Re: Why Emacs config file disables Welcome message only if this line places to .emacs but not in .emacs.d/init.el

2021-01-04 Thread Alex Kost
znavko--- via (2020-12-29 17:54 +) wrote: [...] > My next step is russian spell check. Need to have some basics of how to deal > with this great instrument! Here is my configuration: 1. I installed "aspell", "aspell-dict-en", and "aspell-dict-ru" packages. 2. I put the following into my ~/

Re: Emacs in multiple profiles

2019-10-20 Thread Alex Kost
Pierre Neidhardt (2019-10-16 21:54 +0200) wrote: > Hi! > > I'm resurrecting this since I got bitten by this today. > > I'm currently writing a blog article on profiles and manifest, and I > realized that Emacs is the only program so far that does not behave > consistently with the rest of Guix. >

Re: conkeror superseded by icecat, why?

2019-06-03 Thread Alex Kost
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 guix package: package 'conkeror' has been superseded by 'icecat' 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 t

Re: emacs-guix throwing errors

2019-04-15 Thread Alex Kost
bre...@posteo.net (2019-04-07 17:37 -0500) wrote: > Hey Alex, I think I mentioned earlier that I can replicate this bug > on a fresh install of Guix. Only installing Emacs and emacs-guix to > my profile. Can you see if you can replicate it that way? No, I don't reproduce it, sorry. Perhaps you h

Re: emacs-guix throwing errors

2019-04-07 Thread Alex Kost
bre...@posteo.net (2019-04-06 02:59 +0200) wrote: > On 04.04.2019 21:38, Alex Kost wrote: >> Brett Gilio (2019-04-01 16:13 -0500) wrote: >> >>> Hi all. I am hoping the maintainer of emacs-guix will see this: >> >> Hello, >> >>> Whenever I try to

Re: emacs-guix throwing errors

2019-04-04 Thread Alex Kost
Brett Gilio (2019-04-01 16:13 -0500) wrote: > Hi all. I am hoping the maintainer of emacs-guix will see this: Hello, > Whenever I try to search for a package, or perform any of the routine > guix commands using the emacs-guix interface, I am getting this error. > > guix-geiser-eval: Error in eva

Re: How to start Xorg server with startx

2019-02-15 Thread Alex Kost
Chris Marusich (2019-02-14 02:51 -0800) wrote: > I don't use startx, so I don't know enough to answer this question. > Maybe someone else can help? There is a tutorial on how "xinit" can be used on GuixSD: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2018-07/msg00080.html Perhaps it misses so

Re: emacs-guix error

2019-01-28 Thread Alex Kost
Maxim Cournoyer (2019-01-27 20:49 -0500) wrote: > Hello! > > [...] > >> Are you using Guix from a git checkout? In that case you’ll need to >> recompile as there has been an ABI change. > > My normal Guix run from guix pull, but I do have a Guix checkout that I > use with the pre-inst-env wrapper

Re: emacs-guix error

2019-01-26 Thread Alex Kost
Yoshinori Arai (2019-01-26 12:31 +0900) wrote: > On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 08:48:21PM +0300, Alex Kost wrote: > >> Hello, do you use Guix on a foreign system (not GuixSD)? If so, please >> look at: >> >> https://github.com/alezost/guix.el#important-note-for-n

Re: emacs-guix error

2019-01-25 Thread Alex Kost
bre...@posteo.net (2019-01-23 20:34 -0600) wrote: > I reported this issue two days ago and haven't heard anything yet Hello, where did you report it? Sorry, I don't see it anywhere. -- Alex

Re: emacs-guix error

2019-01-25 Thread Alex Kost
Yoshinori Arai (2019-01-24 09:20 +0900) wrote: > hello, > > When I will execute install pacakge or dry-run on emacs-guix, this error is > showed. It's success to install on command line. > > (process-package-actions "/var/guix/profiles/per-user/yoshi/guix-profile" > #:install '((145722368 "out"))

Re: [ANN] Emacs-Guix 0.5.1

2019-01-06 Thread Alex Kost
Ricardo Wurmus (2019-01-06 00:49 +0100) wrote: > Hi Alex, > >> zimoun answered correctly. I think it is the same problem as several >> people have on non-GuixSD system. Most likely, it will not be fixed on >> Emacs-Guix side. The only workaround I know is "guix package -i guix". > > Would it be

Re: [ANN] Emacs-Guix 0.5.1

2019-01-05 Thread Alex Kost
Benjamin Slade (2019-01-04 15:12 -0700) wrote: > I love Emacs-Guix - thank you for this. > > Relatedly - I'm trying to debug an issue: so on my both pure GuixSD > machine and on my Arch machine with standalone Guix binary installer, > =guix-all-packages= shows me 9213 packages, but on my Void mach

Re: Emacs-guix: variable is void: guix-current-profile

2019-01-04 Thread Alex Kost
zimoun (2019-01-03 22:58 +0100) wrote: > Dear Alex, > > Thank you for your answer and the nice emacs-guix interface. Thanks :-) >> It should be fixed by the latest commit: >> >> >> https://notabug.org/alezost/emacs-guix/commit/d7b54784bc3962570519aac472f54598c10299ae >> >> So you may try to r

Re: Emacs-guix: variable is void: guix-current-profile

2019-01-03 Thread Alex Kost
zimoun (2019-01-02 16:34 +0100) wrote: > Dear, > > Happy New Year ! > > Thank you this nice interface !! > > I am have installed Guix on the top of Debian. > If I understand well, I installed the packages guile, guile-gcrypt and > Emacs, obviously. :-) > And emacs-guix comes from MELPA, Geiser too

[ANN] Emacs-Guix 0.5.1

2018-12-23 Thread Alex Kost
Hello, Emacs-Guix (Emacs interface for GNU Guix) version 0.5.1 has been released. If you are not familiar with it yet, you may try it with: ‘guix package -i emacs-guix’ and "M-x guix". Summary of the new features: * M-x guix This is the *new* "M-x guix" which is a popup interface for the rest

Re: GC hints

2018-12-20 Thread Alex Kost
Mark H Weaver (2018-12-20 07:12 -0500) wrote: > Hi Ludovic, > > Ludovic Courtès writes: > >> Actually, I was also wondering whether we should provide a configurable >> mechanism that would, by default, automatically delete old GC roots and >> maybe even run the GC automatically when needed—simila

Re: How do I cope with Geiser in Emacs

2018-12-02 Thread Alex Kost
Luther Thompson (2018-12-01 19:34 -0500) wrote: Hello, > I don't know where to ask about this, but since the problem seems to > involve many interconnected Emacs-related packages, I'll see if you > guys can help. > > When I'm editing a Scheme file (not Guix-related) in Emacs and > company-mode ac

Re: Guix and Emacs Integration for Polyglot Development

2018-10-29 Thread Alex Kost
George Clemmer (2018-10-28 17:19 -0400) wrote: > Alex Kost writes: [...] >> BTW, in general, I think that hiding features is a bad thing… however, >> there is one hidden feature in Emacs-Guix (although, it is hidden just >> because it is also hidden in Guix itself ;-) )

Re: Guix and Emacs Integration for Polyglot Development

2018-10-28 Thread Alex Kost
George Clemmer (2018-10-27 15:32 -0400) wrote: > Alex Kost writes: > >> George Clemmer (2018-10-26 16:56 -0400) wrote: >> >>> I have another question. Is there a shortcut to >>> guix-installed-system-packages in the popup that I am missing? >> >>

Re: Guix and Emacs Integration for Polyglot Development

2018-10-27 Thread Alex Kost
George Clemmer (2018-10-26 16:56 -0400) wrote: >> Alex Kost writes: >> >>> Hint: since you are on this commit, you may check the new "M-x guix" - >>> you will be the first person who will try it (maybe you will like it >>> this time) ;

Re: Guix and Emacs Integration for Polyglot Development

2018-10-26 Thread Alex Kost
George Clemmer (2018-10-26 00:59 -0400) wrote: > Hi Alex, Hello George! > I have been using code like ... > > (with-eval-after-load (quote guix-ui-profile) > (setq guix-profiles > (append (quote("/home/glc/gom/.guix-profile")) guix-profiles))) > (setq guix-current-profile "/home/glc/gom/

Re: Guix and Emacs Integration for Polyglot Development

2018-09-15 Thread Alex Kost
Jan Nieuwenhuizen (2018-09-15 07:21 +0200) wrote: > Alex Kost writes: > >> Jan Nieuwenhuizen (2018-09-13 22:45 +0200) wrote: >> >>> (defun guix-switch-profile (&optional profile) > >> Thank you! I'm going to apply it. I have extracted the guile cod

Re: Guix and Emacs Integration for Polyglot Development

2018-09-14 Thread Alex Kost
Jan Nieuwenhuizen (2018-09-13 22:45 +0200) wrote: > (defun guix-switch-profile (&optional profile) > "Switch Emacs' environment to PROFILE. PROFILE can be a named > profile (like ~/.guix-profile, ~/.config/guix/work) or an > environment (like: echo $GUIX_ENVIRONMENT)." > > (interactive "fprof

[ANN] Emacs-Guix 0.5

2018-09-10 Thread Alex Kost
Hello, Emacs-Guix (Emacs interface for GNU Guix) version 0.5 has been released. If you are not familiar with it yet, you may start with: ‘guix package -i emacs-guix’ and "M-x guix-help". There is one big addition and one big "subtraction" in this release: * Added: Interface for store items As

Re: Guix and Emacs Integration for Polyglot Development

2018-08-25 Thread Alex Kost
their complete environment, instead of just the language. For > that we’d need help from Emacs-Guix to keep track of existing > environments. > > Maybe if Alex Kost is reading this they can comment. :-) I am not "they", I prefer to be called "he" ;-) I am afraid I do

Re: Enable guix-devel-mode only in guix source files

2018-08-22 Thread Alex Kost
Pierre Neidhardt (2018-08-21 17:23 +0200) wrote: >> Ah, that's what you meant. I think this is horrible :-) > > Why? As I explained, configuring third-party packages in dir-locals does not look right to me. It may lead to problems if you remember: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel

Re: Enable guix-devel-mode only in guix source files

2018-08-21 Thread Alex Kost
Pierre Neidhardt (2018-08-21 00:18 +0200) wrote: >> - add a function to the Guix ".dir-locals.el" (does dir-locals support >> functions at all?) > > I haven't tested, but currently .dir-locals.el contains > > (scheme-mode > . > (indent-tabs-mode . nil) > > I suppose we can add > > (scheme-

Re: Enable guix-devel-mode only in guix source files

2018-08-20 Thread Alex Kost
Arun Isaac (2018-08-19 23:38 +0530) wrote: >>> A better approach might be to add it to .dir-locals.el upstream. What do >>> you >>> people think? >> >> I think the less is added to "dir-locals" the better. Especially, there >> shouldn't be any functions there in my opinion. > > Thanks, Alex and

Re: Enable guix-devel-mode only in guix source files

2018-08-17 Thread Alex Kost
Pierre Neidhardt (2018-08-17 18:44 +0200) wrote: > I do exactly what you suggested: > > (defun ambrevar/init-guix () > (and buffer-file-name >(string-match "\\" buffer-file-name) ; Adapt this to your > install. >(guix-devel-mode))) > (add-hook 'scheme-mode-hook 'ambrevar/init-gu

Re: Guix and desktop files

2018-08-12 Thread Alex Kost
hiph...@openmailbox.org (2018-08-11 19:46 +) wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I am using Kubuntu 18.04 and I recently installed Guix as a secondary package > manager. I'm still feeling my way around and I have been wondering whether > the desktop files provided by some applications can be integrat

[HOWTO] Start X server manually instead of using a login manager

2018-07-19 Thread Alex Kost
Hello, People often ask how they can use startx/xinit on GuixSD. It is possible, although it is not as easy as on other distros. Hopefully, this tutorial will answer some questions on the subject. At first, a couple of points: - We will run X server with user privileges, so if something goes w

Re: [ANN] Emacs-Guix 0.4.1

2018-07-17 Thread Alex Kost
Pierre Neidhardt (2018-07-16 23:10 +0200) wrote: > Sorry for the long delay... :( > >> I think it can happen only if you added it to >> GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH, did you? > > No I did not: > > (getenv "GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH") > $5 = "/home/ambrevar/.guix-packages" > > So the issue is something else. Any i

Re: [ANN] Emacs-Guix 0.4.1

2018-07-05 Thread Alex Kost
Pierre Neidhardt (2018-07-04 11:51 +0200) wrote: >> %load-path > $4 = ("/home/ambrevar/.guix-packages" "/home/ambrevar/projects/guix" > "/gnu/store/hjx7wm756cxfl91j8iphrl5izd8xvp3f-emacs-guix-0.4.1.1/share/guile/site/2.2" > "/home/ambrevar/.config/guix/current/share/guile/site/2.2" Aha! here it i

Re: [ANN] Emacs-Guix 0.4.1

2018-07-04 Thread Alex Kost
Alex Kost (2018-07-03 22:14 +0300) wrote: > Pierre Neidhardt (2018-07-03 18:40 +0200) wrote: [...] >> With >> >> (add-to-list 'geiser-guile-load-path "~/projects/guix") >> >> I still experience the transaction issue. This geiser-guile-load-pat

Re: [ANN] Emacs-Guix 0.4.1

2018-07-03 Thread Alex Kost
Pierre Neidhardt (2018-07-03 18:40 +0200) wrote: > Alex Kost writes: > >> Pierre Neidhardt (2018-06-28 19:04 +0200) wrote: >>> Indeed, I had this: >>> >>> (add-to-list 'geiser-guile-load-path "~/projects/guix") >>> >>&

Re: [ANN] Emacs-Guix 0.4.1

2018-06-29 Thread Alex Kost
Pierre Neidhardt (2018-06-28 19:04 +0200) wrote: > Alex Kost writes: > >> I don't know. This error looks like guile load paths are not set >> correctly. Could you switch to Guix REPL and check whether %load-path >> contains "~/.config/guix/current/share/guile/

Re: [ANN] Emacs-Guix 0.4.1

2018-06-28 Thread Alex Kost
Pierre Neidhardt (2018-06-28 12:23 +0200) wrote: > ERROR: In procedure scm-error: > no code for module (guix build utils) > > Is something wrong my setup? I don't know. This error looks like guile load paths are not set correctly. Could you switch to Guix REPL and check whether %load-path conta

[ANN] Emacs-Guix 0.4.1

2018-06-26 Thread Alex Kost
Hello, Emacs-Guix (Emacs interface for GNU Guix) version 0.4.1 has been released. If you are not familiar with it, you may start with: ‘guix package -i emacs-guix’ and "M-x guix-about". The main purpose of this release is to support the recent changes in "guix pull" (i.e., using "~/.config/guix/c

Re: [ANN] Emacs-Guix 0.4

2018-05-25 Thread Alex Kost
myg...@gmail.com (2018-05-24 21:02 -0400) wrote: > Hi Alex, > > Thank you for this new release. I am enjoying the cool new features! > > On 05/24/2018 at 20:21 Alex Kost writes: > > [...] > >> I recalled that C-u prefix is already occupied by specifying an >&g

Re: [ANN] Emacs-Guix 0.4

2018-05-24 Thread Alex Kost
Ludovic Courtès (2018-05-24 14:16 +0200) wrote: > Hello! > > Alex Kost skribis: > >> Ludovic Courtès (2018-05-23 17:30 +0200) wrote: > > [...] > >>> I think ‘guix-dependent-packages’ is going to be very useful. I wonder >>> if we could have ‘C-u gui

Re: [ANN] Emacs-Guix 0.4

2018-05-23 Thread Alex Kost
Ludovic Courtès (2018-05-23 17:30 +0200) wrote: > Hello! > > Maxim Cournoyer skribis: > >> Alex Kost writes: >> >>> Hello, Emacs-Guix (Emacs interface for GNU Guix) version 0.4 has been >>> released. If you are not familiar with it yet, you may start

[ANN] Emacs-Guix 0.4

2018-05-19 Thread Alex Kost
Hello, Emacs-Guix (Emacs interface for GNU Guix) version 0.4 has been released. If you are not familiar with it yet, you may start with: ‘guix package -i emacs-guix’ and "M-x guix-about". Summary of the new features: * Interface to display services It is very similar to the interface for pack

Re: Font installed in non-default profile doesn't appear.

2018-05-09 Thread Alex Kost
Hello George, George Clemmer (2018-05-08 20:04 -0400) wrote: > In a "headless" vm-image (sysi29.scm, attached), "font-dejavu" installed > by manifest (attached) into the "empty" default profile ... > > 'guix package -m manifest' > > ... appears in the emacs 'M-x menu-set-font' choice box. But it

Re: warning: could not locate elisp directory under `/gnu/store/...`

2018-04-24 Thread Alex Kost
Pierre Neidhardt (2018-04-08 22:27 +0530) wrote: Hello, Pierre! > I'm down to write my first Emacs package declaration (attached). > It seems quite straightforward and yet it fails to byte-compile: [...] > What am I missing? Probably nothing. I have just tried your package recipe and *.el files

Re: Guix does not understand config.scm

2018-04-23 Thread Alex Kost
Jone (2018-04-23 19:22 +) wrote: > This is my new (and wrong) config: [...] > 56 (sudoers-file (local-file (config-file "/etc/sudoers"))) He-he, I recognize this :-) I guess you took this line from my os config, anyway... > Next I run 'guix system reconfigure new.scm': > >ne

Re: pcspkr only loaded after waking up from sleep

2018-04-19 Thread Alex Kost
Pierre Neidhardt (2018-04-18 23:54 +0530) wrote: > Alex Kost writes: > >>> (kernel-arguments '("modprobe.blacklist=pcspkr")) >> >> Yes, it is. I recall I also needed to blacklist "snd_pcsp" module to get >> rid of this an

Re: pcspkr only loaded after waking up from sleep

2018-04-18 Thread Alex Kost
Pierre Neidhardt (2018-04-18 14:00 +0530) wrote: > Anyways, I'd like to turn it off for good. Is the following the right > way to go? > > (kernel-arguments '("modprobe.blacklist=pcspkr")) Yes, it is. I recall I also needed to blacklist "snd_pcsp" module to get rid of this annoying beep (so I

Re: Missing glibc man pages?

2018-04-18 Thread Alex Kost
Pierre Neidhardt (2018-04-18 12:00 +0530) wrote: > I've installed the `glibc` package in my user profile, but I cannot find > the man pages of `ldd`, `ldconfig`, etc. Is it an oversight? They are placed in 'man-pages' package. -- Alex

Re: Missing pinentry-emacs for gpg-agent?

2018-03-27 Thread Alex Kost
Ludovic Courtès (2018-03-27 11:53 +0200) wrote: > Pierre Neidhardt skribis: > >> Somewhat surprisingly, pinentry-emacs does not seem to be in the repo. >> Is it intentional? I'd love to have it back. > > I didn’t know its existence. :-) > > Please do submit a package! > > https://www.gnu.org/

Re: Emacs in multiple profiles

2018-03-27 Thread Alex Kost
Konrad Hinsen (2018-03-26 10:24 +0200) wrote: > Alex Kost writes: > >> But what your "current profile" is? How can emacs know about it? It >> "knows" only about the default (system and user) profiles. So if you > > I'd say Emacs knows nothin

Re: Emacs in multiple profiles

2018-03-24 Thread Alex Kost
Konrad Hinsen (2018-03-24 13:14 +0100) wrote: > Alex Kost writes: > >> It is completely different: with "-Q", your .emacs file is not loaded at >> all, and with "--no-site-file", only the emacs packages from the guix >> profile are not autoloaded.

Re: Emacs in multiple profiles

2018-03-23 Thread Alex Kost
Konrad Hinsen (2018-03-23 08:57 +0100) wrote: > Hi Alex, > > Alex Kost writes: > >>> Since nothing runs before site-start.el, I don't see how I could >>> override this definition. My only choice is to use the -Q option on the >>> Emacs command line to

Re: Emacs in multiple profiles

2018-03-22 Thread Alex Kost
Konrad Hinsen (2018-03-22 17:47 +0100) wrote: > Dear Guixers, > > Is anyone aware of a way to have different Emacs configurations > (i.e. different add-on packages) in distinct profiles? > > I tried to set up a new profile with just "emacs" in it, but when I run > that Emacs it load all the Emacs

Re: Modify system behavior after reconfigure

2018-03-20 Thread Alex Kost
Jone (2018-03-20 23:12 +0300) wrote: >> If you want, you can write in one of the other languages that >> developers speak: > > Хорошо, Ludo’, я пишу на своем языке. У меня куча вопросов, но к > сожалению мануалы GNU не являются "быстрорастворимыми". А кроме > мануалов любая другая документация с п

Re: Posts in languages other than English on help-guix?

2018-03-08 Thread Alex Kost
Oleg Pykhalov (2018-03-07 12:46 +0300) wrote: > Hello Ludovic and Guix, > > l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: [...] >> +`(("en" >> + "Subscribe to the Help mailing list to get support from the GuixSD >> +and GNU Guix community via email. You can post messages in English though >>

Re: Error system reconfigure with guix-latest

2018-03-04 Thread Alex Kost
Jone (2018-03-04 15:46 +0300) wrote: > Hello! > I'm newbie. After update system (guix pull) I see this error: > > root@guix ~# guix system -n reconfigure /etc/CURRENT.scm > /etc/CURRENT.scm:37:24: error: you need these modules in the initrd > for /dev/sdb2: sata_nv pata_acpi As 宋文武 pointed, you c

Re: [ANN] Emacs-Guix 0.3.4

2018-01-09 Thread Alex Kost
Ludovic Courtès (2018-01-08 15:57 +0100) wrote: [...] > I have a minor issue: I use ‘ido’ and ‘ido-find-file’ insist on browsing > the entire /gnu/store when I do C-x C-f with a store file name at point > (except if the file name denotes a directory.) I'm not sure I understand your problem. I th

Re: [ANN] Emacs-Guix 0.3.4

2017-12-30 Thread Alex Kost
Oleg Pykhalov (2017-12-29 20:44 +0300) wrote: > Hello Alex, Guix > > Alex Kost writes: > >> Hello, Emacs-Guix (Emacs interface for GNU Guix) version 0.3.4 has been >> released. It may be installed with "guix package -i emacs-guix". >> >> The mai

[ANN] Emacs-Guix 0.3.4

2017-12-28 Thread Alex Kost
Hello, Emacs-Guix (Emacs interface for GNU Guix) version 0.3.4 has been released. It may be installed with "guix package -i emacs-guix". The main new features are: 1. "M-x guix-hash": it prompts for a file, calculates its hash and puts it into kill-ring (i.e., you can insert it with "C-y").

Re: Guix upgrade leads to different hashes

2017-10-02 Thread Alex Kost
Oleg Pykhalov (2017-10-02 05:15 +0300) wrote: > Hello Guix, > > Something strange happens on my machine with upgrades. I check for new > available upgrades with dry-run and get “available upgrades” all the > time. [...] > If I upgrade again I'll get same hashes as in “Check upgrades.”. Like a >

Re: Which Emacs version used to build Emacs packages with emacs-checkout?

2017-09-29 Thread Alex Kost
Oleg Pykhalov (2017-09-22 16:49 +0300) wrote: > Hello Alex, Hi! > Alex Kost writes: [...] >> Yes. Note that this default emacs can be overrided on a package level >> by using #:emacs keyword in the arguments. See 'emacs-auctex' package >> for example. >

Re: Which Emacs version used to build Emacs packages with emacs-checkout?

2017-09-08 Thread Alex Kost
Oleg Pykhalov (2017-09-07 21:49 +0300) wrote: > Hello Guix, > > Here is a =emacs-checkout= snippet which works for me. Enjoy it if > somebody need it. > > I'm little bit confused about Emacs **version** that is used inside > =emacs-build-systems= and inputs which use =emacs-minimal=. > > If I def

[ANN] Emacs-Guix 0.3.3

2017-09-02 Thread Alex Kost
Hello, I have released Emacs-Guix (Emacs interface for GNU Guix) version 0.3.3, and updated 'emacs-guix' Guix package. This release provides some small bug fixes and tweaks to keep it in-sync with the current Guix code-base. Also, it provides 2 new features: 1. A way to look at "search paths" en

Re: xawtv: no font found

2017-08-30 Thread Alex Kost
Dmitry Nikolaev (2017-08-29 23:55 +0300) wrote: > On 27 August 2017 at 20:31, Alex Kost wrote: > > Dmitry Nikolaev (2017-08-26 22:25 +0300) wrote: > > > Hello. I wrote a package file for Xawtv. It builds, but not runs. [...] > Perhaps you just missed some depen

Re: Tip of the day: storing your GuixSD config in the instantiated system

2017-08-28 Thread Alex Kost
Ludovic Courtès (2017-08-28 14:04 +0200) wrote: > Hi Mekeor, > > (I think you forgot to Cc: the list.) > > Mekeor Melire skribis: > >> Ludovic Courtès writes: >> >>> Hello Guix! >>> >>> Following a discussion we had at the GHM today, here’s the tip of the >>> day! >> >> Greetings to everyone at

Re: Tip of the day: storing your GuixSD config in the instantiated system

2017-08-28 Thread Alex Kost
Ludovic Courtès (2017-08-25 22:27 +0200) wrote: > Hello Guix! > > Following a discussion we had at the GHM today, here’s the tip of the day! > > People often ask how they could store their GuixSD config alongside the > instantiated system in the store. Guix maintainers usually grumpily > reply “n

Re: xawtv: no font found

2017-08-27 Thread Alex Kost
Dmitry Nikolaev (2017-08-26 22:25 +0300) wrote: > Hello. I wrote a package file for Xawtv. It builds, but not runs. > > $ xawtv > xawtv: Relink `/gnu/store/ > 88wvqp60hbrdvbp0xsqad5c6njjfshcw-libpng-1.6.28/lib/libpng16.so.16' > with `/gnu/store/ybpgv1v7606xw7mafda66w10hiynpiw2-glibc-2.25/lib/ > li

Re: install: invalid user ‘root’

2017-08-22 Thread Alex Kost
Dmitry Nikolaev (2017-08-21 23:28 +0300) wrote: > Hi. I'm trying to build Xawtv in GuixSD to use my webcamera during > screencasts. I wrote package defintion for xawtv, it passes > configuration and build phases, but fails on install phase with > error: > > /gnu/store/6908gy3pws0ccys49ni98idwnicch

Re: I need examples of Shepherd services without GuixSD

2017-08-21 Thread Alex Kost
ng0 (2017-08-20 13:35 +) wrote: > As IRC wasn't very responsive: > > Does someone of you keep their Shepherd user-services, for shepherd running on > non-GuixSD systems (side by side with systemd for example), online somewhere? I have my Shepherd user config at

Re: overriding essential-services

2017-08-19 Thread Alex Kost
Ricardo Wurmus (2017-08-15 22:05 +0200) wrote: > Alex Kost writes: > >> Ricardo Wurmus (2017-08-11 22:26 +0200) wrote: >> >>> Hi Guix, >>> >>> I want to make sure that /etc/environment includes GUILE_LOAD_PATH and >>> GUILE_LOAD_COMPILED

Re: overriding essential-services

2017-08-12 Thread Alex Kost
Ricardo Wurmus (2017-08-11 22:26 +0200) wrote: > Hi Guix, > > I want to make sure that /etc/environment includes GUILE_LOAD_PATH and > GUILE_LOAD_COMPILED_PATH, because that’s needed for offloading. > “/etc/environment” is created by the “session-environment-service” > service, which is part of “e

Re: Manual pages for glibc.

2017-08-09 Thread Alex Kost
Roel Janssen (2017-08-09 10:49 +0200) wrote: > Dear Guix, > > Which package do I need to install to be able to read the man pages of > functions in glibc like 'snprintf' and 'malloc'? Many man pages (including 'snprintf' and 'malloc') come with 'man-pages' package. -- Alex

[ANN] Emacs-Guix 0.3.2

2017-07-02 Thread Alex Kost
Hello, Emacs-Guix (Emacs interface for GNU Guix) has been updated to version 0.3.2. It can be installed with: guix package -i emacs-guix This release was done to be consistent with the latest Guix code (see technical details below if you are interested). If you did "guix pull" recently, you ma

Re: Using tramp with guixsd install image

2017-07-01 Thread Alex Kost
Divan Santana (2017-06-30 22:15 +0200) wrote: > Hi, > > Trying to use my emacs (on arch linux) with the guixsd system from the > 0.13 image and ssh-daemon. By image, this is a fresh VM booted > guixsd-usb-install-0.13.0.x86_64-linux and about to install guixsd . > > This Used to work with 0.12 ima

Re: failed to resolve partition “my-root”

2017-06-29 Thread Alex Kost
Ludovic Courtès (2017-06-29 16:33 +0200) wrote: > Marius Bakke skribis: > >> Maybe we could add all disk drivers to the base initrd image? >> >> $ du -h $(guix build linux-libre >> 2>/dev/null)/lib/modules/*/kernel/drivers/ata >> 1.3M >> /gnu/store/b7nk7glwlrjk8fnw4g7zylzlx7g2f6jd-linux-libre-4.

Re: Unable to use Aspell installed via Guix

2017-05-06 Thread Alex Kost
Niall Dooley (2017-05-06 15:49 +0200) wrote: [...] > Do I have to explicitly install the Aspell dictionaries? Yes, do this (or with any other dict you need): guix package -i aspell-dict-en -- Alex

[ANN] Emacs-Guix 0.3.1

2017-05-05 Thread Alex Kost
Hello, Emacs-Guix (Emacs interface for GNU Guix) has been updated to version 0.3.1. It can be installed with: guix package -i emacs-guix This release was done mostly to be consistent with some recent changes in Guix (introduced since Guix 0.12.0 release), i.e. to keep "M-x guix" keys up-to-dat

Re: is it me ?

2017-05-02 Thread Alex Kost
Catonano (2017-05-01 13:11 +0200) wrote: > Recently I've been suggested to look at the definition o scmutils as > a reference > > I made a really short screencast about how a a procedure in there is > not browsable with geiser. As myglc2 noted "make-img" is just a variable defined in that "let*".

Re: Is this the way geiser works for others?

2017-04-14 Thread Alex Kost
myglc2 (2017-04-14 12:38 -0400) wrote: > On 04/12/2017 at 12:11 Alex Kost writes: > >> myglc2 (2017-04-12 00:21 -0400) wrote: >> >>> I am starting to wonder if something is horribly wrong. Why? Well, if I >>> do 'M-x guix-edit emacs.scm', do 'M-x

Re: Is this the way geiser works for others?

2017-04-12 Thread Alex Kost
myglc2 (2017-04-12 00:21 -0400) wrote: > I am starting to wonder if something is horribly wrong. Why? Well, if I > do 'M-x guix-edit emacs.scm', do 'M-x run-geiser', select > 'define-module', and press M-. I see ... > > geiser-edit-symbol-at-point: Couldn’t find edit location for > ’define-module’

Re: mumble issues with pulseaudio

2017-04-05 Thread Alex Kost
Ludovic Courtès (2017-04-03 23:18 +0200) wrote: [...] > I was talking of the account skeletons, i.e., the files that are > automatically installed in the home directory of a newly-created account > (see (gnu system shadow)). These files can always be modified or > removed by the user afterwards.

Re: Webservices and Shepherd

2017-04-03 Thread Alex Kost
Thomas Sigurdsen (2017-04-02 11:44 +0200) wrote: > Hi Guix! Hello! [...] > And when it comes to shepherd: I've seen a few configs where shepherd is > running as a user in addition to root. It looks like this is a good way to > separate webservices and similar, maybe even giving them separate use

Re: mumble issues with pulseaudio

2017-04-03 Thread Alex Kost
Ludovic Courtès (2017-04-03 12:08 +0200) wrote: > Florian Paul Schmidt skribis: > >> If the PulseAudio installation shipped with GuixSD is "sane" then it >> will provide a virtual ALSA pcm device and will globally route the pcm >> device called "default" to this virtual PCM device. This device wi

Re: Tool to format/indent scheme code

2017-03-04 Thread Alex Kost
Huang, Ying (2017-03-04 13:54 +0800) wrote: > Hi, All, > > Sometimes, I want to check the contents of auto-generated scheme code in > store. But the readability is not very good. So I want to use a code > format/indent tool to help on this. Do you know is there such tool in > Guix? If no, any

Re: Emacs autoloads

2017-03-02 Thread Alex Kost
Federico Beffa (2017-03-02 14:35 +0100) wrote: > Catonano writes: > >> I installed emacs-debbugs >> >> But it doesn't get autoloaded, so I had to comment out this line in my >> .emacs file >> >> (add-to-list 'debbugs-gnu-all-packages "guix-patches") >> >> because otherwise when launching emacs i

Re: Emacs autoloads

2017-03-02 Thread Alex Kost
Thomas Danckaert (2017-03-02 14:13 +0100) wrote: > From: Catonano > Subject: Emacs autoloads > Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2017 12:51:13 +0100 > >> I installed emacs-debbugs >> >> But it doesn't get autoloaded, so I had to comment out this line in >> my .emacs file >> >> (add-to-list 'debbugs-gnu-all-packag

Re: Emacs autoloads

2017-03-02 Thread Alex Kost
Catonano (2017-03-02 12:51 +0100) wrote: > I installed emacs-debbugs > > But it doesn't get autoloaded It does! You probably think that all functions and variables are autoloaded, but it's not the case. Autoloads are generated only for those symbols (usually interactive commands) that have ";;;

[ANN] Emacs-Guix 0.3

2017-02-27 Thread Alex Kost
Hello, I have updated 'emacs-guix' package to 0.3 (and guix development snapshot package as well btw). For those, who don't know, Emacs-Guix is an Emacs interface for GNU Guix: . Here is a summary of changes (comparing to 0.2.2): 1. Alternative ways to show a

Re: Error during CUPS configuration

2017-02-25 Thread Alex Kost
Thomas Sigurdsen (2017-02-25 00:59 +0100) wrote: > I'm trying to setup cups printing on machine running GuixSD. I've attached the > config. The problem I'm having is that guix throws an error on the line > saying: > "(cups-service-type", here's the error: > > guix system: error: failed to load '/

Re: Package Installation Queries

2017-02-18 Thread Alex Kost
Niall Dooley (2017-02-18 17:22 +0100) wrote: > On 10 February 2017 at 09:55, Alex Kost wrote: [...] >> BTW Symbola package can't be a part of Guix due to a really stupid >> license problem. If you are interested, I have a Guix package for this >> font here: >>

Re: guix-daemon might be unmounting filesystems

2017-02-15 Thread Alex Kost
Myles English (2017-02-14 10:49 +) wrote: > Hello, > > About one time out of ten when I use a guix command my filesystems, > including /home, become unmounted and I have to manually remount them. Hm, maybe you added your user to 'guixbuild' group? (check /etc/group) If so, you shouldn't (!);

Re: Starting user services at boot

2017-02-15 Thread Alex Kost
Ludovic Courtès (2017-02-13 10:30 +0100) wrote: > Hi Leo! > > Leo Famulari skribis: > >> Does anyone have advice about how to start an unprivileged user's >> services when the system boots? >> >> On other systems, I could at least invoke them in /etc/rc.local, but I'm >> not sure how to do it on

Re: Package Installation Queries

2017-02-10 Thread Alex Kost
Niall Dooley (2017-02-09 22:36 +0100) wrote: > On 8 February 2017 at 21:51, Alex Kost wrote: [...] >> > (1) When I installed magit, v2.8.0 was installed instead of the >> > v2.10.1 listed on hydra. Is this a bug or an error on my part? >> >> You probably didn&#x

Re: Package Installation Queries

2017-02-08 Thread Alex Kost
Niall Dooley (2017-02-08 17:24 +0100) wrote: > Firstly, I'm an aspiring programmer/hacker and I've gone straight > into the deep end with trying to learn GNU/Linux, Emacs etc. I'm also > new to Guix and this community so excuse my ignorance.  Hello and welcome! > I've installed Guix as a package

Re: Seeking advice: preparing releases on GuixSD.

2016-12-23 Thread Alex Kost
ng0 (2016-12-23 13:35 +) wrote: > Hi, > > my previous releases of gnurl (https://gnunet.org/gnurl) have > been tested on Gentoo and GuixSD and prepared to release only on > Gentoo, copied back to GuixSD and finished up on that GuixSD > system. > With my switch to GuixSD (and leaving Gentoo) 2

Re: locale warning and postgresql

2016-11-28 Thread Alex Kost
Ludovic Courtès (2016-11-28 21:48 +0100) wrote: > Hi Myles, > > Myles English skribis: > >> I have always had trouble with my locale after installing guix on Arch >> Linux (with zsh and a basic window manager, bspwm). I have set >> GUIX_LOCPATH in ~/.zshenv and it appears correct in my shell. T

Re: GuixSD and TRAMP

2016-10-21 Thread Alex Kost
Ludovic Courtès (2016-10-20 23:00 +0200) wrote: > Christopher Allan Webber skribis: > >> Ho-ho, it turns out the snippet Ludo pasted me on IRC was the answer >> after all: >> >> ;; Make sure we work on remote guixsd machines :) >> ;; probably only helps if you start on a guixsd machine..! >>

Re: Error in gexp.scm. Unrecognized keyword.

2016-09-28 Thread Alex Kost
Dmitry Nikolaev (2016-09-28 12:06 +0300) wrote: > > > What is wrong with my guix installation and gexp.scm? I haven't > seen > > anybody complaining about it in this mailing list. What do I > have to do to > > update my GuixSD installation? > > Most likely there is

Re: Error in gexp.scm. Unrecognized keyword.

2016-09-25 Thread Alex Kost
Dmitry Nikolaev (2016-09-24 23:35 +0300) wrote: > Hi. > > I wanted to update my GuixSD installation, but everytime I run "guix > system reconfigure ..." I'm getting > > guix/gexp.scm:314:0: In procedure computed-file: > guix/gexp.scm:314:0: In procedure # gexp #:key options)>: Unrecognized keyword

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