Re: core-updates, let’s go!

2018-01-17 Thread Leo Famulari
On Mon, Jan 01, 2018 at 06:12:49PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > We’ll have to stay focused in the coming days to fix everything as > quickly as we can. The latest core-updates evaluation is coming together [0], but there are still a few notable issues: * Pandas is failing to build:

Re: Installation

2018-01-17 Thread George myglc2 Clemmer
On 01/17/2018 at 15:35 Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hi Gábor, > > Gábor Boskovits skribis: > >> I believe, that we could make a powerful extension to guixsd if we could do >> an installation from an installation description. >> >> I think this installation description should

Include Proot-static with binary releases

2018-01-17 Thread YOANN P
Hi Guix Team, Is there any plan to include "proot-static" with Guix Binary releases ? My request is motivated by the fact i'm looking for a way to use/install Guix only with the bin release on a non-privileged environnement (HPC, non root user) without the need to use guix pack on another

Re: Installation

2018-01-17 Thread Gábor Boskovits
2018-01-17 16:47 GMT+01:00 Ricardo Wurmus : > > Ludovic Courtès writes: > > > Gábor Boskovits skribis: > > > >> I believe, that we could make a powerful extension to guixsd if we > could do > >> an installation from an installation

Re: Meltdown / Spectre

2018-01-17 Thread Gábor Boskovits
2018-01-16 4:58 GMT+01:00 Chris Marusich : > Katherine Cox-Buday writes: > > > Tobias Geerinckx-Rice writes: > > > >> I think the real and thornier question for GuixSD > >> is: if the recent CPU vulnerabilities require a > >>

Re: website: say what Guix is at the very top

2018-01-17 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Ricardo, I don't know who wrote the current intro, but I think it's pretty good. Have you got negative feedback from curious visitors? Ricardo Wurmus wrote on 17/01/18 at 18:30: > Hi Guix, > > on the website it starts right away with a list of features: > “Liberating”, “Dependable”, and

website: say what Guix is at the very top

2018-01-17 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Guix, on the website it starts right away with a list of features: “Liberating”, “Dependable”, and “Hackable”. But what is this thing called Guix? We should add a very short paragraph above that list to say what Guix and GuixSD are. What do you think? -- Ricardo GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801

Re: Installation

2018-01-17 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Gábor Boskovits skribis: > >> I believe, that we could make a powerful extension to guixsd if we could do >> an installation from an installation description. >> >> I think this installation description should look like the

Re: Installation

2018-01-17 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Gábor, Gábor Boskovits skribis: > I believe, that we could make a powerful extension to guixsd if we could do > an installation from an installation description. > > I think this installation description should look like the operating-system > description we > already

Re: Meltdown / Spectre

2018-01-17 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Mike Gerwitz skribis: > On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 12:10:53 +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> Should GuixSD nevertheless provide a mechanism to support microcode >> updates, while not steering users to particular proprietary microcode? >> Just like Linux-libre (attempts to) support

Re: How to list bugs on debbugs by submitter

2018-01-17 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Oleg Pykhalov skribis: > I want to share a quick hack with you about how to list bug reports on > debbugs by submitter (your reports) with emacs-debbugs. > > You could do it interactively by evaluting: > > (debbugs-gnu-search) RET submitter RET YOUR-EMAIL RET > >