Re: Need people to help with kernel updates

2023-10-10 Thread wolf
On 2023-10-10 07:18:23 -0400, Leo Famulari wrote: > On Mon, Oct 9, 2023, at 12:21, Wilko Meyer wrote: > > I've seen the recent thread on making linux-libre > > 6.5 the default kernel[0] and will have some time at hand later on > > today. I could try to prepare a patch set doing this to get more >

Re: hard dependency on Git? (was bug#65866: [PATCH 0/8] Add built-in builder for Git checkouts)

2023-09-12 Thread wolf
On 2023-09-12 08:56:15 -0400, Maxim Cournoyer wrote: > Hi, > > Josselin Poiret writes: > > > Hi, > > > > Maxim Cournoyer writes: > > > >> That's no longer true, as of libgit2 v1.7.0 [0]. I already have it > >> packaged in a branch, but I need to iron out dependent breakages. > >> > >> [0]

Re: hard dependency on Git? (was bug#65866: [PATCH 0/8] Add built-in builder for Git checkouts)

2023-09-11 Thread wolf
On 2023-09-11 17:17:24 +0200, Simon Tournier wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 11 Sep 2023 at 16:23, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > > Note that the patch series adds a hard dependency on Git. > > This is because the existing ‘git-fetch’ code depends on Git, > > which is itself motivated by the fact that Git

Re: guix build from git failure: missing sections in German, French, etc. doc translations?

2023-09-08 Thread wolf
On 2023-09-08 21:26:56 +0200, Julien Lepiller wrote: > Hi Andy, > > Thanks for the report! You might need a more recent po4a for it to work > properly. Could try to guix pull, and enter a new shell for building guix? > > Le 8 septembre 2023 20:43:05 GMT+02:00, Andy Tai a écrit : > >Checking

Re: Building from git

2023-09-08 Thread wolf
On 2023-09-08 11:47:56 +0200, Wojtek Kosior wrote: > Hello Josselin > > > wolf writes: > > > > > Hmm, but the recipe for the authenticate rule comes from the (possibly) > > > compromised source, no? So the attacker can just modify the recipe >

Re: Building from git

2023-09-07 Thread wolf
On 2023-09-07 14:06:05 +0200, Simon Tournier wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, 02 Sep 2023 at 11:03, Nicolas Débonnaire > wrote: > > > guix shell -D guix --pure > > ./bootstrap > > ./configure --localstatedir=/var --syscondir=/etc > > make > > [...] > > > Error: fontconfig:Didn't find expected font

Re: How can we decrease the cognitive overhead for contributors?

2023-09-05 Thread wolf
On 2023-09-05 16:01:17 +0200, Simon Tournier wrote: > Hi Katherine, > > Thank you for your extensive analysis. I concur. > > On Wed, 30 Aug 2023 at 10:11, Katherine Cox-Buday > wrote: > > > 3. We should reify a way for Guix, the project, to measure, and track > > progress, > >    against

Re: How can we decrease the cognitive overhead for contributors?

2023-09-05 Thread wolf
On 2023-09-05 22:43:04 +0200, Liliana Marie Prikler wrote: > Am Dienstag, dem 05.09.2023 um 19:40 +0100 schrieb (: > > Liliana Marie Prikler writes: > > > Uhm, we have snippets? > > > > Well, those are exclusive to Emacs :)  And without regard to /that/ > > issue, I do think that there's a

Re: Pinned/fixed versions should be a requirement.

2023-09-05 Thread wolf
On 2023-09-04 21:59:47 -0500, Distopico wrote: > > In my experience using Guix and attempting to make contributions, I've > noticed that the vast majority of times when a library breaks, it's > because one of its dependencies changed version. For instance, > referencing something like

Re: questionable advice about Geiser load path setting

2023-09-05 Thread wolf
On 2023-09-04 21:41:44 -0400, Maxim Cournoyer wrote: > Hello, > > wolf writes: > > [...] > > > Geiser seems to add the project root (I assume based on the git) into the > > load > > path automatically. geiser-repl-current-project-function seems to be set b

Re: How can we decrease the cognitive overhead for contributors?

2023-09-02 Thread wolf
On 2023-09-02 21:08:12 +0200, Csepp wrote: > > paul writes: > > > Hello Giovanni, > > > > I get that you really don't find the web based workflow to bring enough > > advantages to justify the migration, but first please consider the picture > > that > > Katherine sent and that we are

Re: Updates for Go

2023-09-01 Thread wolf
On 2023-08-22 13:14:05 +, Attila Lendvai wrote: > > each package for those two to work properly. Also, while having pinned > > versions of dependencies upstream seems like the consensus, I'm not sure > > we'd like doing that, be it for the exponential CI work that would be > > required. > >

Re: Relaxing the restrictions for store item names

2023-09-01 Thread wolf
On 2023-08-24 12:21:24 +0200, Julien Lepiller wrote: > Le 24 août 2023 10:41:23 GMT+02:00, Msavoritias a > écrit : > > > >What I am saying here is that: > >Its easy to see from our very US centric tech culture why everybody > >should just use ASCII because "This is how it is". But there is very

Re: questionable advice about Geiser load path setting

2023-09-01 Thread wolf
On 2023-08-26 07:27:22 -0400, brian via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution. wrote: > Csepp writes: > > > The docs contain this recommended Emacs setting: > > > > @lisp > > ;; @r{Assuming the Guix checkout is in ~/src/guix.} > > (with-eval-after-load 'geiser-guile > >