Re: getting started with the texlive importer

2020-09-10 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Paul, > Ok, I have found a fix. […] > The effect is to add a subdirectory to the temporary directory. This > is used as the target to download the files to. It does not exist > until created by the 'svn export' command. Interesting! I think I added this back then and at some point it used

Re: getting started with the texlive importer

2020-09-10 Thread John Soo
Nice work! That bug has been around for years I think. Thanks! John

Re: linux-module-builder leads to huge store items

2020-09-10 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Danny Milosavljevic skribis: > On Thu, 10 Sep 2020 10:09:11 +0200 > Ludovic Courtès wrote: > >> Surely we don’t need that much just to build a kernel module. :-) > > Since Linux is a monolithic kernel and since C has no modules: Yes, yes we > do--in the general case. > > Linux kernel de

Re: getting started with the texlive importer

2020-09-10 Thread Paul Garlick
Hi Guix, Ok, I have found a fix. It turns out that the 'svn export' command throws an error if the target directory already exists. Initially I set the 'log' argument of 'download-svn-to-store' to 'current-output-port' to see the error message from svn: svn: E155000: Destination directory exi

Re: Setuid programs

2020-09-10 Thread Christopher Lemmer Webber
Gábor Boskovits writes: > Hello, > > Christopher Lemmer Webber ezt írta (időpont: > 2020. szept. 10., Cs, 0:52): >> >> Christopher Lemmer Webber writes: >> >> > Gábor Boskovits writes: >> > >> >> Hello, >> >> >> >> Christopher Lemmer Webber ezt írta (időpont: >> >> 2020. szept. 9., Sze, 21:00)

Re: branch master updated: gnu: Add r-useful.

2020-09-10 Thread Roel Janssen
On Wed, 2020-09-09 at 18:05 +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > Hi Roel, > > > This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script. > > > > roelj pushed a commit to branch master > > in repository guix. > > > > The following commit(s) were added to refs/heads/master by this > > push: >

Re: branch master updated: gnu: Add r-bisquerna.

2020-09-10 Thread Roel Janssen
On Thu, 2020-09-10 at 13:31 +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > Roel Janssen writes: > > > > > +(define-public r-bisquerna > > > > + (package > > > > + (name "r-bisquerna") > > > > + (version "1.0.4") > > > > + (source (origin > > > > +(method url-fetch) > > > > +(uri (c

Re: linux-module-builder leads to huge store items

2020-09-10 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi Ludo, On Thu, 10 Sep 2020 10:09:11 +0200 Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Surely we don’t need that much just to build a kernel module. :-) Since Linux is a monolithic kernel and since C has no modules: Yes, yes we do--in the general case. Linux kernel developers have no interest in supporting out

Re: branch master updated: gnu: Add r-bisquerna.

2020-09-10 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
zimoun writes: > On Thu, 10 Sep 2020 at 13:30, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > >> > It seemed so "bioinformatics"-specific. But you're right, it's a CRAN >> > package, so that may be a better fit. Shall I move it to CRAN? >> >> If you have time to do that, yes please. Some time ago I started a >> h

Re: branch master updated: gnu: Add r-loomr.

2020-09-10 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
zimoun writes: > Last, should CRAN packages in statistics.scm go in cran..scm or not? Yes, I want statistics.scm to no longer have CRAN packages. -- Ricardo

Re: branch master updated: gnu: Add r-loomr.

2020-09-10 Thread zimoun
On Thu, 10 Sep 2020 at 12:40, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > > Where would I add a non-CRAN and non-Bioconductor package to? Perhaps > > this situation won't occur again, and should raise a flag, because I > > think I've never had this case before. > > We don’t have any good place for those packages.

Re: branch master updated: gnu: Add r-bisquerna.

2020-09-10 Thread zimoun
On Thu, 10 Sep 2020 at 13:30, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > > It seemed so "bioinformatics"-specific. But you're right, it's a CRAN > > package, so that may be a better fit. Shall I move it to CRAN? > > If you have time to do that, yes please. Some time ago I started a > half-hearted migration of R

Re: branch master updated: gnu: Add r-bisquerna.

2020-09-10 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Roel Janssen writes: >> > +(define-public r-bisquerna >> > + (package >> > + (name "r-bisquerna") >> > + (version "1.0.4") >> > + (source (origin >> > +(method url-fetch) >> > +(uri (cran-uri "BisqueRNA" version)) >> > +(sha256 >> > + (base

Re: branch master updated: gnu: Add r-bisquerna.

2020-09-10 Thread Roel Janssen
Hi Ricardo, On Wed, 2020-09-09 at 18:04 +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > Hi Roel, > > > This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script. > > > > roelj pushed a commit to branch master > > in repository guix. > > > > The following commit(s) were added to refs/heads/master by this

Re: branch master updated: gnu: Add r-loomr.

2020-09-10 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Roel Janssen writes: >> > commit 1f56ec08af704bdc7aa3e143bf5ce351c5306dea >> > Author: Roel Janssen >> > AuthorDate: Wed Sep 9 16:56:02 2020 +0200 >> > >> > gnu: Add r-loomr. >> > >> > * gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm (r-loomr): New variable. >> >> This is not free software. S

Re: branch master updated: gnu: Add r-loomr.

2020-09-10 Thread Roel Janssen
Hi Ricardo, On Wed, 2020-09-09 at 18:02 +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > Hi Roel, > > > This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script. > > > > roelj pushed a commit to branch master > > in repository guix. > > > > The following commit(s) were added to refs/heads/master by thi

Speeding up archive export

2020-09-10 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Guix! If you’ve ever used offloading (or ‘guix copy’), you’ve probably noticed that the time to send store items is proportional to the number of store items to send rather than their total size. Namely: guix archive --export coreutils is fast, but: guix archive --export $(guix build

linux-module-builder leads to huge store items

2020-09-10 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Danny & Mathieu, While looking for sources of contention on ci.guix.gnu.org, I found that “linux-libre-module-builder” leads to hge trees in the store; performing deduplication on these trees takes ages, and more generally these big trees look unreasaonble to me. --8<---cut

Re: Setuid programs

2020-09-10 Thread Gábor Boskovits
Hello, Christopher Lemmer Webber ezt írta (időpont: 2020. szept. 10., Cs, 0:52): > > Christopher Lemmer Webber writes: > > > Gábor Boskovits writes: > > > >> Hello, > >> > >> Christopher Lemmer Webber ezt írta (időpont: > >> 2020. szept. 9., Sze, 21:00): > >>> > >>> Maxim Cournoyer writes: > >>>

Re: Profile hook in build environment?

2020-09-10 Thread Guillaume Le Vaillant
Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > Guillaume Le Vaillant writes: > >> Is there a way to generate files and add them to the environment created >> by 'guix build' as it can be done with profile hooks? > > Yes, the build system can do whatever it wants. The > texlive-build-system, for example, builds a u