Re: Installing packages auto-container'ed

2020-07-01 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Chris! Christopher Lemmer Webber skribis: > Would it be possible to make launching applications in Guix with minimum > permissions even easier? Here's just a sketch of an idea. > > Borrowing from the new containerizing an application example in the > manual... > > In my manifest.scm, what if

Securing updates

2020-07-01 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Guix! Here’s a post pushed earlier today that explains the whole channel authentication story that’s been going on for a few months: https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2020/securing-updates/ Feedback welcome! Ludo’.

Data Services feedback

2020-07-01 Thread zimoun
Hi Chris, I have remarked that, from this webpage: https://data.guix.gnu.org/repository/1/branch/master/package/git/output-history the JSON button is broken, i.e., https://data.guix.gnu.org/repository/1/branch/master/package/git/output-history.json returns an error. BTW, I am currently inter

Installing packages auto-container'ed

2020-07-01 Thread Christopher Lemmer Webber
Would it be possible to make launching applications in Guix with minimum permissions even easier? Here's just a sketch of an idea. Borrowing from the new containerizing an application example in the manual... In my manifest.scm, what if instead of listing the browser package eolie, I listed the

Re: Frequent locales problems for new users

2020-07-01 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2020-03-17, Leo Famulari wrote: > Warning! Locales! New users seem to have trouble with Guix locales every > day. > > I think we can improve the situation. > > First, we can deprecate the glibc-utf8-locales package and not mention > it in the manual section Application Setup. I've seen users thi

Re: Reproducible Research Hackathon: Friday, July 3rd

2020-07-01 Thread Efraim Flashner
On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 11:10:23AM +0200, zimoun wrote: > Hi Pjotr, > > Thank you for sharing your plans. > > On Tue, 30 Jun 2020 at 23:57, Pjotr Prins wrote: > > > GenNetwork1 depends on Python 2.4(!) with modules that have not been > > updated this century, and an older version of Apache with

Re: Reproducible Research Hackathon: Friday, July 3rd

2020-07-01 Thread zimoun
Hi Pjotr, Thank you for sharing your plans. On Tue, 30 Jun 2020 at 23:57, Pjotr Prins wrote: > GenNetwork1 depends on Python 2.4(!) with modules that have not been > updated this century, and an older version of Apache with mod_python, > amongst other things. We would like to use the guix time-