How to "Use PROFILE instead of the user’s default profile."?

2018-06-20 Thread George Clemmer
I am trying to understand and use Guix profiles. In (guix) Invoking guix package it says ... ‘--profile=PROFILE’ ‘-p PROFILE’ Use PROFILE instead of the user’s default profile. Because I want to use znc *instead* of the packages in my user’s default profile, I did ... guix package -p znc

Re: How to announce important changes

2018-06-20 Thread myglc2
Hi Ludo’, > I agree. The patch for the new ‘guix pull’ was discussed 2-3 weeks > before being applied, and the principle was discussed even earlier than > this, but for someone not following the mailing list, I understand this > is a problem. > > Perhaps it’s time for an announcement mailing

Re: How to announce important changes

2018-06-20 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Indeed, actually I _am_ following the mailing list, but I must confess that I don't always read the e-mails as carefully as I should, not the least because I am not necessarily involved in the said conversation. Well... Case in point! Proper announcement would have that they make it clear for

Re: gst-plugins-base: Test suite failed: FAIL: elements/opus

2018-06-20 Thread Marius Bakke
Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Leo Famulari writes: > >> On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 06:15:19PM +0200, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: >>> I'm till seeing this problem. >>> >>> > guix --version >>> guix (GNU Guix) d39c9efa11168f5a441ac60b3ed486f2ac0b4c73 >>> >>> > guix pull -l >>> # ... >>> Generation 2

Re: gst-plugins-base: Test suite failed: FAIL: elements/opus

2018-06-20 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Leo Famulari writes: > On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 06:15:19PM +0200, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: >> I'm till seeing this problem. >> >> > guix --version >> guix (GNU Guix) d39c9efa11168f5a441ac60b3ed486f2ac0b4c73 >> >> > guix pull -l >> # ... >> Generation 2 Jun 19 2018 14:10:01(current) >> guix

How to announce important changes

2018-06-20 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Pierre Neidhardt skribis: > OK, I get it now. I had missed that message about the PATH. > > I think those kinds of breakage would deserve some proper annoucements, > either on the mailing list or on the website. > > What do you people think? I agree. The patch for the new ‘guix pull’

Re: No dvorak in window manager

2018-06-20 Thread Nils Gillmann
Luther Thompson transcribed 1.8K bytes: > I installed GuixSD today. When I boot up, both the login manager and > the desktop session use qwerty. I do see dvorak when I hit Ctrl+Alt+F2 > for a non-window console. `loadkeys dvorak` has no effect in either That is because loadkeys is for the tty. In

Re: Something broke

2018-06-20 Thread Jone
Hello. I just have very bad English. I chose this distribution because of the progressive engineering approach and wide possibilities. And someday I'll learn all this)) Okay, I'll figure it out myself. Or not =) It does not matter! Anyway for me it will be a rewarding experience.

Re: gst-plugins-base: Test suite failed: FAIL: elements/opus

2018-06-20 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
I tried disabling the tests in a package override in my GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH: --8<---cut here---start->8--- (arguments `(... #:tests? #f ... --8<---cut here---end--->8--- or with

Re: gst-plugins-base: Test suite failed: FAIL: elements/opus

2018-06-20 Thread Leo Famulari
On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 06:15:19PM +0200, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > I'm till seeing this problem. > > > guix --version > guix (GNU Guix) d39c9efa11168f5a441ac60b3ed486f2ac0b4c73 > > > guix pull -l > # ... > Generation 2 Jun 19 2018 14:10:01(current) > guix d39c9ef > repository URL:

Re: gst-plugins-base: Test suite failed: FAIL: elements/opus

2018-06-20 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
I'm till seeing this problem. > guix --version guix (GNU Guix) d39c9efa11168f5a441ac60b3ed486f2ac0b4c73 > guix pull -l # ... Generation 2Jun 19 2018 14:10:01(current) guix d39c9ef repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git branch: origin/master commit:

Re: gst-plugins-base: Test suite failed: FAIL: elements/opus

2018-06-20 Thread Leo Famulari
On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 04:13:09PM +0200, Nicolas Goaziou wrote: > Hello, > > Pierre Neidhardt writes: > > > I can't update my packages `guix package -u`, gst-plugins-base fails: > > [...] > > > FAIL: elements/opus > > === > > > > Running suite(s): opus > > 33%: Checks: 6,

Re: Cannot build guile-chickadee.

2018-06-20 Thread Joshua Branson
Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Hi there, > > I’m trying to get Chickadee packaged. Attached is a package definition. > The build fails when chickadee/render/shapes.scm is supposed to be > compiled: > Thank you! I would love to be able to play with Chickadee!

Re: Cannot build guile-chickadee.

2018-06-20 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hey Dave, >> Turns out that the Makefile of guile-sdl2 needed to be patched. After >> the patch Chickadee can be built with the release tarball. >> >> I’ll push the package definition shortly. > > Could you tell me the commit id when you push it? I'd like to just > sort out the issues you were

Re: Cannot build guile-chickadee.

2018-06-20 Thread Thompson, David
Hey Ricardo, On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 5:27 AM, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > > Ricardo Wurmus writes: > >>> Yes, last time I tried I had a similar issue: this is because you need >>> the latest guile-sdl2 and guile-opengl. >> >> There does not seem to be a more recent guile-opengl. I have added >>

Re: Cannot build guile-chickadee.

2018-06-20 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Ricardo Wurmus writes: >> Yes, last time I tried I had a similar issue: this is because you need >> the latest guile-sdl2 and guile-opengl. > > There does not seem to be a more recent guile-opengl. I have added > guile-sdl2-devel, which is built from the latest git commit. > > I also updated

Re: Cannot build guile-chickadee.

2018-06-20 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Pierre, > Yes, last time I tried I had a similar issue: this is because you need > the latest guile-sdl2 and guile-opengl. There does not seem to be a more recent guile-opengl. I have added guile-sdl2-devel, which is built from the latest git commit. I also updated guile-chickadee to use

Re: Cannot build guile-chickadee.

2018-06-20 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Yes, last time I tried I had a similar issue: this is because you need the latest guile-sdl2 and guile-opengl. All three projects are by David Thompson who kindly provided a Guix package definition within the repositories. Simply use that to update the 2 libraries packages. As I mentioned in an