Re: Getting the Guix Build Coordinator agent working on the Hurd

2021-02-18 Thread Christopher Baines
Christopher Baines writes: > For the guix.cbaines.net build farm, I've now got an additional machine > running two childhurd VM's, and I plan to scale this up to 7 or 8 in the > coming days to see how far it's possible to get building things for the > i586-gnu. This has now happened, I've now g

License Problem and Other Questions defining new package Geant4 from CERN for Partical Physcis Simulation

2021-02-18 Thread Sebastian
Dear developers at Guix, I am a physics student willing to use the Geant4 simulation toolkit from the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). https://geant4.web.cern.ch/ The Geant4 code is distributied under its own licence, Geant4 Software License Version 1.0. https://geant4.web.c

[PATCH] Make assert-valid-graph public

2021-02-18 Thread Andrew Tropin
I would like to reuse this function for home-shepherd-service for `guix home` I'm currently implementing. It seems reasonable to make this function public instead of copying or reimplementing it. >From ffc244f5845996bf4b0365024ac866c86cef81df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrew Tropin Date: Thu

Joining committers

2021-02-18 Thread Léo Le Bouter
Hello! I sent a commit access application few days ago and it was approved! I am really happy that is the case! I've been working on PowerPC 64-bits support on and off on GNU Guix since 2 years as I own a RaptorCS Talos II machine at home that runs with only free firmware and software. I also us

Re: License Problem and Other Questions defining new package Geant4 from CERN for Partical Physcis Simulation

2021-02-18 Thread Leo Prikler
Hello Sebastian, Am Donnerstag, den 18.02.2021, 15:04 +0800 schrieb Sebastian: > Dear developers at Guix, > > I am a physics student willing to use the Geant4 simulation toolkit > from the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). > https://geant4.web.cern.ch/ > The Geant4 code is distr

Re: Joining committers

2021-02-18 Thread Luis Felipe
> Hello! > > I sent a commit access application few days ago and it was approved! I > am really happy that is the case! That's great, Léo. Thank you for sharing your work :)

Re: Joining committers

2021-02-18 Thread Joshua Branson
Léo Le Bouter writes: > I've been working on PowerPC 64-bits support on and off on GNU Guix > since 2 years as I own a RaptorCS Talos II machine at home that runs > with only free firmware and software. Are you running Debian on the PowerPC? I assume Debian's got the best PowerPC support. Do m

Fix seg-faulting of telegram-desktop

2021-02-18 Thread Raghav Gururajan
From 15b14fda8d954d184b3509359ae440dd47ab2ff6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Raghav Gururajan Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2021 11:23:16 -0500 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] gnu: webrtc-for-telegram-desktop: Compile with gcc-9. * gnu/packages/telegram.scm (webrtc-for-telegram-desktop) [native-inputs]: Add gcc-9. ---

Re: Gnome Boxes

2021-02-18 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Julien Lepiller skribis: > When submitting the MR to libosinfo, there were concerns that the .xz > extension would cause problems with other software, so we left it out. > > I think we should provide a .iso download directly, if we want gnome boxes to > propose the guix system. We could d

Re: Update on wip-arm-bootstrap

2021-02-18 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! I read the story, which I found rather fun and full of suspense, but I admit I was disappointed by the ending. :-) Jan Nieuwenhuizen skribis: > ...pretty familiar. So, what's going on here? Do the "woody" > binaries not run on novena? Does that mean there are no old reference binaries k

Re: Getting the Guix Build Coordinator agent working on the Hurd

2021-02-18 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! Christopher Baines skribis: > Then I faced two problems with the guix-build-coordinator > package. Firstly, wrap-program picks bash for Linux for the wrapper > script, which isn't very useful. I hacked around this by setting the > PATH such that it picked bash for the Hurd. In terms of prope

Re: Update on wip-arm-bootstrap

2021-02-18 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2021-02-13, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Let's try to bisect where the problem is; we now have tree first > candidates: gcc-core-mesboot0, glibc-mesboot0 and binutils-mesboot0. > Luckily, Debian "woody" carries an almost compatible set. Doing > someting like > > --8<---cut here---

Re: TOCTTOU race

2021-02-18 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Maxime, Maxime Devos skribis: > From ad10c577eb1f13b9b66ea387648671df33b869d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Maxime Devos > Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2021 12:57:32 +0100 > Subject: [PATCH] services: prevent following symlinks during activation > > Currently, there's a TOCTTOU race. This can be ad

Re: How to store secrets when using guix deploy?

2021-02-18 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! Leo Prikler skribis: > That's the status quo as far as I understand. How it *should* handle > secrets remains an open question if I recall correctly. Yeah that’s mostly true, though ‘secret-service-type’ in (gnu services virtualization) shows a simple solution for VMs hosted by Guix System

Re: New backward incompatible version of Guile Config

2021-02-18 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Alex! Alex Sassmannshausen skribis: > To this end, in the attached patch, I add a new variable for 0.5. My > intention is to have 0.4.2 and 0.5 coexist for a while and then to > switch fully to 0.5 in due course. > > > Is this an acceptable way of doing a gradual transition to a backwards > i

Re: Gnome Boxes

2021-02-18 Thread Julien Lepiller
Usually compression is provided by the webserver, but maybe ours is not configured to do that. I think we're the only distro to provide compressed isos. Le 18 février 2021 12:18:44 GMT-05:00, "Ludovic Courtès" a écrit : >Hi, > >Julien Lepiller skribis: > >> When submitting the MR to libosinfo,

Re: Joining committers

2021-02-18 Thread Léo Le Bouter
On Thu, 2021-02-18 at 10:20 -0500, Joshua Branson wrote: > Are you running Debian on the PowerPC? I assume Debian's got the > best > PowerPC support. Do most programs compile ok/work ok for Debian? I run Fedora currently because that's where the support came first and I think that's where it's b

Re: [PATCH] Make assert-valid-graph public

2021-02-18 Thread Andrew Tropin
Sent to the this mailing list by mistake, please ignore it. Forwarded to guix-patches. On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 1:37 PM Andrew Tropin wrote: > > I would like to reuse this function for home-shepherd-service for `guix > home` I'm currently implementing. It seems reasonable to make this > function p

Re: New backward incompatible version of Guile Config

2021-02-18 Thread Alex Sassmannshausen
Hi Ludo, Hope you're good :-) Ludovic Courtès writes: > Hi Alex! > > Alex Sassmannshausen skribis: > >> To this end, in the attached patch, I add a new variable for 0.5. My >> intention is to have 0.4.2 and 0.5 coexist for a while and then to >> switch fully to 0.5 in due course. >> >> >> Is t

Guix Packaging Meetup Wednesday February 24 7PM EST

2021-02-18 Thread jgart
Hi Guix, LibreMiami is hosting a guix packaging meetup next Wednesday, February 24 at 7pm EST. We'll be working on packaging bitmask-vpn. The format for the meetup will involve chatting over LibreMiami's mumble instance while pair programming together on a guix system VPS. Feel free to packa

Re: Gnome Boxes

2021-02-18 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Julien Lepiller 写道: Usually compression is provided by the webserver, but maybe ours is not configured to do that. I think we're the only distro to provide compressed isos. Really? Most distribution ISOs use squashfs or similar with XZ/LZMA compression. It doesn't make sense to compress th

Re: Gnome Boxes

2021-02-18 Thread Julien Lepiller
Sorry, a compressed .iso is probably common, a .iso.xz is very uncommon :). We even have had some reports of people trying to copy that directly to an installation media. Le 18 février 2021 14:56:44 GMT-05:00, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice a écrit : >Julien Lepiller 写道: >> Usually compression is provi

Re: Update on wip-arm-bootstrap

2021-02-18 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Vagrant Cascadian writes: Hi! > On 2021-02-13, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: [..] >> ...pretty familiar. So, what's going on here? Do the "woody" >> binaries not run on novena? > > My guess would be OABI (debian "arm" architecture) vs. EABI (debian > "armel" or "armhf" architectures). The hardware m

Re: Update on wip-arm-bootstrap

2021-02-18 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi Janneke, On Thu, 18 Feb 2021 22:52:57 +0100 Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > # CONFIG_OABI_COMPAT is not set > > ...certainly a lot easier to find when you know what you're looking > for. > > @Danny: I'm wondering if we could (should?) try a kernel with OABI > compatibility? I suppose it would b

Re: Update on wip-arm-bootstrap

2021-02-18 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Danny Milosavljevic writes: Hey Danny, > On Thu, 18 Feb 2021 22:52:57 +0100 > Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > >> # CONFIG_OABI_COMPAT is not set >> >> ...certainly a lot easier to find when you know what you're looking >> for. >> >> @Danny: I'm wondering if we could (should?) try a kernel with OABI