Re: Fw: FOSDEM 2019 stand applications

2018-11-22 Thread Brett Gilio
Björn Höfling writes: > Hi Guix, > > we do NOT have a stand at FOSDEM 2019, our application was not accepted. > > Thank you to everyone who helped in preparing it and who offered > to spend their time at the stand. > > Björn > > > Begin forwarded message: > > Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2018 20:58:21

Re: Outreachy project infrastructure

2018-11-22 Thread Laura Lazzati
Hi everyone! > I like storing the information at a central place where it gets > collected and condensed, on the mailing list it is quickly lost in > history. > Yes, me too, that is why I was suggesting it, wherever that is possible :). Concerning the graph, I'm also struggling with it ;-) > Yes

Fw: FOSDEM 2019 stand applications

2018-11-22 Thread Björn Höfling
Hi Guix, we do NOT have a stand at FOSDEM 2019, our application was not accepted. Thank you to everyone who helped in preparing it and who offered to spend their time at the stand. Björn Begin forwarded message: Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2018 20:58:21 + From: Alasdair G Kergon To: FOSDEM 2019

Re: Outreachy project infrastructure

2018-11-22 Thread Björn Höfling
On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 17:18:54 -0300 Laura Lazzati wrote: > Hi again! > > I went through past emails and this new ones. > > In a previous mail, Bjorn suggested using the wiki - > https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix - for my proposed timeline > and the decisions about the videos. Is it that

supporting EOL ruby in Guix

2018-11-22 Thread Alex Vong
Hello, I find out that ruby 1.8, 2.1 and 2.2 are all EOL. Do we still intend to support them (say because they are needed in web development)? If so, I think we should provide security updates. I have look into Debian LTS support[0]. For 1.8, the LTS support has gone as Debian old old stable[1]

Re: Getting ‘core-updates’ merged

2018-11-22 Thread Björn Höfling
On Thu, 22 Nov 2018 10:41:59 +0100 l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) wrote: > I’m running GuixSD from ‘core-updates’ and everything is working fine. > :-) (I’m using Xorg, NM, etc., but not GNOME.) > > Please check if it works for you! We need your help! I did a guix reconfigure from

Re: push right for trivial commits

2018-11-22 Thread Alex Vong
Leo Famulari writes: > On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 04:07:33AM +0800, Alex Vong wrote: >> I think ECC key works with commit signing precisely because commit >> signing simply requires Savannah to store the key. However, for >> functionalities provided by Savannah (e.g. sending email to your address

Re: util-linux and perl rename

2018-11-22 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi, On Tue, 20 Nov 2018 22:10:24 +0100 Thorsten Wilms wrote: > I already had a "rename" binary via util-linux. Then I installed the > package "rename", resulting in another "rename" binary, as I prefer the > Perl version. This was a success in that I got what I wanted. > > However, should

Re: push right for trivial commits

2018-11-22 Thread Leo Famulari
On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 04:07:33AM +0800, Alex Vong wrote: > I think ECC key works with commit signing precisely because commit > signing simply requires Savannah to store the key. However, for > functionalities provided by Savannah (e.g. sending email to your address > encrypted with your ECC

Re: Merging ‘wip-newt-installer’ in master?

2018-11-22 Thread Mathieu Othacehe
Hey Ludo, > If you add it to /etc/environment (through > ‘session-environment-service-type’) it should be fine no? LANG is already part of /etc/environment variables which are loaded by the login program which is PAM aware. The installer isn't PAM aware and it replaces the login program thus

Re: Outreachy project infrastructure

2018-11-22 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On 22/11/2018 14.12, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: Still, the concept of using several layers in one file might be worthwhile. An export script could toggle layer visibility before calling inkscape with --export-ps (or -png or -pdf). This can easily get crowded, in my experience, as pretty slides are

Re: Outreachy project infrastructure

2018-11-22 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Thorsten, > On 21/11/2018 23.28, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: >>> Thank you very much for the workflow as well as for the suggested tools. I >>> did not know that slides were created with inkscape :) > >> I’ve been using Inkscape for all of my presentations (after exporting to >> PDF). It’s more

Re: Outreachy project infrastructure

2018-11-22 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On 21/11/2018 23.28, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: Thank you very much for the workflow as well as for the suggested tools. I did not know that slides were created with inkscape :) I’ve been using Inkscape for all of my presentations (after exporting to PDF). It’s more flexible than software made

import libjs-*.deb from Debian? (was Re: NPM importer)

2018-11-22 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hi Guix! sorry if I'm going to reinvent some wheels but I've not found previous discussions nor documentation about what I'm writing what about reusing work already done from the Debian JavaScript Maintainers team [1]? they set up some interesting policies we could adapt to Guix needs and

Re: (cuirass) Consistent naming and presentation on the front page.

2018-11-22 Thread Clément Lassieur
Hi swedebugia, swedebugia writes: > Hi > > I propose we stick to one naming scheme and keep it in both urls and the > web-ui. The reason why they differ is historical: the API comes from hydra (which uses words such as 'jobset'), and the web UI uses Cuirass' own vocabulary (evaluations,

Re: Getting ‘core-updates’ merged

2018-11-22 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi there! l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis: > What remains to be done is mostly (1) ensuring that there’s no > significant regression in terms of build failures compared to ‘master’, > and (2) making sure GuixSD boots and works fine. > > For #1, a simple test is to try and upgrade your

Re: NPM importer

2018-11-22 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hi Guix, sorry: reading at today messages from swdebugia and your comments below I realize that mine was just noise from a packaging-ignorant :-S Julien Lepiller writes: [...] >> https://spin.atomicobject.com/2016/12/16/reproducible-builds-npm-yarn/ >> >> is yarn a viable solution to the

Merging ‘wip-newt-installer’ in master?

2018-11-22 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Mathieu Othacehe skribis: >> I was going to suggest the ‘login-program’ way. :-) What’s the story >> with PAM env variables? > > The LANG env variable is important so that the installer can install the > right locale at start. However, it is not available yet when using > login-program.

Re: push right for trivial commits

2018-11-22 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Alex Vong skribis: > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > > [...] >> >> Hmm? I think it neither works nor doesn’t work with Savannah because >> AIUI Savannah simply stores the keys. Or am I missing something? >> > I think ECC key works with commit signing precisely because commit > signing

Re: 01/01: gnu: ccl: Include x86-headers and remove missing "contrib" folder.

2018-11-22 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Pierre Neidhardt skribis: > Oops! Sorry for that. No problem. :-) > What would be the most lispy way to return nothing from the match? > I'm thinking of splicing the resulting lists, but that sounds a bit overkill: > > (let ((dirs '("lib" "library" "examples" "tools" "objc-bridge" >

Re: GC Warning: Out of Memory

2018-11-22 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Rene, Rene skribis: > In Debian/Hurd using commit `2d546858b139e5fcf2cbdf9958a17fd98803ac4c` from > core-updates branch: > > When I try to build hello package, Guix shows: > > --     ;;; In procedure load-thunk-from-memory: ELF file does not have native > word size > ;;; WARNING:

Re: Patchwork + automated checking and testing of patches

2018-11-22 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! Christopher Baines skribis: > This is still very much a prototype, but I think it's nearing the point > where it actually might be doing something useful. > > Currently, taking the service running the FreeDesktop fork of Patchwork, > you can go to the series page [10], and it will show you

Re: swig failure on aarch64 on core-updates

2018-11-22 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Efraim Flashner skribis: > On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 09:35:51AM +0200, Efraim Flashner wrote: >> From the build log with --cores=1 >> >> checking guile testcase template_whitespace >> checking guile testcase threads >> checking guile testcase threads_exception >> checking guile testcase

Re: NPM importer

2018-11-22 Thread Julien Lepiller
Thanks! It made me wonder if we could better approximate the set of needed dependencies by looking at package tags. I'll try to improve my script in that spirit, and share it again here. I think once we have a clearer view of what we want, we should focus on finding the best way forward: what

(cuirass) Consistent naming and presentation on the front page.

2018-11-22 Thread swedebugia
Hi I propose we stick to one naming scheme and keep it in both urls and the web-ui. I propose to completely drop the words "evaluation(s)" and "build(s)" as this is just confusing and implement the following changes: Look at http://berlin.guixsd.org/ and see how it looks now.