Re: PrivateInternetAccess VPN and Guix

Hi, oury.dus...@posteo.net writes: > Welp. I've read of being able to run it as non-root on other distros. So if > possible I'd love to be able to. Not sure if it's a big security risk to run > openvpn as root or not though. There is an openvpn-client-service-type in Guix. Maybe that's a

Re: What can be done about zipped sources

On Mon, 3 Jun 2019 19:54:48 -0600 Jesse Gibbons wrote: > I have a project that relies on the python random2 module at > . Guix cannot extract it because > it is a zip, not a tarball. Is there a workaround? > Thanks, > -Jesse Never mind. I figured it out. Just

What can be done about zipped sources

I have a project that relies on the python random2 module at . Guix cannot extract it because it is a zip, not a tarball. Is there a workaround? Thanks, -Jesse

Re: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale on foreign distro

On Mon, 3 Jun 2019, Josh Holland wrote: Hi Guix, It's only now I reply to this that I notice that it wasn't my thread I was responding to, since I was having exactly the same problem. I'm always releived to see other people having the same problem, and I'm not lost in some dark corner of

Re: Help with writing custom boot-loader configuration

On Mon, 3 Jun 2019, Raghav Gururajan wrote: On Thu, 2019-05-30 at 10:11 +, Raghav Gururajan wrote: Hello Guix! If I want to make the "grub-bootloader" to invoke ONLY "grub-mkconfig" and NOT "grub-install", how should I modify the "bootloader" part of "operating-system" section of system

Re: Help with writing custom boot-loader configuration

Hi Raghav, Raghav Gururajan writes: > On Thu, 2019-05-30 at 10:11 +, Raghav Gururajan wrote: >> Hello Guix! >> >> If I want to make the "grub-bootloader" to invoke ONLY >> "grub-mkconfig" and NOT "grub-install", how should I modify the >> "bootloader" part of "operating-system" section of

Re: fetching git submodule using (uri (recursive? #t))

on [2019-05-28] at 14:18 I wrote: > I am trying to build this package that uses git submodules but the > (recursive? #t) doesn't seem to have any effect. Thanks to bavier and reepca on IRC #guix who figured out this happens when the package definition is changed (by e.g., adding "(recursive?

Re: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale on foreign distro

Hi Guix, It's only now I reply to this that I notice that it wasn't my thread I was responding to, since I was having exactly the same problem. On Mon, Jun 03, 2019 at 02:01:50PM -0400, Jack Hill wrote: > 1) The default locale in the provided systemd unit, en_US.utf8, is not > provided by the

Re: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale on foreign distro

On Mon, 3 Jun 2019, Jack Hill wrote: Hello Guix, I'm setting up Guix on a foreign distro (CentOS 7). I'm working on getting locales right per section 2.6.1 of the manual. I have installed the guix-locales package in buth my user's and root's profile, and have restarted guix-daemon. However,

URGENT! Looking for Scheduling System

Hello Guix! I looking for a free stoftware (offline/desktop application) that has feature- sets suitable for Tutoring Bussiness. All I need is to manage tutor-student appointment/session scheduling. It's kind of urgent, so I would appreciate if some one could please help me with this. Thank you!

Re: conkeror superseded by icecat, why?

Jan Nieuwenhuizen writes: > Me too. I have long pinned an old conkerer and run in from the > store...but recently I have started running the next browser > (sbcl-next). Ha! Happy to hear that! ;) Coming months look very promising for Next browser development and hopefully will be on par with

Re: conkeror superseded by icecat, why?

Hi! > I've long had conkeror installed, now after the latest Guix update it > won't start, it's not installed anymore. Me too. I have long pinned an old conkerer and run in from the store...but recently I have started running the next browser (sbcl-next). Other new emacsy-like browser

warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale on foreign distro

Hello Guix, I'm setting up Guix on a foreign distro (CentOS 7). I'm working on getting locales right per section 2.6.1 of the manual. I have installed the guix-locales package in buth my user's and root's profile, and have restarted guix-daemon. However, when I run package installation

Issues with guix offload

Hi All :) So my guix offload to my build box used to work, no troubles. As of late it fails. Perhaps due to an update, or because I renamed the user account on the remote box. I think all is correct in terms of configuration but still fails with the below. Not sure how to further troubleshoot

Guix Cuirass - Continuous Integration - Crash Error

Hi Guix, I want to setup a CI build server using _Cuirass_ to build a series of custom packages for Guix. but I receive following error and cuirass-service crashes, could anyone help me on this? ``` 2019-06-03T18:50:59 fatal: uncaught exception 'git-error' in 'build' fiber!

Noob issues with maintaining a guix laptop system

Hi All, Issues of a noob with no lisp programming skills has in maintaining a guix laptop system. * how to do a system reconfigure on an older guix generation? Sometimes I do a guix pull and attempt a reconfigure. Due to various reasons, the reconfigure may fail. I now want to do a

Re: conkeror superseded by icecat, why?

白い熊 (2019-06-02 12:19 +0200) wrote: > Hi everyone: > > I've long had conkeror installed, now after the latest Guix update it won't > start, it's not installed anymore. > > “guix package -i conkeror” tells me: > guix package: package 'conkeror' has been superseded by 'icecat' > > Why? These are

Version of package fontforge

e this problem, when I compile the fontforge package -- I actually compiled the the release 20190317 and the compiled program shows the version 20190603... But when installing it via "guix install fontforge" it has the version 19700101. Do you have any ideas, how I can fix that? Th

Re: PrivateInternetAccess VPN and Guix

Welp. I've read of being able to run it as non-root on other distros. So if possible I'd love to be able to. Not sure if it's a big security risk to run openvpn as root or not though. On 03.06.2019 03:34, Meiyo Peng wrote: Hi, oury.dus...@posteo.net writes: So I managed to get it working