How to specify package to be installed from a specific channel

2020-12-17 Thread Rohit Yadav
Hi, I added a new channel (https://github.com/guix-science/guix-science) to ~/.config/guix/channels.scm and did a guix pull. However, when I am trying to install a package from the new channel I am not able to install it. guix pull lists the package defined in the additional channel. I am

Re: [Non-root Guix]: Unable to build guix

2019-05-02 Thread rohit yadav
On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 4:50 PM Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > > rohit yadav writes: > > >> Do you want to build everything from source on your system or do you > >> prefer to use binaries from the Guix project’s build farms? Do you have > >> access to user namespa

Re: [Non-root Guix]: Unable to build guix

2019-05-02 Thread rohit yadav
On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 4:37 PM Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > > Hi Rohit, > > > Unfortunately, I am stuck at Centos6 which uses old > > kernel 2.6.32-696.el6.x86_64. I am able to install nix on this system at > > non-root location. It works fine but NIx community has decided to use 2.0 > > which only

Re: [Non-root Guix]: Unable to build guix

2019-05-02 Thread rohit yadav
real example but had felt difficulty beyond slow speed). For now I am managing with Nix but I need something that is portable to older kernel. Unfortunately, at several work places that is the case. Regards, Rohit On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 3:35 PM Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > > rohit yadav

Re: [Non-root Guix]: Unable to build guix

2019-05-02 Thread rohit yadav
Hi Ricardo, On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 3:33 PM Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > > Hi, > > > I am trying to prepare guix for installing at non-root location. I have > > followed the documentation available here: > > >

[Non-root Guix]: Unable to build guix

2019-05-02 Thread rohit yadav
Hi, First of all congratulations on releasing 1.0.0. I have been waiting for this for a long time. I am trying to prepare guix for installing at non-root location. I have followed the documentation available here:

[Error]: Newer than Compiled on a fresh install

2018-12-30 Thread rohit yadav
Hi, I am not sure why I am seeing this on a fresh install. How to fix this? ``` Backtrace: In ice-9/boot-9.scm: 152:2 19 (with-fluid* _ _ _) In ice-9/eval.scm: 159:9 18 (_ #(#(# # ?))) In ice-9/boot-9.scm: 152:2 17 (with-fluid* _ _ _) 152:2 16 (with-fluid* _ _ _) 152:2 15

Re: [Post Installation]: Unable to guix pull

2018-11-05 Thread rohit yadav
Thanks for the response. When I noticed that hydra.gnu.org was down I used https://berlin.guixsd.org/ (as mentioned in the substitute page). However, guix was still building everything from source and not fetching the binaries. Although I had not validated the key for this website. Could that be

[Post Installation]: Unable to guix pull

2018-11-03 Thread rohit yadav
Hi, After installing the guix on my ubuntu workstation. I am finding the following error when trying to install guix-locales. Apparently, the https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org returns 504 . I am not sure if the server is down or something else is wrong. #+begin_log substitute: guix substitute:

Re: [Sharing store/state between Nix and Guix]: How stable is it?

2017-02-07 Thread rohit yadav
On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 11:50 PM, Pjotr Prins <pjotr.publi...@thebird.nl> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 06, 2017 at 04:14:04PM -0600, rohit yadav wrote: > >Hi, > >Is there anyone who has experimented with above mentioned idea? In > theory > >it may be possible,

Re: [Install guix packages to non-default]: Unable to build derivation hello

2017-02-07 Thread rohit yadav
​Hi, Thanks for fixing the linux-libre (I am yet to try). However, my other question is why linux-libre is required to build hello? Thanks, Rohit​ On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 7:56 AM, Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> wrote: > Hello, > > rohit yadav <rohitya...@utexas.edu> sk

[Sharing store/state between Nix and Guix]: How stable is it?

2017-02-06 Thread rohit yadav
Hi, Is there anyone who has experimented with above mentioned idea? In theory it may be possible, I am just wondering how stable is it? Assuming, I installed a package with guix, it should change the database, create a new profile. As long as ~/.nix-profile or ~/.guix-profile points to current

Re: [Install guix packages to non-default]: Unable to build derivation hello

2017-02-06 Thread rohit yadav
really want to use guix if possible. Thanks, Rohit On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 2:46 PM, Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> wrote: > > rohit yadav <rohitya...@utexas.edu> writes: > > > Hi, > > > > I am trying to install guix packages to a non-default locati

Re: [Install guix packages to non-default]: Unable to build derivation hello

2017-02-06 Thread rohit yadav
​Hi, I am noticing that all the links the guix is trying to download linux-libre are broken (linux-libre-4.4.18-gnu.tar.xz) does not exist. How should I fix it, is there a way to provide a local copy for this which guix can use? Thanks, Rohit On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 12:27 PM, rohit yadav

Re: [Install guix packages to non-default]: Unable to build derivation hello

2017-02-05 Thread rohit yadav
​Hi, Thanks for the reply. I am running guix-daemon with --non-substitute option. And the error posted actually complains about Error 404. I am not sure, if it is happening because of firewall. Although, I tried the suggested method also but result is still the same. I cleaned up the store with

[Install guix packages to non-default]: Unable to build derivation hello

2017-02-05 Thread rohit yadav
Hi, I am trying to install guix packages to a non-default location to benefit from guix on machines with no root privileges. Following the below mentioned article, I am able to install guix and run guix-daemon configured to a non-default location. However, when I trying to install even a basic

Re: [Running Guile]: error while loading shared libraries: libguile-2.0.so.22

2017-02-01 Thread rohit yadav
Thanks a lot, it worked perfectly fine now. -Rohit On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 4:19 PM, Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> wrote: > Hi, > > rohit yadav <rohityadav7...@gmail.com> skribis: > > > I believe it is a trivial question for many but I am a little stuck. I a

[Running Guile]: error while loading shared libraries: libguile-2.0.so.22

2017-01-31 Thread rohit yadav
Hi All, I believe it is a trivial question for many but I am a little stuck. I am trying to learn guile. I installed it using guix package manager. I have specified all the environment variables suggested by guix after installation. However, when I am trying to run a C program calling libguile

Fwd: [Running Guile]: error while loading shared libraries: libguile-2.0.so.22

2017-01-31 Thread rohit yadav
Hi All, I believe it is a trivial question for many but I am a little stuck. I am trying to learn guile. I installed it using guix package manager. I have specified all the environment variables suggested by guix after installation. However, when I am trying to run a C program calling libguile

Re: [GuixSD on GCE]: Anyone working on this?

2017-01-24 Thread rohit yadav
these are required to get the above mentioned issue resolved but these once in a while do trouble me. -Rohit On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 12:57 PM, Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 05:17:16PM -0600, rohit yadav wrote: > > Sorry for incomplete info. > > >

Re: [GuixSD on GCE]: Anyone working on this?

2017-01-23 Thread rohit yadav
Sorry for incomplete info. GCE - Google Compute Engine (Platform). I want to run guixsd on google compute engine. -Rohit On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 4:42 PM, Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> wrote: > Hello, > > rohit yadav <rohitya...@utexas.edu> skribis: > > > Is th

[GuixSD on GCE]: Anyone working on this?

2017-01-23 Thread rohit yadav
Hi, Is there anyone working on creating a VM image of GuixSD for use on GCE? Thanks, Rohit

[Installing Grub on blocklist]: Failing to create bootable disk on GCE

2017-01-23 Thread rohit yadav
Hi, I am trying to create bootable image on GCE using guix. It leads to following error. Installing for i386-pc platform. grub-install: warning: File system `ext2' doesn't support embedding. grub-install: warning: Embedding is not

[Basic Linux Question]: Is it possible to have two init system?

2017-01-23 Thread rohit yadav
​Hi, Is it possible to run two init processes? I believe not, but PID 1 (primary init system) can start another PID 2 which could act secondary init system. If this is possible and commonly employed then we can easily get all the features of guixsd on a standard linux distribution. It will be

[Basic Linux Question]: Is it possible to have two init system?

2017-01-23 Thread rohit yadav
​Hi, Is it possible to run two init processes? I believe not, but PID 1 (primary init system) can start another PID 2 which could act secondary init system. If this is possible and commonly employed then we can easily get all the features of guixsd on a standard linux distribution. It will be

[GuixSD on GCE]: Anyone working on this?

2017-01-23 Thread rohit yadav
Hi, Is there anyone working on creating a VM image of GuixSD for use on GCE? Thanks, Rohit