Re: New “guix refresh” command

2013-05-09 Thread Nikita Karetnikov
> Objects aren’t malicious. Perhaps you’re talking about situations where > a mirror provides a tarball along with a valid signature, but said > signature is made with a random key, and the tarball is actually not > genuine, right? Yep. > Second, this is the same model as used by the OpenSSH cli

Re: Literate programming

2013-05-09 Thread Nikita Karetnikov
> I wouldn’t want to automatically extract command-line doc. First, > because --help needs to be concise, whereas the manual can give > additional details (compare ‘guix package --help’ and “Invoking guix > packages”.) Second, because the manual should include cross-references > and examples to m

Re: Timezone problems

2013-05-09 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Alex Sassmannshausen skribis: > I'm running into issues whereby the 'date' command that is part of the > coreutils package (installed through guix) returns non-timezone > corrected values (i.e. it returns UTC even for local time). Actually you first need to install the ‘tzdata’ package (which I

Re: 'python-build-system'

2013-05-09 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Nikita Karetnikov skribis: >> With these changes in place, OK to commit. > > I've just pushed both patches. Please have a look. > >> To answer your previous question, this ‘wrap’ phase serves a different >> (but related) purpose than the ‘native-search-paths’ thing: it ensures >> that the ‘bzr’

Timezone problems

2013-05-09 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Hello all, I'm running into issues whereby the 'date' command that is part of the coreutils package (installed through guix) returns non-timezone corrected values (i.e. it returns UTC even for local time). I suspect this was to do with the locale complications of the earlier gcc version that was