Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add obnam.

2017-03-10 Thread Arun Isaac
> I noticed this program and some of the libraries it uses, requires a > package called "CoverageTestRunner" to run unit tests. Currently tests > are simply skipped. I tried packaging the tests too. But, the tests require the root user and group to be present. The build environment does not have

Re: Dealing with CVEs that apply to unspecified package versions

2017-03-10 Thread Leo Famulari
On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 10:36:48PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Unfortunately, there’s no way to know whether such CVEs are actually > fixed at a specific package version or not, and they’re not uncommon. > Consequently, ‘guix lint -c cve’ would now report old CVEs that possibly > no longer appl

Re: Let’s freeze and build ‘core-updates’!

2017-03-10 Thread Leo Famulari
On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 10:46:34PM +0100, Marius Bakke wrote: > It looks like Hydra ran out of entropy which caused a bunch of failures. > Will you restart it? :) Done! signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Leaving the guix project

2017-03-10 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
Note: This message is of course not meant to be rude, and not meant to be "the source of absolute truth", so please take it lightly. Only for this message, and for the sake of easier understanding, the term "promote" will be used in this message as synonym for the following: install, share, sell,

Re: Could anyone help me to pack the shellcheck (haskell)

2017-03-10 Thread Huang, Ying
Danny Milosavljevic writes: > Hi, > > On Thu, 09 Mar 2017 19:39:19 +0800 > "Huang\, Ying" wrote: > >> Danny Milosavljevic writes: >> >> > Hi, >> > >> > On Wed, 08 Mar 2017 20:08:41 +0800 >> > "Huang\, Ying" wrote: >> > >> >> I know very little about Haskell, but I use shellcheck >> >> (http

Re: Introducing ‘guix pack’

2017-03-10 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Ludovic Courtès writes: > I had it on my to-do list and Andy said he’d like to have something like > that to publish Guile 2.2 binaries: the ‘guix pack’ command below is a > generalization of the code that builds the Guix binary tarball¹. It > creates a bundle of the closure of the given packag

Re: [PATCH] doc: Update the package count.

2017-03-10 Thread Ludovic Courtès
John Darrington skribis: > * doc/guix.texi: Update the number of packages available. > --- > doc/guix.texi | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi > index 732f431..9b7460c 100644 > --- a/doc/guix.texi > +++ b/doc/guix.texi > @@ -6807

Re: Updating tzdata freely

2017-03-10 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! Leo Famulari skribis: > I checked that glib and R do not retain any references to tzdata after > they are built, so we could create a tzdata package with a "fixed" > version that will not be updated very often. > > So, we could update this package more freely, at the cost of some extra > com

Introducing ‘guix pack’

2017-03-10 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Guix! I had it on my to-do list and Andy said he’d like to have something like that to publish Guile 2.2 binaries: the ‘guix pack’ command below is a generalization of the code that builds the Guix binary tarball¹. It creates a bundle of the closure of the given packages, with a profile con

Re: Let’s freeze and build ‘core-updates’!

2017-03-10 Thread Marius Bakke
Leo Famulari writes: > On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 10:05:04AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> • Build all the packages. (To do that, someone with access to Hydra >> must change the “subset” argument to “all” in the config of the >> ‘core-updates’ jobset.) > > I've just started an evaluati

Re: Leaving the guix project

2017-03-10 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello David, Thanks for providing feedback. You make it sound like GuixSD is unusable on real hardware due to the lack of proprietary firmware, but reality is different. I think this section I wrote a while back pretty accurately reflects the situation: https://gnu.org/software/guix/manual/ht

Re: MMMMM

2017-03-10 Thread Marius Bakke
John Darrington writes: > We now have 5001 !! Cool! That's a 25% increase in package count in just six months[0]. If this continues, we should have ~7k by the end of the year! :) 0: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-09/msg00624.html signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add obnam.

2017-03-10 Thread Marius Bakke
Arun Isaac writes: > * gnu/packages/backup.scm (obnam): New variable. Applied, thanks! I noticed this program and some of the libraries it uses, requires a package called "CoverageTestRunner" to run unit tests. Currently tests are simply skipped. It would be nice to have that package in Guix t

Re: [PATCH 1/1] gnu: icestorm: Replace reference in icebox_vlog.

2017-03-10 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Sorry, the previously attached patch didn't apply using "git am" so I forgot about it. I fixed it now and commited it as b500dc2e83adc5529b890349af48655d0adaf1f8 to master.

Re: Leaving the guix project

2017-03-10 Thread David Craven
Hi Ludo, > I knew I should have stayed on vacation! Hope you had a nice vacation :) > The goals haven’t changed since Day 1 though. I realize that. When I started using/contributing to guix I was not fully aware of what that meant. One important thing that has changed for me is that I no longe

Re: [PATCH 1/1] gnu: icestorm: Replace reference in icebox_vlog.

2017-03-10 Thread Theodoros Foradis
Leo Famulari writes: > On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 03:21:29PM +0100, Danny Milosavljevic wrote: >> Hi, >> >> > I should have probably added a different phase for the >> > "icebox/icebox_vlog.py" substitution, to make clear it's the only path >> > which is a run-time reference. The installed icebox_v

Re: [PATCH 1/3] services: openssh: Enable PAM.

2017-03-10 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
All 3 committed to master (as commits f895dce41b5495849a7e26fef747db14f6dd4ef0, 1806a670f06bd745e7e3744046f50bb6f9113d26, 563c5d42c954eacc54151d46a04ae14b9dbb1a10).

Re: Using cuirass to build your own manifest.

2017-03-10 Thread Mathieu Othacehe
Hi Chris, > Hi Mathieu! > > Cool stuff! It's very interesting to see how others do things. I have > a basic Scheme question about what you did, though. Thank you ! > It looks like drv-package is a procedure which returns a procedure. Is > that correct? Yes it is. >> The drv-list procedure

Re: [PATCH] linux-initrd: Add a raw-initrd and use it to define base-initrd.

2017-03-10 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Mathieu Othacehe skribis: > * gnu/system/linux-initrd.scm (raw-initrd): New exported variable. > (base-initrd): Use raw-initrd to build the initrd. > * doc/guix.texi (Initial RAM Disk): Document it. > --- > > Hi Ludo, > > Here's the update, thank for the review ! > I run make check-system TESTS=b

Re: Summer of code!

2017-03-10 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice skribis: > Ludo', > > On 09/03/17 14:26, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> I’ve posted a news here: > > Nice! > >> https://gnu.org/software/guix/news/join-gnu-guix-for-gsoc-2017.html > > ‘If you are an eligible student’ points to [0]. I think that [1] (or > dropping the anchor ent

Re: Using cuirass to build your own manifest.

2017-03-10 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Mathieu, Mathieu Othacehe skribis: >> This is a very cool hack! > > Thanks you ! > >> >> It might make sense to turn it into a service in GuixSD proper, because >> I suspect it’s a use case that people may be interested in. So you >> would write, say: >> >> (service auto-build-service >>

Re: Duplicate package variables

2017-03-10 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hey Tobias, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice skribis: > On 08/03/17 18:11, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> The UI (e.g., “guix build stellarium”) emits a warning when referring to >> a package that has two instances with the same name and version number. > > Hm. Are you sure? > > I've seen it do so when there ar

Re: [PATCH] gnu: fontconfig: Fix for PATH_MAX.

2017-03-10 Thread Manolis Ragkousis
Hello Ludo, On 03/06/2017 11:25 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > BTW, I’d encourage you to team up with the Debian folks so that all the > PATH_MAX patches end up upstream. Otherwise they’ll end up occupying > half of our repo. ;-) Thank to Rene's effort this one is already in upstream :). Next

Re: [Whonix-devel] GNU Guix Questions

2017-03-10 Thread ng0
ban...@openmailbox.org transcribed 5.5K bytes: > On 2017-03-07 12:05, ng0 wrote: > > On 17-03-07 00:59:08, ban...@openmailbox.org wrote: > > > On 2017-03-06 17:15, ng0 wrote: > > > > Hi bancfc, > > > > > > > > > > Hi ng0, great to see you here :) > > > > > > > On 17-03-06 16:14:08, ban...@openmai

Re: Using cuirass to build your own manifest.

2017-03-10 Thread Chris Marusich
Hi Mathieu! Cool stuff! It's very interesting to see how others do things. I have a basic Scheme question about what you did, though. Mathieu Othacehe writes: > (define (drv-package store package) > (lambda () > `((#:job-name . ,(string-append > (package-name packa

Re: MMMMM

2017-03-10 Thread ng0
John Darrington transcribed 0.1K bytes: > We now have 5001 !! > > 5040 already :)