Re: How do I install packages from a file without removing currently installed packages?

2019-05-11 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hello sirgazil, sirgazil writes: [...] > Is there any way to tell Guix to create a generation that is the > aggregate of the packages installed in the current generation and the > packages specified in the manifest file? no way to aggregate packages this way in the same profile (default profil

system services (networking and xorg-server) don't start at boot

2019-05-11 Thread Marco van Hulten
Hello Guix— I upgraded to the latest guix with # guix pull # guix system reconfigure config.scm # guix --version guix (GNU Guix) d13f3a033e42b4a14d581390b8fa36cd1db7d023 But now the system doesn't start up completely. For things to work, I needed to start some services, namely: # herd s

What is hotkeys to change keyboard layout during Guided Graphical Installation ?

2019-05-11 Thread Дима Фомин
Hello! Sorry for newbie question. I am trying to install GuixSD from DVD image into VirtualBox. During Guided Graphical Installation (which in fact as I can see is not graphical) I chose "Russian (typewriter)" keyboard. Then I came to Hostname screen and into this input field I

A few questions about guix containers

2019-05-11 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Hello, I'm trying to get to grips with Guix's container support. Specifically, I can create containerised system using $ guix system container /path/to/sysconf.scm I should then be able to run commands in that container using $ guix container exec PID CMD But here's the rub: how do I find the P

Re: Help with preparing to move from Arch Linux to Guix

2019-05-11 Thread Doron Behar
Thanks Znavko! You sure has some awesome blog posts there.. I guess it's not as bad as I thought but I do understand now that in fact it's more complicated then I thought.. I'm not sure what's my opinion about it yet.. On Sat, May 11, 2019 at 06:06:10AM +, zna...@disroot.org wrote: > Hello! W

Re: What is hotkeys to change keyboard layout during Guided Graphical Installation ?

2019-05-11 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Sat, May 11, 2019 at 01:40:33PM +0300, Дима Фомин wrote: >Hello! > >Sorry for newbie question. I am trying to install GuixSD from DVD image >into VirtualBox. >During Guided Graphical Installation (which in fact as I can see is not >graphical) I chose "Russian (typewriter)"

Re: How do I install packages from a file without removing currently installed packages?

2019-05-11 Thread sirgazil
Hi Giovanni, On Sat, 11 May 2019 03:30:34 -0500 Giovanni Biscuolo wrote > Hello sirgazil, > > sirgazil writes: > > [...] > > > Is there any way to tell Guix to create a generation that is the > > aggregate of the packages installed in the current generation and the

Debugging CI build failures

2019-05-11 Thread Ivan Petkov
Hi Guix, I recently submitted some patches which updated the rust bootstrap process, but I noticed cuirass failed on building rust-1.24.1.x86_64-linux [1] (the build succeeded on my machine). I can’t seem to pull logs from cuirass either which makes me wonder if the issue was a build failure o

Re: About conflicting entries in a profile

2019-05-11 Thread Björn Höfling
On Fri, 10 May 2019 18:12:50 -0400 Ivan Vilata i Balaguer wrote: > Julien Lepiller (2019-05-10 08:23:22 +0200) wrote: > > > >[…] What I don't get is *why* having two different versions of > > >``python-attrs`` in the profile is considered an error. My > > >understanding was that two different p

Keeping just grub.cfg for a bootloader

2019-05-11 Thread Vasilii Kolobkov
Hello fellow Guix folks! I'm planning a switch to a Guix system and have a question i couldn't answer myself - is it possible to keep just the grub.cfg instead of full GRUB install? I'd rather have GRUB installed as a payload with Coreboot and maintain it's configuration with `guix system`, so th

Re: A few questions about guix containers

2019-05-11 Thread Christopher Baines
Alex Sassmannshausen writes: > Hello, > > I'm trying to get to grips with Guix's container support. > > Specifically, I can create containerised system using > $ guix system container /path/to/sysconf.scm > > I should then be able to run commands in that container using > $ guix container exec P