Re: Packaging Grisbi

2019-05-30 Thread Timothy Sample
Hi Tanguy, Tanguy Le Carrour writes: > Dear Timothy, dear Guix > > Sorry it took me soo long to answer! No problem! Thanks for following up. > Le 05/13, Tanguy Le Carrour a écrit : >> Le 05/12, Timothy Sample a écrit : >> > Tanguy Le Carrour writes: >> > > I get the following error

Re: 01/01: gnu: diffoscope: Update to version 115-1.7f3416f.

2019-05-30 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2019-05-31, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: > Vagrant, > > guix-comm...@gnu.org wrote: >> gnu: diffoscope: Update to version 115-1.7f3416f. > > I wondered why this was updated to a git revision instead of the > 115 release tag, and found: Realized I should have included a comment explaining why

Re: 01/01: gnu: diffoscope: Update to version 115-1.7f3416f.

2019-05-30 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Vagrant, guix-comm...@gnu.org wrote: gnu: diffoscope: Update to version 115-1.7f3416f. I wondered why this was updated to a git revision instead of the 115 release tag, and found: Commit 7f3416ff Committed by Vagrant Cascadian 6 days ago Add support for known external tools on

Re: Packaging FreeCAD

2019-05-30 Thread Paul Garlick
Hi John, > Another question: do we tend to try to use guix packages whenever a package > ships bundled with some third party source? Yes. The preference is to use Guix packages where possible. Best regards, Paul.

Re: 01/01: gnu: Use make-linux-libre-headers.

2019-05-30 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi Mark, > Hmm, I don't understand. What do the 4.14.x headers have to do with > 4.15, which is the version I'm suggesting to delete? Oh, my mistake. Indeed, we have linux-libre@4.14.122 which should match the linux-libre-headers we have, even after deleting 4.15. pgpqZwmvUcOmY.pgp

Re: 01/01: gnu: Use make-linux-libre-headers.

2019-05-30 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi Danny, Danny Milosavljevic writes: >> I think we should not add linux-libre-4.15, because that version of >> Linux-libre is no longer supported upstream, and therefore will have >> well-known security flaws. > > OK with me to remove. > > The headers were from 4.14.67 (and still are), though.

Re: Packaging FreeCAD

2019-05-30 Thread John Soo
Thanks Paul! I’m looking forward to it. Another question: do we tend to try to use guix packages whenever a package ships bundled with some third party source? - John > On May 30, 2019, at 9:23 AM, Paul Garlick > wrote: > > Hi John, > > It is good to hear that you have made such good

Re: Packaging FreeCAD

2019-05-30 Thread Paul Garlick
Hi John, It is good to hear that you have made such good progress on packaging FreeCAD. > we would need to also package opencascade-occt I can help with this part. I am planning to introduce the opencascade- occt package in order to upgrade gmsh, which also depends on OpenCASCADE. All

Re: Documentation videos are being uploaded!

2019-05-30 Thread Paul Garlick
Hi All, > Kudos Laura & Paul! > I am cc'ing Paul :) It is good to hear that the end result is being well received :) I am thinking of adding a CREDITS file to the repository, primarily to acknowledge the help given by the sound engineer. The use of the studio equipment and the editing work

Adding Print Services to Desktop Services

2019-05-30 Thread Raghav Gururajan
Hello Guix! In a typical desktop setup, either home or workplace, it is common to use printers. So can "cups-service-type" be added to "%desktop-services"? Regards, RG.

Re: glibc 2.29 needs Python

2019-05-30 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Ricardo Wurmus writes: >> I started looking at what it would take to upgrade glibc to 2.29 on >> ‘core-updates’. Bad news: it depends on Python. > > I had to check the date. This is for real? It's for real: --8<---cut here---start->8--- Changes to build

Re: glibc 2.29 needs Python

2019-05-30 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
> I started looking at what it would take to upgrade glibc to 2.29 on > ‘core-updates’. Bad news: it depends on Python. I had to check the date. This is for real? > Also, it would be nice to use ‘python-on-guile’ here, but it doesn’t > provide a ‘python’ executable and I don’t know if it

glibc 2.29 needs Python

2019-05-30 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! I started looking at what it would take to upgrade glibc to 2.29 on ‘core-updates’. Bad news: it depends on Python. I came up with the WIP patch below, but Python eventually fails to build with: --8<---cut here---start->8--- In file included from

Re: 01/01: gnu: Use make-linux-libre-headers.

2019-05-30 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi Mark, > I think we should not add linux-libre-4.15, because that version of > Linux-libre is no longer supported upstream, and therefore will have > well-known security flaws. OK with me to remove. The headers were from 4.14.67 (and still are), though. So we'll have headers which we don't

Re: Add helper for .desktop file creation?

2019-05-30 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
I've sent a patch to #36000. Nicolas Goaziou writes: > Pierre Neidhardt writes: > >> Could work, I'll see what I can do. > > Great! Thank you. Sorry, don't have the time this week. Feel free to update the patch if you do. Worse case, this can always be improved later. Cheers! -- Pierre