Re: [PATCH v2] doc: Update contribution guidelines on patches, etc.

2022-09-02 Thread Maxime Devos
On 02-09-2022 15:12, Ludovic Courtès wrote: Hello, Liliana Marie Prikler skribis: * doc/contributing.texi ("Snippets versus Phases"): Replaced with... ("Modifying Sources"): ... this. List more use cases and some principles. It’s been a while; this looks like a nice improvement to me. It’

Re: guix lint should support overrides

2022-09-02 Thread Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
Hi all, On Tue, Aug 23, 2022 at 3:23 PM Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > > Debian's correlary, lintian, has a mechanism to do exactly this, where > you list the various things that aren't appropriate, and can even > comment on why, in a way that lintian basically hides the issue from > further attentio

Re: emacs-guix (upstream) needs more love: a survey of repositories, homepage and issues

2022-09-02 Thread Simon Streit
Hello Théo, Théo Maxime Tyburn writes: > It is here https://github.com/theottm/emacs-guix-clone. There is only > one branch. > >> if you succeed in building the new merged branch please notify me and >> I'll try to upstream it to >> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/emacs-guix.git > > I just

Re: [EXT] cloud-init?

2022-09-02 Thread Thompson, David
Hi Simon, On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 4:16 AM Simon Josefsson via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution. wrote: > > I would like to deploy Guix VM's and in many VM hosting environments, > having cloud-init on the Guix VM image would be useful for configuration > of network interface

Re: A real-life test of long-term reproducibility

2022-09-02 Thread zimoun
Hi Ludo, On Fri, 02 Sep 2022 at 15:17, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Here you would need ‘--allow-downgrades’. Maybe time-machine could advertise of this option? Well aside, it can be indeed confusing that the version-1.x branch does not match the tag v1.x; I understand why. --8<---cu

Re: okay to merge rekados-rust-queue branch?

2022-09-02 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > I have a small branch with minor Rust package upgrades. I successfully > built icecat on that branch and the failing rust-* packages seen in the > latest builds at https://ci.guix.gnu.org/jobset/rekados-rust-queue seem > to be broken on the master branch as well. >

Re: 100k commits!

2022-09-02 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Marius Bakke skribis: > Congratulations for making it this far, and a big thank you to the 700+ > contributors who made this possible. You are truly awesome. +1, well done! Ludo’.

Re: Idea: Function composition to declare operating-system

2022-09-02 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Théo, Théo Maxime Tyburn skribis: > I experimented on a functional approach to the operating > system declaration. My goal was to be able to pass an operating-system > instance to a composition of functions, modifying it one after another > and returning the desired operating-system object. I

Re: cloud-init?

2022-09-02 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! David Dashyan skribis: > I've been interested in adding cloud-init support for a while already. > It would make Guix much easier to use in a cloud setting. I did ask > people weather anyone is interested in it couple of times in #guix and > also mentioned it on the mailing list couple of

Re: guix lint should support overrides

2022-09-02 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Maxime Devos skribis: > IIRC, there was some package where I proposed to modify the > description a little to be more informative and fit better in Guix, > but then the gnu-description proposed to use the upstream > description. Consequently, it was decided to use the original, IMO > worse,

Re: [POSTMORTEM] Subkey is not authorized by .guix-authorizations

2022-09-02 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! I’m late to the party, but thanks a lot for sending this analysis! Andrew Tropin skribis: > * What could be done better? > - guix pull could be done from local checkout, before pushing. Setting a pre-push hook that invokes ‘guix git authenticate’, as recommended in the manual (info "(gu

Re: Failure with “guix copy“

2022-09-02 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, zimoun skribis: > $ guix copy --from=desktop hledger > The following derivations will be built: > /gnu/store/gz1qzalbg3dzwvfvj81f13n8pd47rzw2-hledger-1.21.drv > /gnu/store/9m71fs1i0anv89f5zq44hbh2wn2lavxz-ghc-lucid-2.9.12.1.drv > /gnu/store/i62zr0ykqyxfwyc270csnhbwyrk3l3bb-ghc-lucid-2.

Re: branch master updated: gnu: python-lxml: Update to 4.6.5.

2022-09-02 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Danny! While you’re here :-), could you reply to that request of mine concerning blog post licensing? TIA! :-) https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2022-07/msg00059.html Ludo’.

Re: A real-life test of long-term reproducibility

2022-09-02 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Konrad Hinsen skribis: > $ guix time-machine --commit=48aa30ce73d45dc5f126f42f01e65f1be4a9b578 -- > environment guix > Updating channel 'guix' from Git repository at > 'https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git'... > Authenticating channel 'guix', commits 9edb3f6 to 48aa30c (6 new co

Re: [PATCH v2] doc: Update contribution guidelines on patches, etc.

2022-09-02 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Liliana Marie Prikler skribis: > * doc/contributing.texi ("Snippets versus Phases"): Replaced with... > ("Modifying Sources"): ... this. List more use cases and some principles. It’s been a while; this looks like a nice improvement to me. It’s a bit long, but perhaps that’s avoidable.