Re: Proxy settings wrt guix daemon

2020-04-10 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Danny Milosavljevic skribis: > On Fri, 10 Apr 2020 15:26:32 +0200 > Danny Milosavljevic wrote: > >> What happens to https? Will it go via the HTTP proxy? Maybe mention that >> there, too. > > In https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2020-04/msg00084.html > there's only http_proxy

Re: 1.1.0rc1 available for test!

2020-04-10 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Alex, Alex Sassmannshausen skribis: > After successfully completing system setup from the ISO using that > selection, rebooting the system launches GDM OK. Signing in to GDM > however causes the system to loop back to GDM, instead of starting a > ratpoison session. It is not clear to me wha

Re: Proxy settings wrt guix daemon

2020-04-10 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
On Fri, 10 Apr 2020 15:26:32 +0200 Danny Milosavljevic wrote: > What happens to https? Will it go via the HTTP proxy? Maybe mention that > there, too. In https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2020-04/msg00084.html there's only http_proxy honored. According to ./guix/build/download.scm

Re: 1.1.0rc1 available for test!

2020-04-10 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Heya Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hi! > > Mathieu Othacehe skribis: > >>> * Esperanto language/layout crashes the installer. >> >> Fixed by 1a24df44347629cd67821d672edad7636404f293 on master. >> >> Ludo, you may want to cherry-pick it to 1.1.0 branch :) > > Done! > > Thanks for testing & fixing, c

Re: 1.1.0rc1 available for test!

2020-04-10 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Hello, A minor useability issue: At the end of installation, a prompt suggests installation is complete and that the system is ready for reboot. However, it suggests one can remove the installation medium before hitting return to restart. For me at least, removing the pendrive prior to reboot c

Re: 1.1.0rc1 available for test!

2020-04-10 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Hello! I have spotted a further issue — though I'm not sure whether this thread is the right place to report it: One is able to select ratpoison as the only option in the desktop environment options in the installer. After successfully completing system setup from the ISO using that selection, r

Re: Thank you for your leadership Ludo

2020-04-10 Thread Arun Isaac
> I have been hanging out in #guix recently, and I have submitted a few > guix bug reports (not many). I just wanted to thank you for the > community that you have built with Guix. I have done some minor > volunteer work with other free software projects, but those other free > software projects d

Re: 1.1.0rc1 available for test!

2020-04-10 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 04:35:18PM +0200, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 03:56:21AM +0200, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > > For me the Guix System installer crashes reproducibly after manual > > partitioning, even when not formatting the partition. The ESP and > >

Re: Proxy settings wrt guix daemon

2020-04-10 Thread Vincent Legoll
Hello, On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 3:26 PM Danny Milosavljevic wrote: > What happens to https? Will it go via the HTTP proxy? Maybe mention that > there, too. It does go through the proxy, I've seen the hits in squid log files here. -- Vincent Legoll

Re: Proxy settings wrt guix daemon

2020-04-10 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Danny, Danny Milosavljevic skribis: > could we mention an example value for the HTTP proxy setting? > > When I use it it's never quite clear to me whether there's a slash at the end > or not, and what to do with https etc. > > Currently it says "Please enter the HTTP proxy URL. If you enter

Re: 1.1.0rc1 available for test!

2020-04-10 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! Mathieu Othacehe skribis: >> * Esperanto language/layout crashes the installer. > > Fixed by 1a24df44347629cd67821d672edad7636404f293 on master. > > Ludo, you may want to cherry-pick it to 1.1.0 branch :) Done! Thanks for testing & fixing, comrades! Ludo’.

Re: 1.1.0rc1 available for test!

2020-04-10 Thread Mathieu Othacehe
> * Esperanto language/layout crashes the installer. Fixed by 1a24df44347629cd67821d672edad7636404f293 on master. Ludo, you may want to cherry-pick it to 1.1.0 branch :) Mathieu

iPXE network booting (was Re: [GSOC 2020] Booting via network)

2020-04-10 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hello Brice and Vagrant Vagrant Cascadian writes: > On 2020-03-30, Brice Waegeneire wrote: >> I know it's quite late to submit a GSOC proposal but here it's. >> I would like to work on the project suggested by Danny to >> add PXE support to Guix. Which has been requested several >> times on IRC

Re: Proxy settings wrt guix daemon

2020-04-10 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi, could we mention an example value for the HTTP proxy setting? When I use it it's never quite clear to me whether there's a slash at the end or not, and what to do with https etc. Currently it says "Please enter the HTTP proxy URL. If you enter an empty string, proxy usage will be disabled."

Re: 1.1.0rc1 available for test!

2020-04-10 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Great, thank you for that summary, I think that is right. I've noticed a further (small?) error: On installation completion an error flashes up. When I checked /var/log/debug, the message is: …localhost shepherd[1]: system-error("rmdir" "~A" ("Directory not empty") (39)) Best wishes, Alex Ma

Re: 1.1.0rc1 available for test!

2020-04-10 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Hi Mathieu, Thanks for getting back to me! Mathieu Othacehe writes: > Hello Alex, > > Thanks for your feedback! > >> Then the screen flashes back to the beginning of the installer. Running >> through the process again results in the disk drive not being available >> for partitioning. > > Are y

Re: 1.1.0rc1 available for test!

2020-04-10 Thread Mathieu Othacehe
> As the system language & locale rather than > - Esperanto I can reproduce it in QEMU. So there are two issues here: * Esperanto language/layout crashes the installer. * When the installer crashes, `umount-cow-store' is not called and the next installation is bound to fail because some mount

Re: 1.1.0rc1 available for test!

2020-04-10 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
I have been able to avoid this error by selecting: - English - United Kingdom As the system language & locale rather than - Esperanto which I had previously selected. I tried a great number of combinations of configurations, and this seems to have been the one thing that reliably crashed (when

Re: 1.1.0rc1 available for test!

2020-04-10 Thread Mathieu Othacehe
Hello Florian, > For me the Guix System installer crashes reproducibly after manual > partitioning, even when not formatting the partition. The ESP and > root partition have not been deleted (no matter if I tell the > installer to format them or not). This applies to EFI installation on > my 2

Re: 1.1.0rc1 available for test!

2020-04-10 Thread Mathieu Othacehe
Hello Alex, Thanks for your feedback! > Then the screen flashes back to the beginning of the installer. Running > through the process again results in the disk drive not being available > for partitioning. Are you running the installer on a VM or on real hardware? Could you try the following

Re: 1.1.0rc1 available for test!

2020-04-10 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Hello, Running the graphical installer from the installation image hosted through IPFS, I can report the following experience: The guidance, keyboard configuration & partitioning works well. In fact all goes charmingly until the stage where the sysconf is shown. That looks correct too. Hitting

New Spanish PO file for 'guix' (version 1.1.0-pre2)

2020-04-10 Thread Translation Project Robot
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Re: 1.1.0rc1 available for test!

2020-04-10 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" skribis: > For me the Guix System installer crashes reproducibly after manual > partitioning, even when not formatting the partition. The ESP and > root partition have not been deleted (no matter if I tell the > installer to format them or not). This applies to

Re: 1.1.0rc1 available for test!

2020-04-10 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Vagrant, Vagrant Cascadian skribis: > On 2020-04-09, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> Hello Guix! >> >> I’ve run “make release” from the new ‘version-1.1.0’ branch and uploaded >> the result: >> >> https://web.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/software/guix/1.1.0rc1 > > The only tarball I see there is: > > > ht

Re: "Cross"-Building for foreign ditros

2020-04-10 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Hartmut, Hartmut Goebel skribis: > I would like to use Guix to set up a reproducible build environment for > building packages for a foreign distribution. Of course, this would not > use the guix build systems, but the foreign distro*s tools - which > itself should come from Guix. > > For exa

New Brazilian Portuguese PO file for 'guix' (version 1.1.0-pre2)

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Re: Merging ham-radio and sdr modules?

2020-04-10 Thread Arun Isaac
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