Returning to the project

2020-06-26 Thread brettg
Hey all, I think some of you may member me. I am a committer to the Guix project who took a hiatus after my son was born. I am returning from that hiatus and would love to begin contributing again. I have a new set of PGP keys, and am curious about the method to get back into a position

Re: An occasion to demonstrate Guix for reproducible research

2019-11-24 Thread brettg
On 24.11.2019 19:53, Konrad Hinsen wrote: Hi Guix, For those of you working in scientific research, here's an occasion to show the utility of Guix to the world: the ten-year reproducibility challenge run by the journal ReScience. You can find the announcement below. The main role I see for

Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add ungoogled-chromium.

2019-02-03 Thread brettg
As always, I second Bill here. There is a lot of history behind the Chromium project that I think many of us are aware of. There, to my knowledge, remains to be a complete audit of the Chromium source. Such an audit is crucial for us to even know what is problematic and what is not when it

VTE 0.55.0

2019-01-30 Thread brettg
Hi all, I am working on trying to package a newer version of the GNOME virtual terminal lib (VTE). I have mostly copied the previous version as a starting point. When I try to build it, it is throwing an error saying that I need to use a C++17 compliant standard in the compiler. Okay, no

Packaging cquery

2019-01-12 Thread brettg
Hi all, I am attempting to package cquery. Here is my definition (define-public cquery (package (name "cquery") (version "20180718") (source (origin (method url-fetch) (uri (string-append "https://github.com/cquery-project/cquery/archive/v;

Substitute authorization and binaries

2018-11-04 Thread brettg
Hi all, I authorized guix to use the berlin server so I can install guixsd without having to build the derivations locally. The authorization to my knowledge was successful, but when I run guix system init and pass the substitute-urls flag to use berlin, it is still trying to build everything

Reinstallation issue

2018-10-31 Thread brettg
Hi all, I am trying to duplicate my environment on another machine of mine using my plain desktop comfiguration. There seems to be a bad URL request with telepathy On the gnome desktop service which is preventing the guix init system from grafting all of the packages. It’s