Using local package in shell manifest

g "guix shell" in the directory with the manifest.scm: guix shell: loading environment from '/home/jesse/Code/guix-tests/manifest.scm'... hint: Consider passing the `--check' option once to make sure your shell does not clobber environment variables. guix shell: error: cross

Re: Using local package in shell manifest

n define-public and the use-module seems to be a bit different too? I am having trouble finding the distinction in the manual. On 10/26/23 10:16, Tomas Volf wrote: On 2023-10-25 16:49:43 -0400, Jesse wrote: Hello, I have written a package that I have installed with "guix package --install

Help with channel build system and package

Hello, I have a channel where I am trying to develop a few packages that need a new build system. I want to try and use guix to build toolchains from crosstool-ng[1] for embedded development. In an effort to guix-fiy some of my development environments I'd like to be able to use the same tool

Re: Help with channel build system and package

Thanks for taking a look Carlo! On 2/7/24 22:37, Carlo Zancanaro wrote: Hi Jesse, I know very little about what you're trying to do, but there's one thing that looked wrong to me: On Wed, Feb 07 2024, Jesse wrote: ...     (build-system crosstool-ng) ... This isn't a buil

Re: Help with channel build system and package

guile files inside with something like (use-modules embedded-dev packages crosstool-ng). I invoked the repl: guix repl -L /home/jesse/Code/embedded-dev-chan Then I loaded the "build-repl.scm" script and tried to build my package: scheme@(guix-user)> ,load /home/jesse/Code/embed

help with USB bluetooth driver

I recently purchased the device described here H-node says it should work without nonfree drivers. But when I plug it in, the kernel says non-free firmware was disabled. Do

re: Yubikey setup for GPG

I had a similar problem with my Librem key. I fixed it by including (service pcscd-service-type) in my system configuration, reconfiguring my guix system, and making sure I have one of the pinentry packages installed and configured. See https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Miscellaneous-S

Am I using --with-source improperly?

I asked about this on the IRC but had no luck. IIUC --with-source=package=source should set the source for "package" to "source" when something being built depends on "package". For example, `guix build --with-soure=python2=/tmp/python2 lci` should build the lci with the python2 source in /tmp

Re: Am I using --with-source improperly?

On 8/27/20 5:23 AM, Carlo Zancanaro wrote: Hi Jesse! On Thu, Aug 27 2020, Jesse Gibbons wrote: Am I using the --with-source option incorrectly, or is this some sort of bug? You could argue either way. This is because --with-source is a shallow package rewrite, unlike the other --with-X

Who has had success installing a Guix system on arm?

ot working can boot from an internal (emmc) or external (microsd) drive, which one did you get working? -> Would you mind sharing the operating-system definition that was successful? Thanks, -Jesse

Re: Who has had success installing a Guix system on arm?

On 11/4/20 10:44 AM, Mathieu Othacehe wrote: Hello Jesse, -> Which board did you get working with guix system (banana pi m2u, novena, beaglebone black, pine64-plus, etc.)? -> Did you build natively or cross-build from a different system? -> What version of guix did you use?

Re: Who has had success installing a Guix system on arm?

On 11/5/20 7:24 AM, Timothy Sample wrote: Hi Jesse, Jesse Gibbons writes: Has anyone in this mailing list successfully used the Guix system on an armhf or aarch64 computer? I don’t have a lot of details for you, but I can confirm that I’ve used Guix on three armhf boards: BeagleBone

Can Guix support Zen 2/AMD Ryzen?

the Zen 2 Architecture, which he knows might need to work around. Since it booted fine, I think it might be more related to his Nvidia GPU. Is there anything I can do, without resorting to proprietary solutions, to make a guix image with a desktop at least displays with his hardware? -Jesse

help with gitolite

I am trying to set up gitolite on a server. I have been able to set it up with my ssh key, but it fails when I reboot the server. I test it with `ssh git@ip-address help`. It does work again when I once again run guix deploy. Has anyone had a similar problem?

foreign guix offload checklist?

Hi guix, I'm trying to offload a build onto a machine with a foreign distro. I'm getting the following error: $ guix build --system=armhf-linux --no-substitutes hello The following derivations will be built:    /gnu/store/jidb0saw2s3zd1gvnziw064hbb1hxz7y-hello-2.10.drv /gnu/store/hknqainda0ardh

Building Package and autoreconf not found

Hello, I am trying to write a Guix package but I have to add a build phase to the gnu build system. I have the following package scm: (use-modules  (guix packages)  (guix git-download)  (guix licenses)  (guix profiles)  (guix build-system gnu)  (guix build-system python)  (guix build utils))

Re: Building Package and autoreconf not found

Thanks Tomas, That worked. I also had to add a phase before configure to patch the packages' gen-version-info script because it was in a location that the built-in bootstrap phase couldn't detect. Then I could drop my bootstrap phase too. Jesse On 10/26/23 10:21, Tomas Volf wrote

Re: Help with channel build system and package

Thanks for the response Marek On 2/8/24 12:00, Marek Paśnikowski wrote: 08.02.2024 15:32:44 CET Jesse: Thanks for taking a look Carlo! On 2/7/24 22:37, Carlo Zancanaro wrote: Hi Jesse, I know very little about what you're trying to do, but there's one thing that looked wrong to m

Re: Help with channel build system and package

n| Reference <https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/guix.html#origin-Reference>). It can also be any other “file-like” object such as a |local-file|, which denotes a file from the local file system (see |local-file| <https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/guix.html#G_002dExpressions>). I couldn&#x

Re: Help with channel build system and package

Marek, Thanks for the detailed response! I really appreciate it. I responded inline. Is your main source of knowledge the official Guix documentation? On 3/8/24 05:43, Marek Paśnikowski wrote: 08.03.2024 03:35:11 CET Jesse Millwood: I'm still trying to get this to work. I tracked

Re: Help with channel build system and package

Thanks for your response Richard! On 3/8/24 22:39, Richard Sent wrote: Jesse, I expect your issue is you have an extra gexp in build-system/crosstool-ng.scm, line 71. I determined this by: 1. Examining the derivation Guix is trying to build I'm still trying to learn about the interna

Re: Help with channel build system and package

nter `,help' for help. scheme@(guix-user)> ,l /home/jesse/Code/guix-repos/guix-embedded-dev/build-repl.scm WARNING: (embedded-dev packages crosstool-ng): `which' imported from both (guix build utils) and (gnu packages base) substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.

Re: Help with channel build system and package

iliar debugging. Thanks for all the help! On 3/16/24 17:47, Jesse Millwood wrote: Richard and Marek, The input from both of you helped me get a little farther. I've pushed my changes to https://codeberg.org/moonling/guix-embedded-dev. I feel like I'm really close now. I seem to be able t

Red Notebook will not build.

on of the three. Thanks in advance! -Jesse g05wsv8nqq8m71n3wg65043lixsfaa-rednotebook-2.11.1.drv.bz2 Description: application/bzip Traceback (most recent call last): File "rednotebook/journal.py", line 44, in gi.require_version('GtkSource', '3.0') File "/

Re: Red Notebook will not build.

On Tue, 07 May 2019 12:19:45 +0200 L p R n d n wrote: > Hello, > > Jesse Gibbons writes: > > > I am trying to make a Red Notebook package (home page > > ). I defined a package that should work, but I get > > an error when I try to build it. Atta

What can be done about zipped sources

I have a project that relies on the python random2 module at <https://pypi.org/project/random2/>. Guix cannot extract it because it is a zip, not a tarball. Is there a workaround? Thanks, -Jesse

Re: What can be done about zipped sources

On Mon, 3 Jun 2019 19:54:48 -0600 Jesse Gibbons wrote: > I have a project that relies on the python random2 module at > <https://pypi.org/project/random2/>. Guix cannot extract it because > it is a zip, not a tarball. Is there a workaround? > Thanks, > -Jesse Never mind. I

Best course for recently fixed packages?

ent commit hash until the project's next release? Or should I specify the most recent release and specify a patch with the changes that fixed it? Or would it be best for me to place this package on hold until the next release? Thanks for the advice, -Jesse

How to set default screen brightness?

My Librem 13 laptop battery lasts much longer with a lower screen brightness. When it runs gnome on guix (and I haven't tried any other de) I have to turn down the brightness every time. This is not so with my other partition running PureOS. Is there a way to configure a default screen brightness i

Re: How to set default screen brightness?

On Sat, 15 Jun 2019 19:41:13 +0200 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: > Jesse, > > Jesse Gibbons wrote: > > My Librem 13 laptop battery lasts much longer with a lower > > screen > > brightness. When it runs gnome on guix (and I haven't tried any > > other >

Re: FreeTube (Re-Post)

> Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2019 17:28:12 +0200 (CEST) > From: > To: > Subject: FreeTube (Re-Post) > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Hi, > > I understand that there is youtube-dl and youtube-viewer. But neither > of them provide a clean UX and features similar to FreeTube. I

Re: FreeTube (Re-Post)

On Sat, 15 Jun 2019 22:00:36 +0200 (CEST) wrote: > > It looks like freetube uses npm. I don't know if there is an > > npm-build-system and I cannot find a nodejs or npm package. In > > order to make FreeTube it looks like we will need to break a lot of > > ground. > Ah! Would it be worth it? Not

Re: How to set default screen brightness?

On Sat, 15 Jun 2019 22:48:18 +0200 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: > Jesse, > > Jesse Gibbons wrote: > > Thanks. I think I can add a service using the `light` tool. > > Yeah, I currently call it from my .xsession, which is horrible… > A proper servi

When is it appropriate to rename a file?

There are a lot of files in gnu/packages/, and some of them contain only one package. If I want to add a package with a similar function to one of these solo packages, is it appropriate to rename the file? In particular, I want to rename jrnl.scm to journal.scm and add a journal application to it f

Re: When is it appropriate to rename a file?

>Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2019 12:21:47 -0600 >From: ison >To: Jesse Gibbons >Cc: help-guix@gnu.org >Subject: Re: When is it appropriate to rename a file? >Message-ID: <20190616182146.asihmoclm4yghh6p@cf0> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > >I'm

Re: mount store in a separated partition

Though I'm not as familiar with this issue, I think I can help. GRUB is looking for the kernel and other boot info in your OS's root partition, /dev/vda1. However, your actual kernel is in /dev/sda1. To get GRUB to boot properly, you need to specify in grub.cfg to look in /dev/sda1. I do not know i

Better way to list supported boards?

devices for which I can cross-compile GuixSD? -Jesse

Specify swap partition by UUID

swap device (define swap-uuid ...) ... (swap-devices (list (uuid swap-uuid))) It complained that it did not get a string. (swap-devices (list swap-uuid)) It complained about my swap-uuid not being a file or directory. Any help would be appreciated. -Jesse

/homeless-shelter workaround

A package I am building fails multiple tests with the following error: OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/homeless-shelter' It is trying to make subdirectories to the builder's $HOME directory, which does not exist. Is there a standard workaround for this? -Jesse

Re: Chances of installing Guix on the upcoming Pinebook Pro Laptop?

On Fri, 19 Jul 2019 16:27:32 -0600 Brian Woodcox wrote: > Hey Guix fans, > > As the subject line states, what are the chances? > > This unit is to be released soon from pine64.org. > > It’s arm based. > > I know a lot of you would like to upgrade from your Thinkpads. > > I was thinking of ge

Re: IceWeasel-UXP and IceDove-UXP

iceape-uxp after icedove-uxp is written. I think I can port icedove-uxp, and guixuser can use my code as a template for iceweasel. It will help guixuser get comfortable with porting and fixing packages, which would be important if guixuser is to remain a guix user. Guixuser, would you mind if I CC you when I submit the patch? -Jesse

Re: CV Assistant

l error: > ;; quazip/quazipfile.h: No such file or directory". > ;; > ;; FIXME: insufficient! It fails later with "ld: cannot > ;; find -lquazip-qt5". > (lambda _ > (substitute* "models/resumedocument.h" > (("quazip(/quazipfile\\.h)" _ suffix) > (string-append "quazip5" suffix))) > #t)) > > I'm quite certain this is not too hard to solve. You may want to > investigate a bit further, or ask for help through IRC, etc. > > HTH, > > Regards, > I looked into this. the quazip package produces libraries called quazip5, not quazip-qt5. make expects quazip-qt5 because of a line in CVAssistant.pro: LIBS += -lquazip-qt5 Replace this line and we can move to the next problem in building cvassistant. -- -Jesse

Re: CV Assistant

Great news! I got cvassistant working! I will send the patch when I have time. Nicolas Goaziou, I could not have done it without your template, so I want to include your info in the copyright section of cvassistant.scm. If that's ok with you, what should I put? -- -Jesse

Re: CV Assistant

On Sun, 2019-08-25 at 14:18 -0400, Raghav Gururajan wrote: > On Sun, 2019-08-25 at 10:57 +0200, Nicolas Goaziou wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Jesse Gibbons writes: > > > > > Great news! I got cvassistant working! I will send the patch when > &g

Re: Setting environment variables in Gnome session

On Wed, 2019-08-28 at 20:50 -0400, Jonathan Frederickson wrote: > On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 8:40 PM, Timothy Sample > wrote: > > If you use GDM and GNOME, and have Bash as your shell, you need to > > set > > the variables in “~/.bash_profile” or “~/.bashrc”. Guix > > System sets up > > GDM to run

Help setting up ardour

60 JACK is starting... 15:02:52.960 /home/jesse/.guix-profile/bin/jackd -dalsa -dhw:0 -r48000 -p1024 -n2 connect(2) call to /dev/shm/jack-1000/default/jack_0 failed (err=No such file or directory) attempt to connect to server failed 15:02:52.963 JACK was started with PID=15869. jackd 0.125.0 Copyright

Re: Help setting up ardour

On Sat, 2019-08-31 at 14:17 +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > Hi Jesse, > > > under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details > > JACK is running in realtime mode, but you are not allowed to use > > realtime scheduling. > > grep: /etc/security/limits.c

Re: Scripting guix in guile

On Sat, 2019-08-31 at 19:03 +0200, Konrad Hinsen wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'd like to write Guile scripts that inspect Guix, for example > analyze > the packages is my profile. That turned out to be a lot more > difficult > than I expected, and in fact I haven't found a satisfying general > solut

Re: Scripting guix in guile

On Sat, 2019-08-31 at 11:38 -0600, Jesse Gibbons wrote: > On Sat, 2019-08-31 at 19:03 +0200, Konrad Hinsen wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > I'd like to write Guile scripts that inspect Guix, for example > > analyze > > the packages is my profile. That tur

Re: Scripting guix in guile

On Sun, 2019-09-01 at 10:15 +0200, Konrad Hinsen wrote: > Hi Jesse, > > First of all, thanks for your suggestions! > > > > 1. What to put into the #! line to locate Guile. > > > > I don't think you need a shebang to script guile. If you do, you > >

Re: Help with Learning Programming and LISP

On Mon, 2019-09-09 at 09:38 -0700, John Soo wrote: > Hi Raghav! > > > I would like to learn programming starting with LISP > > Great! Lisp is probably the best language to start with! > > Lisp books also rank among the best introductory materials to > programming. I highly recommend these two:

Re: Help setting up ardour

On Mon, 2019-09-09 at 11:10 +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > Jesse Gibbons writes: > > > On Sat, 2019-08-31 at 14:17 +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > > > Hi Jesse, > > > > > > > under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details > > >

Re: Question about Licenses.

t your option)" (outside /COPYING because the string is in the GNU licenses) to determine the license specifics. > > Regards, > Fanis -- -Jesse

How to make sure ghc uses installed packages?

quot;runhaskell tutorial.hs" and got this output: 2 packages in profile jesse@piranhaplant ~/Documents/haskell$ runhaskell tutorial.hs tutorial.hs:2:1: error: Could not find module ‘Text.Regex’ Perhaps you meant Text.Read (from base-4.12.0.0) Use -v to see a list of the files searched

Re: How to make sure ghc uses installed packages?

On Mon, 2019-09-16 at 17:00 -0700, John Soo wrote: > Hi Jesse, > > > Can somebody help me out please? > > I can try! > > Can get the contents of $GHC_PACKAGE_PATH please? Guix uses this > environment variable that is recognized by the ghc toolchain to tell > gh

Re: How to make sure ghc uses installed packages?

On Mon, 2019-09-16 at 22:27 -0700, John Soo wrote: > Hi Jesse, > > > GHC_PACKAGE_PATH did > > not change, even when I uninstalled > everything, so I suspected it > > was > > linked to a login script. > > Ok yes. That is the state of affairs right now. The

Re: Kdenlive License follow-up.

On Wed, 2019-09-18 at 21:40 +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > Hi Fanis, > > > I asked on the KDE matrix server regarding the Kdenlive licensing and > > turns out they use GPL-3 in OpenSUSE. Most files are either GPL-2 or > > GPL-3 or later + KDE Ev. clause so the package can't be licensed as > > GPL-

Re: Guix newbee

Hi Sherab, On Mon, 2019-09-23 at 08:30 +, wisdomlight--- via wrote: > Hi > > I am interested in trying GuixSD > I attempted it few times with no success. > So: > Question: > Is GuixSD for the time being only for people who know what they're doing? GuixSD has improved greatly since I first star

spacemacs doesn't have the correct PATH when I change HOME

le in $HOME/spacemacs so emacs will be able to locate the packages it needs? (solution 1) 3. How hard would it be to define a spacemacs package with the binary renamed "spacemacs" so I won't have to use the script? (solution 2) Thanks, -Jesse

Re: spacemacs doesn't have the correct PATH when I change HOME

On Tue, 2019-09-24 at 08:09 -0500, Jeff Bauer wrote: > > Jesse: > > I'm using spacemacs with guix, but not dual emacs/spacemacs. Some > resources (which you may have already encountered): > > https://www.reddit.com/r/spacemacs/comments/88poow/how_can_i_run_spacemacs

Re: Guix installing different package versions on different machines

On Sat, 2019-09-28 at 15:02 +0200, Zelphir Kaltstahl wrote: > Hi Guix users! > > I installed Guix on my own machine (Xubuntu 18.04.3) and at work on my > machine (Ubuntu 18.04.3). Although I do `guix pull` and then `guix > package -u`, both machines get different versions of packages installed > t

Help identifying licenses

ant snippet from debian/copyright: Files: kenny Copyright: 2001 Christian Garbs 2002 Alan Eldridge License: Artistic On Debian systems, the full text of the Artistic license can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/Artistic Thanks for the help, -- -Jesse

Re: Help identifying licenses

hanged since then? I will contact the copyright holders and see if they are willing to use clarified-artistic or artistic-2.0 or disjunct artistic/gpl or some other free license. If so, I will ask the package maintainer to change debian/copyright with that detail. Until then, I will make sure the package does not install or use kenny. -- -Jesse

Re: Authentication prompt when changing brightness

On Mon, 2019-10-07 at 06:25 -0700, David Wilson wrote: > Hi all, > > This is my first attempt at setting up Guix on my machine, so please > forgive me if I've missed anything obvious here. I've noticed that any > time a process tries to set the backlight brightness of my laptop, a root > authentic

Add os config file to VM image

I work on a virtual machine generated with "guix system vm-image". Due to the recent core updates, the vm image will need to fall out of date unless it can be updated and reconfigured. Right now, the best way to reconfigure the vm image is to copy the system definition onto the image, then run guix

Re: guix system disk-image /etc/config.scm error: u-boot-allwinner-bootloader: unbound variable

ocumented. The installer disk image I generated doesn't work when I dd it to the built-in emmc (bug report pending). If the disk image you are generating doesn't work, try using guix on armbian to bootstrap the system as described in the tutorial at < https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/guix-on-an-arm-board/> and make sure the bootloader and / refer to separate partitions. -Jesse

Re: guix system disk-image /etc/config.scm error: u-boot-allwinner-bootloader: unbound variable

On Sat, 2020-02-01 at 12:56 -0700, Jesse Gibbons wrote: > Hi anon, > On Fri, 2020-01-31 at 20:18 +, anon wrote: > > Hi, > > I installed guix on Armbian 19.11.6 on BananaPi M1. Command > > 'guix pull' executing correctly, but when i try execute &#

Re: KDE + Guix as a package manager

On Sat, 2020-02-01 at 21:07 +, Ekaitz Zarraga wrote: > Hi, > > I have Guix installed as a package manager on KDE-Neon and I use it > for my tools but they are not found by KDE but they run perfectly if > I run them from my terminal (my bashrc is setting the needed > variables). > > I tried pl

Debugging Shepherd Daemon. Possible escape char issue.

Hello, I am trying to run some docker services as an oci-service-configuration entry. I have one simple one running fine. However the one that I am having trouble with, I assume is an issue with quoting and escaping. I don't see any issue in /var/log/messages. I'd like to be able to see the

Re: Debugging Shepherd Daemon. Possible escape char issue.

n I try to run "sudo herd start docker-whoami" but I get the same error message on the cli but I don't see any error messages in /var/log/messages. Is there a better interactive way to try running these services for debugging purposes? On 11/29/24 16:25, Felix Lechner via wrote

Re: Debugging Shepherd Daemon. Possible escape char issue.

d backticks for the go lang string literal in the rule. On 12/10/24 07:11, Jesse Millwood wrote: For what it's worth I figured this out with help from giacomo of the gocix project. He has a really neat herd action where you can query the command line invocation that was used. That he

Re: Debugging Shepherd Daemon. Possible escape char issue.

)) The backticks used here are because that is a string literal that is evaluated by docker, which is written in the Go programming language. Jesse On 11/29/24 14:08, Jesse Millwood wrote: Hello, I am trying to run some docker services as an oci-service-configuration entry. I have one