Re: How to "Use PROFILE instead of the user’s default profile."?

2018-06-21 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi George, > So it looks like I am using the "union" of the znc and user’s default > profiles as opposed to using the znc PROFILE *instead* of the user’s > default profile. > > Is that a correct understanding of what is happening? Is that how it is > supposed to work? You understand correctly a

Re: How to announce important changes

2018-06-21 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Perhaps it’s time for an announcement mailing list, and/or blog posts. > What do people think? I think it might be good to have a low-volume announcement mailing list to announce new releases and breaking changes that require user intervention (restricting posting to

Re: How to "Use PROFILE instead of the user’s default profile."?

2018-06-21 Thread Tom Balzer
> If so, how do I "Use my znc PROFILE *instead* of my user’s default > profile?" I asked this question in IRC some time back - the comand $(guix package -p /path/to/profile --search-paths) would replace the variables in your shell with those of the profile you want. -- Tom

Re: How to "Use PROFILE instead of the user’s default profile."?

2018-06-21 Thread George Clemmer
Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Hi George, > > You understand correctly and this is how it is supposed to work. The > “source” method always augments the environment variables. > >> If so, how do I "Use my znc PROFILE *instead* of my user’s default >> profile?" > > You can use “guix package --search-

Re: How to "Use PROFILE instead of the user’s default profile."?

2018-06-21 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
George Clemmer writes: > So, I can use PROFILE instead of my user default profile with > > eval guix package -p /var/guix/profiles/system -p PROFILE --search-paths=exact Note the backticks and the addition of “/profile”: eval `guix package -p /var/guix/profiles/system/profile -p PROF

Re: How to "Use PROFILE instead of the user’s default profile."?

2018-06-21 Thread George Clemmer
George Clemmer writes: > Ricardo Wurmus writes: > >> Hi George, >> >> You understand correctly and this is how it is supposed to work. The >> “source” method always augments the environment variables. >> >>> If so, how do I "Use my znc PROFILE *instead* of my user’s default >>> profile?" >> >

Re: How to "Use PROFILE instead of the user’s default profile."?

2018-06-21 Thread George Clemmer
Ricardo Wurmus writes: > George Clemmer writes: > >> Oops, I left out the back quotes. I mean ... >> >> eval `guix package -p /var/guix/profiles/system -p PROFILE >> --search-paths=exact` >> >> ... because I understand the doc to say this will give the "_combined_ >> search paths" of the two p

Re: How to "Use PROFILE instead of the user’s default profile."?

2018-06-21 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
George Clemmer writes: > Oops, I left out the back quotes. I mean ... > > eval `guix package -p /var/guix/profiles/system -p PROFILE > --search-paths=exact` > > ... because I understand the doc to say this will give the "_combined_ > search paths" of the two profiles. But I am disappointed that

Re: Problems with GNU Parallel and ulimit

2018-06-21 Thread Clément Lassieur
Eric Bavier writes: > Sending response to the list this time... > >> Arun Isaac writes: >> >> > Leo Famulari writes: >> > >> >> On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 12:46:25PM +1000, Ben Woodcroft wrote: >> >>> On 14/08/17 12:31, Arun Isaac wrote: >> >>> > Does `parallel' work for anybody? When I run >> >>>