Re: #850644: RFP: Guix in Debian

2019-11-12 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Vagrant Cascadian writes: > On 2019-05-28, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: >> On 2019-05-16, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: >>> So in a bit of a focused run of packaging, I've been chasing the >>> dependency chain necessary to get guix building on Debian: > > Summary: all the dependencies are in Debian!

Re: Parallel downloads

2019-11-12 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 05:48:16PM +0100, zimoun wrote: > Hi, > It is not related with parallel download but on old machines "guix > build --no-substitutes" can eat a lot of resources; for example if the > package has a lot of dependencies. I would like to be able to list > which dependencies I

GNOME Core Applications

2019-11-12 Thread Raghav Gururajan
Hello Guix! Based on information from [1], [2], [3] and [4]; I have formulated a chart to keep track of things easily. :-) CHART: https://calc.disroot.org/2nu6mpf88ynq.html As a start, I will be working on packaging gnome-contacts, gnome-music and gnome-weather. If anyone did any task(s) from

Re: #850644: RFP: Guix in Debian

2019-11-12 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2019-05-28, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2019-05-16, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: >> So in a bit of a focused run of packaging, I've been chasing the >> dependency chain necessary to get guix building on Debian: Summary: all the dependencies are in Debian! >> * guile-gnutls needs to be

Re: Stackage LTS 14

2019-11-12 Thread Timothy Sample
Hi John, John Soo writes: > Thanks for putting in the work. I use xmobar with a few extra options: > dbus, alsa and maybe one more. I can’t remember. I can try submitting > a patch for it this week. Hooray! If I fix “ngless” this will be pretty much ready to merge. Then (pause while a short

Re: Profiles/manifests-related command line interface enhancements

2019-11-12 Thread Konrad Hinsen
Hi Andy, > I wrote this for that purpose: > > > https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Sandboxed-Evaluation.html Right, I had found this when searching for something. It seems to solve a couple of problems that I don't quite understand, but not so much those I do (file/network

Re: Parallel downloads

2019-11-12 Thread Leo Famulari
On Sat, Nov 09, 2019 at 06:40:56PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Like I wrote, it’s not that simple (we’d first need the daemon to > distinguish substitution jobs from other jobs, but note that there are > also “downloads” that are actually derivation builds), and it’s not > clear to me that

Re: Parallel downloads

2019-11-12 Thread zimoun
Hi, It is not related with parallel download but on old machines "guix build --no-substitutes" can eat a lot of resources; for example if the package has a lot of dependencies. I would like to be able to list which dependencies I want to build and which I want to substitute. Maybe it is already

Re: Stackage LTS 14

2019-11-12 Thread John Soo
Hi Tim, Thanks for putting in the work. I use xmobar with a few extra options: dbus, alsa and maybe one more. I can’t remember. I can try submitting a patch for it this week. My only question is how many options should we enable? We can try all.

Re: Parallel downloads

2019-11-12 Thread John Soo
Hi everyone, I’ve been watching this from afar and one thing and while I have to agree with this: > .. I suspect there’s little to > be gained by having several connections in parallel. I do have to say that more fine grained concurrency would really help speed up builds without substitutes.

Re: Parallel downloads

2019-11-12 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Pierre Neidhardt skribis: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> it’s not supposed to be >> faster to download 10 things in parallel from ci.guix.gnu.org, than to >> download them sequentially. > > I was thinking a little bit ahead in the future, e.g. when we have more > build farms (if it ever

“Spreading the news”

2019-11-12 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Guix! Here’s an article about the news feature in ‘guix pull’ that landed a month ago: https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/spreading-the-news/ Feedback welcome! Ludo’.

Re: guix package: Rename "generation" options

2019-11-12 Thread zimoun
Dear, On Tue, 12 Nov 2019 at 09:59, Tanguy Le Carrour wrote: > Le 11/08, Hartmut Goebel a écrit : > > i often stumble about generation related short-options being mixed lower > > and upper-case: > > > > -l, --list-generations[=PATTERN] > > -d, --delete-generations[=PATTERN] > > -S,

Re: guix package: Rename "generation" options

2019-11-12 Thread Tanguy Le Carrour
Hi Hartmut! Le 11/08, Hartmut Goebel a écrit : > i often stumble about generation related short-options being mixed lower > and upper-case: > >   -l, --list-generations[=PATTERN] >   -d, --delete-generations[=PATTERN] >   -S, --switch-generation=PATTERN > > I would prefer to have them

Re: Profiles/manifests-related command line interface enhancements

2019-11-12 Thread Andy Wingo
On Sun 10 Nov 2019 10:36, Konrad Hinsen writes: > One direction could be to add a sandboxing feature to Guile, which would > be nice-to-have for other uses as well if Guile is to become a > general-purpose systems scripting language. There are some interesting > ideas in shill