Re: Towards a graphical installer?

2020-05-12 Thread dftxbs3e
On 5/12/20 9:09 AM, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > Errr... Sorry, I was distracted yesterday, the NLNet grant is actually > for a graphical _package manager_, not an installer! :p > > That said, I'm interested in helping with it too! :) > Really?! We have that?? Wonderful!! That would be the YaST thi

Re: Towards a graphical installer?

2020-05-11 Thread dftxbs3e
On 5/12/20 8:10 AM, dftxbs3e wrote: > > I was thinking that designing a good TUI installer would be sufficient, > I find the latest Subiquity Ubuntu installer very beautiful and great! > > Have a look: https://invidio.us/watch?v=Glyj4BjAhME > > Git: https://github.com/C

Re: Towards a graphical installer?

2020-05-11 Thread dftxbs3e
On 5/11/20 3:27 PM, Mathieu Othacehe wrote: > > Hello, > > A way to move forward with the installer could be to propose an ISO > image starting a desktop-environment by default. The attached patch > modifies the installation image so that it starts a GNOME session. The > installer is then automat

Re: GNU Guix ported to powerp64-linux-gnu

2020-02-24 Thread dftxbs3e
On 2/24/20 4:18 PM, Joshua Branson wrote: > Awesome! Do you use a raptor computer? > > https://www.raptorcs.com/content/base/products.html Yes! :-) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

GNU Guix ported to powerp64-linux-gnu

2020-02-23 Thread dftxbs3e
Hello! Finally it succeeded. Thanks to everyone who has answered my countless questions on the mailing list and IRC! GNU Hello - /gnu/store/98wc63drnc5iwkcclls91iz181mmiv7c-hello-2.10 (natively built with: ./pre-inst-env guix build hello) I used Gentoo (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:PPC6

Re: powerpc64[le]-linux port progress

2020-02-22 Thread dftxbs3e
On 2/22/20 1:34 PM, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Have you tried building static gawk standalone and check it for that > bash? You could do something like > >grep -ao '/gnu/store/e*-bash' $(./pre-inst-env guix build -e '(@@ (gnu > packages make-bootstrap) %static-binaries)') > > On my x86_64-lin

powerpc64[le]-linux port progress

2020-02-22 Thread dftxbs3e
Hello! So here's my current tree: https://gitlab.com/lle-bout/guix - master branch Bootstrap binaries are uploaded over LFS at: https://gitlab.com/lle-bout/guix-bootstrap - master branch The current issue is during 'glibc-intermediate' in gnu/packages/commencement.scm The statically linked gawk

Re: New POWER9 machines for the Guix build farm?

2019-12-08 Thread dftxbs3e
On 12/9/19 1:19 AM, Chris Marusich wrote: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice writes: Fellow Guix, The Guix sysadmins are considering buying shiny hardware for the ci.guix.gnu.org build farm, and it would be awesome if that included our first POWER9 machine(s)! However, few (if any) Guixers have any hands

Re: New POWER9 machines for the Guix build farm?

2019-12-01 Thread dftxbs3e
around to the problem. source: developer of the libre firmware. dftxbs3e On 11/29/19 1:50 PM, Marco van Hulten wrote: Hello— On 29 Nov 09:25 dftxbs3e wrote: I'm really happy to hear this! I also do own a POWER9 machine. I have a Talos II with 2x 8 SMT4 cores POWER9 DD2.2 CPUs (64 thread

Re: New POWER9 machines for the Guix build farm?

2019-11-29 Thread dftxbs3e
ithout any major issue. I'm happy to provide assistance, I encourage GNU Guix developers to join #talos-workstation on Freenode's IRC, we have a friendly active community that is always happy to help on POWER9 matters. dftxbs3e On 11/28/19 1:50 AM, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: Fe

Re: State of the powerpc64le port

2019-11-18 Thread dftxbs3e
Hello, For your information, I already did proceed to porting to powerpc64le-linux some time ago. Here's where my work is : https://gitlab.com/lle-bout/guix The `core-updates` branch contains the latest changes, you can also observe CI pipelines to get build logs for both GNU Guix itself (s

Re: IPv6 Guix

2019-08-30 Thread dftxbs3e
Alright, thank you. On 8/30/19 2:00 PM, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > dftxbs3e writes: > >> Could that be made into a TODO list? > I asked them to do this, but there’s nothing more I can do about it. I > wouldn’t hold my breath as I know the networking team currently has

Re: IPv6 Guix

2019-08-30 Thread dftxbs3e
Hello, Could that be made into a TODO list? Thanks On 8/26/19 5:14 PM, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > Ricardo Wurmus writes: > >> Ludovic Courtès writes: >> >>> dftxbs3e skribis: >>> >>>> It looks like ci.guix.gnu.org does not have records. >&

bootstrap guile version mismatch on core-updates

2019-08-10 Thread dftxbs3e
Hello, It seems that guile2.2 is built by make-bootstrap.scm here: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/make-bootstrap.scm?h=core-updates#n625 but guile2.0 is expected here: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/bootstrap.scm?h=core-updates#n373 For

guile-ssh requirement on core-updates

2019-08-10 Thread dftxbs3e
Hello, Now guile-ssh is required to compile GNU Guix (at least on core-updates), but it's not specified in https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/README?h=core-updates I suggest it gets added to avoid confusion to people who compile GNU Guix without having GNU Guix already and having the

IPv6 Guix

2019-08-08 Thread dftxbs3e
Hello, It looks like ci.guix.gnu.org does not have records. I suggest they get added because IPv6-only networking is the future. $ dig ci.guix.gnu.org ; <<>> DiG 9.11.8-RedHat-9.11.8-1.fc30 <<>> ci.guix.gnu.org ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY,

Re: Suggest another way of importing GNU Guix GPG key

2019-07-17 Thread dftxbs3e
Le 2019-07-13 20:29, Leo Famulari a écrit : On Wed, Jul 03, 2019 at 02:13:12PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote: An update on this: The initial plan is to add the Guix signing key to the new abuse-resistant keyserver at . Once that has been done we can update the manual and HACKING to point at this.

Suggest another way of importing GNU Guix GPG key

2019-06-29 Thread dftxbs3e
Hello, SKS keyservers are currently under attack (https://gist.github.com/rjhansen/67ab921ffb4084c865b3618d6955275f) - the attack can cause a GPG client to freeze completely and mess the GPG installation completely. I suggest GNU Guix proposes another way of importing the GPG keys so that u

XFCE and ratpoison DE not working on GuixSD 1.0

2019-05-08 Thread dftxbs3e
Hello, I have collected a bug report from the IRC user "wr"; They're running on VirtualBox, and they could not get XFCE and ratpoison DEs to work. Attached log files! Thanks.[0.00] Linux version 5.0.10-gnu (nixbld@) (gcc version 7.4.0 (GCC)) #1 SMP 1 [0.00] Command line: BO