Re: Building and installing packages with modifications

2019-03-11 Thread Wayne
Quoting Chris Marusich : Wayne writes: my follow up question is whether there is (or a plan for) any support for sharing these derived custom build binaries with other users Yes! For starters, see (guix) Channels in the manual. Here's an online copy:

gnutls guile

2019-03-11 Thread ng0
Ludovic, as a follow-up to the short chat on #guix: if the problem can not be patched in the guile module of gnutls, it appears that http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guile.git/tree/module/system/base/target.scm could be a source of the problem? At the moment I'm trying to patch (or rather

Re: Multi-monitors: arandr, autorandr, srandrd, screenconfig?

2019-03-11 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
> It should be said that HDMI shares the responsibility. :-) Huhu! :) Out of curiosity, why HDMI in particular? -- Pierre Neidhardt https://ambrevar.xyz/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Outdated Qutebrowser and missing qtwebengine?

2019-03-11 Thread Florian Thevissen
Hi, I'd very much like to see a recent qtwebengine-based qutebrowser packaged in guix myself. I understand that in the past there were concerns about the chromium dependency, as Marius wrote: > As for the status of the Chromium patch, following the recent Pale Moon discussion I no longer

Debugging an mcron job

2019-03-11 Thread Jack Hill
Hi Guix, I'm looking for help or tips on debugging an mcron job. My goal is to run a site-specific telemetry script that I have packaged [0] in my channel. The script collects some information and sends it to a remote server. I am trying to run the script as an mcron job via a service I

Re: Outdated Qutebrowser and missing qtwebengine?

2019-03-11 Thread Marius Bakke
Florian Thevissen writes: > Hi, > > I'd very much like to see a recent qtwebengine-based qutebrowser > packaged in guix myself. I understand that in the past there were > concerns about the chromium dependency, as Marius wrote: > > > As for the status of the Chromium patch, following the

Re: Multi-monitors: arandr, autorandr, srandrd, screenconfig?

2019-03-11 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Pierre Neidhardt skribis: > I've just packaged autorandr, it looks pretty neat: > > - Save profiles based on monitor IDs. > - Programmable hooks. > - autorandr_launcher detects screen changes to automate the whole thing. That looks nice, thanks for packaging it! >> I used arandr in my

Re: guix environment with channels?

2019-03-11 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi John, John Soo skribis: > I was going to do some development recently and wanted to use some > packages from a channel. I have it listed as a channel under > ~/.config/guix/channels.scm so I added some packages from the channel > to a scheme file but guix environment -l my-file.scm told me

Re: printing pdf with evince

2019-03-11 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Eric Bavier skribis: > On Tue, 19 Feb 2019 12:28:35 -0600 > nightowl wrote: > >> I recently notice that when I try to send a pdf document to the printer >> using the gnome viewer evince, it will not print text. For comparison, >> I can also print a pdf document from within the icecat

Re: guix pack -f squashfs ...

2019-03-11 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Yoshinori, Yoshinori Arai skribis: > I'm trying guix pack -f squashfs ... > $ guix pack -f squashfs guile emacs geiser > $ cp /gnu/store/jy7k2g48303jlz5hlaflrsa4mdrbhcy6-squashfs-pack.gz.squashfs \ >./emacs-geiser-guile.squashfs > $ singularity verify emacs-geiser-guile.squashfs >

Re: collect2: fatal error: cannot find 'ld'

2019-03-11 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> Ricardo Wurmus skribis: >> >>> I still think that we should hide the plain gcc packages on the command >>> line. >> >> Agreed. > > Is this the right way to hide the package (see patch)? I searched for > GCC on the command line

How to build LFS-8.4 with only guix packages.

2019-03-11 Thread Yoshinori Arai
I have tried to build LFS-8.4(http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/index.html) with only guix packages. I know it's idle attempt. Basically linux system build is unpack tarball or install to the target directory. It's process is incrementally. My first step is to define package and