Re: a first question about parallel environments

2020-02-21 Thread nylxs
On 2/21/20 11:37 AM, John Soo wrote: > They are comprised of a set of symlinks and env vars and other computed > things pointing to the store. no security risk there :( This is not unique to a functional init

Re: a first question about parallel environments

2020-02-21 Thread John Soo
Hi again, Seems my message was cut off. To the point: yes it is quite possible. For the short version and to get started check out the docs for the `guix environment` command. You will probably get what you want there. Also it does help to understand the idea of a functional package manager.

Re: a first question about parallel environments

2020-02-21 Thread John Soo
Hi Ben, Welcome. > But can guix also be helpful in a case where you have multiple different > environments (I hope the term is correct) running in parallel? What is the > best way to achieve that? Creating multiple users? Using containers? Certainly! This is one of the main benefits of a

a first question about parallel environments

2020-02-21 Thread Ben
Hi all I've watched all the introduction videos (which are really helpful) and red some documentation, but I think I still miss something fundamental. I run a vagrant vm with a simple node server app behind apache. The setup is small, but still has a some configuration and packaging (npm)

Re: Failed to connect to guix daemon socket in pure env

2020-02-21 Thread zimoun
Hi Jeremy, Let send you first contribution. ;-) Well, now you should be to build your package, something like: guix build -f your-definition.scm where the file your-defintion.scm contains the recipe of your package. Then, the instructions about how to submit. 1. clone from savanah and go

Re: Locales in a Guix container (somewhat related to r-readr)?

2020-02-21 Thread zimoun
Dear, On Thu, 20 Feb 2020 at 16:42, Wiktor Żelazny wrote: > I don’t know if it’s some recent change in the Guix behavior, but I > noticed that I’m getting no utf-8 locales in a container. I discovered > it while reading a utf-8 csv file using readr::read_csv(). Could you provide a minimalist

guix pull error with custom channel news file

2020-02-21 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Hi! I tried added a news file to a channel and got this error: --8<---cut here---start->8--- (repl-version 0 0) (exception unbound-variable (value #f) (value "Unbound variable: ~S") (value (channel-news)) (value #f)) --8<---cut