Re: Guix Hang Out Attempt 2 and an Unoffical Guix Hackathon/config party

Vagrant Cascadian writes: > On 2021-07-22, jbra...@dismail.de wrote: >> Let's try to do another guix hang out next Tuesday, July 27th! We'll meet >> at 7pm UTC. (I think that is 3pm EST). > > *EDT*, but otherwise looks pretty much right: > > $ date --utc --date='2021-07-27 19:00' > Tue Jul 2

Re: Making a DIY smart or dumb phone

jbranso--- via writes: > I'm getting really tired of carrying my Android phone around with google's > spyware, This issue is larger than just Android / iOS and the applications a user deliberately uses. There is also the issue of unwanted spyware.

Re: Making a DIY smart or dumb phone

On 2021-07-24, Bone Baboon wrote: > jbranso--- via writes: >> and unfortunately it needs to support SMS and traditional calls, so there >> might be some binary blobs for the modem. I've been using for SMS and voice calls: https://jmp.chat It runs on all free software and provides a pretty ri

Packaging hwinfo

Dear All, I'm attempting to package hwinfo which gathers HW information about the machine. You'll find the package definition attached below together with the definition for libx86emu. The issue I'm currently facing is that the libhd which is inside the repo is not detected by Makefile: starti

Re: Making a DIY smart or dumb phone

Bone Baboon writes: > jbranso--- via writes: > >> I'm getting really tired of carrying my Android phone around with google's >> spyware, > > This issue is larger than just Android / iOS and the applications a user > deliberately uses. There is also the issue of unwanted spyware. > >

Re: Guix Hang Out Attempt 2 and an Unoffical Guix Hackathon/config party

Akib Azmain Turja writes: > Vagrant Cascadian writes: > >> On 2021-07-22, jbra...@dismail.de wrote: > > The idea of using UNIX epoch is good. But the command showed that it's > Wed, 28 Jul 2021 01:00:00 +0600 for me, so I can't attend. Can you > change the time? And, is that instance of Jitsi

Re: Making a DIY smart or dumb phone

Vagrant Cascadian writes: > On 2021-07-24, Bone Baboon wrote: >> jbranso--- via writes: > >>> and unfortunately it needs to support SMS and traditional calls, so there >>> might be some binary blobs for the modem. > > I've been using for SMS and voice calls: > > https://jmp.chat > > It runs on

Re: Guix Hang Out Attempt 2 and an Unoffical Guix Hackathon/config party

Akib Azmain Turja writes: > Vagrant Cascadian writes: > > > The idea of using UNIX epoch is good. But the command showed that it's > Wed, 28 Jul 2021 01:00:00 +0600 for me, so I can't attend. Can you > change the time? And, is that instance of Jitsi Meet free (libre)? I believe it is...it's t

Re: Packaging hwinfo

On Sat, Jul 24, 2021 at 03:56:33PM +, phodina wrote: > The issue I'm currently facing is that the libhd which is inside the > repo is not detected by Makefile: > > starting phase `build' > gcc -c -O2 -Wall -Wno-pointer-sign -pipe -g > -I/tmp/guix-build-hwinfo-21.75.drv-0/source/src/hd -Lsr

Re: Making a DIY smart or dumb phone

Out of curiosity, how regulated is ham radio in the USA? I lament that your cultural emphasis on freedom of expression didnt extend into freedoms for 'classic' radio channels. Is it better for ham radio? >From Europe it appears as if ICT infrastructure in the USA looks godawful >(like AT&T), ha

Re: Packaging hwinfo

> Hi phodina, > > Do you come across this issue also while compiling by hand, rather than > > via the Guix daemon? > > Here [1], you can see the same problem tackled by Gentoo community. It > > was 2005 and related to another package, rather than directly hwinfo, > > but maybe it would be worth tak

File not found during package build

Hi All, during package build in the phase `check` I get a strange error regarding file not found. The file in question is an executable script within the directory. It must be present there as the chmod operation succeeds. However, invocation of make then fails as it can't find the script. pha

Re: Packaging hwinfo

On Sat, Jul 24, 2021 at 06:20:18PM +, phodina wrote: > > CFLAGS+="-fPIC -I$srcdir/$pkgname/src/hd -w" \ > > > > Could it be related to libhd? > > Yes, this is due to the libhd. I probably didn't hightlight it in the > description. You described the problem very clearly, IMO. As “it”, I meant

Re: Packaging hwinfo

Petr, Besides I also opened an issue Thanks! A good reflex, whether or not upstream cares or notices. Please share packages in a form that can easily be built by others. I added missing module imports and changed a forgotten /usr/lib to /lib. Please also place {native-,}inputs after argu

guix pack on Linux kernel

question the Guix documentation says a bundle created from guix pack can run on machines running the Linux kernel. Does this mean such a bundle can possibly run on Linux kernel with any C library, or just GNU/Linux? (providing no other blocking factors, such as the hardware or driver needed is pr

Re: guix pack on Linux kernel

reference to the said GUix document page: https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2017/creating-bundles-with-guix-pack/ "because Guix captures the complete dependency graph of packages, the tarball contains everything that’s needed to run and is going to work in exactly the same way on any system that runs th

Re: guix pack on Linux kernel

Andy Tai writes: question the Guix documentation says a bundle created from guix pack can run on machines running the Linux kernel. Does this mean such a bundle can possibly run on Linux kernel with any C library, or just GNU/Linux? The pack includes the C library, so the host C librar

Re: File not found during package build

Hello, phodina writes: > Hi All, > > during package build in the phase `check` I get a strange error regarding > file not found. > > The file in question is an executable script within the directory. > > It must be present there as the chmod operation succeeds. > However, invocation of make the

Re: Making a DIY smart or dumb phone

July 24, 2021 1:45 PM, "Jonathan McHugh" wrote: > Out of curiosity, how regulated is ham radio in the USA? I lament that your > cultural emphasis on > freedom of expression didnt extend into freedoms for 'classic' radio > channels. Is it better for ham > radio? I've no idea. I do not have my