Re: core-updates call for testing

2020-05-04 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2020-05-04, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2020-05-04, Marius Bakke wrote: >> @everyone, please speak up if you find any of your packages failing on >> the core-updates branch! The substitute coverage is currently ~90%, >> which is better than on 'master'. > > I'm noticing libdbusmenu is failing

Re: core-updates call for testing

2020-05-04 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2020-05-04, Marius Bakke wrote: > @everyone, please speak up if you find any of your packages failing on > the core-updates branch! The substitute coverage is currently ~90%, > which is better than on 'master'. I'm noticing libdbusmenu is failing on aarch64 (which is a dependency of waybar):

Re: core-updates call for testing

2020-05-04 Thread Christopher Baines
Marius Bakke writes: > Christopher Baines writes: > >> Marius Bakke writes: >> >>> Please try upgrading your profiles and systems and file bugs for >>> anything that does not work for you. GNOME users in particular are >>> encouraged to try the new GNOME 3.34 and report any regressions. >> >>

Re: core-updates call for testing

2020-05-04 Thread Marius Bakke
Christopher Baines writes: > Marius Bakke writes: > >> Please try upgrading your profiles and systems and file bugs for >> anything that does not work for you. GNOME users in particular are >> encouraged to try the new GNOME 3.34 and report any regressions. > > I did some testing today, I manag

Re: core-updates call for testing

2020-05-04 Thread Marius Bakke
Timothy Sample writes: > Hi Marius, > > Marius Bakke writes: > >> The "core-updates" branch is ready for testing! [...] >> >> Please try upgrading your profiles and systems and file bugs for >> anything that does not work for you. GNOME users in particular are >> encouraged to try the new GNOM

Re: core-updates call for testing

2020-05-04 Thread Timothy Sample
Hi Marius, Marius Bakke writes: > The "core-updates" branch is ready for testing! [...] > > Please try upgrading your profiles and systems and file bugs for > anything that does not work for you. GNOME users in particular are > encouraged to try the new GNOME 3.34 and report any regressions.

Re: core-updates call for testing

2020-05-03 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi, Marius Bakke skribis: > I see a similar failure when tracing the associated mingetty process: > > 1003 sendto(4, "<83>Apr 29 14:49:20 login[1003]: PAM unable to > dlopen(/gnu/store/44il8dnl5qc6ryb3v0lp5374hg3h7vx5-elogind-243.4/lib/security/pam_elogind.so): > /gnu/store/ahqgl4h89xqj695lgq

Re: core-updates call for testing

2020-05-02 Thread Christopher Baines
Marius Bakke writes: > Please try upgrading your profiles and systems and file bugs for > anything that does not work for you. GNOME users in particular are > encouraged to try the new GNOME 3.34 and report any regressions. I did some testing today, I managed to upgrade my profile after I excl

Re: core-updates call for testing

2020-04-30 Thread zimoun
On Wed, 29 Apr 2020 at 15:07, Marius Bakke wrote: > > Ricardo Wurmus writes: > > > Leo Famulari writes: > > > >> I'm doing `guix pull --branch=core-updates`, with a `guix describe` of > >> commit a533c5a183 (core-updates from 2 weeks ago), on Debian, in tmux, > >> and I see this weird thing: > >

Re: core-updates call for testing

2020-04-29 Thread Marius Bakke
Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Leo Famulari writes: > >> I'm doing `guix pull --branch=core-updates`, with a `guix describe` of >> commit a533c5a183 (core-updates from 2 weeks ago), on Debian, in tmux, >> and I see this weird thing: >> >> -- >> substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://privat

Re: core-updates call for testing

2020-04-29 Thread Marius Bakke
Leo Famulari writes: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 03:17:06PM +0200, Marius Bakke wrote: >> Leo Famulari writes: >> >> > I reconfigured my Guix System based on core-updates, and afterwards I >> > was unable to login, either remotely over SSH, or on the Linux console. >> >> Do you still have the lo

Re: core-updates call for testing

2020-04-29 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
sirgazil writes: > And I've already seen that before (I mean those bars before the @ sign, > etc.), but I don't know how it is supposed to be presented. That information > usually makes no sense to me :P This is definitely not supposed to be shown. Things like @ download-progress /

Re: core-updates call for testing

2020-04-29 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Leo Famulari writes: > I'm doing `guix pull --branch=core-updates`, with a `guix describe` of > commit a533c5a183 (core-updates from 2 weeks ago), on Debian, in tmux, > and I see this weird thing: > > -- > substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://private.mirror'... 100.0% > @ substitu

Re: core-updates call for testing

2020-04-29 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
sirgazil writes: > By the way, it would be great if someone could review this patch: > https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/39069, which is supposed to fix bugs > like this one: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/40686, which have > been around for a long time and make the GNOME experience unsatisf

Re: core-updates call for testing

2020-04-28 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
sirgazil writes: > it seems that the comments mechanism in > issues.gnu.org does not work. yes, sorry about that. There’s a problem with the environment in which the mailer service runs. It’s on my list to investigate and fix it. (The messages aren’t lost. They are stuck in the queue.) --

Re: core-updates call for testing

2020-04-28 Thread Leo Famulari
On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 03:17:06PM +0200, Marius Bakke wrote: > Leo Famulari writes: > > > I reconfigured my Guix System based on core-updates, and afterwards I > > was unable to login, either remotely over SSH, or on the Linux console. > > Do you still have the logs from this attempt? Curious

Re: core-updates call for testing

2020-04-28 Thread Marius Bakke
Leo Famulari writes: > I reconfigured my Guix System based on core-updates, and afterwards I > was unable to login, either remotely over SSH, or on the Linux console. Do you still have the logs from this attempt? Curious what caused login to fail. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: core-updates call for testing

2020-04-28 Thread Marius Bakke
Efraim Flashner writes: > I have a package which currently depends on gfortran-5, although > gfortran-5 doesn't build on core-updates. > > efraimf@penguin2:~/workspace/guix-core-updates$ ./pre-inst-env guix build > --no-grafts -e '(@@ (gnu packages gcc) gfortran-5)' > substitute: updating substi

Re: core-updates call for testing

2020-04-28 Thread Efraim Flashner
I have a package which currently depends on gfortran-5, although gfortran-5 doesn't build on core-updates. efraimf@penguin2:~/workspace/guix-core-updates$ ./pre-inst-env guix build --no-grafts -e '(@@ (gnu packages gcc) gfortran-5)' substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.gnu.org'.

Re: core-updates call for testing

2020-04-27 Thread Jack Hill
On Sat, 25 Apr 2020, sirgazil wrote: On Sat, 25 Apr 2020 21:19:26 + Jack Hill wrote > Does GNOME-Web work for you? I'm wondering if others can reproduce the > problem I'm seeing: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/40837 No it doesn't. Hi all, Unfortunately, I think I'm current stuck

Re: core-updates call for testing

2020-04-25 Thread sirgazil
On Sat, 25 Apr 2020 21:19:26 + Jack Hill wrote > On Sat, 25 Apr 2020, sirgazil wrote: > > > On Sat, 25 Apr 2020 03:02:23 + Jack Hill > > wrote > > > I have not done extensive testing, but so far the desktop itself seems to > > > be in working order, including

Re: core-updates call for testing

2020-04-25 Thread Jack Hill
On Sat, 25 Apr 2020, sirgazil wrote: On Sat, 25 Apr 2020 03:02:23 + Jack Hill wrote > I have not done extensive testing, but so far the desktop itself seems to > be in working order, including cursory use of the GNOME settings dialog. Same here. So far, things are working normal

Re: core-updates call for testing

2020-04-25 Thread sirgazil
On Sat, 25 Apr 2020 13:24:51 + sirgazil wrote > On Sat, 25 Apr 2020 03:02:23 + Jack Hill > wrote > > On Fri, 24 Apr 2020, Marius Bakke wrote: > > > > > The "core-updates" branch is ready for testing! > > > > Hi, > > > > I've reconfigured my user pr

Re: core-updates call for testing

2020-04-25 Thread sirgazil
On Sat, 25 Apr 2020 13:24:51 + sirgazil wrote > On Sat, 25 Apr 2020 03:02:23 + Jack Hill > wrote > > On Fri, 24 Apr 2020, Marius Bakke wrote: > > > > > The "core-updates" branch is ready for testing! > > > > Hi, > > > > I've reconfigured my user pr

Re: core-updates call for testing

2020-04-25 Thread Leo Famulari
I reconfigured my Guix System based on core-updates, and afterwards I was unable to login, either remotely over SSH, or on the Linux console. After cutting the power to the computer and turning it back on, I was able to log in. I've attached my configuration file for your reference. ;; This is an

Re: core-updates call for testing

2020-04-25 Thread sirgazil
On Sat, 25 Apr 2020 03:02:23 + Jack Hill wrote > On Fri, 24 Apr 2020, Marius Bakke wrote: > > > The "core-updates" branch is ready for testing! > > Hi, > > I've reconfigured my user profile and system from the core-updates branch. > I use a GNOME desktop session. However

Re: core-updates call for testing

2020-04-24 Thread Jack Hill
On Fri, 24 Apr 2020, Marius Bakke wrote: The "core-updates" branch is ready for testing! Hi, I've reconfigured my user profile and system from the core-updates branch. I use a GNOME desktop session. However, I don't use too many fancy features. I mostly use GNOME-Terminal, GNOME-Web, and Em

Re: core-updates call for testing

2020-04-24 Thread sirgazil
On Fri, 24 Apr 2020 21:52:54 + Marius Bakke wrote > sirgazil writes: > > > This time, one of my packages in a custom channel failed with "no code for > > (term ansi-color)" (the package definition: > > https://gitlab.com/sirgazil/guix-channel-x/-/blob/master/sirgazil-x/pac

Re: core-updates call for testing

2020-04-24 Thread Marius Bakke
sirgazil writes: > This time, one of my packages in a custom channel failed with "no code for > (term ansi-color)" (the package definition: > https://gitlab.com/sirgazil/guix-channel-x/-/blob/master/sirgazil-x/packages/guile.scm#L13). > This is not a new package in my profile, I've been using

Re: core-updates call for testing

2020-04-24 Thread Jack Hill
On Fri, 24 Apr 2020, Marius Bakke wrote: The "core-updates" branch is ready for testing! pdfpc currently fails to build on core-updates. Upgrading to the latest pdfpc release fixes the issue. Patch upgrading pdfpc is at: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/40829 Best, Jack

Re: core-updates call for testing

2020-04-24 Thread sirgazil
On Fri, 24 Apr 2020 16:54:19 + Gábor Boskovits wrote > Hello, > > Marius Bakke ezt írta (időpont: 2020. ápr. 24., Pén > 18:25): > > This comes up from time to time. It is locale related. I think we tried to > fix this several times. Fallback always helps. The not so nic

Re: core-updates call for testing

2020-04-24 Thread sirgazil
On Fri, 24 Apr 2020 03:20:41 + sirgazil wrote > On Thu, 23 Apr 2020 23:24:23 + Marius Bakke > wrote > > Hello Guix! > > > > The "core-updates" branch is ready for testing! According to 'guix > > weather', the substitute coverage is slightly better than o

Re: core-updates call for testing

2020-04-24 Thread sirgazil
On Fri, 24 Apr 2020 16:25:13 + Marius Bakke wrote > sirgazil writes: > > > On Fri, 24 Apr 2020 03:20:41 + sirgazil > > wrote > > > On Thu, 23 Apr 2020 23:24:23 + Marius Bakke > > wrote > > > > Hello Guix! > > > > > > > > The "cor

Re: core-updates call for testing

2020-04-24 Thread Gábor Boskovits
Hello, Marius Bakke ezt írta (időpont: 2020. ápr. 24., Pén 18:25): > sirgazil writes: > > > On Fri, 24 Apr 2020 03:20:41 + sirgazil > wrote > > > On Thu, 23 Apr 2020 23:24:23 + Marius Bakke < > mba...@fastmail.com> wrote > > > > Hello Guix! > > > > > > > >

Re: core-updates call for testing

2020-04-24 Thread Marius Bakke
sirgazil writes: > On Fri, 24 Apr 2020 03:20:41 + sirgazil wrote > > > On Thu, 23 Apr 2020 23:24:23 + Marius Bakke > wrote > > > Hello Guix! > > > > > > The "core-updates" branch is ready for testing! According to 'guix > > > weather', the substitute c

Re: core-updates call for testing

2020-04-24 Thread Jack Hill
On Fri, 24 Apr 2020, Marius Bakke wrote: The "core-updates" branch is ready for testing! Thanks Marius and others who have worked on core-updates. It's exciting to see these updates nearing completion. In my testing so far, I've noticed that font-gnu-freefont fails to build: https://issues

Re: core-updates call for testing

2020-04-24 Thread sirgazil
On Fri, 24 Apr 2020 03:20:41 + sirgazil wrote > On Thu, 23 Apr 2020 23:24:23 + Marius Bakke > wrote > > Hello Guix! > > > > The "core-updates" branch is ready for testing! According to 'guix > > weather', the substitute coverage is slightly better th

Re: core-updates call for testing

2020-04-23 Thread sirgazil
On Thu, 23 Apr 2020 23:24:23 + Marius Bakke wrote > Hello Guix! > > The "core-updates" branch is ready for testing! According to 'guix > weather', the substitute coverage is slightly better than on "master" > for x86_64. You can get it by running: > > guix pull --branc

Re: core-updates call for testing

2020-04-23 Thread sirgazil
On Thu, 23 Apr 2020 23:45:51 + Leo Famulari wrote > I'm doing `guix pull --branch=core-updates`, with a `guix describe` of > commit a533c5a183 (core-updates from 2 weeks ago), on Debian, in tmux, > and I see this weird thing: > > -- > substitute: updating substitutes

Re: core-updates call for testing

2020-04-23 Thread Leo Famulari
I'm doing `guix pull --branch=core-updates`, with a `guix describe` of commit a533c5a183 (core-updates from 2 weeks ago), on Debian, in tmux, and I see this weird thing: -- substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://private.mirror'... 100.0% @ substituter-started /gnu/store/zfskbazynmdgmr

Re: core-updates call for testing

2020-04-23 Thread Leo Famulari
On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 01:24:23AM +0200, Marius Bakke wrote: Testing now! First feedback, this warning is new IIRC, based on commit 69c2e01: Computing Guix derivation for 'x86_64-linux'... WARNING: (guix build emacs-build-system): imported module (guix build utils) overrides core binding `del

core-updates call for testing

2020-04-23 Thread Marius Bakke
Hello Guix! The "core-updates" branch is ready for testing! According to 'guix weather', the substitute coverage is slightly better than on "master" for x86_64. You can get it by running: guix pull --branch=core-updates Please try upgrading your profiles and systems and file bugs for anythin

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-07-17 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Danny Milosavljevic skribis: > Hi Ludo, > >> Yes. At the REPL, you can do: >> >> ,use(guix) >> ,run-in-store (system-disk-image installation-os) > > I tried: > > ,use (gnu system vm) > ,use (gnu system install) > ,use (guix) > ,run-in-store (system-disk-image installation-os) > (derivation-

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-07-12 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
> Also, what do you think of us providing a "guix system" command for this? guix system disk-image -t iso9660 gnu/system/install.scm Adapted for my purposes, from the manual :)

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-07-12 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi Ludo, > Yes. At the REPL, you can do: > > ,use(guix) > ,run-in-store (system-disk-image installation-os) I tried: ,use (gnu system vm) ,use (gnu system install) ,use (guix) ,run-in-store (system-disk-image installation-os) (derivation->output-path $3) and get $3 = # /gnu/store/pjrkpn

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-07-07 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Danny Milosavljevic skribis: > Hydra does (system-disk-image installation-os > #:disk-image-size > (* 1024 MiB). > > Try doing the same in the Guile interpreter, like so: > > guile -L . > ,use (gnu system vm)

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-07-06 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi, On Thu, 06 Jul 2017 21:48:47 -0700 Chris Marusich wrote: > Is the wip-installer-2 branch the one I should test with now? Yes, if you want :) > What's the difference between the wip-installer and > wip-installer-2 branches? I didn't want to fuck up the wip-installer branch so I created a

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-07-06 Thread Chris Marusich
Hi Danny, Wow! I just looked, and I see that a lot of changes have been made since January. Is the wip-installer-2 branch the one I should test with now? What's the difference between the wip-installer and wip-installer-2 branches? What steps should I take to create a disk image with the insta

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-07-05 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi, > * Left-clicking on buttons, entries, etc. had no effect. I expected it > to be equivalent to pressing enter or space. I've implemented this for most things now (except for the status bar at the bottom). > * Left-clicking leaves the clicked square (i.e., row+column > intersection) hig

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-01-22 Thread John Darrington
It now supports btrfs. Feel free to give it a whirl. J' On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 02:24:53PM +0100, David Craven wrote: Hi John, I looked at adding btrfs support, -- Avoid eavesdropping. Send strong encrypted email. PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3 fingerprint = 8797 A26D

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-01-18 Thread Chris Marusich
John Darrington writes: > On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 01:20:56AM -0800, Chris Marusich wrote: > John Darrington writes: > > > * It would be great if you could try to find out why your wireless > failed. > > I'll look into it. FWIW, the following DOES work for setting up

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-01-16 Thread John Darrington
On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 01:20:56AM -0800, Chris Marusich wrote: John Darrington writes: > * It would be great if you could try to find out why your wireless failed. I'll look into it. FWIW, the following DOES work for setting up my wireless from the (usual release

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-01-16 Thread John Darrington
On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 10:34:02AM +0100, Ludovic Court??s wrote: Hi! Regarding networking, would it make sense to use Connman (or NetworkManger? or Wicd?) and simply talk to it? I???ve never used it but it seems that Connman is a good middle ground. We can send

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-01-16 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! Regarding networking, would it make sense to use Connman (or NetworkManger? or Wicd?) and simply talk to it? I’ve never used it but it seems that Connman is a good middle ground. We can send it RPCs I think, and it then takes care of all the plumbing, so I suppose that would simplify the user

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-01-15 Thread John Darrington
On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 01:20:56AM -0800, Chris Marusich wrote: --8<---cut here---start->8--- config_file="$(mktemp --tmpdir wireless-X.cfg)" trap "rm -f $config_file" EXIT cat > "$config_file" << EOM network={ ssid="my

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-01-15 Thread Chris Marusich
John Darrington writes: > Hi Chris, > > Thanks for this very comprehensive feedback. I hope you will forgive > me if I don't respond to every point you have raised. I have however read > them all, and they are all relevant and useful. So thanks very much. My pleasure! It's easy to give feedb

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-01-14 Thread John Darrington
Hi Chris, Thanks for this very comprehensive feedback. I hope you will forgive me if I don't respond to every point you have raised. I have however read them all, and they are all relevant and useful. So thanks very much. Some particular points however: * Currently there is no mouse support a

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-01-14 Thread Chris Marusich
John Darrington writes: > On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 09:40:17PM -0800, Chris Marusich wrote: > John Darrington writes: > > > The wip-installer branch is ready for testing and general review. > > > > This branch provides a curses based graphical interface to the disk >

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-01-14 Thread David Craven
Hi John, I looked at adding btrfs support, and noticed that there was a lot of trailing white space. Please remove trailing whitespace before pushing... Looks really nice! David

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-01-12 Thread Chris Marusich
John Darrington writes: > On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 09:40:17PM -0800, Chris Marusich wrote: > John Darrington writes: > > > The wip-installer branch is ready for testing and general review. > > > > This branch provides a curses based graphical interface to the disk >

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-01-12 Thread John Darrington
On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 09:40:17PM -0800, Chris Marusich wrote: John Darrington writes: > The wip-installer branch is ready for testing and general review. > > This branch provides a curses based graphical interface to the disk > images used for installing GuixSD. It

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-01-12 Thread Chris Marusich
John Darrington writes: > The wip-installer branch is ready for testing and general review. > > This branch provides a curses based graphical interface to the disk > images used for installing GuixSD. It is intended to allow users > unfamiliar with bash and other aspects of unix-like operating sy

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-01-10 Thread John Darrington
On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 09:39:01AM +0100, Ludovic Court??s wrote: John Darrington skribis: > On Sun, Jan 08, 2017 at 11:34:26PM +0100, Ludovic Court??s wrote: [...] >2. Pressing F9 (language) replaces lines with funny characters (???herd >

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-01-10 Thread Ludovic Courtès
John Darrington skribis: > On Sun, Jan 08, 2017 at 11:34:26PM +0100, Ludovic Court??s wrote: [...] >2. Pressing F9 (language) replaces lines with funny characters (???herd > restart term-tty1??? fixes it, so to speak). > > I think this is because glibc-locales is not part of t

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-01-09 Thread John Darrington
On Sun, Jan 08, 2017 at 11:34:26PM +0100, Ludovic Court??s wrote: I did a quick test and I think it???s pretty cool. :-) Thanks. A few issues I noticed: 1. ???Go Back??? often doesn???t go back (for instance from the ???Choose the mount point for devi

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-01-08 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! I did a quick test and I think it’s pretty cool. :-) A few issues I noticed: 1. “Go Back” often doesn’t go back (for instance from the “Choose the mount point for device” screen). 2. Pressing F9 (language) replaces lines with funny characters (“herd restart term-tty1” fixes i

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-01-08 Thread John Darrington
Zile is the emacs clone that the disk-image comes with by default. J' On Sun, Jan 08, 2017 at 07:47:56PM +0100, Taylan Ulrich Bay??rl??/Kammer wrote: myglc2 writes: > On 01/06/2017 at 21:50 John Darrington writes: > >> 3) install emacs? >> >> I would be re

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-01-08 Thread Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer
myglc2 writes: > On 01/06/2017 at 21:50 John Darrington writes: > >> 3) install emacs? >> >> I would be reluctant to do that by default: >> >> Firstly it's a slippery slope. The next person will say "No! install vi! or >> nano, or ". >> >> Secondly, I think the intended way for Guix to

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-01-07 Thread Alex Kost
myglc2 (2017-01-06 23:55 -0500) wrote: [...] > (packages >(cons* > glibc-utf8-locales > gnu-make > parted > mdadm > guix > cups > qemu > screen > openssh nss-certs xauth > rsync wget > git > gs-fonts font-dejavu font-gnu-freefont-ttf > aspe

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-01-07 Thread Christopher Allan Webber
Thompson, David writes: > Hi John, > > On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 2:59 AM, John Darrington > wrote: >> The wip-installer branch is ready for testing and general review. >> >> This branch provides a curses based graphical interface to the disk >> images used for installing GuixSD. It is intended to al

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-01-07 Thread John Darrington
On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 09:18:39PM -0500, myglc2 wrote: > 1) Add a user configuration menu/form? > > That should be fairly straightforward. But I wonder if it wouldn't be easier for > people to add them after the system is installed and run guix system > reconfigure

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-01-06 Thread myglc2
Oops, herewith the attachment for previous email. > In my case I want emacs, so I put emacs in my system configs. Another rationale for installing emacs in the system config is the very nice emacs-guix tools for package search and config management. It seems to me that emacs could also be used t

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-01-06 Thread myglc2
On 01/06/2017 at 21:50 John Darrington writes: > Thanks for taking the time to do this. > > On Fri, Jan 07, 2017 at 03:53:17PM -0500, myglc2 wrote: > > This is looking really great! I tried ... > > > http://web.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/software/guix/guixsd-graphical-installer-x86-6

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-01-06 Thread John Darrington
Thanks for taking the time to do this. On Fri, Jan 07, 2017 at 03:53:17PM -0500, myglc2 wrote: This is looking really great! I tried ... http://web.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/software/guix/guixsd-graphical-installer-x86-64-linux ... on the headless server where I run GuixSD

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-01-06 Thread myglc2
On 01/04/2017 at 08:59 John Darrington writes: > The wip-installer branch is ready for testing and general review. This is looking really great! I tried ... http://web.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/software/guix/guixsd-graphical-installer-x86-64-linux ... on the headless server where I run GuixSD. I experie

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-01-05 Thread Thompson, David
Hi John, On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 2:59 AM, John Darrington wrote: > The wip-installer branch is ready for testing and general review. > > This branch provides a curses based graphical interface to the disk > images used for installing GuixSD. It is intended to allow users > unfamiliar with bash and

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-01-04 Thread John Darrington
to strike a balance between flexibility and ease of use. I too hope that the right balance has been acheived, but I am sure that improvements can be made. That is why I put out this call for testing. Once I have collected enough feedback from people who have tried it, I will decide what chang

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-01-04 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
dian_ce...@zoho.com writes: > On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 08:59:28AM +0100, John Darrington wrote: >> This branch provides a curses based graphical interface to the disk >> images used for installing GuixSD. It is intended to allow users >> unfamiliar with bash and other aspects of unix-like operatin

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-01-04 Thread dian_cecht
On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 08:59:28AM +0100, John Darrington wrote: > This branch provides a curses based graphical interface to the disk > images used for installing GuixSD. It is intended to allow users > unfamiliar with bash and other aspects of unix-like operating systems > to easily install GuixS

Re: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-01-04 Thread Thomas Danckaert
From: John Darrington Subject: Graphical Installer - Call for Testing. Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2017 08:59:28 +0100 The wip-installer branch is ready for testing and general review. This branch provides a curses based graphical interface to the disk images used for installing GuixSD. It is intended

Graphical Installer - Call for Testing.

2017-01-04 Thread John Darrington
The wip-installer branch is ready for testing and general review. This branch provides a curses based graphical interface to the disk images used for installing GuixSD. It is intended to allow users unfamiliar with bash and other aspects of unix-like operating systems to easily install GuixSD. T

Re: Call for testing

2016-03-30 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Hullo Ludo', On 29/03/2016, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Tobias Geerinckx-Rice skribis: >> I spent most of my time so far reverse-engineering my machine's >> firmware to re-enable the well-hidden CPU virtualisation support >> required to even build the installer. > > Uh. What machine is this? (So

Re: Call for testing

2016-03-29 Thread Leo Famulari
On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 08:30:22AM +0200, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: > On 28/03/2016, Leo Famulari wrote: > > I first tried to install on a btrfs filesystem but the partition could > > not be found by its label upon rebooting. Well, the manual did warn me > > about this ;) > > I hope to send a

Re: Call for testing

2016-03-29 Thread Daniel Pimentel
I did upgrade on my computers (x86 and i386(thinkpad)) to new GuixSD version with GNOME and it works! Thanks for all :) -- Daniel Pimentel (d4n1)

Re: Call for testing

2016-03-29 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice skribis: > On 28/03/2016, Leo Famulari wrote: >> I first tried to install on a btrfs filesystem but the partition could >> not be found by its label upon rebooting. Well, the manual did warn me >> about this ;) > > I hope to send a rough series of patches for btrfs root sup

Re: Call for testing

2016-03-28 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
On 28/03/2016, Leo Famulari wrote: > I first tried to install on a btrfs filesystem but the partition could > not be found by its label upon rebooting. Well, the manual did warn me > about this ;) I hope to send a rough series of patches for btrfs root support soon, for unknown values of soon. I

Re: Call for testing

2016-03-28 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Ludovic Courtès writes: >> - Please provide and suggest tested desktop.scm and server.scm > > Yeah, though each person has their own idea of what “server” or > “desktop” means Sure, it would help with bug reports like mine... Can you try the plain xxx.scm? >> It would be nice if an install

Re: Call for testing

2016-03-28 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Jan Nieuwenhuizen skribis: > I tried this. > > + Booting and instructions are great > - Please provide and suggest tested desktop.scm and server.scm Yeah, though each person has their own idea of what “server” or “desktop” means (to me “desktop” means ratpoison, but I’ve heard about that GNO

Re: Call for testing

2016-03-28 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Leo Famulari skribis: > I built an i686 installer against 36c2c8c8 (gnu: beets: Run tests with > python-nose.) and used that. > > Do you think the motd should suggest that the user runs `guix pull`? > It's not necessary now, but in a couple months it would be helpful. I thought we’d need a bette

Re: Call for testing

2016-03-28 Thread Leo Famulari
On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 11:12:35AM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Hello! > > Please consider the following GuixSD installation image for testing, and > report any issues or successes! I built an i686 installer against 36c2c8c8 (gnu: beets: Run tests with python-nose.) and used that. Do you thin

Re: Call for testing

2016-03-27 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Ludovic Courtès writes: Hi, > Please consider the following GuixSD installation image for testing, and > report any issues or successes! > > > https://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/software/guix/guixsd-usb-install-0.10.0pre.x86_64-linux.xz I tried this. + Booting and instructions are great - Plea

Re: Call for testing

2016-03-25 Thread Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
Woo! On 25/03/2016, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > As you can see, due to popular demand ;-), the minor version number has > been bumped. I think it makes sense. I'll take an extra laptop along for Easter dinner... :-) Thanks to all contributors, T G-R

Call for testing

2016-03-25 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Please consider the following GuixSD installation image for testing, and report any issues or successes! https://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/software/guix/guixsd-usb-install-0.10.0pre.x86_64-linux.xz SHA1: 85296c9352740fbcc2b83211a1af39302d9d5f41 https://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/software/gui

Re: Call for testing!

2015-11-07 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Adam Pribyl skribis: > 1) doc: I would suggest to put in the doc (on tty2) to put the > commands that should be used during installation on the separate lines > > e.g.: > " > o install the system, you would: > > Configure the network, by running ifconfig eno1 up && dhclient eno1 > " > should

Re: Call for testing!

2015-11-05 Thread Adam Pribyl
On Tue, 3 Nov 2015, Ludovic Courtès wrote: Hi! Please test the USB installation image at: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/software/guix/guixsd-usb-install-0.9.0pre.x86_64-linux.xz SHA1: 0d7f37d5b18f7b4437b447fc8a90b44c470f6e99 http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/software/guix/guixsd-usb-install-0.9.0

Re: Call for testing!

2015-11-04 Thread Ludovic Courtès
宋文武 skribis: > Hi! I test this install image using qemu by: > > qemu-system-x86-64 -enable-kvm -m 512 -hda guixsd-usb-install* -hdb > disk.img > > Follow the manual to setup encryted root, using the desktop.scm > template, but > at the final step, it failed with: > > Path '/mnt/boot/grub' is

Re: Call for testing!

2015-11-03 Thread 宋文武
On 2015-11-03 22:17, l...@gnu.org wrote: Hi! Please test the USB installation image at: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/software/guix/guixsd-usb-install-0.9.0pre.x86_64-linux.xz SHA1: 0d7f37d5b18f7b4437b447fc8a90b44c470f6e99 http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/software/guix/guixsd-usb-install-0.9.0pre.

Call for testing!

2015-11-03 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! Please test the USB installation image at: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/software/guix/guixsd-usb-install-0.9.0pre.x86_64-linux.xz SHA1: 0d7f37d5b18f7b4437b447fc8a90b44c470f6e99 http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/software/guix/guixsd-usb-install-0.9.0pre.x86_64-linux.xz.sig This is for x86_64

Re: Call for testing : guix-tox, a version of tox that uses "guix environment".

2015-07-10 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Amirouche Boubekki skribis: > On 2015-07-10 03:38, Christopher Allan Webber wrote: [...] >>> I intend to propose a 20 minute talk about >>> guix-tox at the next PyConFR. > > Nice! \o/ >> This is great! I've also been very interested in "guix environment" as >> a universal virtualenv. Replac

Re: Call for testing : guix-tox, a version of tox that uses "guix environment".

2015-07-09 Thread Amirouche Boubekki
On 2015-07-10 03:38, Christopher Allan Webber wrote: Cyril Roelandt writes: Hey! Those of who you write Python code probably know tox[1], a tool used to manage tests/builds for Python. It uses virtualenv[2], which allows developers to create "isolated" environments and install packages witho

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