Re: New “ungrafting” branch

2021-01-21 Thread Leo Famulari
On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 12:15:28PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Apologies for not contributing so far, this month is busy for me. I > think the slow feedback loop with ci.guix is one of the main reasons > people don’t contribute much. Perhaps the whole process is also unclear > to people who’r

Re: Staging branch [substitute availability i686-linux]

2021-01-21 Thread Leo Famulari
On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 07:22:35PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote: > I've reported this upstream: > > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/4091 Upstream cannot reproduce the test failure. I disabled the test in commit 8b55544212a90b0276df49596a3d373e5c2e8f5c and now mesa has built for i6

RE: [bootstrappable] Re: wip-full-source-bootstrap: from a 357-byte `hex0' to 'hello'

2021-01-21 Thread Orians, Jeremiah (DTMB)
> I see a fourth option, which is to keep both. :-) Might want to fix up the confusing naming in that case > In effect, it seems there are now two diverging projects. I think that’s > fine: more bootstrapping work and more diversity is better! Converging actually as they share the exact same go

Re: Building Guile with ‘-j1’?

2021-01-21 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
Hi, Mark H Weaver writes: > Hi Ludovic, > > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> As the saying goes, “the cobbler’s children go barefoot”. Guile/Guix >> are no exception since Guile builds are non-reproducible, despite work >> done a few years ago: >> >> https://issues.guix.gnu.org/20272 >> >> Until

Re: strange english in docstring

2021-01-21 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Leo Famulari skribis: > On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 08:51:32PM +0100, Vincent Legoll wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I don't understand the following docstring >> english (even if I guess the meaning): >> >> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/system.scm#n861 > > Indeed, it looks like a typo

Re: New “ungrafting” branch

2021-01-21 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Leo Famulari skribis: > On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 12:57:50AM -0500, Mark H Weaver wrote: >> Ludovic Courtès writes: >> >> > Following discussions on IRC, I’ve created a new ‘ungrafting’ branch >> > that does nothing but ungraft things. >> > >> > The rationale is that grafts incur additional

Re: [bootstrappable] Re: wip-full-source-bootstrap: from a 357-byte `hex0' to 'hello'

2021-01-21 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, jerem...@pdp10.guru skribis: > 3) not actually converge the code and simply throw one or both of them > away. Say write the whole thing in a better language than C (haskell > perhaps but ultimately requires abandoning previous work). I see a fourth option, which is to keep both. :-) In eff

Re: Provide an option to specify the tmpfs size of the container

2021-01-21 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, "Robert Smith" skribis: > On Mon Dec 14, 2020 at 10:56 AM Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> Hi, >> >> luhux skribis: >> >> > I am using guix environment --container to containerize my programming >> > environment and runtime environment, but I found that the container / >> > created by this com

Re: Guix Days and FOSDEM 2021

2021-01-21 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Pjotr Prins skribis: > A reminder that thanks to our organising team we have a great line up > for FOSDEM: > > > https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/track/declarative_and_minimalistic_computing/ > > with famous Guix contributors and Guixers doing the moderating :) All > virtual and online th