Re: You're invited to the first patch review session!

2024-03-06 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, Am Tue, Mar 05, 2024 at 07:19:46PM + schrieb Etienne B. Roesch: > Anything we need to have prepared by Thursday? > I imagine a ubuntu vm running with vanilla guix installed is installed? you should have a means of running Guix, and so that your store gets populated with recent basic th

Re: You're invited to the first patch review session!

2024-03-06 Thread Tomas Volf
Hi, On 2024-03-06 10:40:14 +0100, Andreas Enge wrote: > > Looking forward to tomorrow, > I would just like to point out that the link to the jitsi meeting is not on the wiki page and was not shared here neither (for those of us who have issues with meetup.com). I think it was said before the lin

Re: You're invited to the first patch review session!

2024-03-06 Thread Etienne B. Roesch
That's the link I have https://meet.jit.si/london-guix-meetup Etienne On Wed, Mar 6, 2024 at 11:28 AM Tomas Volf <~@wolfsden.cz> wrote: > Hi, > > On 2024-03-06 10:40:14 +0100, Andreas Enge wrote: > > > > Looking forward to tomorrow, > > > > I would just like to point out that the link to the jit

Re: Unable to chain-load Debian

2024-03-06 Thread Carlo Zancanaro
Hi William, I don't know anything about Grub chainloading, but I had a quick look and I think I have a vague idea what's going on. The menu entry is put together by this code in gnu/bootloader/grub.scm: --8<---cut here---start->8--- #~(format port " me

Re: You're invited to the first patch review session!

2024-03-06 Thread Tomas Volf
On 2024-03-06 11:36:29 +, Etienne B. Roesch wrote: > That's the link I have https://meet.jit.si/london-guix-meetup Great, thank you very much, looking forward to tomorrow. :) Tomas -- There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors.

How to do initialization specific to guix repl inside .guile?

2024-03-06 Thread Tomas Volf
Hello, As far as I can tell, there is one shared configuration file for guile and guix repls (or rather, guix just uses ~/.guile). However I would like to have some configuration that is executed only for guix repl, since it does not make sense for guile repl. Is there a way to detect from .guil

Re: Unable to chain-load Debian

2024-03-06 Thread William
On Tue, 5 Mar 2024 22:54:24 +0100 William wrote: > Hello. > > I currently have two GNU/Linux installs on this PC on two different > SSDs with their own GRUB, Guix and Debian. > Both SSDs have an MBR partition table, no GPT/EFI. > > I've been trying to add a menu entry to chain-load Debian from

Help needed: Weird bootstrapping hangs

2024-03-06 Thread Ekaitz Zarraga
Hi all, Really weird question here. Beware. I'm experiencing weird Guix hangs in the bootstrapping packages. They happen randomly but frequently in: - Mes' configure script - Mes' linking of libtcc - Some other packages' configure scripts (I had it in Binutils but the package is not published

Re: Staging Scheme code to run as one-shot service

2024-03-06 Thread Owen T. Heisler
Hi Florian, On 3/4/24 02:31, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: P.S. There also is the code for https://issues.guix.gnu.org/62584#0 which is not using a Shepherd service. At first I was confused by the link to an April-1 joke. :-) But that did work, thanks! Here is a working example (I'm n

Re: Staging Scheme code to run as one-shot service

2024-03-06 Thread Owen T. Heisler
Hi Felix, On 3/4/24 10:08, Felix Lechner wrote: On Sat, Mar 02 2024, Owen T. Heisler wrote: (start #~(lambda () #$(say-hello))) My code works when I place it directly into the 'start' G-exp. [1] By comparison, I think you have two lambdas (with quoting and unquoting). I w

Re: Staging Scheme code to run as one-shot service

2024-03-06 Thread Owen T. Heisler
On 3/4/24 21:07, Owen T. Heisler wrote: > On 3/4/24 10:08, Felix Lechner wrote: >> try something like this: >> >> (start #~(let ((port (open-pipe* OPEN_WRITE "logger" >> "-plocal0.alert"))) >>     (display "say-hello\n" port) >>     (close-pipe port)))

Re: Unable to chain-load Debian

2024-03-06 Thread William
On Wed, 06 Mar 2024 22:38:50 +1100 Carlo Zancanaro wrote: > Hi William, > > I don't know anything about Grub chainloading, but I had a quick look > and I think I have a vague idea what's going on. > > The menu entry is put together by this code in > gnu/bootloader/grub.scm: > > --8<---

Encrypted Images?

2024-03-06 Thread Christopher Howard
Hi, I've recently starting learning how to use `guix system image', and have learned enough to create one raw image which I was able to copy onto a hard drive on another computer. I am wondering if it is possible to use `guix system image' to create an image that is luks encrypted, with the oth

Re: Problem with running system reconfigure on Guix in WSL2

2024-03-06 Thread woshilapin
Hi Kristofer, I actually reached the same error. I have absolutely no idea what's going on, but I found a way to move on. Basically, I defined a `dummy-bootloader`. Because I don't know what I'm doing, I took inspiration of some other well-known blog article talking about running guix on WSL,

Patch review session tomorrow (Thursday 7th March)

2024-03-06 Thread Steve George
Hi, A reminder that the first patch review session is happening tomorrow, Thursday 7th March. Who knows how many people will be there, or what level of experience everyone will have. We'll be learning what works as we try out these sessions. Hopefully, Andreas Enge with his 'committer' hat on