Re: Errors encountered in building guix from source.

On 01/21/2018 04:45 AM, Pjotr Prins wrote: > On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 08:16:04PM +, Fis Trivial wrote: >> I am currently running guix on top of Fedora 26. This is a mix of several >> problems, and possibly contains bugs in guix, I am not sure if I have done >> anything wrong. So I will try to

Re: Errors encountered in building guix from source.

On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 09:13:58AM +, Fis Trivial wrote: > Running `make` didn't succeed, I should fill a bug report now. What are the exact commands you are giving? Pj.

[PATCH] website: donate: Add overdrive1.guixsd.org.

* website/apps/base/templates/donate.scm (donate-t): Add table row for overdrive1.guixsd.org. --- website/apps/base/templates/donate.scm | 10 ++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/website/apps/base/templates/donate.scm b/website/apps/base/templates/donate.scm index 9c263b0..

Guixsd.org domain

Hello all, just for your information, I am in the process of moving the guixsd.org domain from my personal account to Guix Europe and also to a different registrar. I suppose that the DNS records will just move with it, but I am not totally sure; so if servers appear to be unreachable, this might

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

Ludovic Courtès writes: > Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > >> It seems unfortunate to me that we have one shared website for GuixSD >> and Guix. As much as I love GuixSD, I think Guix is the main “product” >> and GuixSD would need to be moved to a subsite. That’s primarily >> because GuixSD can be e

Re: Include Proot-static with binary releases

Ludovic Courtès writes: > Including proot-static makes a lot of sense and easily done (it adds > 3MiB to the result.) We’d need to document it properly though, > probably with a new section under “Setting Up the Daemon”. We could > mention user namespaces as another option for non-root users.

Re: Meltdown / Spectre

Leo Famulari writes: > On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 05:06:25PM -0500, Mark H Weaver wrote: >> There's now a GCC 7.3 release candidate that apparently contains the >> necessary compiler support to allow linux-libre-4.14.14 to use the >> retpoline technique internally. >> >> https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gc

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

Ricardo, Ricardo Wurmus wrote on 19/01/18 at 09:04: >> I don't know who wrote the current intro, but I think it's pretty good. >> Have you got negative feedback from curious visitors? > > Unfortunately, I have. The most common feedback is an expression of > confusion about the difference between

Re: Include Proot-static with binary releases

On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 03:50:12PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > > Ludovic Courtès writes: > > > Including proot-static makes a lot of sense and easily done (it adds > > 3MiB to the result.) We’d need to document it properly though, > > probably with a new section under “Setting Up the Daemon”

Call for project proposals: Guix and Outreachy

Hi Guix, on behalf of the Guix community I submitted an application for this project to participate in Outreachy, an internship project for people from sections of the population that are commonly underrepresented in the world of free software development. Our application is currently undergoing

Re: How to list bugs on debbugs by submitter

l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: [...] > Very useful, thanks for sharing! NP, I wonder should it be in the in the HACKING file still. Another tip to open a bug report in Emacs Debbugs with M-x ffap on URL: --8<---cut here---start->8--- (require 'debbug

Re: Prevent native-inputs references ending up in the final binary

On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 04:47:14PM +0100, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: > Danny, > > Danny Milosavljevic wrote on 20/01/18 at 11:40: > > We should change that in core-updates-next, if possible. > > > > I think that native-inputs shouldn't end up in the final binary as a > > reference [...] > This

Re: Prevent native-inputs references ending up in the final binary

Leo, Leo Famulari wrote on 21/01/18 at 23:37: > On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 04:47:14PM +0100, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: >> Danny, >> >> Danny Milosavljevic wrote on 20/01/18 at 11:40: >>> We should change that in core-updates-next, if possible. >>> >>> I think that native-inputs shouldn't end up

Re: Installation

l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > >> 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 instal

Re: [PATCHES] gnu: linux-libre: Full retpoline support on x86 [spectre mitigation]

Mark H Weaver writes: > Here are two patches that: > > * Add gcc-7.3.0-RC-20180117, which includes support for retpoline. > * Use gcc-7.3 to build linux-libre on x86 systems. Awesome! Thank you for this. > My question is: should we push these patches to 'master' now, or should > we wait until

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

Ricardo Wurmus writes: > 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