bug#26608: bug#22629: “Stable” branch

Hi, On Fri, 31 Aug 2018 at 00:02, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote: > (Cc’ing and , > which are related.) > > Alex Sassmannshausen skribis: > >> I don't know if this is what Konrad desires, but from my perspective, a >> desirable part

bug#26608: bug#22629: “Stable” branch

Hi Alex, Alex Sassmannshausen skribis: > So the example you provided is a user-defined policy to install the > latest version of Guix that is downloadable using substitutes (if guix > publish has published those already). > > As you say, in a similar vein, the end user could for themselves defin

bug#22629: “Stable” branch

Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hi Alex, > > Alex Sassmannshausen skribis: > >> Ludovic Courtès writes: > > [...] > >>> I just had a bright idea (yes!): this can be addressed by writing >>> something like this in ~/.config/guix/channels.scm: >>> >>> (map latest-commit-with-substitutes-available >>>

bug#22629: “Stable” branch

Alex Sassmannshausen skribis: > Ludovic Courtès writes: [...] >> I just had a bright idea (yes!): this can be addressed by writing >> something like this in ~/.config/guix/channels.scm: >> >> (map latest-commit-with-substitutes-available >>%default-channels) >> >> The hypothetical ‘la

bug#26608: bug#22629: “Stable” branch

Hi Alex, Alex Sassmannshausen skribis: > Ludovic Courtès writes: [...] >> I just had a bright idea (yes!): this can be addressed by writing >> something like this in ~/.config/guix/channels.scm: >> >> (map latest-commit-with-substitutes-available >>%default-channels) >> >> The hypoth

bug#26608: bug#22629: “Stable” branch

Hi Ludo, Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hi Alex, > > (Cc’ing and , > which are related.) > > Alex Sassmannshausen skribis: > >> I don't know if this is what Konrad desires, but from my perspective, a >> desirable part of the definition of stabl

bug#22629: “Stable” branch

Hello, Konrad Hinsen skribis: >> What do you mean by “limit it to channels”? ‘%default-channels’ is an >> alias for the official Guix channel (IOW, Guix itself.) > > Fine, but I rarely care about all of Guix, or all of any other channel. > I care about the small subset of packages that I actual

bug#32022: bug#22629: “Stable” branch

Ludovic Courtès writes: > I just had a bright idea (yes!): this can be addressed by writing > something like this in ~/.config/guix/channels.scm: > > (map latest-commit-with-substitutes-available >%default-channels) > > The hypothetical ‘latest-commit-with-substitutes-available’ would

bug#26608: bug#22629: “Stable” branch

Ludovic Courtès writes: > I just had a bright idea (yes!): this can be addressed by writing > something like this in ~/.config/guix/channels.scm: > > (map latest-commit-with-substitutes-available >%default-channels) This is a nice idea and it makes me remember that it would be useful to

bug#22629: “Stable” branch

Hi Ludo, > What do you mean by “limit it to channels”? ‘%default-channels’ is an > alias for the official Guix channel (IOW, Guix itself.) Fine, but I rarely care about all of Guix, or all of any other channel. I care about the small subset of packages that I actually use. Better yet, with a pe

bug#26608: bug#22629: “Stable” branch

Hi Konrad, Konrad Hinsen skribis: >> I just had a bright idea (yes!): this can be addressed by writing >> something like this in ~/.config/guix/channels.scm: >> >> (map latest-commit-with-substitutes-available >>%default-channels) >> >> The hypothetical ‘latest-commit-with-substitutes-

bug#32022: bug#22629: “Stable” branch

Hi Ludo, > I just had a bright idea (yes!): this can be addressed by writing > something like this in ~/.config/guix/channels.scm: > > (map latest-commit-with-substitutes-available >%default-channels) > > The hypothetical ‘latest-commit-with-substitutes-available’ would use > (git) and (

bug#22629: “Stable” branch

Hi Alex, (Cc’ing and , which are related.) Alex Sassmannshausen skribis: > I don't know if this is what Konrad desires, but from my perspective, a > desirable part of the definition of stable would be a that the build > farms have produce

bug#22629: “Stable” branch

Hi Ludo and Alex, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > These are all things that very rarely, if ever, changed over the last 5 > years. I expect the change rate to remain the same. :-) That's reassuring! > You seem to be arguing of a “stable” branch in the sense that the Guix > tools (th

bug#22629: “Stable” branch

Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hi Konrad, > > Konrad Hinsen skribis: > >> The minimal stable foundation would have to include the file system >> layout of profiles, to make sure that users can mix packages from both >> versions safely. It would also be highly desirable to share the store, >> whose l

bug#22629: “Stable” branch

Hi Konrad, Konrad Hinsen skribis: > The minimal stable foundation would have to include the file system > layout of profiles, to make sure that users can mix packages from both > versions safely. It would also be highly desirable to share the store, > whose layout would then have to be part of t