Re: CDN performance

2018-12-12 Thread Chris Marusich
Meiyo Peng writes: > After careful thought, I realized the new CDN won't benefit China > residents as planned. Any popular CDN outside China is significantly > throttled by ISP/GFW and the situation is worse every year. A CDN will > be a great improvement for western countries but not for many

Why is GCL built with gcc@4.9?

2018-12-12 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi Efraim, I'm curious about this commit of yours from April 2017: --8<---cut here---start->8--- commit 5c7815f205e9164d4b82378de91bee7a65bcfbcb Author: Efraim Flashner Date: Mon Apr 10 05:20:09 2017 +0300 gnu: gcl: Build with gcc@4.9. *

Gash and Geesh together at last

2018-12-12 Thread Timothy Sample
Hi Guix, I am very happy to announce that Gash and Geesh are merging into a single project. Jan and I discussed this earlier today, and decided that the time has come. We worked out a list of goodies from each project that we should be able to zip together into an even greater whole. (A quick

Re: GC Warning: Out of Memory

2018-12-12 Thread Rene
Hello Ludovic, > > How did you obtain those .go files? > I made a mistake when copying my repository, I cloned the repository again and these are my observations: To start guix-daemon: $ sudo ~/guix/pre-inst-env guix-daemon --build-users-group=guixbuild -c 1 --debug build log compression: 2

Re: Preparing the reduced bootstrap tarballs, take 3

2018-12-12 Thread Mark H Weaver
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Jan Nieuwenhuizen skribis: > >> Ludovic Courtès writes: >> >> Hi! >> >>> I’ve just uploaded these to >>> : >>> >>> linux-libre-headers-stripped-4.14.67-i686-linux.tar.xz >>>

Re: End of beta soon? drop i686?

2018-12-12 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi Joshua, Joshua Branson writes: > The last time I tried guix's iceweasel, it was *un-useable* on many > sites I came across. I couldn't log into my bank account (though that's > probably 'cause my bank only lets you log in via "firefox"), youtube > stopped working, scrolling was choppy,

Re: End of beta soon? drop i686?

2018-12-12 Thread George Clemmer
swedebu...@riseup.net writes: > First of all thanks for building a great OS! +1 > In my view we still have a system where encountering a bug is still far > more common than any other OS I ever used. +1 > To sum it up: lets not ruin what we have by rushing ahead and ending > beta too early. +1

Re: End of beta soon? drop i686?

2018-12-12 Thread Joshua Branson
swedebu...@riseup.net writes: > Hi > > > E.g. on 0.16.0-3.6ddc63e (a few days behind master) on an i686-install > on a x86 64 bit machine with a slow disk and 2GB RAM > 1) right now webkit freezes on youtube While, a FSF endorsed distro has no requirement to support a non-free website, as a

Re: End of beta soon? drop i686?

2018-12-12 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi Danny, Danny Milosavljevic writes: >> Note that we also lost 'icecat' on armhf-linux with the 52->60 upgrade, >> because our 'rust' packages have never worked on armhf-linux. > > Wait, what? I wasn't aware. Let's track this as a bug - that's > definitely not supposed to happen. > > mrustc

Possible guidelines to package TeXlive

2018-12-12 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Héctor from IPFS just pointed me to https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/openSUSE%3ALeap%3A15.0/texlive-specs-a which contains an amazing list of 2000+ TeXlive package recipes! That could be very useful for Guix ;) -- Pierre Neidhardt https://ambrevar.xyz/ signature.asc Description: PGP

Re: GuixSD on AArch64

2018-12-12 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2018-12-12, Andreas Enge wrote: > On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 12:17:58PM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: >> Looking like u-boot 2019.01 might be more likely, but modest patches >> work with 2018.11-rc2. I'll probably bring the pinebook with me to the >> Paris meetup in December... though with only

Re: bioinformatics.scm vs bioconductor.scm ?

2018-12-12 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
zimoun writes: > Thank you the explanations. > > >> New Bioconductor packages should go to bioconductor.scm. Eventually we >> may move all remaining R packages from bioinformatics to >> bioconductor.scm. > > I am a bit confused. > The file bioconductor.scm contains (or will contain) all R

Re: bioinformatics.scm vs bioconductor.scm ?

2018-12-12 Thread zimoun
Thank you the explanations. > New Bioconductor packages should go to bioconductor.scm. Eventually we > may move all remaining R packages from bioinformatics to > bioconductor.scm. I am a bit confused. The file bioconductor.scm contains (or will contain) all R packages from Bioconductor, right?

Re: GuixSD on AArch64

2018-12-12 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello Vagrant, On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 12:17:58PM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > Looking like u-boot 2019.01 might be more likely, but modest patches > work with 2018.11-rc2. I'll probably bring the pinebook with me to the > Paris meetup in December... though with only 2GB of ram it might not

Re: End of beta soon? drop i686?

2018-12-12 Thread ng0
Ricardo Wurmus transcribed 659 bytes: > > n...@n0.is writes: > > > Let's not drop an architecture because occasionally something breaks for > > it. breakage is bad, yes. but it's more than just the broken packages. > > it is the way patches find their way into master. if you have more > >

Re: 01/01: hydra: Increase image sizes for USB image and Flash image.

2018-12-12 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> One problem with the installation OS is that it’s pulling ALSA and all >> sorts of sound-related libraries (libsamplerate, etc.), which clearly is >> unnecessary in the installation image. That comes from the alsa-utils >> udev rules. We

Re: GuixSD on eoma68-a20?

2018-12-12 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Ye! flash-image just successfully built on Hydra. Can I have the resulting file please? See https://hydra.gnu.org/build/3255541/log/raw pgpDhY5HPmJHh.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature