updating restic: go-build-system trying to resolve host names with nonexistent dnscache at [::1]:53

Hi, the packaged restic is at 0.9.6 while upstream is at 0.15.1. I thought I'd try to update the package to learn how to package things for guix. I'm a complete noob with that, and I have zero experience with go. I'm using guix system in qemu with qemu-system-x86_64 -drive media=disk,file=g

Re: open config.scm with sudo and gedit or emacs

Hello Luis Felipe, Luis Felipe [2023-03-12T19:13:54+0100]: > In fact, the Guix manual says: "The normal way to change the system > configuration is by updating this file [a file like the > production-os.scm] and re-running ‘[sudo] guix system reconfigure’.  > One should never have to touch files

Re: open config.scm with sudo and gedit or emacs

Hello people, El 12/03/23 a las 11:00, Sergiu Ivanov escribió: Hi SeerLite, SeerLite [2023-03-12T00:42:42+0100]: On March 11, 2023 2:05:01 PM GMT-03:00, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: Gottfried [2023-03-11T11:33:33+0100]: because of my limited knowledge when opening my config.scm file with sudo I

Re: Unable to find wireless printer/scanner (Canon Pixma MG2950) on Guix.

Hi Luigi, On Sat, Mar 11, 2023 at 3:27 AM Luigi Salamone wrote: > > I need the gutenprint drivers, which are not packaged for Guix. I'd also love to have Gutenprint, but my understanding was that it is unlikely to be packaged anytime soon. If I recall correctly, Gutenprint ships many small exec

Re: open config.scm with sudo and gedit or emacs

Hi everyone, On Sat, Mar 11, 2023 at 3:43 PM SeerLite wrote: > > sudo guix system reconfigure ~/.config/guix/system-config.scm As a user of a FUSE-encrypted file system for my home folder (I use Gocryptfs) I cannot execute the command above. After some experimentation, I settled on using 'gu

Re: open config.scm with sudo and gedit or emacs

Hey Gottfried! Gottfried writes: [...] > 1. > I would like to open my config.scm file with emacs or gedit, > because both show the matching parenthesis. > > How can I do that? Not a Guix expert here either, but you might want to copy your auto-generated config.scm as ~/.config/guix/config.sc

Re: redshift

Hi Gottfried, Gottfried [2023-03-11T17:47:19+0100]: > I got a message from Julen Lepiller that reshift is a guix-home-service-type > so I can’t use it in guix system. > > Have you got guix home and redshift there in your config.scm? > > I don’t have guix home, > so can I use redshift? guix home

Re: open config.scm with sudo and gedit or emacs

Hi SeerLite, SeerLite [2023-03-12T00:42:42+0100]: > On March 11, 2023 2:05:01 PM GMT-03:00, Sergiu Ivanov > wrote: >>Gottfried [2023-03-11T11:33:33+0100]: >>> >>> because of my limited knowledge >>> when opening my config.scm file with sudo >>> I can do it only with nano >> >>The strategy I pe

Re: open config.scm with sudo and gedit or emacs

Hi! On March 12, 2023 4:07:25 AM GMT-03:00, "Boris A. Dekshteyn" wrote: >SeerLite writes: > >> >> sudo guix system reconfigure ~/.config/guix/system-config.scm > >sudo -E ... > No, that will create root-owned files in ~/.cache. I always get trouble using sudo -E because programs tend to c

Re: redshift

Gottfried writes: > [[PGP Signed Part:No public key for 61FAF349C9FB7F94 created at > 2023-03-12T09:03:40+0100 using RSA]] > gfp@Tuxedo ~$ redshift -l 48:8 t 6500:3500 & > > I am getting this message: > > [1] 2859 > gfp@Tuxedo ~$ Using method `randr'. > Waiting for initial location to become av

Re: redshift

Hi, If I do a: gfp@Tuxedo ~$ redshift -l 48:8 t 6500:3500 & I am getting this message: [1] 2859 gfp@Tuxedo ~$ Using method `randr'. Waiting for initial location to become available... Location: 48.00 N, 8.00 E and nothing happens so I don’t know if redshift works Kind regards Gottfried