Re: call-with-file-lock does not remove lock file

Hi, On Fri, Feb 3, 2023 at 2:57 PM Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > > the lock file itself remains behind. That's where they are coming from! Kind regards, Felix

call-with-file-lock does not remove lock file

Hi Guix, half a year ago I submitted this bug report: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/57501 “call-with-file-lock” and “call-with-file-lock/no-wait” create a lock file but don’t remove the lock file when they exit. The lock on the file is lifted, but the lock file itself remains behind. I think we s

Re: Using Guix inside a Guix container

Hi Konrad, I wanted to try specifying currently used version of Guix in some other way to avoid computing Guix inside the container. I tested first without a container guix shell -e '((@ (gnu packages package-management) current-guix))' -- guix describe and the result is also bad — it still tri

Reducing useless module imports

Hi Guix! during the Guix Days, we talked about reducing module imports. First, let's note there's an empty module (gnu packages key-mon). Then, we looked at build systems modules that are imported, but for which the build system is never used: ``` for f in *.scm; do systems=$(grep '#:use-module

Using Guix inside a Guix container

Hi Guix, I have been playing with nested Guix containers recently, with some suprising findings, and I am wondering if what I am doing is considered officially supported or not. First: why? My use case is scientific workflows, for example using snakemake. I want to run my workflows in Guix contai

Re: Guix Games Collection

On Wed, Feb 01, 2023 at 09:23 PM, Tobias Platen wrote: > I had submitted a talk for LibrePlanet called "Gaming on a Talos II - > how I avoid using Steam". Unfortunately, there were so many high > quality talks that it was impossible to fit them all in the program. > So I will do a lightning talk

Notes from the live patch review discussion today at the Guix Days

These are some notes from the discuussion about patch review this morning at the Guix Days. Where to start: - qa.guix.gnu.org - debbugs.guix.gnu.org - issues.guix.gnu.org - debbugs.el - email - personal inbox - lei (public inbox) ( https://yhetil.org/guix/ ) - IRC (someone asking

Notes regarding Quality Assurance from yesterday at the Guix Days

Here are some rough notes from when I spoke about Quality Assurance, plus the smaller discussion in the afternoon. quality issues - making sure we know about problems - package reproducibility causing problems - packages not building in the future - quality of packages, how well they match up