Re: Guix now in Debian experimental!

2020-11-12 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Vagrant Cascadian writes: Hello! > It's been a long haul getting all the build dependencies of guix into > Debian, but it has finally paid off: > >https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/guix > > So now you can install guix from Debian's experimental distribution! That's an amazing achievement, congr

Re: Announcing emacs-guix-packaging

2020-11-12 Thread Ryan Prior
On November 12, 2020, "Ludovic Courtès" wrote: > Looks nice and useful! Thank you! If you end up using it, I'd be interested to hear feedback about what works well and what could go in a different direction. > Did you consider making it part of Emacs-Guix? That’d give us a single > go-to place f

Re: “guix pack -RR r“ fails?

2020-11-12 Thread zimoun
Hi, On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 at 21:41, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> Hum? I do not know if I am doing correctly. The packages >> fakechroot-2.9-24.5.el6_1.1.x86_64.rpm and >> fakechroot-libs-2.9-24.5.el6_1.1.x86_64.rpm are installed. And I get >> as regular user: > > You do not need these packages: th

Re: Guix now compiles on my Talos II

2020-11-12 Thread Joshua Branson
Does most software compile for it? Are you running gnome? Or something else? Thanks, -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus https://gnucode.me https://video.hardlimit.com/accounts/joshua_branson/video-channels "You can have whatever you want, as long as you help enough other people get

Re: Guix now in Debian experimental!

2020-11-12 Thread Christopher Lemmer Webber
This! Is! Awesome! I think Guix in Debian could be huge and help both massively. Well, I've said so more than once in the past. I believe it! What's easy to package in one tends to be easy to package in the other. Just imagine if we encouraged more developers using Debian as their host OS to

Re: Guix now in Debian experimental!

2020-11-12 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! Vagrant Cascadian skribis: > It's been a long haul getting all the build dependencies of guix into > Debian, but it has finally paid off: > >https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/guix > > So now you can install guix from Debian's experimental distribution! Yay! Quite an achievement, thumbs up

Re: Working Guix on 64 bit PowerPC.

2020-11-12 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Tobias Platen skribis: > I've got the wip-ppc branch of Guix compiling unmodified on my Talos II. > Since the POWER9 is backwards compatible with the PowerPC G4, it can run > the existing bootstrap binaries for powerpc-linux. The binaries from > http://flashner.co.il/guix/bootstrap/powerpc-l

Re: Announcing emacs-guix-packaging

2020-11-12 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Ryan Prior skribis: > Hi folks! I use Emacs to write and maintain Guix packages, and I've > created some tools and snippets to automate repetitive tasks and remove > guesswork. If you also use Emacs, you might be interested to try them or > contribute your own. > > My repository is here: htt

Re: Guix now compiles on my Talos II

2020-11-12 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Tobias, Tobias Platen skribis: > I checked out the wip-ppc branch which I compiled on my Talos II. So you built Guix from source using that branch, right? Sounds nice! Ludo’.

Re: Latest Nyxt features a GUI for Guix :)

2020-11-12 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Pierre Neidhardt writes: > To add to what Ryan said, Nyxt has a interesting design feature: it does > not need to depend on a web browser! Nyxt is rather a > "Common Lisp interactive framework" and it would be perfectly possible > to implement a textual interface à-la Emacs. Of course, web p

Re: “guix pack -RR r“ fails?

2020-11-12 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, zimoun skribis: > On Sun, 8 Nov 2020 at 18:34, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > >> Oh right, you’d need to pick a different execution engine, most likely >> ‘fakechroot’ is the only one that works on this machine: >> >> export GUIX_EXECUTION_ENGINE=fakechroot >> strace -f -s 500 -o log ./bin/R

Re: Make guix-publish's URL identical to cache file name

2020-11-12 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Peng Mei Yu skribis: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >>> Then a mirror site can simply pull the directory >>> /var/cache/guix/publish/nar from the Berlin server and serve this >>> directory through a static HTTP server. There will be cache misses. >>> But guix-daemon will safely fallback to the

Guix now in Debian experimental!

2020-11-12 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
It's been a long haul getting all the build dependencies of guix into Debian, but it has finally paid off: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/guix So now you can install guix from Debian's experimental distribution! It is not well tested, in fact, I had to disable many tests, because in Debian it

Re: Latest Nyxt features a GUI for Guix :)

2020-11-12 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Jan Wielkiewicz writes: > 2. I have some interesting ideas that would be a shame to waste. I > actually don't care what displays the GUI, I'm working more on a > modular desktop experience - the set of small GUI (and not only) > programs working together by passing messages. > 3. That's my proj

Re: Latest Nyxt features a GUI for Guix :)

2020-11-12 Thread Jan Wielkiewicz
Dnia 2020-11-12, o godz. 10:20:10 Pierre Neidhardt napisał(a): > Ryan Prior writes: > > > On November 11, 2020, Jan Wielkiewicz > > wrote: > >> [web browsers are] a really poorly designed copy of > >> operating systems and its utilities. > >> > >> [...] > >> > >> I just don't understand why in

Re: Latest Nyxt features a GUI for Guix :)

2020-11-12 Thread Jan Wielkiewicz
Dnia 2020-11-12, o godz. 09:51:00 Ricardo Wurmus napisał(a): > > Jan Wielkiewicz writes: > > > I guess your choice comes from the lack of a proper GUI toolkit > > available, but I'm just not a big fan of web browsers generally. > > In fact I started writing my own GUI toolkit/application frame

Re: Latest Nyxt features a GUI for Guix :)

2020-11-12 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Jan Wielkiewicz writes: > I guess your choice comes from the lack of a proper GUI toolkit > available, but I'm just not a big fan of web browsers generally. > In fact I started writing my own GUI toolkit/application framework in > Guile just for the purpose of bringing modularity to GUI applica