Re: 35/40: gnu: Add ocaml-splittable-random.

2019-02-06 Thread Christopher Baines
guix-comm...@gnu.org writes: > +(description "This package provides a splittable pseudo-random number > generator > +(@defn{PRNG}) functions like a PRNG that can be used as a stream of random > +values; it can also be split to produce a second, independent stream of > +random values. > + > +

Re: 38/40: gnu: Add ocaml-spawn.

2019-02-06 Thread Christopher Baines
guix-comm...@gnu.org writes: > +(description > + "Spawn is a small library exposing only one functionality: spawning > sub-process. > + > +It has three main goals: > + > +@itemize > +@item provide missing features of Unix.create_process such as providing a > +working directory, > +@item

Re: error running container: mingetty cannot find ttys

2019-02-06 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hi! plase is there someone else that could reproduce this issue with "guix system container": https://issues.guix.info/issue/34211 ? I'm still not able to run a container built using "guix system container container-minimal.scm -r container-minimal" I'm on guix commit: 4aeb7f34c948f32363f2ae29c6

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

2019-02-06 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
I confirm that the RX580 does not have framebuffer/KMS support with the ATI driver. There is KMS support with the AMDGPU driver, sadly it requires some proprietary blob :( During the Guix days you mentioned that you went for KMSCON because of encoding issues if I recall correctly. So what about t

New videos: topic daily use.

2019-02-06 Thread Laura Lazzati
Hi Guix! How are you? My next video will be about daily using of Guix. I was thinking of daily use of guix package, mentioning profile, generations (both the concepts and commands to deal with them), but also about guix pull and guix gc. The videos should be about 3 min length (+/-) 1. Do you thin

Re: [GNU-linux-libre] [PATCH] gnu: Add ungoogled-chromium.

2019-02-06 Thread Marius Bakke
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hi bill-auger, > > bill-auger skribis: > >> re: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-02/msg9.html >> >> i would like to remind readers of the guix-devel list that it was >> discussed some months ago, why no FSDG distros currently distribute >> chromium

Re: guix gc takes long in "deleting unused links ..."

2019-02-06 Thread Caleb Ristvedt
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Note that the database would need to contain hashes of individual files, > not just store items (it already contains hashes of store item nars). Indeed! Although last night I thought of a way that it would only need to contain hashes of *unique* individual files, see be

Re: New videos: topic daily use.

2019-02-06 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Laura, > My next video will be about daily using of Guix. Neat! > I was thinking of daily use of guix package, mentioning profile, > generations (both the concepts and commands to deal with them) Sounds good. “--install”, “--roll-back”, and maybe even “--manifest” for stateless installati