Re: 'core-updates' Q4 2019

2019-10-22 Thread Timothy Sample
Hi again, Timothy Sample writes: > I’ll report back if I have good luck with fsck and am able to do more > testing. :) I was able to build everything and start testing. To use “guix system vm” I had to disable tests in QEMU due to a failure. I did not investigate it. This turned up in the l

Re: We need your feedback of the documentation videos!

2019-10-22 Thread sirgazil
Hi, Florian :) On Tue, 22 Oct 2019 07:05:04 -0500 pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote > OAOn Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 11:00:34PM +0200, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) > wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 10:13:59PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > > […] if you wanted to integrate them o

Re: 06/06: gnu: Add weasyprint.

2019-10-22 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hartmut, Ludo', Ludovic Courtès 写道: + (patches (search-patches "weasyprint-library-paths.patch" You forgot to push the patch. Could you add it? I've reverted this patch for now to keep master relatively happy. Good night! T G-R signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Any interest in using HTML for locally-installed Texinfo documentation?

2019-10-22 Thread Gavin Smith
On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 8:00 PM Gavin Smith wrote: > I tried to upload a demo video to > https://goblinrefuge.com/mediagoblin/u/gavin/ but it hasn't appeared > yet. That doesn't seem to be working, so I've uploaded the video to https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/video/demo.webm.

Re: 06/06: gnu: Add weasyprint.

2019-10-22 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Hartmut, guix-comm...@gnu.org skribis: > + (package > +(name "weasyprint") > +(version "50") > +(source > + (origin > + (method url-fetch) > + (uri (pypi-uri "WeasyPrint" version)) > + (sha256 > +(base32 "0invs96zvmcr6wh5klj52jrcnr9qg150v9wpmbhcsf3vv1

Re: Help needed packaging rust-cbindgen, a dependency of IceCat 68

2019-10-22 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 03:56:42PM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote: > Hi Efraim, > > Mark H Weaver writes: > > > Efraim Flashner writes: > >> Here's what I have for rust-cbindgen based more-or-less on my > >> re-imagining of the cargo-build-system and the rust inputs. > > > > Thank you very much for

Re: Stateful system directories

2019-10-22 Thread Jack Hill
Today I had an occasion to create a file in gdm's home directory that should persist across reboots. I needed to set a dconf setting to prevent gdm from putting the computer to sleep. Full details on guix-help [0]. Unfortunately, I don't believe there is yet a way to handle these setting in a d

Re: Help needed packaging rust-cbindgen, a dependency of IceCat 68

2019-10-22 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi Efraim, Mark H Weaver writes: > Efraim Flashner writes: >> Here's what I have for rust-cbindgen based more-or-less on my >> re-imagining of the cargo-build-system and the rust inputs. > > Thank you very much for this! Notably, I see that every package in your > source has a proper 'license'

Re: Help needed packaging rust-cbindgen, a dependency of IceCat 68

2019-10-22 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi Efraim, Efraim Flashner writes: > Here's what I have for rust-cbindgen based more-or-less on my > re-imagining of the cargo-build-system and the rust inputs. Thank you very much for this! Notably, I see that every package in your source has a proper 'license' field, and that there are *far*

Re: Help needed packaging rust-cbindgen, a dependency of IceCat 68

2019-10-22 Thread Mark H Weaver
Ludovic Courtès writes: > I don’t think I said it publicly yet, so: welcome back! It’s good to > see your energy back here on these essential and tricky topics. Thank you, Ludovic. I'm grateful for your words, and for the wonderful Guix system that you gave birth to and ably nurtured for long y

Re: Any interest in using HTML for locally-installed Texinfo documentation?

2019-10-22 Thread Gavin Smith
On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 9:31 PM Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > I started another line of development, using the WebKitGTK engine. > > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/texinfo.git/log/?h=webkitgtk-info > > [...] > > > I may be able to get an initial prototype that other people could try > > ready in a

Re: We need your feedback of the documentation videos!

2019-10-22 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 11:25:27AM -0500, sirgazil wrote: > I think that these changes and a blog post about the availability of these > videos would work well to get the videos to the public as soon as possible. > :) > The only thing I'd recommend against would be the yellow headers in the >

Re: Help needed packaging rust-cbindgen, a dependency of IceCat 68

2019-10-22 Thread Efraim Flashner
Here's what I have for rust-cbindgen based more-or-less on my re-imagining of the cargo-build-system and the rust inputs. -- Efraim Flashner אפרים פלשנר GPG key = A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D 14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351 Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted ;;

Re: The cookbook is on-line!

2019-10-22 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Pierre Neidhardt writes: > I just noticed that about half the packaging tutorial is missing (the > part after the Scheme crash course). > > Shouldn't be added? Maybe Ricardo had a plan in mind. >From the sources: @c TODO: Continue the tutorial So yeah, the plan was to add the rest :) I

Re: Help wanted for mumi (issues.guix.gnu.org)

2019-10-22 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Ricardo! Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > So I decided to switch away from using the Debbugs API and instead > operate on a *local* copy of all messages that reach Debbugs. Debbugs > operates on email messages, and luckily it allows us to download these > original messages. Whenever someone visits

Re: Help needed packaging rust-cbindgen, a dependency of IceCat 68

2019-10-22 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Mark, Mark H Weaver skribis: > I have good news and bad news. The good news is that thanks to the > heroic efforts of Amin Bandali , a recently appointed > co-maintainer of GNU IceCat, there now exists a preliminary version of > IceCat 68 that builds successfully and works on Trisquel. > > T

The cookbook is on-line!

2019-10-22 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Guix! A few weeks ago Ricardo started writing a Guix Cookbook⁰ based on material previously published elsewhere, notably on the blog. The cookbook made it in to the repo¹, and you’re all welcome to propose new sections based on your experience with Guix! The news is that the Cookbook is no

Re: Stateful system directories

2019-10-22 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Howdy! Efraim Flashner skribis: > On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 11:08:57PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> Hello Efraim, >> >> Efraim Flashner skribis: >> >> > Ignoring the directories in users' home directories, /var/lib/gdm has >> > been a source of pain on GNOME upgrades, and we still have some

Re: SLiM graphical login manager and keyboard layout

2019-10-22 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Tanguy, Tanguy Le Carrour skribis: > Le 10/18, Diego Nicola Barbato a écrit : >> Tanguy Le Carrour writes: >> >(service slim-service-type >> > (slim-configuration >> > (xorg-configuration >> >(xorg-configuration >> > (

Re: Loading modules built using linux-module-build-system

2019-10-22 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Danny, Danny Milosavljevic skribis: > A patch to guix master which > > * Puts the kernel modules (including any other packages that have > "lib/modules" > inside their derivation) into /run/booted-system/profile/lib/modules > * Ensures that depmod is invoked on that > * Makes the modprobe wr

Re: Stackage LTS 14 (was: Adding Purescript)

2019-10-22 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Timothy, > One of the things I want to do this time is to do the upgrade in one > mega commit. I’m pretty sure that some of the commits last time had > inconsistent package sets, which is not ideal. I’m not sure how to > avoid that upgrading one package at a time. Hence, my rough plan is t

Re: Towards reproducibly Jupyter notebooks with Guix-Jupyter

2019-10-22 Thread Konrad Hinsen
Hi Ludo, > Did you define an environment along the lines of the example at > ? No. I did look at this approach briefly, but it looks difficult at least, if not impossible. The situation I need to address is re-creating an environment

Re: Towards reproducibly Jupyter notebooks with Guix-Jupyter

2019-10-22 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Konrad Hinsen skribis: At the API level, there’s ‘inferior-for-channels’ which does that + registers a GC root + maintains a cache so that the second time you use a given instance of Guix it’s immediately available. >>> >>> Just what I need... >> >> Awesome, let us know how it

Re: Help needed packaging rust-cbindgen, a dependency of IceCat 68

2019-10-22 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 11:19:18AM +0200, Jonathan Brielmaier wrote: > On 22.10.19 08:23, Mark H Weaver wrote: > > Hello fellow Guix, > > > > I have good news and bad news. The good news is that thanks to the > > heroic efforts of Amin Bandali , a recently appointed > > co-maintainer of GNU IceCat

Re: How to keep biber working

2019-10-22 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
I know that OpenSuse also breaks TeXlive into the 2000+ individual packages. -- Pierre Neidhardt https://ambrevar.xyz/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Help needed packaging rust-cbindgen, a dependency of IceCat 68

2019-10-22 Thread Mark H Weaver
Mark H Weaver writes: > John Soo writes: >> I have it - but not with all the correct licenses. >> What version do you need? > > According to Debian any version >= 0.8.7 should work. Thank you! Actually, I have it now too. Within a few minutes of seeing your message and responding to it, my ef

Re: How to keep biber working

2019-10-22 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 10:04:26AM +0200, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > Ricardo Wurmus writes: > > > This does not contradict what I wrote. *Building* the packages differs > > from just copying the generated files to their expected locations. I > > doubt Nix actually generates all these files from

Re: Help needed packaging rust-cbindgen, a dependency of IceCat 68

2019-10-22 Thread Jonathan Brielmaier
On 22.10.19 08:23, Mark H Weaver wrote: > Hello fellow Guix, > > I have good news and bad news. The good news is that thanks to the > heroic efforts of Amin Bandali , a recently appointed > co-maintainer of GNU IceCat, there now exists a preliminary version of > IceCat 68 that builds successfully

Re: Help needed packaging rust-cbindgen, a dependency of IceCat 68

2019-10-22 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi John, John Soo writes: > I have it - but not with all the correct licenses. > What version do you need? According to Debian any version >= 0.8.7 should work. Thank you! Mark

Re: Help needed packaging rust-cbindgen, a dependency of IceCat 68

2019-10-22 Thread John Soo
Hi Mark, I have it - but not with all the correct licenses. What version do you need? John