Improving build-time checks for kernel module configuration + two other discussion points

]: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/43078#2 -- Take it easy, Richard Sent Making my computer weirder one commit at a time.

Re: Value in adding Shepherd requirements to file-systems entries?

(type "dummy")) --8<---cut here---end--->8--- That's from me trying to create a file-system record with the requirements field instead of shepherd-requirements. [1]: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/70542#19 -- Take it easy, Richard Sent Making my computer weirder one commit at a time.

Re: Come speak at the Guix Social meetup

ens and I can make it. -- Take it easy, Richard Sent Making my computer weirder one commit at a time.

Re: Value in adding Shepherd requirements to file-systems entries?

Hi Felix, Felix Lechner writes: > Hi Richard, > > On Tue, Apr 23 2024, Richard Sent wrote: > >> I submitted a patch for what I'm thinking at >> https://issues.guix.gnu.org/70542. > > I believe this stopped working for my NFS setup. Interesting. It does still wor

Re: Improving the speed of guix time-machine for development environments

become even more annoying. If B is only importing a couple Guix modules that are unlikely to incompatibly change, it's basically wasted effort. This is outside the scope of this topic, but I think it could be interesting if the dependency channels in .guix-channel could specify minimum commits as well. -- Take it easy, Richard Sent Making my computer weirder one commit at a time.

Re: Improving the speed of guix time-machine for development environments

effect of time-machine serving dual purposes. >> One is providing a reproducible environment for result replication, >> the other is providing a development environment for collections of >> channels. [1]: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2024-03/msg00265.html -- Take it easy, Richard Sent Making my computer weirder one commit at a time.

Re: watchdog triggered auto-rollback

> i'm afraid that's not the case currently: > > %guile-static-stripped crashes with a sigsegv (i.e. the guile used in the > initrd (?)) > https://issues.guix.gnu.org/71211 Interesting. Is this a recent bug? When I was trying to bring up Guix on the VisionFive 2 I was being dropped into a Guile

Re: watchdog triggered auto-rollback

fails during startup it will abort into an interactive Guile REPL. This might hurt GRUB's ability to detect something went wrong since the kernel would still be running. A similar case may apply if Shepherd gets stuck during system initialization. -- Take it easy, Richard Sent Making my computer weirder one commit at a time.

Re: Error handling when 'guix substitute' dies

Hi Ludo! FYSA based on https://issues.guix.gnu.org/71238 I suspect the fix mentioned in that patch might not be applying properly in all cases. -- Take it easy, Richard Sent Making my computer weirder one commit at a time.

Re: Improving the speed of guix time-machine for development environments

present I can think of soft-pinning a list of channels by name being useful. I can also see an option to only fetch dependencies of a channel, not the channel itself, being useful. I would definitely appreciate feedback or use cases! :) -- Take it easy, Richard Sent Making my computer weirder one commit at a time.

Re: watchdog triggered auto-rollback

e test with old services. I don't believe Guix has a mechanism yet to say "Yes, this service is new, and I /do/ want Shepherd to auto-start it, but not on reconfigure". This shouldn't be too hard to add though. -- Take it easy, Richard Sent Making my computer weirder one commit at a time.

Re: Guix pull: avoiding "Computing Guix derivation"

> I see that build in build-self.scm isn't a derivation, but most of the time > spent in build is, to my knowledge, while the daemon is building the > build-program derivation. build-program in build-self.scm returns a > gexp->script file-like object and I see various /gnu/store >

Re: Guix pull: avoiding "Computing Guix derivation"

>> - Why is this step not substitutable ? The inputs are known, a hash can >> be derived, a substitute server could be queried for an output of that >> hash ? What am I missing ? Does the guix derivation not end up in the >> store ? What makes it so special that it can't be served by a substitute

Re: Guix pull: avoiding "Computing Guix derivation"

Simon Tournier writes: > Hi, > > On lun., 13 mai 2024 at 17:11, Richard Sent > wrote: > >> Instead of A and B building C directly, A and B download the >> substitutable Guix package D, then use D to build C. Because D is a >> reproducible package, it should b

Re: Guix pull: avoiding "Computing Guix derivation"

ackage... guix 0edbb93 repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git branch: master commit: 0edbb93130651f29dc59fe4ca546a5065670ac8a --8<---cut here---end--->8--- I imagine there's a large amount of behind the scenes work that would need to be done for this to work, but if nothing else it's an interesting thought experiment! -- Take it easy, Richard Sent Making my computer weirder one commit at a time.

Re: (almost) deterministic patchsets

ptionally takes a revision e.g. issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/70XXX/patch-set/3. -- Take it easy, Richard Sent Making my computer weirder one commit at a time.

Re: Value in adding Shepherd requirements to file-systems entries?

ion.) Happy to change to whatever the consensus is! -- Take it easy, Richard Sent Making my computer weirder one commit at a time.

Changing the defaults for --localstatedir and --sysconfdir?

x-devel/2017-09/msg00098.html [3]: https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Directory-Variables.html -- Take it easy, Richard Sent Making my computer weirder one commit at a time.

Re: Value in adding Shepherd requirements to file-systems entries?

don't have an NFS system on my LAN to test so no promises) Hopefully that shows what I'm thinking. If anyone has thoughts I'd love to hear it, either here or in the patch depending on what's appropriate. -- Take it easy, Richard Sent Making my computer weirder one commit at a time.

Value in adding Shepherd requirements to file-systems entries?

g file-system could easily cause a deadlock. I know a custom shepherd service could be used to run, say, mount.cifs from userspace after networking is provisioned, but in my opinion it would be cleaner to encapsulate within the existing file-system block of the operating system. -- Take it easy, Richard Sent Making my computer weirder one commit at a time.

Re: Should we include nss-certs out of the box?

except for git in shell containers. Power users will still be able to override the normal behavior by setting the package-specific environment variables. This change would just change the default state from "nonfunctional" to "working". -- Take it easy, Richard Sent Making my computer weirder one commit at a time.

Improving the speed of guix time-machine for development environments

Hi Guix, To my knowledge what I'm asking for can't currently be done, but if it can feel free to disregard. I think channels listed in channels.scm files should optionally support using whatever channel version is already in the user's profile, if present. This would significantly speed up

Re: Guix role in a free society

at the top of files? -- Take it easy, Richard Sent Making my computer weirder one commit at a time.

Re: Concerns/questions around Software Heritage Archive

but I feel it is an improvement over the status quo with no negative tradeoffs. I would not support a solution that obsoletes time-machine or requires regular manual intervention during upgrades. Personally as a new contributor I find it gratifying to see my name in the commit history. -- Take it easy, Richard Sent

Re: LWN: A look at Nix and Guix

Thanks for sharing! The comments section was a nice change of pace from the tone of Guix discussion in Hacker News. -- Take it easy, Richard Sent Making my computer weirder one commit at a time.

Creating an unversioned rust-cargo symbol

osting to guix-devel instead of bug-guix since I'm not entirely sure this is a bug or working as intended. [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2022-12/msg00310.html -- Take it easy, Richard Sent Making my computer weirder one commit at a time.

Guix deploy --keep-going equivalent for machine connection failures

oing-but-for-machines-I-don't-know-what-to-call-this Anyone have thoughts on this? Thanks, Richard Sent