Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add elixir.

On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 09:43:57PM +1000, Ben Woodcroft wrote: > On 21/07/16 11:42, Pjotr Prins wrote: > > Sorry for the new thread. But this time the patch is readable from all > > mailers (supporting UTF8). Please comment. > > Maybe to fix the $HOME issues by including a phase to set

Re: none

Hiya, Pjotr, On 2016-07-22 04:06, Pjotr Prins wrote: A provocation: because of purism GNU Guix takes an elitist approach. I've honestly never felt any elitism coming from the Guix project. Consistency, certainly. _Much_ more so than in most other free software projects I know. I find it helps

Re: none

On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 04:06:56AM +0200, Pjotr Prins wrote: > A provocation: because of purism GNU Guix takes an elitist approach. > > I am thinking that we need another project because it appears to be > impossible to combine low threshold with GNU Guix goals. > > How about Alt-Guix, a

Re: sorted inputs [was: Guix-devel Digest, Vol 37, Issue 133]

On Thu, 21 Jul 2016 15:42:52 +0200 David Craven wrote: > > I don't think this needs to be a thing. While I personally added the > > code in the cpan importer to sort inputs by name, I recognize that > > there are also valid reasons to not do that in some packages. E.g. > >

Re: none

A provocation: because of purism GNU Guix takes an elitist approach. I am thinking that we need another project because it appears to be impossible to combine low threshold with GNU Guix goals. How about Alt-Guix, a packaging effort without opinion. As long as a package builds it gets accepted.

Re: none

On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 02:51:38PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > In > , > you already identified exactly what we were going to say. :-) > > Namely, why are patches applied in a build

Re: [PATCH] gnu: perl-io-socket-ssl: Add IDN support.

>From d841892a6563fa79f8185d6ea470a160d1b54b2c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: ng0 Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 00:01:03 + Subject: [PATCH] gnu: perl-io-socket-ssl: Add IDN support. * gnu/packages/web.scm (perl-io-socket-ssl)[propagated-inputs]: Add perl-uri for IDN

Re: [PATCH] gnu: perl-io-socket-ssl: Update to 2.033.

>From 9293d91521387a4c557e3c4893e097403799259a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: ng0 Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 23:34:04 + Subject: [PATCH] gnu: perl-io-socket-ssl: Update to 2.033. * gnu/packages/web.scm (perl-io-socket-ssl): Update to 2.033. --- gnu/packages/web.scm |

[PATCH] doc: Explain when guix edit is read-only.

* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix edit): Explain when you can and can't edit the recipe --- doc/guix.texi | 10 -- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index e7b233d..914d24d 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -4485,7

Re: SourceForge URLs changed

On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 03:41:50PM -0500, Alex Griffin wrote: > On Thu, Jul 21, 2016, at 09:33 AM, Leo Famulari wrote: > > Alex, how is Q-Z coming along? I can finish it quickly later today if > > you haven't started yet. > > I apologize, I haven't started it yet... So go ahead if you want to >

Re: ‘guix publish’ now compresses archives

On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 07:53:45AM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: Tomáš Čech writes: First, I'm not saying that we should do that for every archive, but I think that having a way how to automatically export this information would be great and I see it as a week point for

Re: SourceForge URLs changed

On Thu, Jul 21, 2016, at 09:33 AM, Leo Famulari wrote: > Alex, how is Q-Z coming along? I can finish it quickly later today if > you haven't started yet. I apologize, I haven't started it yet... So go ahead if you want to finish it up, else I can still do it tomorrow when I will have time for it

gnu/system/u-boot.scm

Hi, below is my (untested!) attempt at an u-boot-configuration for use like this (bootloader (u-boot-configuration (device "/dev/sda"))) . It has been copied from gnu/system/grub.cfg and then I s/grub/u-boot/g and removed all the eyecandy stuff as far as I could. We should end up with

Re: [PATCH v2] gnu: Add lrzip.

Talking to myself, On 2016-07-21 22:24, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: +(native-inputs + `(,@(if (string-prefix? "i686" (or (%current-target-system) +(%current-system))) + `(("nasm" ,nasm)) + '()) Hmm. Not sure where this

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add hexedit.

Danny Milosavljevic writes: > On Thu, 21 Jul 2016 14:08:41 -0400 > Kei Kebreau wrote: > >> If someone could make sure that this patch works on their machine as >> well, that would be nice! > > I tried it and it works! Nice! I'm going to go ahead

[PATCH v2] gnu: Add lrzip.

* gnu/packages/compression.scm (lrzip): New variable. --- V2: - Add 'nasm' input only on x86 systems. - Correct licencing information. gnu/packages/compression.scm | 36 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+) diff --git a/gnu/packages/compression.scm

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add lrzip.

Eric, Thanks for the review! On 2016-07-21 07:24, Eric Bavier wrote: ASM support seems to be supported only on x86/32-bit systems. Could you make this input conditional on the system type? An example would be the "lame" package in gnu/packages/mp3.scm. And thank you for the specific

Re: [PATCH 1/4] lint: Add packages with suffix ':bin' to 'inputs-should-be-native'.

Ahoy Ludo', On 2016-07-21 18:06, l...@gnu.org wrote: (inputs `(("somethingsilly" ,glib "bin"))) This "somethingsilly" is just a label that allows you to refer to an input on the build side, in idioms like: (assoc-ref inputs "somethingsilly") => "/gnu/store/…-glib-42.0-bin" I remember

[PATCH 3/3] doc: Note on inclusive language for documentation.

>From aabf02ff399c9a20286c9ec2c2aa0ade15f59675 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: ng0 Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 16:59:40 + Subject: [PATCH 3/3] doc: Note on inclusive language for documentation. * doc/contributing.texi (Submitting Patches): New @item: Point out to use

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add hexedit.

On Thu, 21 Jul 2016 14:08:41 -0400 Kei Kebreau wrote: > If someone could make sure that this patch works on their machine as > well, that would be nice! I tried it and it works!

[PATCH] gnu: Add hexedit.

If someone could make sure that this patch works on their machine as well, that would be nice! From a205d3f991e07a560cebbdf6557d9d7653231bda Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kei Kebreau Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 14:01:43 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add hexedit. *

[PATCH 2/3] doc: Send changes in your patch which are related.

>From 0e84643a50d578b6b5bb68119b35dc92d90dafd5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: ng0 Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 13:24:36 + Subject: [PATCH 2/3] doc: Send changes in your patch which are related. * doc/contributing.texi (Submitting Patches): New @item: This gives

[PATCH 1/3] doc: Point out preference of message format.

>From 85c26ccbdedc55ca6490d4c2e0186e26672e3477 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: ng0 Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 12:44:57 + Subject: [PATCH 1/3] doc: Point out preference of message format. * doc/contributing.texi (Submitting Patches): Includes a note on preference of

[PATCH][rfc][doc] extending the contribution guidelines

Hello, this message is an introduction to the patches which will follow in their own messages with the common goal to fix the documentation (I.), furthermore there is a general copyright assignment question in (II.). This was not planned to be so unstructured, but here we go: == I. == Neither

Re: [PATCH] Add gnu/packages/u-boot.scm with all the boards that u-boot supports right now

> This note should go to the top of the .patch file, along with one or two > sentences explaining what it does and why we need it. OK, will do that. > It seems to me that a lot of stuff is Debian-specific and not needed > (the debian/ directory is definitely not needed.) I agree. However, I

Re: [PATCH 2/2] gnu: racket: Add more inputs.

宋文武 skribis: > * gnu/packages/schem.scm (racket)[inputs]: Add glu, gmp, libpng, libx11, ^^ Typo. > mesa, mpfr, openssl and unixodbc. Replace libjpeg-8 with libjpeg and > gtk+-2 with gtk+. LGTM! Thanks, Ludo'.

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add lrzip.

Eric, On 2016-07-21 07:24, Eric Bavier wrote: The license should probably be "(list license:gpl3+ license:public-domain)" since there is at least one file, md5.c, Thanks. That comma in ‘either version 3,’ threw off my simplistic grepping for ‘version n of the Licence’. Which prompts me to

Re: [PATCH 1/2] gnu: racket: Patch dynamically loaded libraries with absolute paths.

宋文武 skribis: > * gnu/packages/scheme.scm (racket)[arguments]: Patch 'ffi-lib' calls to > absolute paths in 'pre-configure' phase. Remove 'wrap-programs' phase. Awesome, go ahead! (I tried to do this long ago and eventually gave up…) Ludo’.

Re: export symbols required to use modify-services syntax

Tomáš Čech skribis: > As I learnt yesterday on IRC, there is syntax modify-services to be used in > system configuration. Unfortunatelly not all the services which configuration > could be changed has exported bindings to do that. > > This patchset should address that.

Re: [PATCH 4/4] environment: Add '--debug' flag.

David Craven skribis: > Maybe I'm doing something wrong then, this is what I get: > I was symlinking individual files into .guix, now I'm symlinking > the whole $HOME/guix/gnu folder into .guix > > guix package -i qemu -L $HOME/guix You must not add Guix’s top-level source tree

Re: [PATCH 4/4] environment: Add '--debug' flag.

Maybe I'm doing something wrong then, this is what I get: I was symlinking individual files into .guix, now I'm symlinking the whole $HOME/guix/gnu folder into .guix guix package -i qemu -L $HOME/guix guix package: warning: failed to load '(build-aux check-available-binaries)': Backtrace: In

Re: guix system: error: service 'ssh-daemon' requires 'networking', which is undefined

Andy Wingo skribis: > On Thu 21 Jul 2016 16:39, "Thompson, David" writes: > >> On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 9:57 AM, Jan Synáček wrote: >>> On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 3:35 PM, Vincent Legoll >>> wrote:

Re: [PATCH 06/10] gnu: mesa: Enable wayland support.

Ah I'm still rebuilding after a rebase, that's probably the issue then.

Re: [PATCH 4/4] environment: Add '--debug' flag.

David Craven skribis: > Was the -L flag fixed recently? I remember it not working when I first tried > it. It’s pretty old, and it works (until proven otherwise ;-)). Ludo’.

Re: [PATCH 06/10] gnu: mesa: Enable wayland support.

David Craven skribis: > When trying to run guix size on a custom built package I get a no > substitue information available message... Quoting the manual: When the package passed to ‘guix size’ is available in the store, ‘guix size’ queries the daemon to determine its

Re: Guix-devel Digest, Vol 37, Issue 133

> USE flags a la Gentoo are not compatible with Guix because it means > that package expressions are no longer self-contained and rely upon > external global state. That means that builds are no longer > deterministic. Build determinism is only relevant for binary caching so if someone changes

Re: [PATCH 1/4] lint: Add packages with suffix ':bin' to 'inputs-should-be-native'.

Vincent Legoll skribis: > On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 2:24 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> David Craven skribis: >> I think packages with a “bin” output are not always used as native inputs, so I would drop this rule. >>> >>> From

Re: ‘guix publish’ now compresses archives

On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 1:33 AM, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > > Thompson, David writes: > >> On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 9:05 AM, Tomáš Čech wrote: >> >>> First, I'm not saying that we should do that for every archive, but I

Re: Guix-devel Digest, Vol 37, Issue 133

On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 11:18 AM, David Craven wrote: > Some basic USE flags would be nice, even if it's just used for > documenting which configure-flags and inputs are needed for which > feature. I think this would also resolve the sorting inputs > alphabetically issue, since

Re: guix system: error: service 'ssh-daemon' requires 'networking', which is undefined

On Thu 21 Jul 2016 16:39, "Thompson, David" writes: > On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 9:57 AM, Jan Synáček wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 3:35 PM, Vincent Legoll >> wrote: >>> Is there a simple command line that would list

Re: SourceForge URLs changed

Hello Leo, On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 10:33:53AM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote: > The attached patch updates the URLs for the failing Sourceforge > packages, A-P. I do not think this kind of trivial patch (trivial in complexity, not in the amount of work required!) does not warrant a review, you may

Re: Guix-devel Digest, Vol 37, Issue 133

Some basic USE flags would be nice, even if it's just used for documenting which configure-flags and inputs are needed for which feature. I think this would also resolve the sorting inputs alphabetically issue, since there would be real metadata there instead of just a source comment. > I think

Re: SourceForge URLs changed

On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 10:58:00PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote: > I can begin updating the URLs. The attached patch updates the URLs for the failing Sourceforge packages, A-P. Alex, how is Q-Z coming along? I can finish it quickly later today if you haven't started yet. >From

Re: guix system: error: service 'ssh-daemon' requires 'networking', which is undefined

On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 9:57 AM, Jan Synáček wrote: > On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 3:35 PM, Vincent Legoll > wrote: >> Is there a simple command line that would list such services ? >> >> herd list --type=networking >> >> or something like that, that

Re: Guix-devel Digest, Vol 37, Issue 133

On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 03:42:52PM +0200, David Craven wrote: > 1. A lint warning is just that a warning. I think in most cases there > is no reason > not sort them alphabetically. > > 2. The ordering may seem logical to the person who wrote the package > initially, > but then the next person

Re: guix system: error: service 'ssh-daemon' requires 'networking', which is undefined

On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 3:35 PM, Vincent Legoll wrote: > Is there a simple command line that would list such services ? > > herd list --type=networking > > or something like that, that would make for the almost-perfect suggestion... Yes! I'm glad we're saying the same,

Re: Guix-devel Digest, Vol 37, Issue 133

> I don't think this needs to be a thing. While I personally added the > code in the cpan importer to sort inputs by name, I recognize that > there are also valid reasons to not do that in some packages. E.g. > grouping a set of inputs that are all related to or required for some > aspect of a

Re: guix system: error: service 'ssh-daemon' requires 'networking', which is undefined

On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 3:00 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Jan Synáček skribis: > >> On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 2:43 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >>> I improved the message along these lines in commit >>> 2c2ec261a8d3c37e5147038f47ad24c57cde4134, let

Re: guix system: error: service 'ssh-daemon' requires 'networking', which is undefined

> Just to be clear, the message we now have is: > > service 'ssh-daemon' requires 'networking', which is not provided by any > service "which is currently not provided by any service" So that there's a hint that what the user has to search for is in the currently not activated services. Is

Re: [PATCH 1/4] lint: Add packages with suffix ':bin' to 'inputs-should-be-native'.

On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 2:24 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > David Craven skribis: > >>> I think packages with a “bin” output are not always used as native >>> inputs, so I would drop this rule. >> >> From searching the code-base we have I couldn't find a counter

Re: [PATCH 3/4] lint: Add 'inputs-should-be-sorted' check.

On Tue, 19 Jul 2016 18:49:15 +0200 David Craven wrote: > * guix/scripts/lint.scm (check-inputs-should-be-sorted): Add it. > (lint-checker): Add it. > --- > guix/scripts/lint.scm | 19 +++ > 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/guix/scripts/lint.scm

Re: guix system: error: service 'ssh-daemon' requires 'networking', which is undefined

Jan Synáček skribis: > On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 2:43 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> I improved the message along these lines in commit >> 2c2ec261a8d3c37e5147038f47ad24c57cde4134, let me know what you think. >> >> To be more concrete about other improvements,

Re: [PATCH 09/10] vm: Honor 'QEMU_FLAGS' and 'QEMU_NET_FLAGS'.

Yep this patch is not needed, your solution is much better thanks...

Re: guix system: error: service 'ssh-daemon' requires 'networking', which is undefined

Vincent Legoll skribis: >> From a regular user's point of view, this still misses the point, >> which I originally attempted to make. I suggest an error message like >> this: >> >> 'ssh-daemon' requires 'networking', try adding >> 'static-networking-service' or

Re: none

Hi Pjotr, Pjotr Prins skribis: > From 5fd8f64794b27f59f6688177a7a9e532b5d57f01 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2016 11:13:27 + > Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add elixir. > To: guix-devel@gnu.org > From: Pjotr Prins > References:

Re: ???guix publish??? as a content-addressed file server

John Darrington skribis: > It sounds like a usefull capability. > > But presumably it depends on your localhost having a TCP/IP stack > and a http server installed. You need an OS with a TCP/IP stack, but ‘guix publish’ is the web server (it uses the web server

Re: ‘guix publish’ now compresses archives

Andy Wingo skribis: > On Tue 19 Jul 2016 00:22, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > >> To recap, the difficulty with all this is that we couldn’t just call out >> the ‘gzip’ command because ‘guix publish’ uses threads, and threads and >> fork(2) don’t go together well. > >

Re: [PATCH 06/10] gnu: mesa: Enable wayland support.

On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 03:29:37PM +0300, Efraim Flashner wrote: > On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 02:19:26PM +0200, David Craven wrote: > > When trying to run guix size on a custom built package I get a no > > substitue information available message... > > > > You're going to have to build it first

Re: [PATCH] Add gnu/packages/u-boot.scm with all the boards that u-boot supports right now

Danny Milosavljevic skribis: > (Note: the patch is from > ) This note should go to the top of the .patch file, along with one or two sentences explaining what it

Re: [PATCH 4/4] environment: Add '--debug' flag.

Was the -L flag fixed recently? I remember it not working when I first tried it. But yes that's what Tobias already mentioned earlier. Thanks David

Re: [PATCH 06/10] gnu: mesa: Enable wayland support.

On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 02:19:26PM +0200, David Craven wrote: > When trying to run guix size on a custom built package I get a no > substitue information available message... > You're going to have to build it first both ways, once with and once without the wayland support. -- Efraim Flashner

Re: [PATCH 1/4] lint: Add packages with suffix ':bin' to 'inputs-should-be-native'.

David Craven skribis: >> I think packages with a “bin” output are not always used as native >> inputs, so I would drop this rule. > > From searching the code-base we have I couldn't find a counter example. Do > you think it's ok to check for glib:bin specifically? Yes, sounds

Re: [PATCH 4/4] environment: Add '--debug' flag.

David Craven skribis: > * guix/scripts/environment.scm: Add '--debug' flag to add common debugging > packages (file, gdb, strace, valgrind) to environment. BTW, this use case is well-addressed via ‘guix environment --load’ as in the GDB example at:

Re: [PATCH 06/10] gnu: mesa: Enable wayland support.

When trying to run guix size on a custom built package I get a no substitue information available message... David

Re: [PATCH 06/10] gnu: mesa: Enable wayland support.

Hi! David Craven skribis: > Sounds good. Just wondering what's the policy on default build options > in guixsd? Leaning more towards enable everything than enable as > little as possible? Or do you decide on a case by case basis? Just > curious... It’s mostly on a case-by-case

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add elixir.

Hi Ben, On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 09:43:57PM +1000, Ben Woodcroft wrote: > On 21/07/16 11:42, Pjotr Prins wrote: > >Sorry for the new thread. But this time the patch is readable from all > >mailers (supporting UTF8). Please comment. > > Maybe to fix the $HOME issues by including a phase to set >

Re: [PATCH 01/10] system: Do not export GST_PLUGIN_PATH in /etc/profile.

There are multiple solutions, I just think that this doesn't belong in /etc/profile (or $HOME/.bashrc for that matter), since this leads to an incomplete dependency specification.

Re: Elixir upstream question

Pjotr Prins writes: > I raised issue https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/issues/5043 > > Jose Valim, the author of Elixir, responded with: > > --- > > I would love to include patches that generally make Mix or Elixir work > better but those seem like they would be

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add elixir.

On 21/07/16 11:42, Pjotr Prins wrote: Sorry for the new thread. But this time the patch is readable from all mailers (supporting UTF8). Please comment. Maybe to fix the $HOME issues by including a phase to set environment variables during testing as in e.g. blast+ ? i.e. (setenv "HOME"

Re: [PATCH 01/10] system: Do not export GST_PLUGIN_PATH in /etc/profile.

On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 1:17 PM, David Craven wrote: >> What is the impact of this change on users? >> >> Will it still be possible to install rhythmbox, then some GStreamer >> plugins, and have rhythmbox recognize those plugins? > > I think that to do that you'd create a custom

Re: [PATCH 01/10] system: Do not export GST_PLUGIN_PATH in /etc/profile.

> What is the impact of this change on users? > > Will it still be possible to install rhythmbox, then some GStreamer > plugins, and have rhythmbox recognize those plugins? I think that to do that you'd create a custom package called my rythmbox or something, declare rythmbox and the optional

Re: Python install paths

On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 12:27:13PM +0300, Efraim Flashner wrote: > I've been working slowly on getting onionshare packaged, and I've run > into a problem with the install phase. Normally everything just works, > but our --prefix=%out doesn't seem to overide the sys.prefix install > path in some

Elixir upstream question

I raised issue https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/issues/5043 Jose Valim, the author of Elixir, responded with: --- I would love to include patches that generally make Mix or Elixir work better but those seem like they would be putting a maintenance burden on us, specially because we don't

Re: [PATCH 01/10] system: Do not export GST_PLUGIN_PATH in /etc/profile.

On Mon 18 Jul 2016 18:55, David Craven writes: > * gnu/system.scm (operating-system-etc-service): Remove "export" for > 'GST_PLUGIN_PATH'. > --- > gnu/system.scm | 3 --- > 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/gnu/system.scm b/gnu/system.scm > index 476720b..fe62c3e

Re: ‘guix publish’ now compresses archives

On Tue 19 Jul 2016 00:22, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > To recap, the difficulty with all this is that we couldn’t just call out > the ‘gzip’ command because ‘guix publish’ uses threads, and threads and > fork(2) don’t go together well. FWIW open-pipe or open-process from (ice-9

Re: guix system: error: service 'ssh-daemon' requires 'networking', which is undefined

> From a regular user's point of view, this still misses the point, > which I originally attempted to make. I suggest an error message like > this: > > 'ssh-daemon' requires 'networking', try adding > 'static-networking-service' or 'dhcp-client-service' to system > services > > Or something like

Re: guix system: error: service 'ssh-daemon' requires 'networking', which is undefined

On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 2:43 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > I improved the message along these lines in commit > 2c2ec261a8d3c37e5147038f47ad24c57cde4134, let me know what you think. > > To be more concrete about other improvements, here’s what should be > feasible (but needs to be