What is guix.info?

2019-02-08 Thread sirgazil
Hi, I'm planning to do some more work on the Guix website, and found out that there is a new instance in guix.info. Could you tell me a little bit more about it, please (who runs it, how it gets updated, ...)? I couldn't find much information in the archives. Thanks, -- Luis Felipe López A

Re: Inverting command line session colours

2019-02-08 Thread Laura Lazzati
Go to bed Bruno :) I will be writing another mail, and answer back this one. but go to bed! your intern will tell Sage, you have to recover from your cold. On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 8:44 PM Björn Höfling wrote: > > Hi Laura, > > this kept me awake, I had to open my laptop again :-) > > On Fri, 8 Feb

Re: Inverting command line session colours

2019-02-08 Thread Björn Höfling
Hi Laura, this kept me awake, I had to open my laptop again :-) On Fri, 8 Feb 2019 19:53:50 -0300 Laura Lazzati wrote: > Hi! > > convert xyz.ps -background white -flatten -negate xyz.png > I had already tried the -negate before but didn't work, I only got > full white pngs (the text turned wh

Re: New videos: topic daily use.

2019-02-08 Thread Amirouche Boubekki
On 2019-02-08 18:43, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: Björn Höfling writes: > 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 installation

Re: Inverting command line session colours

2019-02-08 Thread Laura Lazzati
Hi! > convert xyz.ps -background white -flatten -negate xyz.png I had already tried the -negate before but didn't work, I only got full white pngs (the text turned white) I am running imagemagick6.9.10-14 this is the rule: -starts (VIDEO)/$(LOCALE_LANG)/out/$(SESSIO

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

2019-02-08 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Pierre Neidhardt skribis: > 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 :( I’d expect the framebuffer to always work, at least through VESA, no? > During the Gui

Re: libgtk3-nocsd and LD_PRELOAD

2019-02-08 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Björn! Björn Höfling skribis: > I'm using Guix on top of Ubuntu. Error appears when using programs > installed from Guix. After some investigations, I found out this > environment variable is set in: > > /etc/X11/Xsession.d/51gtk3-nocsd-detect > > *) > # not GNOME, and the

Re: ‘nss-certs’ missing in the installation image

2019-02-08 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Pierre Neidhardt skribis: > From 082f569611a889ef0e852263b5ba23373936b422 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Pierre Neidhardt > Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2019 15:30:08 +0100 > Subject: [PATCH] install: Add nss-certs to the image. > > * gnu/system/install.scm (installation-os)[packages]: Add nss-certs. LGT

Re: New videos: topic daily use.

2019-02-08 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Björn Höfling writes: >> > 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 installations would be good topics to c

Re: New videos: topic daily use.

2019-02-08 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Björn Höfling writes: > On Wed, 06 Feb 2019 23:17:21 +0100 > Ricardo Wurmus wrote: [...] >> Sounds good. “--install”, “--roll-back”, and maybe even “--manifest” >> for stateless installations would be good topics to cover. > > Is "--manifest" really "daily use" for a Guix newbie? it *should*

Re: Inverting command line session colours

2019-02-08 Thread Gábor Boskovits
Hello Laura, > I am having trouble inverting the colours of the command line session > videos. They should be black in the foreground with white text. > Gábor, I guess you solved that, could you remind me how you did it? > There was a link with -negate in convert but did not work for me. > Here i

Re: Patchwork + automated checking and testing of patches

2019-02-08 Thread Björn Höfling
On Fri, 08 Feb 2019 12:04:20 + Christopher Baines wrote: > Thanks, however, one thing I've noticed is that git apply seems to be > much more reliable at applying patches than git am. It often fails > with "Patch is empty". > > I'm not sure why, it seems to work for the patches I've sent with

Re: Issue with my version of guix

2019-02-08 Thread Laura Lazzati
Hi Danny :) > This commit seems to be very recent, so not sure what you mean. > (it's from Feb 8 2019) Yes, I guix pulled today. > > > And both for installing stuff with guix package or even guix pulling, > > I need to add the subsitute option for using https://ci.guix.info > > Otherwhise it uses t

Re: Issue with my version of guix

2019-02-08 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi Laura, On Fri, 8 Feb 2019 12:25:41 -0300 Laura Lazzati wrote: > This is the output of my guix --version, which shows a commit. > guix --version > guix (GNU Guix) 9d58e8819fdbc4c1c8a1ef6149e2d2376731a6a6 > Copyright (C) 2019 the Guix authors This commit seems to be very recent, so not sure wh

Issue with my version of guix

2019-02-08 Thread Laura Lazzati
Hi Guix! i have an issue with my guix version. It seems to have not been upgraded to guix 0.16.0, even I have the new commands. This is the output of my guix --version, which shows a commit. guix --version guix (GNU Guix) 9d58e8819fdbc4c1c8a1ef6149e2d2376731a6a6 Copyright (C) 2019 the Guix author

Inverting command line session colours

2019-02-08 Thread Laura Lazzati
Hi Guix! I am having trouble inverting the colours of the command line session videos. They should be black in the foreground with white text. Gábor, I guess you solved that, could you remind me how you did it? There was a link with -negate in convert but did not work for me. Regards :) Laura

Tracking and inspecting how Guix changes over time

2019-02-08 Thread Christopher Baines
In summary, I've started playing around with a new service, I'm currently calling it the "Guix Data Service". The code is here [1], it's based off of Ricardo's excellent Mumi, and at the moment only does one thing, a basic comparison of two different versions (commits) of Guix for the few commits i

Re: Patchwork + automated checking and testing of patches

2019-02-08 Thread Christopher Baines
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Heya! > > Christopher Baines skribis: > >> So, today at the Guix Days event in Brussels I've made a small change to >> the Laminar configuration related to patchwork.cbaines.net. > > Damn it, I didn’t know you had done that while we were there, kudos! > >> Now, when pr

Re: New videos: topic daily use.

2019-02-08 Thread Björn Höfling
On Wed, 06 Feb 2019 23:17:21 +0100 Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > Hi Laura, > > > My next video will be about daily using of Guix. > > Neat! +1 > > I was thinking of daily use of guix package, mentioning profile, > > generations (both the concepts and commands to deal with them) > > Sounds good

Re: News from the Guix Days!

2019-02-08 Thread Björn Höfling
On Thu, 07 Feb 2019 20:37:53 +0100 Ludovic Courtès wrote: > I’d like to invite the other participants :-) to either prepare a > Markdown-formatted summary of their session to publish on the blog¹ > (make sure it’s understandable by outsiders too!), or to send their > notes or memories of the disc

Re: Video documentation repository

2019-02-08 Thread Björn Höfling
On Thu, 07 Feb 2019 20:31:30 +0100 Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > In the current video-repository we at least save the input binaries > > (i.e speech recordings in several languages for several videos). > > From your comment it sounds like that is not intended for the > > savannah-repos, right? >

Re: Policy to remove obsolete packages

2019-02-08 Thread Björn Höfling
Hi simon, On Thu, 7 Feb 2019 13:40:53 +0100 zimoun wrote: > Hi, > > I understand but I am not sure to see the points and/or advantages > about a policy. > > From my opinion, obsolete package is not well-defined and define > cleanly what an obsolete package is will be bikeshedding. :-) > And