Guix' SWH code hates me

2021-05-02 Thread Leo Prikler
I'm currently trying to update the package recipe for guile-wisp to the newest version, but can't get it to download. Inside a `guix environment guix`, using `./pre-inst-env guix build`, I get the following. building /gnu/store/001p94i7q8kks3pngjah0b2v4fzl3npr-module-import- compiled.drv... [ 1/2

Re: Anyone running Guix on the pinephone?

2021-05-02 Thread Joshua Branson
Christopher Lemmer Webber writes: > I see the cookbook now mentions the possibility of running Guix on a > pinephone... is anyone actually doing it? Mind posting your experiences > and setup? > > (Doesn't have to be as a phone necessarily... I'm more interested in > using it as a lightweight por

Re: What processor features does Guix support on i686?

2021-05-02 Thread Joshua Branson
This email list was posted on guix-devel, I'm asking this question on help-guix, because it's a help guix question and not a guix devel question... Mark H Weaver writes: > Hi Leo, > > Thanks for asking about this, and for ably taking care of our > Linux-libre packages. I'm grateful for your w

Re: Any way to boot Guix with root partition elsewhere?

2021-05-02 Thread Vladilen Kozin
Well, I went ahead and asked the help-g...@gnu.org but I'm thinking it maybe difficult or impossible to solve. There may actually be the "Guix" way to solve this. Here are my current thoughts. Problem (not specific to Guix): - we install Guix onto NVMe SSD drive that's plugged via PCIe adaptor, -

Re: What processor features does Guix support on i686?

2021-05-02 Thread Leo Famulari
On Sun, May 02, 2021 at 12:56:45PM -0400, Joshua Branson wrote: > I'm kind of curious, if I were to compile my own linux kernel, and I > could someone select a newer processor family, would that make my kernel > a little more faster? Or would it just make my kernel image a little > smaller? Also

support split /boot partition

2021-05-02 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2021-04-30, Joshua Branson wrote: > Vladilen Kozin writes: >> Is there a way out of this predicament? I can see two options. >> (1) can some Linux distro/bootloader do the FreeBSD trick: start on >> USB but then chain-boot Guix off that SSD? IIUC grub's chain-boot is >> of no help here, cause i

Re: support split /boot partition

2021-05-02 Thread Vincent Legoll
Hello, On Sun, May 2, 2021 at 11:17 PM Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > Another more complicated option would be to use kexec; where you boot > one kernel and maybe a minimal rootfs, and load a new kernel and initrd > into ram, which uses the kernel drivers and then runs "kexec" to switch > to the newl

Re: What processor features does Guix support on i686?

2021-05-02 Thread Joshua Branson
Leo Famulari writes: > On Sun, May 02, 2021 at 12:56:45PM -0400, Joshua Branson wrote: >> I'm kind of curious, if I were to compile my own linux kernel, and I >> could someone select a newer processor family, would that make my kernel >> a little more faster? Or would it just make my kernel imag

Re: Any way to boot Guix with root partition elsewhere?

2021-05-02 Thread Joshua Branson
Vladilen Kozin writes: > IMO good solution would be to have Grub load just enough of whatever > kernel is doing to find that drive and make its contents available. I > doubt one can do that, but maybe one can boot into some kernel and > initrd and then "chain" load the Grub on that SSD? I've no c

guix pack and flatpak

2021-05-02 Thread Andy Tai
a question hopefully not too wild: Guix can generate Docker image via guix pack Only knowing flatpak in brief terms, can guix software bundle mechanisms be used to create flatpak? -- Andy Tai, a...@atai.org Year 2021 民國110年 自動的精神力是信仰與覺悟 自動的行為力是勞動與技能

Re: Anyone running Guix on the pinephone?

2021-05-02 Thread Christopher Lemmer Webber
Joshua Branson writes: > Christopher Lemmer Webber writes: > >> I see the cookbook now mentions the possibility of running Guix on a >> pinephone... is anyone actually doing it? Mind posting your experiences >> and setup? >> >> (Doesn't have to be as a phone necessarily... I'm more interested in

Re: Anyone running Guix on the pinephone?

2021-05-02 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2021-05-02, Christopher Lemmer Webber wrote: > Joshua Branson writes: >> Christopher Lemmer Webber writes: >> >>> I see the cookbook now mentions the possibility of running Guix on a >>> pinephone... is anyone actually doing it? Mind posting your experiences >>> and setup? >>> >>> (Doesn't hav