installing of two versions of package Musescore

2022-12-19 Thread Gottfried
Hi Guix, I tried to download the new version of Musescore, Version 4 Even thought 100 % available, it wanted to build it locally, but failed. (takes 75 minutes) I tried it again, it failed. next day I tried it again, it failed. I checked the Musescore Forum etc and there are big problems with

Re: installing of two versions of package Musescore

2022-12-19 Thread Csepp
Gottfried writes: > [[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]] > Hi Guix, > > I tried to download the new version of Musescore, Version 4 > Even thought 100 % available, it wanted to build it locally, but > failed. (takes 75 minutes) > I tried it again, it failed. > next day I tried it again, it failed. > >

Re: installing of two versions of package Musescore

2022-12-19 Thread Gottfried
Hi Csepp, this was anyhow my question. In general you do not need to install packages under development in your main profile. It would be better to either put it in a separate profile or use a temporary shell every time and put the package definition in a manifest or script. Until now I in

GNU Guix 1.4.0 released

2022-12-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
We are pleased to announce the release of GNU Guix 1.4.0! This release corresponds to more than 28,000 commits over 18 months by 453 people. It adds new tools such as ‘guix shell’ for environment management and ‘guix home’, which lets you declare your home environment. It refines the user and pa

Running a shell command with home-run-on-change-service-type

2022-12-19 Thread Elias Kueny
Hello, I'm trying to extend the home-run-on-change-service-type service to run the fish command "fisher update" when the file ~/.config/fish/fish_plugins changed, so that fisher plugins are installed or removed by guix home reconfigure. My service definitions are: (define-module (modules she

Re: Drafting a Guix blog post on the FHS container

2022-12-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Jim, Jim Newsome skribis: > Anyways just thought I'd mention that I recently learned about this > feature, and was able to use it to get a downloaded [Tor Browser > Bundle] running with: That’s another good example, thanks for sharing! It’s especially interesting because the Tor project vet

Re: Problems running Guix System initrd on an i.MX6 ARM board

2022-12-19 Thread jbranso
December 12, 2022 10:42 PM, "Maxim Cournoyer" wrote: > Hi Guix! > > I've been trying for some time to run Guix System on an ARM board (a > TS-7970 with an i.MX6 Cortex A9 CPU). I wanted to cross-compile the > image for speed and efficiency, and stumbled upon some problems on the > way, such as h