Re: Guix installer on foreign distro breaks /usr/local/share/info/dir

2021-01-14 Thread zimoun
Hi, On Thu, 14 Jan 2021 at 08:00, Garjola Dindi wrote: > I recently installed the Guix package manager on Debian and found > symlinks on /usr/local/share/info/. One of them looks like this > > ls -l /usr/local/share/info/dir > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff 60 Jan 10 12:04 /usr/local/share/info/dir ->

Re: Error when installing libnode

2021-01-14 Thread Wiktor Żelazny
On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 09:59:58AM +0100, Pierre-Antoine Bouttier wrote: > I try to install libnode through guix and I have this error : > > ice-9/boot-9.scm:1669:16: In procedure raise-exception: > In procedure readlink: No such file or directory Hi, Is your guix up-to-date? I encountered the s

Re: guix time-machine, broken hash in an old package definition, a workaround?

2021-01-14 Thread Wiktor Żelazny
On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 03:44:41PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote: > You might spend a loong time building things but it depends on the > specific package(s). I would argue that while using time-machine one does not expect substitutes to be available, any way, since the old binaries are removed by

Re: Error when installing libnode

2021-01-14 Thread Pierre-Antoine Bouttier
Hi, > Hi, > > Is your guix up-to-date? I encountered the same issue, but from what I > remember it disappeared after upgrading guix. > > WŻ thank you very much for your answer. I had this error just after running guix pull. So I think my guix is up-to-date. Regards --- Pierre-Antoine Bouttie

Re: Guix installer on foreign distro breaks /usr/local/share/info/dir

2021-01-14 Thread Garjola Dindi
On Thu 14-Jan-2021 at 09:07:47 +01, zimoun wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 14 Jan 2021 at 08:00, Garjola Dindi wrote: > >> I recently installed the Guix package manager on Debian and found >> symlinks on /usr/local/share/info/. One of them looks like this >> >> ls -l /usr/local/share/info/dir >> lrwxrw

Re: Single-board-computer approach: don't make an installer, make the install?

2021-01-14 Thread Mathieu Othacehe
Hello, > This is really well written. May I edit this article and reproduce it > for the guix blog and perhaps the guix manual? If ludo's ok with me > putting it on the blog, then I intend to end the blog post with "This > article first appeared in this personal blog (link here) and is > repro

Re: guix time-machine, broken hash in an old package definition, a workaround?

2021-01-14 Thread zimoun
Hi, On Thu, 14 Jan 2021 at 09:30, Wiktor Żelazny wrote: > I will retry now my attempts to fix the r-foreign problem with > --no-substitutes added. I guess it will not change your problem at hand: the missing tarball. If I understand correctly, your initial message describes 2 issues: - hash

Regression in libnode

2021-01-14 Thread zimoun
Hi, On Wed, 13 Jan 2021 at 21:27, Pierre-Antoine Bouttier wrote: > \ 'patch-node-shebang' phasebuilder for > `/gnu/store/a22nqd33fk2dp0zrm7jsqp50ncibw2ip-libnode-10.20.0.drv' failed with > exit code 1 Thanks for the report. The regression is introduced by 1d77141f6d. The patch #45862 fixes i

Re: Behaviour change when closing laptop lid: it no longer suspends

2021-01-14 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hi Tobias, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via writes: > Pierre, > > Tobias Geerinckx-Rice 写道: >> I'll add the above to my next reconfiguration (tonight or tomorrow) >> and will let you know what happens here. > > I hoped to gleefully report failure (especially after Maxime's > message), but my X230T susp

Re: Behaviour change when closing laptop lid: it no longer suspends

2021-01-14 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hi Tobias, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice writes: > Maxim, > > Maxim Cournoyer 写道: >> Shouldn't that be the default behavior though? > > That's subjective. I don't think we should ever editorialise if > that's what you mean: Guix service configuration wrappers should > strictly wrap, not tweak defaults

Re: Single-board-computer approach: don't make an installer, make the install?

2021-01-14 Thread Joshua Branson via
Mathieu Othacehe writes: > Hello, > >> This is really well written. May I edit this article and reproduce it >> for the guix blog and perhaps the guix manual? If ludo's ok with me >> putting it on the blog, then I intend to end the blog post with "This >> article first appeared in this personal

Re: Behaviour change when closing laptop lid: it no longer suspends

2021-01-14 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Maxim, Maxim Cournoyer 写道: Shouldn't that be the default behavior though? That's subjective. I don't think we should ever editorialise if that's what you mean: Guix service configuration wrappers should strictly wrap, not tweak defaults on a (majority) whim. However, here our wrapping is

Re: guix time-machine, broken hash in an old package definition, a workaround?

2021-01-14 Thread Wiktor Żelazny
On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 10:48:35AM +0100, zimoun wrote: > I guess it will not change your problem at hand: the missing tarball. A tarball is there, just a different one. I would like to make guix accept it. > About the hash mismatch, game over with time-machine. Are you sure? I remember a situa

"cannot kill process with uid ..."

2021-01-14 Thread Ed Falis
Newb, obviously. Installed on foreign system (Pengwin on WSL-2). Tried the installation of "hello" as a sanity check. It fails with: guix install: error: cannot kill processes for uid `999' : failed with exit code 1 -- I've been stuck here about a week. The usual diagnosis seems to be that g

How to remove guix

2021-01-14 Thread Mick Sulley
I am having real problems with Unison, I installed via Guix and it is not working so I want to remove it and try with an apt install. I have run     guix package -r unison and it seems to work, I have also installed unison with     sudo apt install unison and that seemed to work as well but

Re: How to remove guix

2021-01-14 Thread Julien Lepiller
Le 14 janvier 2021 08:34:33 GMT-05:00, Mick Sulley a écrit : >I am having real problems with Unison, I installed via Guix and it is >not working so I want to remove it and try with an apt install. > >I have run > >     guix package -r unison > >and it seems to work, I have also installed uniso

Re: How to remove guix

2021-01-14 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Mick, Mick Sulley 写道: 1) How can I get it to look for the standard version rather than the guix version There isn't a more or less standard version, just bash caching the last used binary. Use ‘hash -r’ to clear bash's cache and make it look again. My PATH is (So $PATH isn't used at a

Re: guix time-machine, broken hash in an old package definition, a workaround?

2021-01-14 Thread zimoun
Hi, On Thu, 14 Jan 2021 at 20:00, Wiktor Żelazny wrote: >> About the hash mismatch, game over with time-machine. > > Are you sure? I remember a situation where a package was defined in my > private channel. Then, someone committed a definition for the same > package to guix, but the definition i

Re: How to remove guix

2021-01-14 Thread zimoun
Hi, To remove Guix completely: > ~/.config/guix > ~/.cache/guix > ~/.guix-profile > /gnu > /var/guix > /var/log/guix /etc/init/guix-daemon.conf /etc/systemd/system/guix-daemon.service /etc/systemd/system-store.mount /etc/init.d/guix-daemon /usr/local/bin/guix /usr/local/share/info/gu