Estimated overhead of building an orthogonal Musl-based LFS within Guix build system

2023-02-12 Thread vtkq2fqnxd
Hi, I'm wondering what the overall estimated work or effort might look like to leverage Guix to build a co-existing family of packages that are in some sense "orthogonal" to the rest of Guix, based upon different package versions and perhaps musl libc - similar to

Re: Merging core-updates?

2023-02-12 Thread John Kehayias
Hi guix-devel! On Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 03:49 PM, Josselin Poiret wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Andreas Enge writes: > >> I volunteer to follow your lead, but also have no clue what is actually >> expected. > > I would also like to give a hand! > Count me in as well! I only did some spot fixes the

Re: Moving forward with teams and feature branches (was: Discussion notes on releases and branches)

2023-02-12 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello Josselin, Am Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 10:13:35PM +0100 schrieb Josselin Poiret: > For a potential roadmap (doesn't have to be sequential): > 1. Document this workflow in the manual, in a dedicated node, with a >rationale as well. One thing worth mentioning would be how to handle >

Moving forward with teams and feature branches (was: Discussion notes on releases and branches)

2023-02-12 Thread Josselin Poiret
Hi Andreas and thanks for taking the notes during the discussion! I think what came out of that discussion was very interesting and that it would greatly help the scaling problems Guix is facing as well as maintainer/contributor burnout, but that also means that we need to create some actionnable

Re: branch core-updates updated: gnu: coreutils-boot0: Fix building on arm architectures.

2023-02-12 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 03:56:24PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hi, Sorry for taking a while to get back to answer this. > Efraim Flashner skribis: > > > On December 12, 2022 1:47:29 PM UTC, "Ludovic Courtès" wrote: > > [...] > > >>> + ,@(if (target-arm?) > >>> + ;; Some

Re: Merging core-updates?

2023-02-12 Thread Janneke Nieuwenhuizen
Andreas Enge writes: > Am Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 12:58:06PM +0100 schrieb Julien Lepiller: >> And I was able to rebuild (with --check) patch-mesboot. The error looks >> a lot like https://issues.guix.gnu.org/49985. We should fix that indeed >> :) > > Ah indeed, that looks like deal breaking; maybe

Re: Merging core-updates?

2023-02-12 Thread Kaelyn
Hi, --- Original Message --- On Sunday, February 12th, 2023 at 5:08 PM, Andreas Enge wrote: > > > Am Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 12:58:06PM +0100 schrieb Julien Lepiller: > > > And I was able to rebuild (with --check) patch-mesboot. The error looks > > a lot like

Re: Licence of the Guix blog posts

2023-02-12 Thread Csepp
Csepp writes: > I thought I agreed when I sent my part, but in case I haven't: > I agree to licensing your contribution under CC-BY-SA 4.0 and GFDL > version 1.3 or later, with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, > and no Back-Cover Texts. s/your/mine/ I copied the text from the

Re: Merging core-updates?

2023-02-12 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 12:58:06PM +0100 schrieb Julien Lepiller: > And I was able to rebuild (with --check) patch-mesboot. The error looks > a lot like https://issues.guix.gnu.org/49985. We should fix that indeed > :) Ah indeed, that looks like deal breaking; maybe someone from MES can have a

Re: Merging core-updates?

2023-02-12 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 10:05:40AM +0100, Julien Lepiller wrote: > Hi Guix! > > As discussed at Guix Days before Fosdem, we haven't merged core-updates > in a very long time. I'd volunteer to lead this effort, but I don't > know what steps I should follow. Do we have some documentation about >

Re: adding motif to guix

2023-02-12 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hi! Not a review, but how is *tif ‘not an X toolkit’...? Why not just say it ‘uses *tif’, instead? Kind regards, T G-R Sent on the go. Excuse or enjoy my brevity.

Re: Merging core-updates?

2023-02-12 Thread Josselin Poiret
Hi everyone, Andreas Enge writes: > I volunteer to follow your lead, but also have no clue what is actually > expected. I would also like to give a hand! > [...] > Actually I am wondering whether the first step of killing these untamed > non-feature branches would not be to build and merge

Re: Merging core-updates?

2023-02-12 Thread Christopher Baines
Julien Lepiller writes: > As discussed at Guix Days before Fosdem, we haven't merged core-updates > in a very long time. I'd volunteer to lead this effort, but I don't > know what steps I should follow. Do we have some documentation about > that? I can try and help with this, at least in terms

Re: Merging core-updates?

2023-02-12 Thread Christopher Baines
Julien Lepiller writes: > Le Sun, 12 Feb 2023 12:52:51 +0100, > Julien Lepiller a écrit : > >> Le Sun, 12 Feb 2023 12:06:14 +0100, >> Andreas Enge a écrit : >> >> I just tried to build mpc on my machine, from core-updates. I get the >> same derivation as the one shown on the data service,

Re: Merging core-updates?

2023-02-12 Thread Leo Famulari
On Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 10:05:40AM +0100, Julien Lepiller wrote: > As discussed at Guix Days before Fosdem, we haven't merged core-updates > in a very long time. I'd volunteer to lead this effort, but I don't > know what steps I should follow. Do we have some documentation about > that? The

Re: Merging core-updates?

2023-02-12 Thread Julien Lepiller
Le Sun, 12 Feb 2023 12:52:51 +0100, Julien Lepiller a écrit : > Le Sun, 12 Feb 2023 12:06:14 +0100, > Andreas Enge a écrit : > > I just tried to build mpc on my machine, from core-updates. I get the > same derivation as the one shown on the data service, and it built > fine. Maybe there's

Re: Merging core-updates?

2023-02-12 Thread Julien Lepiller
Le Sun, 12 Feb 2023 12:06:14 +0100, Andreas Enge a écrit : > Hello, > > Am Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 10:05:40AM +0100 schrieb Julien Lepiller: > > As discussed at Guix Days before Fosdem, we haven't merged > > core-updates in a very long time. I'd volunteer to lead this > > effort, but I don't know

Re: Merging core-updates?

2023-02-12 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, Am Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 10:05:40AM +0100 schrieb Julien Lepiller: > As discussed at Guix Days before Fosdem, we haven't merged core-updates > in a very long time. I'd volunteer to lead this effort, but I don't > know what steps I should follow. Do we have some documentation about > that?

Re: Licence of the Guix blog posts

2023-02-12 Thread Janneke Nieuwenhuizen
Ludovic Courtès writes: Hello! Thanks Simon for pinging me! > You might remember that I started long ago asking people who had > contributed to the blog whether they would agree to licensing their work > under CC-BY-SA 4.0 and GFDL version 1.3 or later, with no Invariant > Sections, no

Merging core-updates?

2023-02-12 Thread Julien Lepiller
Hi Guix! As discussed at Guix Days before Fosdem, we haven't merged core-updates in a very long time. I'd volunteer to lead this effort, but I don't know what steps I should follow. Do we have some documentation about that?