doc: Channel subsection order?

2020-09-11 Thread zimoun
Dear, I was re-reading the section about Channels and the subsections do not appear to me "logical". Currently, it is: 1. Channel Authentication 2. Using a Custom Guix Channel 3. Specifying Additional Channels 4. Declaring Channel Dependencies 5. Package Modules in a Sub-directory

Re: What should "guix build --source" produce? (was Re: Dependency cycle issues when using a Gexp-based snippet)

2020-09-11 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello Maxim, On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 02:22:44PM -0400, Maxim Cournoyer wrote: > +@cindex snippets, when to use > +The boundary between using an origin snippet versus a build phase to > +modify the sources of a package can be elusive. Origin snippets are > +typically used to remove unnecessary

Re: What should "guix build --source" produce? (was Re: Dependency cycle issues when using a Gexp-based snippet)

2020-09-11 Thread zimoun
Hi, On Fri, 11 Sep 2020 at 20:22, Maxim Cournoyer wrote: > Yes, this sounds like it! How about the following section, to help > contributors decide between the two? > > --8<---cut here---start->8--- > 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) > doc/contributing.texi

Re: What should "guix build --source" produce? (was Re: Dependency cycle issues when using a Gexp-based snippet)

2020-09-11 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hi Mark, Mark H Weaver writes: > Hi Maxim, > > maxim.courno...@gmail.com writes: > >> While trying to move some of the patching done to qtbase into a snippet, >> with the goal of having at least the ./configure script runnable in a >> guix environment without having to manually run patching

Re: What should "guix build --source" produce? (was Re: Dependency cycle issues when using a Gexp-based snippet)

2020-09-11 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Andreas Enge writes: > Hello Mark, > > On Tue, Sep 08, 2020 at 12:07:01AM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote: >> > + (let ((coreutils #+(canonical-package coreutils))) >> > + (substitute* "configure" >> > + (("/bin/pwd") >> > +

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

2020-09-11 Thread zimoun
Dear, On Thu, 10 Sep 2020 at 16:44, Roel Janssen wrote: > > If you have time to do that, yes please. Some time ago I started a > > half-hearted migration of R packages from (gnu packages > > bioinformatics) > > to (gnu packages cran) and (gnu packages bioconductor). It’s not > > supremely

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

2020-09-11 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
>Could you give it a try? ... I did. See footnote 2. [2] https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=43332 pgpTAWG_ImLeN.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

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

2020-09-11 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Danny, Danny Milosavljevic skribis: >> So, I can think of the following ways to address that: >> >> 1. Remove for example *.c, assuming the out-of-tree modules we package >> only care about *.h + build machinery. > > The biggest source files, see above, are header files >

zabbix-cloudwatch service extension and packaging request

2020-09-11 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hello, First of all: this would be a paid development that should be delivered in two or three weeks since today, please contact me privately if you are interested. We are using zabbix-server on Guix as monitoing server and I would like to use zabbix-cloudwatch [1] to collect metrics for some

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

2020-09-11 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi Ludo, On Thu, 10 Sep 2020 18:26:57 +0200 Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > 150 MB > > a2fs24bgghjvlzq5lzr6zki7mqxx8mpi-linux-libre-module-builder-5.8.7/lib/modules/build/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/include/asic_reg > > 30 MB > >