Re: Guix System and WIFI / WLAN

[W. T. Meyer]

Hi Gottfried,

Gottfried  writes:

> Does that work in Guix system as well?
>
> If not, what do I have to do?

There's a manual page on hardware considerations that talks about these
specific issues:

https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Hardware-Considerations.html

It also mentions h-node.org as a resource to check wether WiFi hardware
is compatible with linux-libre or not, which you may want to check out: 

https://www.h-node.org/wifi/catalogue/en

---
Wilko Meyer

Re: lookup which file can be found in which package

[W. T. Meyer]

"W. T. Meyer"  writes:

> Is there a quick way in Guix to figure out which package provides which
> file similar to what other package managers provide with dnf
> provides/apt-file search/nix-locate etc.?

There's an open patch for a guix index command mention on the
guix-patches mailing list:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-patches/2023-03/msg01210.html

I guess this answers my question.

- Wilko

lookup which file can be found in which package

[W. T. Meyer]

Hi everyone,

Is there a quick way in Guix to figure out which package provides which
file similar to what other package managers provide with dnf
provides/apt-file search/nix-locate etc.?

So far I haven't found a command doing this reading documentation, but
maybe there's a way to query the substitute servers if a certain file
can be found? nix has nix-index/nix-locate to query if a binary cache
has a derivation containing a specific file; which would roughly be what
I'm looking for in Guix as well.

Regards,

Wilko Meyer

Re: Guix on mobile phones

[W. T. Meyer]

Caleb Herbert  writes:

> I hope there's a way to suppress compiling from source. I don't want
> to be compiling stuff on a mobile device.

I think offloading build processes to another machine defined in
/etc/guix/machines.scm would be a more useful solution than to suppress
building things from source.

For initially provisioning a system one could probably try to make use
of guix system image to create an initial base image of Guix for a
respective mobile device to keep the amount of work to be done at said
device to a minimum.

- Wilko

Guix on mobile phones

[W. T. Meyer]

Hi,

There were brief discussions on running Guix on mobile phones ~2y ago on
this mailing list. Even though it was mentioned that there may have been
efforts to run Guix on a pinephone (also being aware that there's an
image available for the pinebook pro which uses a similar SoC as the
pinephone pro), I haven't found a post of someone having a working Guix
set-up on mobile.

So I've been wondering if there have been any successful attempts on
either running Guix as a package manager on top of something like
postmarketOS or Guix System as a distribution?

I will probably try running Guix on my pinephone myself as soon as I
have a couple of hours to spare, but it'd be appreciated to hear if
anyone has been down this route before?

- Wilko