Re: ISO installer image: GPT versus MBR partitions

2019-04-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > > > So programs like /sbin/isosize can tell the image size > > (The [Debian] layout with nested partitions obsoletes the cleanliness > > considerations about partition start at LBA 0.) Florian Pelz wrote > So… GPT is wrong for some optical media too? Not in this aspect. GPT pa

Re: Translation of the Guix manual & node names

2019-04-23 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 02:11:23AM +0800, Meiyo Peng wrote: > I will improve the manual gradually. As I said before, I have no > experience with i18n. I only learned the usage of @ref, @xref and > @pxref until yesterday. And there are still many new things to learn. > I wonder what is correct.

Re: ‘staging’ and GNOME updates

2019-04-23 Thread Timothy Sample
Hi Ricardo, Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Argh, it’s unfortunately incorrect. The problem here is that > “/home/bob” ends up being owned by root, which is the sole problem. > > I’m trying to find another reproducer. I think I’ve found one. (use-modules (gnu) (gnu system nss)) (use-service-modules

Re: Translation of the Guix manual & node names

2019-04-23 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Julien Lepiller skribis: > Le Tue, 23 Apr 2019 15:33:32 +0200, > Ludovic Courtès a écrit : [...] >> What happens in your case is that there is no “Packaging Guidelines” >> node—instead, it’s called “Guías de empaquetamiento” or “打包指导”. >> Thus, Texinfo fails to build the translated man

Re: [PATCH 1/2] bootstrap: Break automake dependency on generated files. (was Re: Let’s translate!)

2019-04-23 Thread Miguel
Hi, El Tue, 23 Apr 2019 16:30:26 +0200 Ludovic Courtès escribió: > Hello, > > Julien Lepiller skribis: > > > This is a very good idea, but I think it leaves a stub texi that > > won't get rebuilt because it's younger than po files. What if we > > add a toucgh invocation to reset the modificati

Re: [PATCH 2/2] doc: Add Spanish translation. (was Re: Let’s translate!)

2019-04-23 Thread Ludovic Courtès
¡Hola Miguel! Miguel skribis: > From 1bb5dba99f87e3afefb4133617d71afc134e1ff1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: =?UTF-8?q?Miguel=20=C3=81ngel=20Arruga=20Vivas?= > > Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2019 00:40:10 +0200 > Subject: [PATCH 2/2] doc: Add Spanish translation. > > * doc/local.mk (info_TEXINFOS): Add

Re: Translation of the Guix manual & node names

2019-04-23 Thread Julien Lepiller
Le Tue, 23 Apr 2019 23:48:13 +0200, Miguel a écrit : > El Tue, 23 Apr 2019 15:52:19 +0200 > Julien Lepiller escribió: > > Le Tue, 23 Apr 2019 15:33:32 +0200, > > Ludovic Courtès a écrit : > > > > > Hello Miguel & Meiyo, > > Hi! > > > > Thanks a lot for your translations of the Guix manua

Re: Translation of the Guix manual & node names

2019-04-23 Thread Laura Lazzati
Hi! I'm always late :S Do you need help with the Spanish translations? Kind regards :) Laura

Re: Translation of the Guix manual & node names

2019-04-23 Thread Miguel
El Tue, 23 Apr 2019 15:52:19 +0200 Julien Lepiller escribió: > Le Tue, 23 Apr 2019 15:33:32 +0200, > Ludovic Courtès a écrit : > > > Hello Miguel & Meiyo, Hi! > > Thanks a lot for your translations of the Guix manual! Thank you too for your effort and kindness. > > (...) > > If we look at th

Re: ISO installer image: GPT versus MBR partitions

2019-04-23 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 10:18:10PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Florian Pelz wrote: > > florian@florianmacbook ~ [env]$ grub-mkrescue -o output.iso minimal > > --xorriso=./grub-mkrescue-sed.sh > > grub-mkrescue: warning: Your xorriso doesn't support `--grub2-boot-info'. > > Some features are disa

Re: Problem with `direnv` package definition

2019-04-23 Thread Tanguy Le Carrour
Le 04/21, Christopher Baines a écrit : > Tanguy Le Carrour writes: > > Le 04/20, Christopher Baines a écrit : > >> Tanguy Le Carrour writes: > >> > However, in the package definition [2], 3 Go packages are listed as > >> > "inputs" whereas they should be listed as "native-inputs". Is this > >> >

Re: ISO installer image: GPT versus MBR partitions

2019-04-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Florian Pelz wrote: > florian@florianmacbook ~ [env]$ grub-mkrescue -o output.iso minimal > --xorriso=./grub-mkrescue-sed.sh > grub-mkrescue: warning: Your xorriso doesn't support `--grub2-boot-info'. > Some features are disabled. Please use xorriso 1.2.9 or later.. > > and yields no output.is

Re: ‘staging’ and GNOME updates

2019-04-23 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > >> (service (service-type >> (name 'break-gnome) >> (extensions >> (list (service-extension >>

Re: ISO installer image: GPT versus MBR partitions

2019-04-23 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
This sounds nice and clean. Thank you! On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 08:14:48PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > A disadvantage is that for best overall properties, this layout should > have the ISO partition start at 512-byte block 64. This needs a second > superblock and directory tree. About 17 MiB wi

Re: Translation of the Guix manual & node names

2019-04-23 Thread Meiyo Peng
Hi Ludovic, Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hello Miguel & Meiyo, > > Thanks a lot for your translations of the Guix manual! > > I found an issue with the translations that prevents us from including > them: > > https://translationproject.org/latest/guix-manual/es.po > https://translationproject.or

Re: ISO installer image: GPT versus MBR partitions

2019-04-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, after the adventure of diagnosing Macbook EFI and mformat, i want to return to the original topic of this thread: I deem it worthwhile to offer the opportunity to create the Guix ISO with MBR partition table rather than with GPT. If you just want to see my technical proposal, then hop to the

Re: ISO installer image: GPT versus MBR partitions

2019-04-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Florian pelaz wrote: > So the options are: > · Update mtools and then somehow patch mformat to zero out this > region. I will hopefully tonight post a proposal for - Leave grub-mkrescue and mformat as they are. Rather do the partition entry removal in the course of Guix ISO production. I

Re: ISO installer image: GPT versus MBR partitions

2019-04-23 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
A friend’s “early 2014” MacBookAir6,2 does not have issues with the old iso image. It seems likely that only old Macbooks are affected. On Sun, Apr 21, 2019 at 02:27:10PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > I change it to > >80 00 02 00 01 01 12 4f 01 00 00 00 3f 0b 00 00 > > I dd

Status of 1.0

2019-04-23 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Guix! Here’s the quick update on things that remain to be done for 1.0: - live image configuration ready (I’ve started looking into it) - guix.gnu.org set up—Julien, are we going to be able to make it? - zh_CN + es manuals added - 1.0.0-pre2 submitted to the TP: translations need

Re: [PATCH 1/2] bootstrap: Break automake dependency on generated files. (was Re: Let’s translate!)

2019-04-23 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Julien Lepiller skribis: > This is a very good idea, but I think it leaves a stub texi that won't get > rebuilt because it's younger than po files. What if we add a toucgh > invocation to reset the modification time of these stubs, to ensure make will > want to rebuild them? Also, I d

Re: Translation of the Guix manual & node names

2019-04-23 Thread Julien Lepiller
Le Tue, 23 Apr 2019 15:33:32 +0200, Ludovic Courtès a écrit : > Hello Miguel & Meiyo, > > Thanks a lot for your translations of the Guix manual! > > I found an issue with the translations that prevents us from including > them: > > https://translationproject.org/latest/guix-manual/es.po >

Translation of the Guix manual & node names

2019-04-23 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Miguel & Meiyo, Thanks a lot for your translations of the Guix manual! I found an issue with the translations that prevents us from including them: https://translationproject.org/latest/guix-manual/es.po https://translationproject.org/latest/guix-manual/zh_CN.po If we look at these, y

GNU Shepherd 0.6.0 released

2019-04-23 Thread Ludovic Courtès
We are pleased to announce the GNU Shepherd version 0.6.0, a release containing new features and bug fixes. • About The GNU Daemon Shepherd or GNU Shepherd is a service manager written in Guile that looks after the herd of system services. It provides a replacement for the service-managing

Re: ‘staging’ and GNOME updates

2019-04-23 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > (service (service-type > (name 'break-gnome) > (extensions > (list (service-extension >

Re: [PATCH 1/2] bootstrap: Break automake dependency on generated files. (was Re: Let’s translate!)

2019-04-23 Thread Miguel
Hi Julien, First of all, thank you for your work. El Tue, 23 Apr 2019 09:28:19 +0200 Julien Lepiller escribió: > This is a very good idea, but I think it leaves a stub texi that > won't get rebuilt because it's younger than po files. Yes, you are right indeed. I didn't noticed because I was up

New French PO file for 'shepherd' (version 0.6.0-pre1)

2019-04-23 Thread Translation Project Robot
Hello, gentle maintainer. This is a message from the Translation Project robot. A revised PO file for textual domain 'shepherd' has been submitted by the French team of translators. The file is available at: https://translationproject.org/latest/shepherd/fr.po (We can arrange things so tha

Re: Package request: ZFS

2019-04-23 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
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Re: Problem with `direnv` package definition

2019-04-23 Thread Christopher Baines
Christopher Baines writes: > Tanguy Le Carrour writes: > >> Le 04/20, Christopher Baines a écrit : >>> Tanguy Le Carrour writes: >>> > As I said, I'm still learning. But I've tried, and here is what I've >>> > done so far […] >>> >>> I tried changing the inputs to native-inputs, and the packag

Re: [PATCH 1/2] bootstrap: Break automake dependency on generated files. (was Re: Let’s translate!)

2019-04-23 Thread Julien Lepiller
Le 23 avril 2019 02:43:42 GMT+02:00, Miguel a écrit : > This is a very good idea, but I think it leaves a stub texi that won't get rebuilt because it's younger than po files. What if we add a toucgh invocation to reset the modification time of these stubs, to ensure make will want to rebuild t

Re: ‘staging’ and GNOME updates

2019-04-23 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Ricardo Wurmus writes: > With this system definition I cannot log into GNOME: > > --8<---cut here---start->8--- > (use-modules (gnu) (gnu system nss)) > (use-service-modules desktop xorg) > (use-package-modules certs gnome) > > (operating-system > (host-nam

Re: ‘staging’ and GNOME updates

2019-04-23 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hello, > > Ludovic Courtès skribis: > >> Timothy Sample skribis: >> >>> Ricardo Wurmus writes: >>> Ludovic Courtès writes: > I removed pretty both .cache directories, moved .config sub-directories > around, etc., and yet I am still unable to log in int