Re: Licensing Question

2018-01-01 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Charlie, Charlie Sale wrote on 01/01/18 at 23:03: > Do I need to submit a FSF copyright assignment to contribute to a package if > the package is not copyrighted under the FSF? If by ‘package’ you mean a Guix package recipe, or indeed any part of the Guix source tree: no. Even pseudonymous copyri

Packing problem for instantmusic

2018-01-01 Thread Stefan Reichör
Hi there, I am currently trying to package instantmusic. There are several things that I have already solved: - The official release is very old - so I use the latest git revision - I listed the dependencies as propagated-inputs - The build must be started in the directory instantmusic-0.1 Here

Licensing Question

2018-01-01 Thread Charlie Sale
Hello Guix! I have a questiont that I guess I could have asked a different page, but I figured that I would actually get a timely response here. Here it is: Do I need to submit a FSF copyright assignment to contribute to a package if the package is not copyrighted under the FSF? Thanks for your

Re: New Shepherd release?

2018-01-01 Thread Joshua Branson
May I ask what some of the changes are? On Mon, Jan 1, 2018, at 9:30 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hi Danny, > > Danny Milosavljevic skribis: > > > can we make a new Shepherd release which includes the latest fixes (to > > ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/dmd/ and the Guix package)? > > Why not! There

Re: Help understand some guix concepts

2018-01-01 Thread Joshua Branson
By no means am I a developer, but I can try to explain some things... A profile is a collection of packages. Each user on the system has a profile of his packages. So Jerry has a profile of Emacs 24, Iceweasel 50, etc. Jill also uses the system, but she has packages Tetris 5.4, Emacs 23, etc.

Re: Help understand some guix concepts

2018-01-01 Thread Amirouche Boubekki
On Mon, Jan 1, 2018 at 8:31 PM Amirouche Boubekki < amirouche.boube...@gmail.com> wrote: > Héllo, > > It's a long time I did not read the manual. So I read he manual this > afternoon. > > I have to say that I don't really understand some guix concepts and how > they map to the rest of the world. >

Re: Help understand some guix concepts

2018-01-01 Thread Martin Castillo
Hi, I'll give it a shot. On 01.01.2018 20:31, Amirouche Boubekki wrote: > Héllo, > > It's a long time I did not read the manual. So I read he manual this > afternoon. > > I have to say that I don't really understand some guix concepts and how > they map to the rest of the world. > > Can someone

guile static 2.2

2018-01-01 Thread rennes
Hello, I'm currently building 'guile-static-stripped-2.2.2' used in the Guix package manager, after compiling for hours it ends with error: https://pastebin.com/MRs2w6qp and in Hurd the following appears: --- login: /hurd/crash: grep -E 0|()0|\1|0 in(28758) crashed, signal {no:6, code:0,

Help understand some guix concepts

2018-01-01 Thread Amirouche Boubekki
Héllo, It's a long time I did not read the manual. So I read he manual this afternoon. I have to say that I don't really understand some guix concepts and how they map to the rest of the world. Can someone try to explain to me how the following concepts are related to each other: Environments,

Re: core-updates, let’s go!

2018-01-01 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Mon, Jan 01, 2018 at 06:12:49PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hello Guix! > > I’ve started a new evaluation, let’s see what happens! > > We’ll have to stay focused in the coming days to fix everything as > quickly as we can. > > Thanks, and happy new year where applicable! :-) > > Ludo’.

Re: New Shepherd release?

2018-01-01 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Danny, Danny Milosavljevic skribis: > can we make a new Shepherd release which includes the latest fixes (to > ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/dmd/ and the Guix package)? Why not! There’s only a handful of commits in there since the last release. Do we have anything else pending? Thanks, Ludo’.

Re: FOSDEM 2018 and announcing a GNU Guix/Guile day!

2018-01-01 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice skribis: > Pjotr Prins wrote on 31/12/17 at 20:29: >> HNY GNU Guix. I think 2018 is going to be a great one. >> >> Do consider attending the Guix day in Brussels! > > I've just added my name to the wikilist. \o/ > > Very much looking forward to meeting everyone, both new a

Re: core-updates, let’s go!

2018-01-01 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Guix! I’ve started a new evaluation, let’s see what happens! We’ll have to stay focused in the coming days to fix everything as quickly as we can. Thanks, and happy new year where applicable! :-) Ludo’.

Re: GNOME on Wayland current status

2018-01-01 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Rutger Helling skribis: > As discussed in patch #29758 I've tried GNOME on Wayland on the > different display managers. > > SDDM: Should work, just pick the "GNOME (on Wayland)" session. > SLiM: Doesn't seem to work. I'm not sure if SLiM has support for > Wayland sessions at all. > I coul

Re: wrong type of agument... where ?

2018-01-01 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi Catonano, On Mon, 1 Jan 2018 11:54:50 +0100 Catonano wrote: > thank you so much for this ! You're welcome. > I don't know if it' s current anymore, though It's always good to improve the error reporting. I'll try to get it into guix master (bug 29922). > Now the trytond test succeeds (ya

Re: wrong type of agument... where ?

2018-01-01 Thread Catonano
Danny, 2018-01-01 0:39 GMT+01:00 Danny Milosavljevic : > Try this: > > diff --git a/gnu/build/linux-boot.scm b/gnu/build/linux-boot.scm > index 4dd740174..810a0d63f 100644 > --- a/gnu/build/linux-boot.scm > +++ b/gnu/build/linux-boot.scm > @@ -507,7 +507,14 @@ to it are lost." > (sw

Re: [WIP][PATCH] profiles: info-dir-file: Don't consider unwanted manifest entries

2018-01-01 Thread 宋文武
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Hello! > > iyzs...@member.fsf.org (宋文武) skribis: > >> Currently we run profile hooks for all manifest inputs, so if you >> install a new package to your profile, all profile hooks will be run >> again, even if the new package doesn't provide info manuals, m