bug#22695: Binary Installation bugs and suggestions

Jookia <166...@gmail.com> writes: > On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 05:51:37PM +0100, Andreas Enge wrote: >> I had the same experience on my arm machines. So this might be a real bug. >> Or does one need to do more than copy the file and reboot? > > You need to run 'systemctl start guix-daemon'. on

bug#22695: Binary Installation bugs and suggestions

Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wur...@mdc-berlin.de> writes: > myglc2 <myg...@gmail.com> writes: > >> The use case I had in mind is that sysadmin uses Guix to provide a >> specific Guix environment to support 1 or more "dumb" application users >> (e.g, provi

bug#22695: Binary Installation bugs and suggestions

Ricardo Wurmus <ricardo.wur...@mdc-berlin.de> writes: > myglc2 <myg...@gmail.com> writes: > >> I attempted to perform 'Binary Installation' on Debian 8 following ... >> >> https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Binary-Installation.html#Binary-Inst

bug#22695: Binary Installation bugs and suggestions

I attempted to perform 'Binary Installation' on Debian 8 following ... https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Binary-Installation.html#Binary-Installation last updated November 04, 2015 Bugs: A) The 4 occurrences of '~root' should be replaced with '/root' B) What does 'On hosts

bug#22546: Download-Page is "hiding" what the options actually are

l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Robin Vobruba skribis: > >> Being new to Guix, i went to the Download page: >> https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/download/ >> >> immediately saw the 3 big options >> read their title/names >> was confused what the difference

bug#22651: Up: GNU Guix doc produces 404 page not found

Start on https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/download/ click 'Installation instructions.' and 'Up' 3 times lands on 'https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/dir/index.html' which produces '404 - Page Not Found' error

bug#22607: doc install from *Guix Package Info: profile* fails

Alex Kost writes: [...] > After all I see why you were confused. Emacs interface has always been > aimed only for a user profile. "M-x guix-system-generations" was added > very recently just to show what systems you have and what global > packages they contain, and by

bug#22607: doc install from *Guix Package Info: profile* fails

Running: guixSD. Scenario: Finding and installing doc for a package (ncurses) used by a by a global package (emacs) I hit the following error. FWIW, IMHO, this functionality, and the ease with which it is available, is truly awesome! This failed for both user and root. Common steps

bug#22600: 'Globally-Visible Packages' not shown by 'M-x guix-installed-packages'

Alex Kost <alez...@gmail.com> writes: > myglc2 (2016-02-09 05:29 +0300) wrote: > [...] >> My concern is that this experience might leave a new user thinking, >> "Geez, I know back in the fog of the USB install I added packages. What >> kind of package

bug#22600: 'Globally-Visible Packages' not shown by 'M-x guix-installed-packages'

l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Alex Kost <alez...@gmail.com> skribis: > >> myglc2 (2016-02-08 18:08 +0300) wrote: >> >>> In guixSD, 'Globally-Visible Packages' packages installed accoding to >>> '7.2.1 Using the Configuration System' are not

bug#22593: 'make check' fails

l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > myglc2 <myg...@gmail.com> skribis: > >> tests/store.scm:705: FAIL verify-store >> tests/store.scm:722: FAIL verify-store + check-contents >

bug#22600: 'Globally-Visible Packages' not shown by 'M-x guix-installed-packages'

In guixSD, 'Globally-Visible Packages' packages installed accoding to '7.2.1 Using the Configuration System' are not shown by 'M-x guix-installed-packages' and are shown as uninstalled in the 'M-x guix-all-packages' 'list' buffers.

bug#22587: ‘guix edit’ & ‘M-x guix-edit' typo, rename, & mode change

Andreas Enge <andr...@enge.fr> writes: > On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 01:04:40PM -0500, myglc2 wrote: >> TYPO: >> "edit" (last line above) should be replaced with "view", "inspect", or >> "examine". >> RENAME: >> C

bug#22550: (require 'magit) produces error: "no such file or directory" "dash"

Alex Kost writes: > Alex Kost (2016-02-04 23:00 +0300) wrote: > > [...] >> So to recap, you found 2 issues: >> >> 1. Emacs packages installed in a system profile are not automatically >>added to 'load-path'. > > Fixed in commit 004ea62¹. However, it will take effect when

bug#22550: (require 'magit) produces error: "no such file or directory" "dash"

Alex Kost <alez...@gmail.com> writes: > myglc2 (2016-02-05 02:40 +0300) wrote: > > [...] >>> Right now I can't check it, but I think if you start emacs like this: >>> >>> EMACSLOADPATH=/etc/emacs: emacs >>> >>> you'll get &qu

bug#22550: (require 'magit) produces error: "no such file or directory" "dash"

Alex Kost <alez...@gmail.com> writes: > myglc2 (2016-02-04 18:16 +0300) wrote: > >> So, should I put ... >> >> '(guix-emacs-load-autoloads "/run/current-system/profile")' >> >> ... in init.el, in which case guix INFO should say so. > > We

bug#22550: (require 'magit) produces error: "no such file or directory" "dash"

with magit installed on guixSD following the config shown further below. With init.el containing ... V (add-to-list 'load-path "/run/current-system/profile/share/emacs/site-lisp") (require 'guix-init nil t)

bug#22514: emacs INFO pages have "?"s instead of "'"s

l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > retitle 22514 Missing environment variables when logging in via SSH > merge 22513 22175 > thanks > > myglc2 <myg...@gmail.com> skribis: > >> In emacs INFO pages, single quotes "'" appear as question marks &quo

bug#22514: emacs INFO pages have "?"s instead of "'"s

myglc2 <myg...@gmail.com> writes: > In emacs INFO pages, single quotes "'" appear as question marks "?" and > 'echo $LANG' returns a blank line. Note/clarification: the problem is only with user accounts. root emacs INFO "'" quotes are normal and '

bug#22514: emacs INFO pages have "?"s instead of "'"s

In emacs INFO pages, single quotes "'" appear as question marks "?" and 'echo $LANG' returns a blank line. I am running guixSD on a headless server & logging in via the iTerm2 terminal emulator running on Max OS X... e.g. 'ssh' & 'emacs -nw' When I log into an identical server running Debian 8,

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