Re: A few questions about guix containers

Alex Sassmannshausen writes: > Hello, > > I'm trying to get to grips with Guix's container support. > > Specifically, I can create containerised system using > $ guix system container /path/to/sysconf.scm > > I should then be able to run commands in that container using > $ guix container exec

Keeping just grub.cfg for a bootloader

Hello fellow Guix folks! I'm planning a switch to a Guix system and have a question i couldn't answer myself - is it possible to keep just the grub.cfg instead of full GRUB install? I'd rather have GRUB installed as a payload with Coreboot and maintain it's configuration with `guix system`, so

Debugging CI build failures

Hi Guix, I recently submitted some patches which updated the rust bootstrap process, but I noticed cuirass failed on building rust-1.24.1.x86_64-linux [1] (the build succeeded on my machine). I can’t seem to pull logs from cuirass either which makes me wonder if the issue was a build failure

Re: How do I install packages from a file without removing currently installed packages?

Hi Giovanni, On Sat, 11 May 2019 03:30:34 -0500 Giovanni Biscuolo wrote > Hello sirgazil, > > sirgazil writes: > > [...] > > > Is there any way to tell Guix to create a generation that is the > > aggregate of the packages installed in the current generation and

Re: Help with preparing to move from Arch Linux to Guix

Thanks Znavko! You sure has some awesome blog posts there.. I guess it's not as bad as I thought but I do understand now that in fact it's more complicated then I thought.. I'm not sure what's my opinion about it yet.. On Sat, May 11, 2019 at 06:06:10AM +, zna...@disroot.org wrote: > Hello!

A few questions about guix containers

Hello, I'm trying to get to grips with Guix's container support. Specifically, I can create containerised system using $ guix system container /path/to/sysconf.scm I should then be able to run commands in that container using $ guix container exec PID CMD But here's the rub: how do I find the

What is hotkeys to change keyboard layout during Guided Graphical Installation ?

Hello! Sorry for newbie question. I am trying to install GuixSD from DVD image into VirtualBox. During Guided Graphical Installation (which in fact as I can see is not graphical) I chose "Russian (typewriter)" keyboard. Then I came to Hostname screen and into this input field

system services (networking and xorg-server) don't start at boot

Hello Guix— I upgraded to the latest guix with # guix pull # guix system reconfigure config.scm # guix --version guix (GNU Guix) d13f3a033e42b4a14d581390b8fa36cd1db7d023 But now the system doesn't start up completely. For things to work, I needed to start some services, namely: # herd

Re: How do I install packages from a file without removing currently installed packages?

Hello sirgazil, sirgazil writes: [...] > Is there any way to tell Guix to create a generation that is the > aggregate of the packages installed in the current generation and the > packages specified in the manifest file? no way to aggregate packages this way in the same profile (default

Re: Help with preparing to move from Arch Linux to Guix

Hello! While you haven't get the answer by some hackers I offer you to read znavko's blog where links to manuals are collected: http://live-znavko.pantheonsite.io (http://live-znavko.pantheonsite.io/) The limitation of saving files into '/etc/' directory does not exist, as I know. You may put