libncursesw.so.6

2017-01-14 Thread Myles English
Hello, Am I doing something wrong? $ guix package -i ghc-8 [installs fine] $ ghc --version /gnu/store/50gn6ahfc0llldy6ggrnj1hc5wsxyfh9-ghc-8.0.1/lib/ghc-8.0.1/bin/ghc: error while loading shared libraries: libncursesw.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory The ncurses l

Re: gnutls test failing during 'guix pull'

2017-01-01 Thread Myles English
on [2017-01-01] at 20:47 Leo Famulari writes: > On Sun, Jan 01, 2017 at 12:30:01PM +0000, Myles English wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I installed Guix 0.11.0 and I have tried a basic 'guix pull' to upgrade >> to 0.12.0 but it fails with the output below. Does a

gnutls test failing during 'guix pull'

2017-01-01 Thread Myles English
Hello, I installed Guix 0.11.0 and I have tried a basic 'guix pull' to upgrade to 0.12.0 but it fails with the output below. Does anyone else have this problem? Can anyone tell me what to try to fix it? Thanks, Myles

Re: locale warning and postgresql

2016-11-28 Thread Myles English
on [2016-11-28] at 23:37 Myles English writes: > $ initdb --locale=en_GB -E UTF8 -D '/home/myles/pgdata-guix' > The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "myles". > This user must also own the server process. > > initdb: invalid locale n

Re: locale warning and postgresql

2016-11-28 Thread Myles English
on [2016-11-28] at 21:47 Alex Kost writes: > Ludovic Courtès (2016-11-28 21:48 +0100) wrote: > >> Hi Myles, >> >> Myles English skribis: >> >>> I have always had trouble with my locale after installing guix on Arch >>> Linux (with zsh

Re: locale warning and postgresql

2016-11-28 Thread Myles English
Hi Ludo', Thanks for your help. on [2016-11-28] at 20:48 Ludovic Courtès writes: > Myles English skribis: > >> I have always had trouble with my locale after installing guix on Arch >> Linux (with zsh and a basic window manager, bspwm). I have set >> GUIX_LOCPAT

locale warning and postgresql

2016-11-28 Thread Myles English
Hello, I have always had trouble with my locale after installing guix on Arch Linux (with zsh and a basic window manager, bspwm). I have set GUIX_LOCPATH in ~/.zshenv and it appears correct in my shell. The system-wide locale looks right. When I install postgresql it gives the usual "warning:

uwsgi and Pyramid

2016-06-20 Thread Myles English
Hello, I have defined some packages to install Pyramid (a Python web framework) here: https://gist.github.com/mylese/861b4765e9f533bafa2cb2b305974caa Now I am trying to get my python app (my_app), served by uwsgi but get the infamous "no app loaded" error from uwsgi: $ /gnu/store/y83n9b6zl76pq1

how to fix the store after using rm to remove packages

2016-05-24 Thread Myles English
Hello, I had a problem with a python application and deleted (with rm, instead of 'guix package -r') the packages I wanted to rebuild. Now the store is broken. I have just started down the guix road so don't mind starting again with a clean store. Or I could try and fix the problem. I haven't

Re: Arch Linux locale-gen tries to use /run/current-system

2016-05-14 Thread Myles English
Thank you for the reply, unfortunately that computer has come to the end of its natural life so I can't investigate any further. I will be sure to try nix on my new build. Alex Kost writes: > Myles English (2016-05-12 02:52 +0300) wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I am tryi

Arch Linux locale-gen tries to use /run/current-system

2016-05-12 Thread Myles English
Hello, I am trying guix on Arch Linux. While updating the system package to glibc 2.23 I get this error: $ locale-gen Generating locales... en_GB.UTF-8...cannot create temporary file: /run/current-system/locale/2.22/locale-archive.nfq78F: No such file or directory More info: $ locale LAN