Re: more than one target service shehperd-root / possible scheme records terribleness

2021-03-03 Thread Simon South
s" in place of "operating-system-services" (see gnu/system.scm:263). This is certainly non-intuitive though. -- Simon South si...@simonsouth.net

Re: Who has had success installing a Guix system on arm?

2020-11-06 Thread Simon South
; turns out U-Boot offers a command that makes it easy to start up from one device but finish booting from another. As others have noted, AArch64 support in Guix is generally quite good now, but a certain amount of patience is required. -- Simon South si...@simonsouth.net

Re: Specifying dependencies among package outputs?

2020-10-15 Thread Simon South
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice writes: > Sound good? Yep, that feels like a natural division. Thanks again, and thanks also for the notes on "propagated-inputs". Onwards and upwards. -- Simon South si...@simonsouth.net

Re: Specifying dependencies among package outputs?

2020-10-15 Thread Simon South
les of packages dependent on their own outputs made me start to think this was perhaps actually very uncommon and not supported by Guix for this reason---though now I understand I didn't find anything because stating this kind of dependency is generally unnecessary, so I was basically searching for something that doesn't exist. [0] https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/package-Reference.html#package-Reference [1] https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Derivations.html#Derivations -- Simon South si...@simonsouth.net

Specifying dependencies among package outputs?

2020-10-14 Thread Simon South
o I assume it's simply not possible, and you would need to define an entirely separate package that builds from the same source code---right? -- Simon South si...@simonsouth.net

Re: Installing gcc debugging symbols?

2020-10-01 Thread Simon South
Simon South writes: > I could edit gnu/packages/gcc.scm to set the "stripped?" variable to > false... Of course if you're willing to make this change, you can just as easily remove the "hidden-package" wrapper around gcc 4.7's package definition and then in

Installing gcc debugging symbols?

2020-09-30 Thread Simon South
ls with a syntax error, however, and I see the documentation for "guix package" says Note that this option installs the first output of the specified package, which may be insufficient when needing a specific output of a multiple-output package. Is there a trick to making this work? -- Simon South si...@simonsouth.net

Re: Building installation image for ROCK64

2020-04-27 Thread Simon South
ller images for > aarch64/armhf... Yes, absolutely. In the meantime just making available a minimal-but-complete image for writing to a microSD card would be a big help to people looking to get started quickly with Guix on the ROCK64. -- Simon South si...@simonsouth.net

Re: Building installation image for ROCK64

2020-04-26 Thread Simon South
(type "ext4")) %base-file-systems)) (packages (append (list nss-certs) %base-packages)) (services (append (list (service dhcp-client-service-type) (service openntpd-service-type (openntpd-configuration (allow-large-adjustment? #t))) (service openssh-service-type)) %base-services))) -- Simon South si...@simonsouth.net

Re: Building installation image for ROCK64

2020-04-12 Thread Simon South
Pierre. I'll give them all a shot and report the results. -- Simon South si...@simonsouth.net

Re: Building installation image for ROCK64

2020-04-12 Thread Simon South
unimportant for now. Any chance something in the output above rings a bell? I'll start diagnosing from here---it's probably time to write a real "operating-system" definition for this machine and see what a newly generated image contains. -- Simon South si...@simonsouth.net

Building installation image for ROCK64

2020-04-11 Thread Simon South
(bootloader u-boot-rock64-rk3328-bootloader) (target "/dev/mmcblk0"))) (kernel linux-libre) (kernel-arguments (cons "console=ttyS2" (operating-system-user-kernel-arguments installation-os))) (initrd-modules (append '("dw_mmc" "dw_mmc-rockchip") %base-initrd-modules))) -- Simon South si...@simonsouth.net