Re: bug#38521: guix package: error: build of `...-youtube-viewer-3.5.8.drv' failed

2020-01-20 Thread Eric Bavier
FWIW, I recently updated youtube-viewer to version 3.7.0. That version contains a new port to perl-gtk3, so whoever feels like packaging that perl module can go right ahead ;) `~Eric - On Jan 15, 2020, at 10:16 PM, Ludovic Courtès l...@gnu.org wrote: > Hi Pierre, > > Pierre Neidhardt sk

qtwebengine support/security status

2020-01-20 Thread Jack Hill
Hi Guix, Thanks to Mike and everyone for working on qtwebengine and qutebrowser. I'm happy and thankful that Guix's features and the community's commitment allow packaging these in a principled way. Before I use these packages to browse untrusted websites, I wanted to double check that it is

Re: guix import texlive fails because of svn

2020-01-20 Thread EuAndreh via
> I'm afraid that I've had no success in getting this working. I'm still > unable to 'guix import' packages from TeXlive. If you find a solution, > please let me know! Sure I will!

Re: Files not .gitignored when contributing to Guix

2020-01-20 Thread EuAndreh via
Efraim Flashner writes: > IIRC the reason for having it this way is if the .po files are added to > .gitignore then it messes with the guix snapshots and releases. > Unfortunately I don't remember more than that. Snapshots as in release snapshots?

Re: Files not .gitignored when contributing to Guix

2020-01-20 Thread EuAndreh via
Julien Lepiller writes: > You should do "git checkout po" after your first make. You won't be annoyed > by that anymore afterwards. Thanks, I'm still familiarizing myself with the GNU Autotools workflow, and I would do a full git clean every time I wanted to hack on Guix source code, only reali

guix environment shebang interpreter

2020-01-20 Thread EuAndreh via
Hi Guix! Is there a Guix equivalent of the nix-shell shebang? Sample from Nix documentation (https://nixos.org/nix/manual/#use-as-a-interpreter): --8<---cut here---start->8--- #!/usr/bin/env nix-shell #!nix-shell -i perl -p perl perlPackages.HTMLTokeParserSimp

Re: Is this normal? /var/log/messages is ~730 MB

2020-01-20 Thread Gábor Boskovits
Ok, thanks! sirgazil ezt írta (időpont: 2020. jan. 20., H, 23:44): > > On Sun, 12 Jan 2020 03:38:55 -0500 Gábor Boskovits > wrote > > sirgazil ezt írta (időpont: 2020. jan. 12., V, 2:09): > > > > > > On Sat, 11 Jan 2020 20:04:25 -0500 Gábor Boskovits > wrote > > >

Re: Is this normal? /var/log/messages is ~730 MB

2020-01-20 Thread sirgazil
On Sun, 12 Jan 2020 03:38:55 -0500 Gábor Boskovits wrote > sirgazil ezt írta (időpont: 2020. jan. 12., V, 2:09): > > > > On Sat, 11 Jan 2020 20:04:25 -0500 Gábor Boskovits > > wrote > > > sirgazil ezt írta (időpont: 2020. jan. 12., V, > > 0:18): > > > > > > >

Re: guix pull: error: symlink: File exists

2020-01-20 Thread zimoun
Hi Jimmy, On Mon, 20 Jan 2020 at 10:30, Jimmy Thrasibule wrote: > OK, so following the discussion at https://issues.guix.info/issue/39195, my > container was missing the $USER environment variable so Guix was failing > back to the "default" profile. Once $USER is set to "root" my current user >

Re: The installer encountered unexpected problem. Please report to

2020-01-20 Thread wisdomlight
The attached screenshot might be of interest to you: What you see is the screen of LMint Live USB. You can see that on the left under Devices there is a 50 GB - which is the same amount of GB i allocated a partition yesterday. So might it be the partition I created? if it is then this is weird be

Re: Passwords inside System Configuration

2020-01-20 Thread Giovanni Biscuolo
Hello Raghav, "Raghav Gururajan" writes: > Hello Guix! > > I would like to insert/set password for the following, inside system > configuration (config.scm): > 1) Roor User > 2) Regular User --8<---cut here---start->8--- (user-account (name "charlie") (

Re: guix pull: error: symlink: File exists

2020-01-20 Thread Jimmy Thrasibule
OK, so following the discussion at https://issues.guix.info/issue/39195, my container was missing the $USER environment variable so Guix was failing back to the "default" profile. Once $USER is set to "root" my current user in this context, Guix is not complaining about the profiles anymore. Le di