Re: make check never finishes

2023-05-23 Thread Greg Hogan
On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 1:23 PM Soren Stoutner via wrote: > > I just tried it again with 6783f558fa2bcbc662e021e1b3bf502c64706177 and > had the same issue. proot-static fails to build. The issue has been reported upstream. https://github.com/proot-me/proot/issues/352 The recent 5.4.0 release

Re: Guix on mobile phones

2023-05-23 Thread W. T. Meyer
Caleb Herbert writes: > I hope there's a way to suppress compiling from source. I don't want > to be compiling stuff on a mobile device. I think offloading build processes to another machine defined in /etc/guix/machines.scm would be a more useful solution than to suppress building things

Re: make check never finishes

2023-05-23 Thread Soren Stoutner via
I just tried it again with 6783f558fa2bcbc662e021e1b3bf502c64706177 and had the same issue. --- Soren Stoutner so...@stoutner.com 623-262-6169 On 2023-05-23 07:27, Soren Stoutner via wrote: Simon, I had this error with a couple of commits. The most recent was:

Re: to save my Guix System installation

2023-05-23 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi Florian, On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 9:33 AM pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > > yes, making a backup is good. I don't think Gottfried is making a backup. I think he is leaving us. We failed a beginner who is absolutely dedicated to free software. Kind regards Felix

Re: to save my Guix System installation

2023-05-23 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
Hi Gottfried, yes, making a backup is good. You will want to backup the Guix configuration files and your data. So probably this means you should copy /etc/config.scm and the files in your home directory. You could plug in an ext4-formatted external disk and copy the files with the “cp -a”

Re: cookbook in german language

2023-05-23 Thread pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
Hello Gottfried. If I understand correctly, unreadable overlong lines is an issue with the PDF version of the cookbook in any language. The issue is not there if you select the HTML manual. On first sight, it looks like complicated TeX tricks are needed to fix this. I do not know. Could you

Re: How to declare symlinks in the configuration?

2023-05-23 Thread Felix Lechner via
Hi, On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 8:13 AM Gary Johnson wrote: > > 2. Including the contents of these files directly in the >`operating-system` declaration. In this case, you see me specifying >key-value pairs for the main Postgresql config file in a nested list >under the `extra-config`

Re: How to declare symlinks in the configuration?

2023-05-23 Thread Gary Johnson
Marek Paśnikowski writes: > Thank you Gary. > > This is the kind of answer I was hoping for. Could you also share with > me the corresponding service-type for the system configuration? Hi Marek, In the system configuration, most of the files that you would edit by hand on another distro

Re: make check never finishes

2023-05-23 Thread Soren Stoutner via
Simon, I had this error with a couple of commits. The most recent was: 263f235cd0a2955e865fe38036f84c2bf34375ff --- Soren Stoutner so...@stoutner.com 623-262-6169 Could you provide with commit have you built and run the test suite? Cheers, simon

Re: make check never finishes

2023-05-23 Thread Simon Tournier
Hi, On Wed, 17 May 2023 at 07:47, Soren Stoutner via wrote: > PASS: tests/guix-pack-localstatedir.sh > > I think the problem happens while processing guix-pack-relocatable.sh. > The final lines of guix-pack-relocatable.log are the following: > > The following derivations will be built: >

to save my Guix System installation

2023-05-23 Thread Gottfried
Hi, I have on one harddisk Guix installed, on a second harddisk GNUinOS. I want to reinstall GNUinOS and may be later on the same harddisk, on which Guix resides, reduce the size of the harddisk and install Trisquel on a second partition on it. To be on the save side I would like to copy...