RE: Test suite failures

2015-07-17 Thread Cook, Malcolm
Ludo, As you observed, the majority of my problems were due to building guix on a network mount having some odd nfs4_facl setting that was making all the files be executable, which is explicitly tested against in many tests, and thus they were all failing. Moving off that file system, and buil

Re: [PATCHES] gnu packages: Clean up synopses and descriptions.

2015-07-17 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Alex Kost skribis: > So I'm attaching 2 patches: for lines with leading parenthesis and for > fixing multiple "typos" (in a general meaning). Changing > synopses/descriptions according to "guix lint" (so no problems with > 'gnu-description') and reorganizing lists are not included. OK. These t

Re: [PATCH] gnu packages: Clean up synopses and descriptions.

2015-07-17 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Alex Kost skribis: > Ludovic Courtès (2015-07-16 22:08 +0300) wrote: [...] >> The problem is that this rule sometimes conflicts with the >> ‘gnu-description’ checker (aka. ‘make sync-descriptions’), which checks >> upstream GNU descriptions. >> >> When such conflicts happen, we should give prec

Texinfo in descriptions?

2015-07-17 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Mathieu Lirzin skribis: > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > >> What are your concerns and what would you prefer? (I was left with the >> impression that there was a rough consensus in the other thread, but >> surely there’s a bias.) >> >> In Emacs it’s quite easily typed (C-x 8 RET etc.),

Re: [PATCHES] gnu packages: Clean up synopses and descriptions.

2015-07-17 Thread Mathieu Lirzin
Alex Kost writes: > So I'm attaching 2 patches: for lines with leading parenthesis and for > fixing multiple "typos" (in a general meaning). Changing > synopses/descriptions according to "guix lint" (so no problems with > 'gnu-description') and reorganizing lists are not included. These 2 patch

Re: [PATCH] build: ruby: Add 'gem-flags' key to ruby build system

2015-07-17 Thread Pjotr Prins
Can this patch go in? I sent it 4 days ago. It allows building extensions for Ruby gems, by passing in flags to gem, as shown in the Nokogiri patch. Even without accepting Nokogiri, this is valuable for building and installing gems. Pj. On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 03:44:51PM +0200, Pjotr Prins wrote

Re: [PATCH 1/3] gnu: Add python-feedgenerator

2015-07-17 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Christopher Allan Webber skribis: > >> From 32fe80103c1cef93f1608d5c09e4edf7cd005a5e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 >> From: Christopher Allan Webber >> Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 15:49:07 -0500 >> Subject: [PATCH 1/3] gnu: Add python-feedgenerator >> >> * gnu/packages/python.scm

0.8.3 update

2015-07-17 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis: > I think we should release 0.8.3 for mid to end July. I would like to target Wednesday, 22nd, which means the release must be tagged on Tuesday. That sounds doable. Mark: will you be around to produce the armhf tarball? By then we’ll have to merge

ath9k vs. Linux-libre 4.1.2, and default kernel

2015-07-17 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! When switching from 4.0.5 to 4.1.2, I noticed that my ath9k-based ThinkPenguin WiFi dongle would no longer work (“Resource unavailable” when running ‘iwlist xxx scan’, etc.) For a while, I suspected a firmware miscompilation but then noticed that using the previous, known-good firmware did

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add exempi and eog.

2015-07-17 Thread 宋文武
I move 'itstool' to 'native-inputs', and pushed. Thanks!

Re: [PATCH] gnu packages: Clean up synopses and descriptions.

2015-07-17 Thread Alex Kost
Ludovic Courtès (2015-07-16 22:08 +0300) wrote: > Alex Kost skribis: > >> Eric Bavier (2015-07-16 12:40 +0300) wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 14:17:22 +0300 >>> Alex Kost wrote: >>> --- a/gnu/packages/base.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/base.scm @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ (sha

[PATCHES] gnu packages: Clean up synopses and descriptions.

2015-07-17 Thread Alex Kost
Ludovic Courtès (2015-07-16 18:50 +0300) wrote: > Mathieu Lirzin skribis: > >> For the typos and polishing fixes, I would prefer that the commits were >> done in a module related way. So IMO It would be better to have one >> commit per-file. > > I think one per file would be overkill (and not rea

Re: [PATCH] getifaddrs wrapper

2015-07-17 Thread Rohan Prinja
Hi, 'git rebase' kept failing after a pull, so I squashed my 8 commits into one. That got the rebase to work. Sorry for the giant patch... Ludo: the tests for syscalls.scm are included in the patch as well. Thank you, Rohan On 16 July 2015 at 21:08, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Rohan Prinja skrib