Re: Drafting a Guix blog post on the FHS container

2022-12-06 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! John Kehayias skribis: > One question: what is appropriate or recommended for examples concerning > things like pre-built binaries? As an example, I had tested the FHS container > by running the Siril appimage, which has since been packaged for Guix (nice > work!). There are ones that

Re: This is how you import a mailing list archives (e.g. guix-patches) into mu4e

2022-12-06 Thread zimoun
Hi, On Mon, 05 Dec 2022 at 21:43, Mekeor Melire wrote: > I guess, a disadvantage of using public-inbox is that it's not an > official service of the GNU Guix community. It is up to us to have an “official” instance. :-) Well, I remember discussing how to setup a public-inbox instance for Guix

Re: This is how you import a mailing list archives (e.g. guix-patches) into mu4e

2022-12-06 Thread zimoun
Hi Kyle, On Mon, 05 Dec 2022 at 20:03, Kyle Meyer wrote: > In terms of cloning archives, plain cloning and fetching with Git is > fine, but, if you have public-inbox locally, you can instead use > public-inbox-clone and public-inbox-fetch, which will handle some > details for you (e.g, cloning u

Re: How to make audio devices available with guix shell --container

2022-12-06 Thread Elias Kueny
On Mon, Dec 05 2022, kiasoc5 wrote: About the sound, I believe you will need to expose the pulseaudio and/or pipewire sockets. You can reference bubblewrap configuration since it also works by sharing/exposing files. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Bubblewrap/Examples#Chromium Thank you, th

The Guix Days! (FOSDEM 2023)

2022-12-06 Thread Simon Tournier
Dear all, We are organizing the Guix Days, satellite to FOSDEM. Guix Days are 2 days for hacking and discussion open to everybody interested in Guix, from core developer to newcomer. When? The 2 days right before FOSDEM: Thursday and Friday, February 2nd and 3rd, 2023. Where? The usual plac

Re: This is how you import a mailing list archives (e.g. guix-patches) into mu4e

2022-12-06 Thread Kyle Meyer
zimoun writes: > I fetch from yhetil.org (Git) and then convert to MailDir because I use > Notmuch as indexer (and reader :-)). And I do not want to duplicate the > storage. Therefore, after fetching and converting, the Git repo is > garbage collected, > > --8<---cut here

Re: This is how you import a mailing list archives (e.g. guix-patches) into mu4e

2022-12-06 Thread Mekeor Melire
2022-12-05 20:03 k...@kyleam.com: > On 12/05/22 09:45:41 +0100, zimoun wrote: > > Personally, I use “git clone” from a public-inbox instance [1]. > > > > git clone --mirror https://yhetil.org/guix-patches/1 \ > > guix-patches/git/1.git > > > > where ’1’ can be also replace by ’0

Re: This is how you import a mailing list archives (e.g. guix-patches) into mu4e

2022-12-06 Thread Mekeor Melire
2022-12-06 12:33 zimon.touto...@gmail.com: > On Mon, 05 Dec 2022 at 21:43, Mekeor Melire wrote: > > > I guess, a disadvantage of using public-inbox is that it's not an > > official service of the GNU Guix community. > > It is up to us to have an “official” instance. :-) Well, I remember > discus

doubly quoted list in gnu-build

2022-12-06 Thread jgart
hi, why do the configure-flags and make-flags need to be doubly quote in the gnu-build procedure? (define* (gnu-build name inputs #:key guile source (outputs '("out")) (search-paths '()) (bootstra

Re: doubly quoted list in gnu-build

2022-12-06 Thread Wojtek Kosior via
> hi, > > why do the configure-flags and make-flags need to be doubly quote in the > gnu-build procedure? Because later in that function they get unquoted inside a gexp using `#$` (i.e. `ungexp`). If you write a gexp like > (let ((somelist '("a" "b" "c"))) > #~(display #$somelist)) on the b