bug#44053: Poor profile generation performance on spinning disks

2020-10-19 Thread zimoun
Hi Maxim, On Sun, 18 Oct 2020 at 05:37, Maxim Cournoyer wrote: > On my home machine, will is still relying on 2 x 1 TB spinning drives in > RAID1, rebuilding my user profile, which contains 182 entries, takes on > average about 20 minutes, even when there are no packages to be built: The databa

bug#44000: Guile-Git cross-compiled to i586-pc-gnu gets bytestructures wrong

2020-10-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Taylan Kammer skribis: > Could you please test whether bytestructures 1.0.8 fixes the issue? Thanks for the prompt reply! I tested 1.0.8 and it does not fix the problem. I think the problem might be that the ‘cond-expand-provide’ call might affect a module that’s not the one tested in (ev

bug#44027: [PATCH] installer: Create bios_grub partition when it is needed.

2020-10-19 Thread Mathieu Othacehe
Hello Brendan, > I feel the installer should not care what was on the drive to begin with, it > should just > format the drive how it sees fit. Why should the existing contents of the > drive > affect the outcome when we are reformatting everything anyway? That's the case except for the ESP par

bug#41336: guix pull error (on armhf) a few minutes ago

2020-10-19 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hello Danny, Danny Milosavljevic writes: > ./guix.ru.texi:956: warning: accent command `@,' must not be followed by > whitespace > ./guix.ru.texi:21275: @pxref reference to nonexistent node `Channels' > ./guix.ru.texi:26842: @pxref reference to nonexistent node `Channels' > ./guix.ru.texi:28006

bug#44027: [PATCH] installer: Create bios_grub partition when it is needed.

2020-10-19 Thread Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas
Hi Mathieu, Mathieu Othacehe writes: > Hello Brendan, > >> I feel the installer should not care what was on the drive to begin with, it >> should just >> format the drive how it sees fit. Why should the existing contents of the >> drive >> affect the outcome when we are reformatting everything an

bug#43879: Problem with graphical installer

2020-10-19 Thread Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas
Hi Marinius, Marinus Savoritias writes: > If you follow the guided graphical install guix will fail to > reconfigure afterwards. > > Everytime you will reconfigure it will say no space left on device. On > /boot. The default installation should not create a separate /boot partition, only creates

bug#44027: [PATCH] installer: Create bios_grub partition when it is needed.

2020-10-19 Thread Mathieu Othacehe
Hello Miguel, > Is there any other issue remaining? It doesn't modify this logic at > all. Should I apply this patch to master then? Yes, your patch LGTM. Please make sure that system tests are still working by running: --8<---cut here---start->8--- make c

bug#43960:

2020-10-19 Thread zimoun
Dear, On Thu, 15 Oct 2020 at 18:39, Bengt Richter wrote: >> On Thu, 15 Oct 2020 at 15:53, Bengt Richter wrote: >> >> > If there is a left-over from old manual installation advice like >> > --8<---cut here---start->8--- >> > /usr/local/bin/guix: >> > symbo

bug#43893: [PATCH v2] maint: update-guix-package: Prevent accidentally breaking guix pull.

2020-10-19 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hello! I went ahead and merged this with commit 5800d2aae2. I think it provides more benefits (breaking 'guix pull' is quite bad) than drawbacks. Thanks for your input! Closing, Maxim

bug#44053: Poor profile generation performance on spinning disks

2020-10-19 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hello Simon, zimoun writes: > Hi Maxim, > > On Sun, 18 Oct 2020 at 05:37, Maxim Cournoyer > wrote: > >> On my home machine, will is still relying on 2 x 1 TB spinning drives in >> RAID1, rebuilding my user profile, which contains 182 entries, takes on >> average about 20 minutes, even when the

bug#43879: Problem with graphical installer

2020-10-19 Thread Marinus Savoritias
Hi, The steps that I followed were: 1. Use guided installation using full disk with graphical installer 2. I selected use entire disk and not a separate /home 3. It gave me the warning that its going to format the disk. At that point it formatted and I rebooted into the new system. There wer

bug#44027: [PATCH] installer: Create bios_grub partition when it is needed.

2020-10-19 Thread Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas
Hi, Mathieu Othacehe writes: > Hello Miguel, > >> Is there any other issue remaining? It doesn't modify this logic at >> all. Should I apply this patch to master then? > > Yes, your patch LGTM. Please make sure that system tests are still > working by running: > > make check-system TESTS="gui-i

bug#30754: GuixSD installation problem

2020-10-19 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hello Amar, amar writes: > Hi, > > I am trying to install guixSD 0.14 x86_64 following the installation > docs, i am unable to get past `guix system init` part, which runs for > a while then shows me the same error, i tried 3 times. > > https://gist.github.com/radamar/e81359d5f0bd2423632abd95283

bug#44027: [PATCH] installer: Create bios_grub partition when it is needed.

2020-10-19 Thread Bengt Richter
Hi, On +2020-10-19 16:57:49 +1100, Brendan Tildesley wrote: > On 19/10/20 3:03 am, Mathieu Othacehe wrote: > > Hello Miguel & Brendan, > > > > > AFAIU from the code, the first partition should not be created by the > > > installer but it won't be removed if it was found on the disk > > > before

bug#44090: Packaging a python library that is implemented with rust

2020-10-19 Thread Hamzeh Nasajpour
Hi, I'm not expert in rust and python but I need to package a python library, and this python library is a wrapper over the rust library. This library is using the `setuptools_rust` for build/install. * python library: https://github.com/etesync/etebase-py * rust library: https://github.com/ete