Re: Relationship between Docker and Guix

2019-11-26 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hellp zimoun, my two cents on Docker as container images builder (not as "container instantiation toolbox") zimoun writes: [...] > The relationship between Docker and GNU Guix is container and the LXC > [1] technology. They use both but differently: > > - Docker is rooted in mutable/imperativ

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: xdm

2019-11-26 Thread ng0
I have bits of an xdm package somewhere in my vault/archive of "packages to send to guix once I find time to contribute again". What makes it more complicated / time consuming with xdm is that you need to figure out the service for it. If you or anyone else wants to work on it, I can send a patch

Re: Relationship between Docker and Guix

2019-11-26 Thread zimoun
Hi, Thank you for your input. You express more or less what I tried to word. The keypoint is: build the Docker image with Guix because we have a fine grain on the state and then use all the Docker machinery because the world is as it is. :-) Note that "guix pack -f docker" is one solution to cre

Re: Cuirass Web interface issue

2019-11-26 Thread Reza Alizadeh Majd
just to have an update on this thread: it seems that database in new version of cuirass wasn't compatible with previous versions. so after I removed previous database and let the service to re-create it, this issue was resoled. -- Regards Reza Alizadeh Majd PantherX Team