Re: Building things other than Guix with Cuirass

2017-09-19 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Christopher Baines writes: > Providing these packages sit within the Guix repository, ...and if they don't you can set (#:load-path . "/your/packages/directory") (It says path, but means directory I think). > I think there are configuration examples for building a subset of > packages alre

Re: Adopt a patch!

2017-09-19 Thread ng0
Pjotr Prins transcribed 1.4K bytes: > On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 07:52:32PM +0530, Arun Isaac wrote: > > Just thinking out loud: Maybe, we need more people with commit > > access. Theoretically, anyone can review a patch, but ultimately it is > > people with commit access who will have to finally appl

Re: Building things other than Guix with Cuirass

2017-09-19 Thread Christopher Baines
On Tue, 19 Sep 2017 11:24:45 +0300 Efraim Flashner wrote: > On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 09:59:06PM +0100, Christopher Baines wrote: > > Hey, > > > > At the GHM, one of the things I looked in to was cuirass. > > Specifically, I tried to see if I could build a collection of guix > > packages that sit

Re: Adopt a patch!

2017-09-19 Thread Pjotr Prins
On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 07:52:32PM +0530, Arun Isaac wrote: > Just thinking out loud: Maybe, we need more people with commit > access. Theoretically, anyone can review a patch, but ultimately it is > people with commit access who will have to finally apply and push the > patch. As the rate of submi

Re: Ctrl-Alt-F1,F2,F3 ... can not start a console.

2017-09-19 Thread Feng Shu
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Hi, > > "Feng Shu" skribis: > >> Yestaday, I reinstall my guixsd, and install xfce4 as my desktop. >> A problem faced is that: When I press Ctrl-Alt-F1, F2, F3 ... >> I can not start a tty, instead of start a slim login picture? > > Can you reproduce the p

Re: QT install and search paths

2017-09-19 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Hi, Am 07.09.2017 um 15:38 schrieb 宋文武: > Yes, and here are my updates on the paths issue of pkg-config files and > qwt: I did put your patches and mine in a new branch "wip-qt-paths". Building these (based on master from 2017-09-17 12:08:48 86805c1ba39) passed. I found some things missing in ma

Do we really need our own installer?

2017-09-19 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Hello, I would like to bring this topic to discussion: Do we really need our own installer? No offense meant, I strongly appreciate John's and Danny's work on the installer. I just have some doubts if this is the way to follow further. Foreword: One of the really cool things about guix is that ev

Re: Adopt a patch!

2017-09-19 Thread Arun Isaac
> At the time, Andy (I think) suggested that collaborative maintainership > the way we do it might actually “work better” and scale better. In the > meantime, there have been long discussions in Debian about whether > package maintainers should be dropped. Some rightfully argued that > maintaine

Re: Adopt a patch!

2017-09-19 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: [...] > What is more scary is massive imports from external repos (CPAN, etc.). > I think we cannot handle all of it, not with our “quality” guidelines > and not with the pace at which these repos change. > > At the GHM, we were discussing that, probably, we

Re: My experiences with partitioning according to the manual

2017-09-19 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Hi Ludo, Am 19.09.2017 um 13:47 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: > “cfdisk” (without any arguments) pops up an ncurses interface that’s > reasonably easy to use, at least for someone already familiar with > partitioning. > > What makes you think that it expects a script? It asked me for a script. I just

Re: Building things other than Guix with Cuirass

2017-09-19 Thread ng0
Christopher Baines transcribed 3.8K bytes: > Hey, > > At the GHM, one of the things I looked in to was cuirass. Specifically, > I tried to see if I could build a collection of guix packages that sit > outside of Guix. I would be very much interested in exploring the possibility (at the very least

Re: My experiences with partitioning according to the manual

2017-09-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Hartmut, Hartmut Goebel skribis: > I'm not sure if it's worth, updating the manual, since the graphical > installer may be here soon. But I want to share my experience to show > that we strongly need the graphical installer :-) That makes sense. :-) Thanks for sharing! > * > > The f

Re: [WIP][PATCH] download: Don't report the progress too fast

2017-09-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
iyzs...@member.fsf.org (宋文武) skribis: > From d0c49ac1341c21d0efb069afb1521f61541e3eb4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: =?UTF-8?q?=E5=AE=8B=E6=96=87=E6=AD=A6?= > Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2017 14:10:18 -0600 > Subject: [PATCH] download: Don't report the progress too fast. > > * guix/utils.scm (): New reco

Re: [WIP][PATCH] download: Don't report the progress too fast

2017-09-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! iyzs...@member.fsf.org (宋文武) skribis: > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: [...] >> To address these, I would use ‘abort-to-prompt’ & co., possibly with >> “suspendable ports”, but this is a 2.2 feature. (It may be that we >> should use Fibers directly.) > > Sure, I’d like to try fi

Re: Ctrl-Alt-F1,F2,F3 ... can not start a console.

2017-09-19 Thread Feng Shu
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Hi, > > "Feng Shu" skribis: > >> Yestaday, I reinstall my guixsd, and install xfce4 as my desktop. >> A problem faced is that: When I press Ctrl-Alt-F1, F2, F3 ... >> I can not start a tty, instead of start a slim login picture? > > Can you reproduce the p

‘staging’ branch

2017-09-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Marius, what’s the status of ‘staging’? (Sorry I had to pick someone as the staging master, so to speak. :-)) Wouldn’t it be nice to merge master in staging, and then merge staging real soon? Cheers, Ludo’.

Re: Ctrl-Alt-F1,F2,F3 ... can not start a console.

2017-09-19 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, "Feng Shu" skribis: > Yestaday, I reinstall my guixsd, and install xfce4 as my desktop. > A problem faced is that: When I press Ctrl-Alt-F1, F2, F3 ... > I can not start a tty, instead of start a slim login picture? Can you reproduce the problem in a VM created by ‘guix system vm’? (Note th

Re: Building things other than Guix with Cuirass

2017-09-19 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 09:59:06PM +0100, Christopher Baines wrote: > Hey, > > At the GHM, one of the things I looked in to was cuirass. Specifically, > I tried to see if I could build a collection of guix packages that sit > outside of Guix. > ... > > Does anyone have any opinions or ideas about