Hello Guix!
Here is a feedback on enabling hibernation using a swapfile stored on btrfs
filesystem. It wasn 't straight forward as it's not documented and I had to
read the code do make it work.
Note that even tho swpafile on btrfs filesystem are supported, therea are
some limitations⁵:
- the
Hello Guix,
After an suggestion from Tobias to give a try at forcing HTTPS for
Guix's websites on berlin, I had a go at it but it was more complex that
what I was expecting. Looking deeper at nginx and certbot services it
appear both services don't play that well together, requering a inital
Hello Ludovic,
On 2021-03-03 15:13, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
I’m thinking we could get rid of the mandb hook. However, the
functionality matters IMO (we need good tools so users can browse
local
documentation; mandb is not that good but better than no search
mechanism.) Here are several
ll try to go back to it after the GSOC network boot project.
[1]: https://issues.guix.info/40274
[2]: https://issues.guix.info/41082
- Brice
Brice Waegeneire (6):
services: simulated-wifi: Use 'kernel-module-loader'.
services: Add 'kernel-profile-service-type'.
services: Add 'modprobe-service-ty
Hello Vagrant,
On 2020-07-02 16:34, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
On 2020-07-02, Brice Waegeneire wrote:
To support the widest hardware and boot options possible I went with
iPXE
as a chainloader. Meaning that any machine doing a PXE boot (or with
builtin iPXE with restricted feature set) will load
Hello Danny, Gábor,
Sorry for the very late update on the status of this GSOC about network
booting. At the moment I have working network boot service which I'm
using
to boot various baremetal machines, I'm currently working on adding NFS
support to the initrd.
To support the widest hardware
Hello André,
On 2020-06-18 14:06, André Batista wrote:
[...]
qua 17 jun 2020 às 08:37:59 (1592393879), br...@waegenei.re enviou:
I would like to keep the warnings at the beginning of the section
to be sure that readers don't miss it when skimming trough it.
Any rewording of that part to make
Hello André,
Thank you for the patch and your feedback!
On 2020-06-17 02:19, André Batista wrote:
Hello Brice,
I think it would be useful to warn users that when pulling there is
a direct connection to guix git repos, so to route it through Tor,
one needs to use torsocks. It wont make the
Hello,
On 2020-06-04 12:29, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
Hi,
Brice Waegeneire skribis:
* doc/guix-cookbook.texi (Getting substitutes from Tor): New section.
Yay!
+@node Getting substitutes from Tor
+@section Getting substitutes from Tor
+
+@quotation Warning
+@emph{Not all} Guix daemon's
-cookbook.texi
+++ b/doc/guix-cookbook.texi
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ Copyright @copyright{} 2019 Pierre Neidhardt@*
Copyright @copyright{} 2020 Oleg Pykhalov@*
Copyright @copyright{} 2020 Matthew Brooks@*
Copyright @copyright{} 2020 Marcin Karpezo@*
+Copyright @copyright{} 2020 Brice Waegeneire
On 2020-05-17 22:33, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
Hi Brice,
Brice Waegeneire skribis:
Today I played a bit with Tor and Guix, trying to fetch substitutes
trough
the Tor network as blaze_cornbread asked on IRC[0] how to do this. I
managed to get it working but in the end I don't think we should
Hello Guix,
I'm working on the future 'kernel-module-configuration-service-type'[0]
(KMCS) and I need some guidance. This service will be a one stop shop
for
all kernel module related configuration by doing the following 4 things:
1. Generate a config directory for modrope to use
2. Load
Hello,
On 2020-05-13 01:08, zimoun wrote:
Based on these 2 messages [1,2], what is the consensus between
git-fetch and url-fetch?
I was hoping that some one bring this up, thanks.
Pushing to SWH when linting appears to me winning the pros/cons. Even
if SWH should eventually fetch
Hello Guix,
Today I played a bit with Tor and Guix, trying to fetch substitutes
trough
the Tor network as blaze_cornbread asked on IRC[0] how to do this. I
managed to get it working but in the end I don't think we should
encourage
people doing it this way, that's why I haven't submitted a
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Hello Guix,
You may have seen me around in the mailing lists or on IRC as bricewge.
For
some months now I have been contributing to Guix on a regular basis. And
it
seems I have been helpful in some ways since yesterday I was granted
commit
Hello Giovanni,
On 2020-04-10 13:44, Giovanni Biscuolo wrote:
[...]
I never used iPXE but... please consider using iPXE (if possible) for
Guix network booting and consider that this feature is a prerequisite
for seamless remote desktop with Guix (using x2go or xrdp like the new
LTSP is doing
Hello Vagrant,
On 2020-03-30 23:16, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
I was just thinking Guix needed network boot support yesterday! Happy
to
hear you're looking into it...
I've been the LTSP maintainer in Debian for almost 15 years, so have a
good amount of experience with network booting. LTSP was
Hello Vincent,
On 2020-03-30 22:10, Vincent Legoll wrote:
Hello,
that's a great project, I hope to be able to lend a hand,
here and there...
Looks like you already started by packaging iPXE. :)
Thanks!
- Brice
Hello,
On 2020-04-07 09:35, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
Brice Waegeneire skribis:
On 2020-04-05 21:15, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
guix-comm...@gnu.org skribis:
Looking at this, I was wondering if it would be possible to not use
/etc/modprobe.d and instead have a way to tell the modprobe wrapper
Hello Bengt,
On 2020-04-06 09:29, Bengt Richter wrote:
On +2020-04-06 07:54:47 +, Brice Waegeneire wrote:
What's the issue with using /etc/modrpobe.d?
I would think the fundamental issue is pure vs impure dependencies:
i.e., /gnu/... vs /var/guix vs /elsewhere/...
IIUC, the consequence
On 2020-04-06 17:07, Brice Waegeneire wrote:
I tried implementing this in the attached patch but I'm currently stuck
and
need some help. I've probably overlooked something basic but I can;t
put a
finger on it... Guix compile successfully with the patch and testing
“file-system-utils” in “guix
change is the
additions of the “utils?” filed in the “file-system” record.
- BriceFrom 57a6dc8c6ba2fb2b5ce97bffa26d61a430d2c16b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brice Waegeneire
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2020 18:00:11 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] services: Add file-system utils to profile.
---
gnu/services
Hello Ludo',
On 2020-04-05 21:15, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
guix-comm...@gnu.org skribis:
#~(begin
(setenv "LINUX_MODULE_DIRECTORY"
"/run/booted-system/kernel/lib/modules")
+ ;; FIXME: Remove this
Hello John,
On 2020-04-04 00:22, John Soo wrote:
I raised the idea of providing smaller lists of packages that might go
well together instead of one large %desktop-packages. One reason to do
this, for instance, might be to not make someone who wants to use btrfs
always import the ext4 packages.
Hello Danny,
Sorry for the empty email; cancel and send buttons were too close for
me...
On 2020-03-26 15:13, Danny Milosavljevic wrote:
Hi Brice,
On Thu, 26 Mar 2020 14:34:03 +
Brice Waegeneire wrote:
First I was expecting the packages in `kernel-loadable-modules' to use
the
`kernel
On 2020-03-26 15:13, Danny Milosavljevic wrote:
Hi Brice,
On Thu, 26 Mar 2020 14:34:03 +
Brice Waegeneire wrote:
First I was expecting the packages in `kernel-loadable-modules' to use
the
`kernel' field as their kernel input or to have a simple procedure to
do
so. Otherwise you get
Hello,
I was thinking of improving `modify-services' by adding the ability to
specify a service to modify based on it's name and not just it's type.
This
would allow us to modify singleton services like the ones returned by
`simple-service'. I'm not sure if that's a good idea, that's why I
Hello Guix,
Thanks to Danny's work in[0] we have, since a few days, a way for
packages
to provide Linux modules in the system profile. I have been waiting for
such a feature since I packaged `ddcci-driver-linux', which was kind of
useless without it. Using the new field
On 2020-02-08 19:10, Jonathan Frederickson wrote:
I'm still not quite sure I have a good understanding of when
'native-search-paths' applies and when it doesn't, but... at least
setting the env var directly seems to work in this case.
I just learned about native-search-paths when looking into
On 2020-02-08 09:06, Jonathan Frederickson wrote:
Hi - I'm working on a Guix service for Minetest, and I'm running into
some issues. The Guix package for Minetest is divided into two
variables: "minetest" and "minetest-data", with only the former being
an installable package. The Minetest
On 2020-01-23 14:22, Martin Becze wrote:
Did you write something for the cookbook?
The only thing that I know to put in the cookbook is the below
snippet. I think it should be expanded a bit. But I haven't had a
chance to futher explore using Yubikey. I still have some problems
using it with
On 2019-12-21 18:31, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
Hi Guix,
I just wanted to install Guix System on a server where I currently only
have remote access via serial console — and which happens to have a
Guix
USB stick stuck in its USB port. I can see the system’s UEFI output
and
see that it boots from
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