Re: Package file indexing

Pierre Neidhardt skribis: > Ludovic Courtès writes: [...] >> The daemon could have a special RPC: you give it a file name and it >> returns a store item (or package+version?) or #f. > > I think you meant "store itemS" (plural), no? Yes. >> Internally it’d call ‘guix substitute’ to fetch the

Re: 06/15: gnu: wesnoth-server: Rename package to the-battle-for-wesnoth-server.

Pierre, guix-comm...@gnu.org wrote: gnu: wesnoth-server: Rename package to the-battle-for-wesnoth-server. My fault for totally missing the review window, but could we at least drop the articles from the-long-package-names before they become too widespread? (I'll defer to you on l-abbaye, th

Re: 06/15: gnu: wesnoth-server: Rename package to the-battle-for-wesnoth-server.

Tobias Geerinckx-Rice writes: > guix-comm...@gnu.org wrote: >> gnu: wesnoth-server: Rename package to >> the-battle-for-wesnoth-server. > > My fault for totally missing the review window, These changes were not submitted as patches, so there was no review window. It would have been better to

Re: wip-netlink

Hi Gábor, Gábor Boskovits skribis: > I've pushed a branch with some preliminary work on the netlink wrapper > for guix, so that > we can have ipv6 static network configuration, and a bunch of other > goodies, including hopefully container networking. > This is in quite an early stage, I was most

Re: Audio/sound (ALSA) in guix environment --container

Hello! Pierre Neidhardt skribis: > I'm trying to run an graphical application with audio in a Guix > environment. > > So far: > > guix environment --container \ > --share=/tmp/.X11-unix/ \ > --share=/dev/snd \ > --ad-hoc foo coreutils -- \ > env DISPLAY=$DISPLAY foo "$@" > > > I get this

Re: Video narration

Hi Laura, > If others could test with their own players that may give us clue. > Sure, as many players, the better. I have found that the flickering is caused by the change in aspect ratio as the video moves from the slide view to the screen view (and back). Parole and Videos have a default 'Au

Declarative containers

Hello, Giovanni Biscuolo skribis: > having that, the "last mile" in *obsoleting* tools like Docker & > Co. (e.g. kubernetes, even openstack probably) is to have a declarative > way to setup containers, something like `containers.` from NixOS > [1] [...] > [1] https://nixos.org/nixos/manual/ind

Re: Audio/sound (ALSA) in guix environment --container

Ludovic Courtès writes: > I’m thinking we should change ‘guix environment -C’ to map to a UID > other than zero, at least by default. When developing code, some tools > may behave differently when running under UID 0 and that’s rarely what > we need I think. Thoughts? I agree. Defaulting to

Re: Video narration

Hi Paul! > I have found that the flickering is caused by the change in aspect > ratio as the video moves from the slide view to the screen view (and > back). Parole and Videos have a default 'Auto' setting for aspect > ratio that re-sets the aspect ratio during playback. If I change to a > cons

Re: 06/15: gnu: wesnoth-server: Rename package to the-battle-for-wesnoth-server.

Hello, On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 04:32:46PM +0100, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > Sorry, I misunderstood the conclusion of the discussion: I thought that > we would simply follow the package naming convention as per the manual. I am confused about this statement. The naming convention speaks a bit vague

Re: Declarative containers

Hello, thanks for your feedback Ludo'! :-) Ludovic Courtès writes: [...] > Given that we already have ‘guix system container’, declarative > containers are a low hanging fruit. "low hanging fruit" is much more expressive than "last mile" :-) > We could have a ‘container’ (or ‘sub-system’?) s

Updating mono. Adding MSBuild.

Hi all, Our mono package is pretty severely out of date. I want to take care of updating it to a version consistent with this century. However, there seems to be an issue perhaps along the lines similar to bootstrapping Rust and JDK. Mono, for most distributions, seems to be bootstrapped with a

Failure to build powerpc64le-linux glibc

Hello, I have tried to cross compile the bootstrap binaries for ppc64le using ./pre-inst-env guix build --target=powerpc64le-linux bootstrap-tarballs but the build failed again, it seems that this is a known bug that affects other architectures. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/2015-

Re: Updating mono. Adding MSBuild.

Hi Brett, thank you for looking into this. > Our mono package is pretty severely out of date. I want to take care of > updating it to a version consistent with this century. However, there > seems to be an issue perhaps along the lines similar to bootstrapping > Rust and JDK. > > Mono, for most