Re: gnu/services/shepherd.scm:90:2: In procedure allocate-struct: Wrong type argument in position 2: 5

2017-10-04 Thread Oleg Pykhalov
Hello Maxim, Maxim Cournoyer writes: > Oleg Pykhalov writes: > >> Maxim Cournoyer writes: >> Efraim Flashner writes: > On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 07:21:27PM +0800, Huang, Ying wrote: >> >> [...] >> > you're in need of a 'make clean'. If you don't want to have to rebuild >

Re: SGE-Pygame mysteriously downgraded on PyPI

2017-10-04 Thread Kei Kebreau
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Hi! > > Kei Kebreau skribis: > >> I don't know if anyone else has noticed, but it seems that our >> sge-pygame package is failing to build because the package version on >> PyPI has downgraded from 1.5.1 to 1.5. > > How can that downgrade lead to a build f

Re: GHM videos on-line

2017-10-04 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Hello Guix! > > Videos of this summer’s GNU Hackers Meeting are on-line: > > https://audio-video.gnu.org/video/ghm2017/ > > Thanks to Christopher Dimech and Luca Saiu for taking care of it! > > Ludo’. Thanks for sharing! It's nice to see the actual peopl

Release!

2017-10-04 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Guix! l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis: > I think it’s time to think about what we want to work on next, ideally > before the next release, and ideally said release should be in a couple > of months rather than in 5 months. Oops, that was 5 months ago… :-) > Here are some important

GuixSD on PXE (was: Do we really need our own installer?)

2017-10-04 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
Should we really have instructions to do so? There are two possibilities: - One uses GuixSD with PXE to access his own computer. No services like "Internet caffe" or "thin clients" are provided *to* third-parties. - Someone decides to use GuixSD in PXE to provide the services described in th

Re: SGE-Pygame mysteriously downgraded on PyPI

2017-10-04 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! Kei Kebreau skribis: > I don't know if anyone else has noticed, but it seems that our > sge-pygame package is failing to build because the package version on > PyPI has downgraded from 1.5.1 to 1.5. How can that downgrade lead to a build failure of our package though? > I'm not sure why th

Re: Guix plugin for GNOME Software

2017-10-04 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, David Seaward skribis: > I recently mentioned Flatpak and Snap. There are GNOME Software > plugins for both of these formats [1][2] which makes them more > accessible to everyday users. > > Does issue 17152 [3] mean that a matching plugin [4] is on the > Guix roadmap? AFAIK nobody is wor

Re: Updating Guix package manager on Debian-based systems

2017-10-04 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, David Seaward skribis: > But, if Guix can't update itself or can't perform configuration > changes on a parent Debian system (should the need arise), then a > deb package is definitely more suitable. Delivering it in a deb > repository (rather than just offering a deb file to download) >

Re: Go packaging

2017-10-04 Thread Leo Famulari
On Wed, Oct 04, 2017 at 06:19:18AM +0200, Pjotr Prins wrote: Thanks for your comments, Pjotr! > Thanks Leo for the explanation. Now I understand why Go programs, such > as the IPFS implementation, have so many dependencies... Yes, so many. As for transitive dependencies... well, I probably won't

Re: Scope of support for Guix on other distros

2017-10-04 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Christopher Allan Webber skribis: > Ricardo Wurmus writes: > >> Christopher Allan Webber writes: >> >>> Since these don't provide Guix in the main repo (and Debian won't >>> because we violate the FHS with /gnu/) we could probably auto-generate >>> the .deb or .rpm from some gexp? >> >> I was th

Re: LibreOffice Fonts

2017-10-04 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Maxim Cournoyer skribis: > ng0 writes: [...] >> What about an fontcache-service that basically >> is mcron running daily "fc-cache -f" >> or even "fc-cache -fr"? > > Is there no way to provide it the way it should, i.e. as a > profile hook? I understand the issue that the cache generated would

Re: Browsing Guix (or any) lists with Gmane

2017-10-04 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
myglc2 writes: > On 10/01/2017 at 12:45 Maxim Cournoyer writes: > >> Hello Guix! >> >> For Guix and Gnus (or to become) users out there, I thought I'd share >> this brief post where I explained the process of setting up Gnus and Gmane. >> >> Here are some benefits: >> 1. No need to locally store

Re: gnu/services/shepherd.scm:90:2: In procedure allocate-struct: Wrong type argument in position 2: 5

2017-10-04 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Oleg Pykhalov writes: > Maxim Cournoyer writes: > >>> Efraim Flashner writes: >>> On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 07:21:27PM +0800, Huang, Ying wrote: > > [...] > you're in need of a 'make clean'. If you don't want to have to rebuild everything, then 'rm -- gnu/*go gnu/s*/*go gnu/tests/

Re: Scope of support for Guix on other distros

2017-10-04 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Mark H Weaver writes: > Hi Chris, Hi Mark, > Christopher Allan Webber writes: > >> Mark H Weaver writes: >> >>> Tobias Platen writes: >>> On 02.10.2017 20:52, Christopher Allan Webber wrote: > Since these don't provide Guix in the main repo (and Debian won't > because we violate t

Re: Do we really need our own installer?

2017-10-04 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Am 25.09.2017 um 16:35 schrieb Ricardo Wurmus: > This is not a binary choice. We can do both. I agree, but porting an installer is a lot of work and Ludo's answer was not quite encouraging for me. (No offense meant). So I might spend my time on other projects :-) -- Regards Hartmut Goebel | Ha

M-x guix-system-generations vs. UUIDs

2017-10-04 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Howdy Alex, I just noticed that ‘M-x guix-system-generations’ followed by ‘i’ doesn’t correctly handle UUID objects in the ‘root-device’ or ‘store-device’ fields. Here’s the backtrace: --8<---cut here---start->8--- Debugger entered--Lisp error: (invalid-read-s