Re: What ARM hardware should we buy and where should we host it?

2018-09-14 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Ricardo, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: Ricardo Wurmus wrote: We are looking for volunteers who could either host a machine at home or in a data centre that they could get emergency access to. I've got plenty of cool, dry space for homeless boxen. No racks, though. This is good! Do you have

Re: What ARM hardware should we buy and where should we host it?

2018-09-14 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Andreas, > On Mon, Sep 03, 2018 at 01:37:54PM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: >> The first question is what ARM hardware to buy; the second is where to >> host that hardware. Here are some considerations: > > concerning hosting, I could easily host one smaller machine (like the > Overdrive

Re: What ARM hardware should we buy and where should we host it?

2018-09-14 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Vagrant Cascadian writes: > On 2018-09-03, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: >> - We need to be able to restart the machine remotely. If members of the >> Guix project have no physical access to the hosting site, this can be >> done via remote-controlled power supply or similar. >> >> We are looking

Re: What ARM hardware should we buy and where should we host it?

2018-09-14 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hey Tobias, > Ricardo Wurmus wrote: >> We are looking for volunteers who could either host a machine at >> home or >> in a data centre that they could get emergency access to. > > I've got plenty of cool, dry space for homeless boxen. No racks, > though. This is good! Do you have somewhat

Re: What ARM hardware should we buy and where should we host it?

2018-09-14 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2018-09-03, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > - We need to be able to restart the machine remotely. If members of the > Guix project have no physical access to the hosting site, this can be > done via remote-controlled power supply or similar. > > We are looking for volunteers who could either host

Re: Heads-up: New dependency on Guile-Gcrypt

2018-09-14 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On 12.09.2018 19:14, Ludovic Courtès wrote: Once you have run ‘guix pull’, the ‘guile-gcrypt’ package is known and it’s an input to the ‘guix’ package. Thus, from there on, simply running: guix environment guix should give you an environment that contains guile-gcrypt, guile-json, guile,

Re: Racket: Move DrRacket to a separate output?

2018-09-14 Thread Christopher Lemmer Webber
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hello Pierre, > > Pierre Neidhardt skribis: > >> Wouldn't it make sense to move DrRacket to a separate output? I take >> that most advanced users use something else (who said Emacs?) and >> DrRacket might eat up a decent amount of disk space + extra dependencies >> by

Prefix all Emacs packages

2018-09-14 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
(Damn, just realized that I'd sent this email to guix-devel-request :p) Emacs packages seem to be inconsistently named. Some are prefixed with "emacs-", others are not. Here is a list of missing prefixes on package names: --8<---cut here---start->8--- geiser

Re: Blog: Guix packaging tutorial

2018-09-14 Thread Pjotr Prins
On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 01:07:44PM +0200, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > > https://gitlab.com/pjotrp/guix-notes/blob/master/HACKING.org > > Wow, this is a fantastic document! Is it mentioned anywhere? I wish I had > known about this before. I guess you've done most of the work already. > I'll make

Re: Blog: Guix packaging tutorial

2018-09-14 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
> https://gitlab.com/pjotrp/guix-notes/blob/master/HACKING.org Wow, this is a fantastic document! Is it mentioned anywhere? I wish I had known about this before. I guess you've done most of the work already. I'll make sure to mention your work and credit you in the blog article. I could spot

Re: Racket: Move DrRacket to a separate output?

2018-09-14 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Pierre, Pierre Neidhardt skribis: > Wouldn't it make sense to move DrRacket to a separate output? I take > that most advanced users use something else (who said Emacs?) and > DrRacket might eat up a decent amount of disk space + extra dependencies > by itself. I don’t think it’s a