Re: Guix bios installation: Grub error: unknown filesystem

2024-05-01 Thread adanskana
Hi Ludo', On 5/1/24 10:06 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: Hi Ada, Ada Stevenson skribis: > Basically, there is a compatibility issue regarding the ext4 > filesystem features that GRUB 2.06 supports and the features that > `e2fsprogs@1.47.0` enables by default when creating your ext4 > filesystem.

LWN: "A leadership crisis in the Nix community"

2024-05-01 Thread Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
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Re: Guix bios installation: Grub error: unknown filesystem

2024-05-01 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Ada, Ada Stevenson skribis: > Basically, there is a compatibility issue regarding the ext4 > filesystem features that GRUB 2.06 supports and the features that > `e2fsprogs@1.47.0` enables by default when creating your ext4 > filesystem. When these features are enabled, it changes the structur

Re: Welcome to Zheng (z572) as a new committer!

2024-05-01 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Maxim Cournoyer skribis: > Zheng has joined the committers to help improving cross-compilation, > riscv64, and KDE, among others. Welcome on board, Zheng! Ludo’.

Re: Shepherd timers

2024-05-01 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! Felix Lechner skribis: > While 'command' works and was in your initial example, I had trouble > tracking down the documentation for it. Is it a record entry destined > for 'shepherd-command'? >From the “Timers” section of the manual in the ‘devel’ branch: --8<---cut here--

Changing the defaults for --localstatedir and --sysconfdir?

2024-05-01 Thread Richard Sent
Hi Guix, As everyone who's built Guix from source knows, when running ./configure on a system with an existing Guix installation you must remember to specify --localstatedir=/var and --sysconfdir=/etc. I think we should consider whether those variables should default to those values. There's been

Re: Creating a documentation team?

2024-05-01 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Thanks Florian, Maxime, and Matt for your feedback. I’ve added the documentation team locally. I’ll push shortly and let you add yourselves. Ludo’.

Re: Concerns/questions around Software Heritage Archive

2024-05-01 Thread Tomas Volf
On 2024-05-01 08:29:29 -0700, Ian Eure wrote: > If Guix is going to continue to facilitate license violations, I will have no > choice but to remove my software from it to defend them. Purely hypothetically, if it would come to this, how would you go about it? Assuming the software is under free

Re: Concerns/questions around Software Heritage Archive

2024-05-01 Thread Ian Eure
Hello Guixers, It’s been another week with no response or movement on this. I’m disappointed that this situation seems to be getting treated so lightly. Adhering to the terms of software licenses is fundamental to the operation of the free software ecosystem; there is no software freedom wi