bug#22629: Channels not needed for a stable branch

2018-08-29 Thread Mark H Weaver
Konrad Hinsen writes: >> I also agree with you that we don’t need channels for providing a stable >> branch. The biggest obstacle to providing a stable branch is not >> technical, but it requires people maintaining it. > > Look at this from the opposite end: if you were interested in > maintaini

bug#22629: Channels not needed for a stable branch (was: Channels!)

2018-08-29 Thread Konrad Hinsen
Hi Ricardo, > I also agree with you that we don’t need channels for providing a stable > branch. The biggest obstacle to providing a stable branch is not > technical, but it requires people maintaining it. Look at this from the opposite end: if you were interested in maintaining a stable softwar

bug#32575: [Cuirass] Filter results by architecture

2018-08-29 Thread Gábor Boskovits
Joshua Branson ezt írta (időpont: 2018. aug. 29., Sze, 22:41): > Ricardo Wurmus writes: > > > The Cuirass web interface shows the number of successful, failed, and > > pending builds for each evaluation. Looking at just these numbers it is > > impossible to tell, how each of the supported archi

bug#31054: report problem: import bookmark for Web application does not work

2018-08-29 Thread Wensheng Xie
Thanks for the information. On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 7:43 AM Leo Famulari wrote: > On Sat, Apr 07, 2018 at 02:10:12PM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote: > > retitle 31054 Epiphany crashes on "import bookmark" menu item. > > thanks > > > > Wensheng Xie writes: > > > > > The system is guixSD 0.14 with st

bug#31366: Missing icons in virt-manager user-interface

2018-08-29 Thread Mike Gerwitz
On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 18:24:37 -0400, Leo Famulari wrote: > On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 02:05:45PM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: >> Apparently, merely installing adwaita-icon-theme and hicolor-icon-theme >> into the user's profile also works... not sure if this means it should >> be added to propag

bug#25631: epiphany: Ad blocker does not work.

2018-08-29 Thread Leo Famulari
On Mon, Feb 06, 2017 at 12:02:25PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > Epiphany comes with an ad blocker extension that can be enabled in the > settings. When starting epiphany, however, the following message can be > seen on VT1: > > ** (WebKitWebProcess:12345): WARNING **: Error retrieving adblock f

bug#31054: report problem: import bookmark for Web application does not work

2018-08-29 Thread Leo Famulari
On Sat, Apr 07, 2018 at 02:10:12PM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote: > retitle 31054 Epiphany crashes on "import bookmark" menu item. > thanks > > Wensheng Xie writes: > > > The system is guixSD 0.14 with standard desktop for xfce and GNOME. > > > > Using the standard web browser, try to click on the

bug#31366: Missing icons in virt-manager user-interface

2018-08-29 Thread Leo Famulari
On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 02:05:45PM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > Apparently, merely installing adwaita-icon-theme and hicolor-icon-theme > into the user's profile also works... not sure if this means it should > be added to propagated-inputs or users are just expected to install > relevent icon

bug#32539: Cuirass: a commit that updates doc will produce 86 tests

2018-08-29 Thread Clément Lassieur
Heya! Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hi Clément, > > Clément Lassieur skribis: > >> Evaluation 338[1] is triggered by commit 1d8d69c[2], which only updates >> the documentation. This evaluation produces 86 useless tests: >> test.mcron.i686-linux, test.opensmtpd.i686-linux, etc. I believe those >>

bug#32539: Cuirass: a commit that updates doc will produce 86 tests

2018-08-29 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Clément, Clément Lassieur skribis: > Evaluation 338[1] is triggered by commit 1d8d69c[2], which only updates > the documentation. This evaluation produces 86 useless tests: > test.mcron.i686-linux, test.opensmtpd.i686-linux, etc. I believe those > tests are triggered at each evaluation (alm

bug#32524: guix system build bare-bones.scm fails with ahci shpchp

2018-08-29 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Timothy Sample skribis: > Eric Brown writes: > >> I am attempting to guix system reconfigure a GuixSD 0.15 (updated) >> Macintosh laptop where reconfigure recommends and requires: >> >> (initrd-modules (append (list "ahci" "shpchp") >> %base-initrd-modules)) >> >

bug#31366: Missing icons in virt-manager user-interface

2018-08-29 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2018-08-27, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2018-05-04, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: >> Many of the icons appear to be missing from the user interface, such as >> the button for "Power on", "Pause the virtual machine", "Shut down the >> virtual machine" and "Show virtual hardware details". >> >> Also,

bug#22629: Channels not needed for a stable branch

2018-08-29 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Guix, Mark H Weaver skribis: > Both of you seem to have reached the conclusion that third-party > channels are a prerequisite for having a 'stable' branch. I disagree. Same here. We could already be doing that (I’m skeptical about the feasibility, maintainability, and relevance of a “st

bug#22629: Channels!

2018-08-29 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Konrad, Konrad Hinsen skribis: >> Mark’s concern is not about whether packages are the latest version, >> etc. It’s about the constraints that could result from widespread >> development of channels outside Guix proper: technically all of Guix is > > That's how I understood it as well. If

bug#32575: [Cuirass] Filter results by architecture

2018-08-29 Thread Joshua Branson
Ricardo Wurmus writes: > The Cuirass web interface shows the number of successful, failed, and > pending builds for each evaluation. Looking at just these numbers it is > impossible to tell, how each of the supported architectures is affected. > > It would be good if we could separate the view b

bug#22629: Channels not needed for a stable branch (was: Channels!)

2018-08-29 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Mark, > I'd like to say again that I have grave concerns that this could be the > death-knell for long-term innovation in Guix. It's likely that whenever > a change is proposed that will break these third-party channels, there > will be resistance, and efforts to preserve backward compatibil

bug#22629: Channels not needed for a stable branch (was: Channels!)

2018-08-29 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi, Alex Sassmannshausen writes: > My primary interest in channels at the moment comes from believing that > having a "stable" channel would be incredibly useful to increase > adoption rate of Guix. And for me. Konrad Hinsen writes: > Look at the wider Linux world: there are people who want to

bug#22629: Channels!

2018-08-29 Thread Konrad Hinsen
Hi Ludo, > Mark’s concern is not about whether packages are the latest version, > etc. It’s about the constraints that could result from widespread > development of channels outside Guix proper: technically all of Guix is That's how I understood it as well. If/when Guix becomes somebody else's d

bug#22629: Channels!

2018-08-29 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Konrad, Konrad Hinsen skribis: > Look at the wider Linux world: there are people who want to live on > the bleeding edge and run Arch Linux, and there are others who value > stability and run CentOS. Today's Guix is more on the bleeding edge > side. My understanding of your commment is that y

bug#32575: [Cuirass] Filter results by architecture

2018-08-29 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
The Cuirass web interface shows the number of successful, failed, and pending builds for each evaluation. Looking at just these numbers it is impossible to tell, how each of the supported architectures is affected. It would be good if we could separate the view by architecture. Then we could mor

bug#22629: Channels!

2018-08-29 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Mark H Weaver writes: > Hi Ludovic, > > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: >> Currently third-party channels are expected to provide nothing but >> package modules. > > I'd like to say again that I have grave concerns that this could be the > death-knell for long-term innovation in Guix. It