How to build LFS-8.4 with only guix packages.

2019-03-11 Thread Yoshinori Arai
I have tried to build LFS-8.4(http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/index.html) with only guix packages. I know it's idle attempt. Basically linux system build is unpack tarball or install to the target directory. It's process is incrementally. My first step is to define package and bu

Re: collect2: fatal error: cannot find 'ld'

2019-03-11 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> Ricardo Wurmus skribis: >> >>> I still think that we should hide the plain gcc packages on the command >>> line. >> >> Agreed. > > Is this the right way to hide the package (see patch)? I searched for > GCC on the command line with

Re: guix pack -f squashfs ...

2019-03-11 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Yoshinori, Yoshinori Arai skribis: > I'm trying guix pack -f squashfs ... > $ guix pack -f squashfs guile emacs geiser > $ cp /gnu/store/jy7k2g48303jlz5hlaflrsa4mdrbhcy6-squashfs-pack.gz.squashfs \ >./emacs-geiser-guile.squashfs > $ singularity verify emacs-geiser-guile.squashfs > WA

Re: printing pdf with evince

2019-03-11 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Eric Bavier skribis: > On Tue, 19 Feb 2019 12:28:35 -0600 > nightowl wrote: > >> I recently notice that when I try to send a pdf document to the printer >> using the gnome viewer evince, it will not print text. For comparison, >> I can also print a pdf document from within the icecat

Re: guix environment with channels?

2019-03-11 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi John, John Soo skribis: > I was going to do some development recently and wanted to use some > packages from a channel. I have it listed as a channel under > ~/.config/guix/channels.scm so I added some packages from the channel > to a scheme file but guix environment -l my-file.scm told me th

Re: Multi-monitors: arandr, autorandr, srandrd, screenconfig?

2019-03-11 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Pierre Neidhardt skribis: > I've just packaged autorandr, it looks pretty neat: > > - Save profiles based on monitor IDs. > - Programmable hooks. > - autorandr_launcher detects screen changes to automate the whole thing. That looks nice, thanks for packaging it! >> I used arandr in my X

Re: Outdated Qutebrowser and missing qtwebengine?

2019-03-11 Thread Marius Bakke
Florian Thevissen writes: > Hi, > > I'd very much like to see a recent qtwebengine-based qutebrowser > packaged in guix myself. I understand that in the past there were > concerns about the chromium dependency, as Marius wrote: > > > As for the status of the Chromium patch, following the recen

Debugging an mcron job

2019-03-11 Thread Jack Hill
Hi Guix, I'm looking for help or tips on debugging an mcron job. My goal is to run a site-specific telemetry script that I have packaged [0] in my channel. The script collects some information and sends it to a remote server. I am trying to run the script as an mcron job via a service I create

Re: Outdated Qutebrowser and missing qtwebengine?

2019-03-11 Thread Florian Thevissen
Hi, I'd very much like to see a recent qtwebengine-based qutebrowser packaged in guix myself. I understand that in the past there were concerns about the chromium dependency, as Marius wrote: > As for the status of the Chromium patch, following the recent Pale Moon discussion I no longer thi

Re: Multi-monitors: arandr, autorandr, srandrd, screenconfig?

2019-03-11 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
> It should be said that HDMI shares the responsibility. :-) Huhu! :) Out of curiosity, why HDMI in particular? -- Pierre Neidhardt https://ambrevar.xyz/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

gnutls guile

2019-03-11 Thread ng0
Ludovic, as a follow-up to the short chat on #guix: if the problem can not be patched in the guile module of gnutls, it appears that http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guile.git/tree/module/system/base/target.scm could be a source of the problem? At the moment I'm trying to patch (or rather sed/

Re: Building and installing packages with modifications

2019-03-11 Thread Wayne
Quoting Chris Marusich : Wayne writes: my follow up question is whether there is (or a plan for) any support for sharing these derived custom build binaries with other users Yes! For starters, see (guix) Channels in the manual. Here's an online copy: https://www.gnu.org/software/guix