Re: File search progress: database review and question on triggers

2020-10-09 Thread zimoun
Hi Pierre, On Mon, 5 Oct 2020 at 20:53, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > Comments and help welcome! :) I have just checked out and I am probably failing but "./pre-inst-env guix filesearch whatever" raises an error with the backtrace: --8<---cut here---start->8---

Re: linux-libre updates, timeliness

2020-10-09 Thread Leo Famulari
On Wed, Oct 07, 2020 at 06:32:34AM +0900, Yasuaki Kudo wrote: > But I was intrigued, that it felt like a situation where a vegetarian would > order a pizza from a restaurant that doesn't offer a vegetarian option so he > has to painstakingly remove meat from it, while it would have been better

Re: Outreachy Applicant: An Introduction

2020-10-09 Thread zimoun
Hey Magali, Welcome! And thank you for your interest in Guix. On Fri, 9 Oct 2020 at 20:57, Magali Lemes wrote: > I already installed the Guix package manager on Ubuntu and am going through > some of the commands. Really cool! What is your feedback on the topic? Easy to install?

Outreachy Applicant: An Introduction

2020-10-09 Thread Magali Lemes
Hi, everyone! My name is Magali, I am an Outreachy applicant interested in the GNU Guix project #1 'Add a subcommand showing GNU Guix history of all packages'. I'm excited about learning more about Guile Scheme and Guix. I'm currently seeing a bit of Scheme in college, so I thought it'd be

Re: Release v1.2 timetable

2020-10-09 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
On Fri, 9 Oct 2020 20:25:57 +0200 Andreas Enge wrote: > On Tue, Oct 06, 2020 at 09:57:20AM +0200, Mathieu Othacehe wrote: > > The CI is already building substitutes for two images > > (hurd-barebones-qcow2-image and pine64-barebones-raw-image). We could > > maybe release 1.2 version of those

Re: Release v1.2 timetable

2020-10-09 Thread Andreas Enge
On Tue, Oct 06, 2020 at 09:57:20AM +0200, Mathieu Othacehe wrote: > The CI is already building substitutes for two images > (hurd-barebones-qcow2-image and pine64-barebones-raw-image). We could > maybe release 1.2 version of those images. Nice! For completely selfish reasons, I would like to also

Re: Why unrelated package trigger rebuild?

2020-10-09 Thread zimoun
Hi Chris, I have investigate a bit. On Fri, 9 Oct 2020 at 09:52, Christopher Baines wrote: > > The webpage reads, anti-chronological order: j5llsz…-ghc-haddock-2.22.0 392220 1a2759

Call for 1.2 installer testing.

2020-10-09 Thread Mathieu Othacehe
Hello, The 1.2 release is on its way. So here's the traditional call for installer testing. This time, the CI is building latest installer images, which should ease testing. I propose that we first concentrate our efforts on this image: https://ci.guix.gnu.org/download/654 which corresponds to

Re: Release v1.2 and Translation

2020-10-09 Thread Julien Lepiller
If you're not an emacs user, poedit is a very good tool. I personally use offlate, my own tool, for the translations. It's especially useful for interacting with the translation platform (here the TP but I support others). Both tools are available in guix. Le 9 octobre 2020 05:23:45 GMT-04:00,

Re: Introduction

2020-10-09 Thread zimoun
Hello Lisa, Welcome! Nice that you are interested in Guix. Are you currently running Guix on your machine ? The easiest is to start with the package manager [1] using the shell script installer (first Red note in [1] :-)). The package manager works on any GNU/linux distribution and is not in

Introduction

2020-10-09 Thread Lisa Siziba
Hello am lisa an outreachy applicant and am excited to be here. Please show me where to start with contributions

Release v1.2 and Translation

2020-10-09 Thread zimoun
Dear Translators, The target for the release v1.2 is Oct. 29th. The POT files have been updated if I read correctly. Since there are new materials or revamped ones, help is needed. :-) Well Guixer, if you would like to contribute and do not know how, translation is a really good mean. Fix

Re: Hello from new Outreachy applicant

2020-10-09 Thread zimoun
Re, > Nice, thanks for looking at it. It looks like a really good > improvement, but Simon > will have more info on that. I have. :-) Basically, recently the new "guix git" subcommand has been added (see "guix git authenticate"). So the idea is to add another subcommand: "guix git log" to

Re: Hello from new Outreachy applicant

2020-10-09 Thread zimoun
Dear, On Fri, 9 Oct 2020 at 05:40, Lulu wrote: > > Have you already tried GNU Guix? The package manager on foreign > > distro? The full Guix System? > > If yes, are you comfortable with? Feedback is very welcome. :-) > > I tried Guix on a foreign distro but ran into some problems with >

Re: Hello from new Outreachy applicant

2020-10-09 Thread Gábor Boskovits
Hello Lulu, Lulu ezt írta (időpont: 2020. okt. 9., P, 8:00): > > Hi Simon, > > > Have you already tried GNU Guix? The package manager on foreign > > distro? The full Guix System? > > If yes, are you comfortable with? Feedback is very welcome. :-) > > I tried Guix on a foreign distro but ran

Re: Why unrelated package trigger rebuild?

2020-10-09 Thread Christopher Baines
zimoun writes: > Dear, > > From the Data Service: > > > > the commit 39222080911eaf3d7f74effe4467c1a04464aef3 which is about the > addition of the package ’dkgpg’ modifies the hash of the package >

Re: Hello from new Outreachy applicant

2020-10-09 Thread Lulu
Hi Brett, > Congratulations on your Outreachy acceptance. Thanks! > Do you have any ideas for what you might want to contribute? I'm learning the internals of Guix right now but I'm planning on doing the task for adding a `guix git log' subcommand. -- Lulu (they/them)

Re: Hello from new Outreachy applicant

2020-10-09 Thread Lulu
Hi Simon, > Have you already tried GNU Guix? The package manager on foreign > distro? The full Guix System? > If yes, are you comfortable with? Feedback is very welcome. :-) I tried Guix on a foreign distro but ran into some problems with SELinux and locales. Do you recommend using GuixSD on