Re: guix system image: unexpected guix pull from savannah

2024-06-27 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 11:09:01PM +0200 schrieb Vasilii Smirnov: > > ice-9/boot-9.scm:1685:16: In procedure raise-exception: > > Git error: failed to connect to git.savannah.gnu.org: Network is unreachable > Does anyone know why it does that? Any way to fix this? Did you try again? I seem to reca

Re: Ruby without RVM - what to do if the version I want is missing?

2024-06-20 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello Daniel, Am Mon, Jun 17, 2024 at 08:09:13PM +0100 schrieb Daniel Littlewood: > Thank you Andreas for your patch. I wasn't sure quite how to use it at > first, but after some looking I found out I could put it into a local > channel. So I made a file ~/my-channel/ruby.scm with contents just i

Re: Ruby without RVM - what to do if the version I want is missing?

2024-06-16 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, Am Fri, Jun 14, 2024 at 07:36:07PM +0200 schrieb Andreas Enge: > (define-public ruby-3.3 > (package > (inherit ruby-3.2) > (version "3.3.3") > (source > (origin >(method url-fetch) >(uri (string-append &q

Re: Ruby without RVM - what to do if the version I want is missing?

2024-06-14 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello Dan, I know very little about Ruby either, except that updates seem to go relatively smoothly compared to other modern languages. Adding a new version is quite trivial, here is one: (define-public ruby-3.3 (package (inherit ruby-3.2) (version "3.3.3") (source (origin

Re: Building a Docker image for GitLab-CI

2024-06-07 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Thu, Jun 06, 2024 at 11:23:20AM +0200 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: > (It’s possible to sidestep that problem for instance by having GitLab-CI > offload to a runner in a machine that you control, where Guix is > installed. But I’m looking for a solution that could work > out-of-the-box on any GitLab

Re: Building a Docker image for GitLab-CI

2024-06-05 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, Am Tue, Jun 04, 2024 at 01:29:22PM +0200 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: > My goal would be to be able to use Guix within the image, so I can have > GitLab-CI spawn ‘guix build’ commands (or similar). with a colleague we have set up such a system. He has started from a Debian image and written a

Re: Guix website possibly down

2024-05-20 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Mon, May 20, 2024 at 08:11:18AM -0500 schrieb Alan Wedel: > Is guix.gnu.org down? I can't get it to load. Other websites, including > gnu.org, work fine. Pinging them is the same. Is anyone else experiencing > this issue? > If this is the wrong mailing list for something like this, please tell

Re: No 'guix pull' substitutes for foreign distros?

2024-05-19 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Sun, May 19, 2024 at 10:38:28PM +0300 schrieb André A. Gomes: > Nigko Yerden writes: > > Hello Guix! > > Shouldn't 'guix pull' substitutes also work on foreign distros? > I'd like to re-iterate the question. I have been using the Guix system > for years but lately I'm also using it as a packag

Re: Where can I find the ca-certificates.crt file from the nss-certs package?

2024-05-17 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, Am Fri, May 17, 2024 at 11:49:19AM +0200 schrieb Reza Housseini: > yes it is a really odd behavior, because when I run guix shell nss-certs, I > can find $GUIX_ENVIRONMENT/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt... I do not know, but I suppose that this file may be created as a profile hook, in

Re: pgp key

2024-05-02 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello Gottfried, Am Thu, May 02, 2024 at 08:22:37PM + schrieb gfp: > I gave rights to the email address: help-guix@gnu.org > but I don't know how it works, how somebody can find it or download anything > from there. well, we all got an invitation and a download link at the address help-guix@g

Re: Guix as a non-optional dependency in another project, and Guix resources requirements.

2024-04-11 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, Am Mon, Apr 08, 2024 at 01:32:25PM -0700 schrieb Felix Lechner: > I operated a 1 GB web server that ran Guix on Linode for a while. Did > you configure a swap partition? actually I did not, good idea! Am Tue, Apr 09, 2024 at 05:23:56AM -0700 schrieb Felix Lechner: > There is also 'guix d

Re: Guix as a non-optional dependency in another project, and Guix resources requirements.

2024-04-08 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, Am Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 01:16:28AM +0100 schrieb Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli: > The issue here is also that a given measure is very important as it > gives some indication, but I'm also not sure that 2GiB is enough with > all the situations. For instance a user with a browser and tons of open >

Re: You're invited to the first patch review session!

2024-03-06 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, Am Tue, Mar 05, 2024 at 07:19:46PM + schrieb Etienne B. Roesch: > Anything we need to have prepared by Thursday? > I imagine a ubuntu vm running with vanilla guix installed is installed? you should have a means of running Guix, and so that your store gets populated with recent basic th

Re: Cannot lock screen in lxqt desktop

2024-03-05 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello Reza, I can propose not a solution, but a workaround: Screen locking also does not work on my Xfce desktop; so I run the command xlock -mode blank from a terminal. I do not know where it comes from, but it appears as /run/setuid-programs/xlock in my system. Andreas

Re: You're invited to the first patch review session!

2024-02-29 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 05:10:56PM + schrieb Daniel Littlewood: > * I think the meeting is at 18:00 UTC, which is the same as 18:00 GMT, > which is the same (on March 7th) as 18:00 London time > Meetup also says 18:00 GMT. Yes, that is the plan! Andreas

Re: Build and upgrade times for heavier packages on old hardware

2024-02-26 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, Am Sun, Feb 25, 2024 at 08:06:13AM + schrieb Oleander via: > Are substitutes in Guix System disabled by running `# guix-daemon > --no-substitutes`? How can I see whether they are enabled or not? guix-daemon --help shows that that command line parameter is indeed --no-substitutes. If

Re: Guix Days: Patch flow discussion

2024-02-16 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 11:56:50AM +0100 schrieb Clément Lassieur: > Would it makes sense to have a "does-not-apply" tag too? Should this not appear in the QA page, assuming that once all the new issues are closed, older ones will bubble to the top and be treated by QA? (I am not sure if just look

Re: Building a Docker image for GitLab-CI

2024-02-14 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 11:31:28AM +0100 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: > Has anyone succeeded in building a Docker image suitable for use in > GitLab-CI? I haven’t. Here’s what I tried. A colleague of mine just found this: https://gitlab.com/daym/guix-on-docker/ :-) Andreas

Re: Guix Days: Patch flow discussion

2024-02-09 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, Am Fri, Feb 09, 2024 at 05:35:44PM +0100 schrieb Edouard Klein: > Am Thu, Feb 08, 2024 at 07:56:48PM + schrieb Skyler Ferris: > > I'd like to do my part to keep the project in a good state. However, I > > am new to interacting with large FLOSS projects so I'm nervous about > > causing m

Re: PdfLatex and LuaLatex are slow

2023-10-20 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, Am Fri, Oct 20, 2023 at 11:54:16AM +0300 schrieb Sergiu Ivanov: > For the reference, I install the monolithic package texlive. I think this is the difference, so using the monolithic package is a personal stop-gap measure, until we have figured out why the problem occurs with the modular p

Re: LaTeX: Need help with packaging a book in GNU Guix

2023-09-01 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Fri, Sep 01, 2023 at 07:24:19AM +0200 schrieb Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide: > Since the switch to split texlive packages, many of my documents don’t > compile yet (but I did not yet find out why, so I sadly can’t really > help you) and I also use marvosym. So maybe something more general. Did you

Re: documentation in TeX Live collections

2023-08-28 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, Am Mon, Aug 28, 2023 at 06:54:35PM +0200 schrieb Nicolas Goaziou: > Emmanuel Beffara writes: > > I don't understand how "out" and "doc" are different in this respect. The > > "out" output of a collection meta-package has no content of its own and it > > only serves to gather the "out" outp

Re: Problem with Sheperd after `guix home reconfigure`

2023-08-22 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, Am Tue, Aug 22, 2023 at 08:40:57PM +0800 schrieb Hilton Chain: > This is caused by a missing module in mcron's service definition, and > now it should be fixed in 552d0703776c532f25498d5cb852c3c497cb9252. > Please run `guix pull', then reconfigure the home environment. Now someone on IRC r

Re: URISyntaxException building openjdk@10

2023-07-24 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello Greg, Am Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 11:32:40AM -0400 schrieb Greg Hogan: > I have tried everything I could think of but have been unable to build > openjdk@10 since the final core-updates merge. Am simply running `guix > build openjdk` from a recent `guix pull`. openjdk and openjdk@10 are both av

Re: make check never finishes

2023-05-22 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, Am Mon, May 22, 2023 at 10:54:14AM -0700 schrieb Soren Stoutner via: > > /gnu/store/6nbb5kb2wj2lja5s77qckvfnabsf786s-sed-tarball-pack.tar.gz.drv > >/gnu/store/xd5xhbpcgcmy1cvypw4qhag17gbll4lh-profile-directory.drv > >/gnu/store/s2c4kin834znnc56s4bhy32pqw5vnbiv-profile.drv > >/gn

Re: Guix pull fails

2023-04-26 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, Am Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 03:23:33PM +0200 schrieb zimoun: > warning: 'texlive-generic-infwarerr' is deprecated, use 'texlive-infwarerr' > instead the warnings are harmless and can be ignored; it is guix that needs the texlive packages behind the scenes. > guix pull: error: `/gnu/store/66g

Re: Fail to update gajim

2023-04-24 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Mon, Apr 24, 2023 at 10:51:31AM +0200 schrieb Simon Tournier: > Please note #62956 reporting the failure and proposing a patch. Thanks for the notice! On core-updates, the current gajim requires python-gssapi, which fails to build; so this would have to be repaired additionally to the above pat

Re: Fail to update gajim

2023-04-24 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello David, Am Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 01:43:36PM +0200 schrieb David Lecompte: > I am using Guix on Trisquel 11. I have the gajim package installed. > After guix pull, doing guix package -u does this: > The following derivation will be built: > /gnu/store/apm7g4d3pi9fmh30aml28q31dymn6p1b-gajim-1.

Re: Alternatives to --emulate-fhs on foreign distros

2023-04-19 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, Am Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 06:18:33AM + schrieb Kyle Andrews: > I'm curious what other options might be. The main bashism I use is default > environment variables ${FOO:-bar}. On a native Guix system I could just add > /usr/bin/env back in. However, that doesn't seem to be possible with

Re: Is it possible to system reconfigure from a local guix git?

2023-04-18 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, my reply does not quite answer your question, but here is how I do it by circumventing the problem... I have never quite understood sudo and always used su. Am Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 01:15:37AM +0200 schrieb Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli: > > $ guix shell -D guix > > $ ./pre-inst-env guix system bu

Re: Advice on handling optional dependencies or packaging yp-tools

2023-04-06 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Thu, Apr 06, 2023 at 08:36:24PM +0200 schrieb Simon Tournier: > Well, I do not know what is missing. Which package provides > libgssapi_krb5? All missing libraries come from mit-krb5. Andreas

Re: image converter and resizer

2023-03-21 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 06:40:35PM +0100 schrieb Csepp: > Use the package named "imagemagick". > If it still doesn't show up, that might be a bug. Watch out, it probably does not appear in the desktop environment, and it contains lots of commands with different names. You can do something like thi

Re: image converter and resizer

2023-03-18 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, Am Sat, Mar 18, 2023 at 04:43:45PM + schrieb Gottfried: > In Guix there is no package: "imagemagick" yes there is! guix build imagemagick /gnu/store/gxggf8rsxd6l3rxi90d8qgsllzav1ycn-imagemagick-6.9.12-4-doc /gnu/store/0b9yq69kk25si62rcaixx2c0ir6n5xvj-imagemagick-6.9.12-4 I had a quic

Re: Newbie: Why executing "guix home reconfigure" requires an Internet connection?

2023-03-15 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 08:38:52AM +0200 schrieb Saku Laesvuori: > If you have not changed the packages referenced in your configuration or > ran `guix pull` after the last `guix home reconfigure`, I'd think it > shouldn't require an internet connection. And then you should be able to add the "--n

Re: How to handle concurrent QT versions

2023-03-03 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Fri, Mar 03, 2023 at 09:47:42AM +0100 schrieb Alexander Asteroth: > Then it will probably be as easy (an cleaner) to make the program into a > "real" guix package with all the correct dependencies and install this > package. Indeed, good point, this could also be an interesting option. And "--

Re: How to handle concurrent QT versions

2023-03-02 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Wed, Mar 01, 2023 at 09:14:27AM +0100 schrieb Alexander Asteroth: > guix packages but simply made them compile (after some manual changes to > the code) in my current environment. If I now run a `guix package -u` > the libraries (from qtbase) get upgraded from 5.15.5 to 6.3.1 and the > program f

Re: How to handle concurrent QT versions

2023-02-28 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, Am Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 12:25:13PM +0100 schrieb Alexander Asteroth: > since two month I didn't update my guix system now since I have a few > self compiled softwares that depend on QT@5.15 (qtbase, etc.) which I > need every day. Now version 6 of QT replaces 5 everywhere and whithout > upd

Re: delete generations

2023-02-27 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, Am Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 10:58:54AM + schrieb Gottfried: > is this command right to delete generation 109-127 ? > guix package --delete-generations=109-127 not exactly; it is explained here: https://guix.gnu.org/de/manual/devel/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-package.html#Invoking-guix-p

Re: problems with "gedit"

2023-02-12 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 04:32:05PM + schrieb Gottfried: > When upgrading "gedit" this message below was shown. > So upgrading didn’t help. The suggestion was to upgrade *all* packages at once, not only gedit. You may get a conflict if two different packages pull in two different versions of th

Re: 3D print enthusiasts

2023-02-09 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, Am Sat, Jan 14, 2023 at 08:45:43AM + schrieb phodina via: > I was wondering how many of us are there 3D print enthusiasts. > And also what solution do you use? some time ago there were efforts to add Slic3r: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/43906 I should have continued looking at the pa

Re: Understanding config.scm Modules

2023-02-08 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, Am Thu, Feb 02, 2023 at 07:02:09PM + schrieb mhrunn...@yahoo.com: > With the help of Timo Wilken and Paren, I have a working system and am > endeavoring to configure Guix to meet my needs.  That said, I am struggling > with the Guix manual.  While written well for Guix experts, the ma

Re: (length all-python-packages)

2022-11-16 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, Am Tue, Nov 15, 2022 at 08:36:35PM + schrieb (: > For me, this returns "2749". more crudely, I tried this on the command line: ./pre-inst-env guix package -A ^python | wc which returns 2165, or ./pre-inst-env guix package -A ^python- | wc which excludes python2-packages and retur

Re: Virtualisation: Network problems

2022-10-01 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Mon, Sep 26, 2022 at 06:05:31PM + schrieb Gottfried: > gfp@Tuxedo ~$ ps -ef | grep virtlog > it comes up with: > gfp 5233 5218 0 19:45 pts/000:00:00 grep --color=auto virtlog > (the word "virtlog" is in red colour) > I don't know if that means virtlogd is running? Answering a bi

Re: Modular texlive and xelatex

2022-07-09 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello Maxim, Am Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 11:27:48PM -0400 schrieb Maxim Cournoyer: > If you're going for xelatex, I suggest migrating from Babel to > Polyglossia, as that's recently been fixed and tested to work fine with > e.g. generating the IPython documentation in PDF format. > Hope that helps, y

Re: What to do if headers are not found

2022-07-03 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Sun, Jul 03, 2022 at 03:40:22PM -0500 schrieb Nathan Dehnel: > That didn't work, unfortunately. If you try "guix build util-linux", you will see that there are three outputs. The header files are in the lib output, so you need to add (inputs `(("util-linux" ,util-linux "lib"))) (And m

Re: What to do if headers are not found

2022-07-03 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Sat, Jul 02, 2022 at 06:44:20PM -0500 schrieb Nathan Dehnel: > This is a package I'm making. Configure can't find libmount.h, which > comes from util-linux, even though I have added it to > propagated-inputs, as the manual suggests. How can I fix this or > further investigate? Very quick answer

Re: wordpress

2022-06-21 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Mon, Jun 20, 2022 at 02:09:43PM +0200 schrieb Hartmut Goebel: > Workaround would be to configure the webserver service to serve a website > from a read-write-able document-root. See > https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Web-Services.html for examples. Besides the webserver you also need to

Re: Modular texlive and xelatex

2022-06-19 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 09:06:06PM +0200 schrieb Ricardo Wurmus: > The tlpdb says that this file is provided by the xunicode package – > which we don’t have yet. > > [time passes] Not much actually! > We now have texlive-xunicode as of commit > 793ce82c9d5ead8457da9cec8d1d8afc12704f10. Thanks a

Re: New Guix Version and printer

2022-06-19 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, Am Sun, Jun 19, 2022 at 12:14:48PM + schrieb Gottfried: > if I install Guix 1.3.0 on a laptop, and it is without a printer installed, > will then be in future when the next Guix Version will arrive, and the > printer is then included, > automatically through updating the printer be inst

Re: Modular texlive and xelatex

2022-06-17 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 04:54:28PM +0200 schrieb zimoun: > so I guess this .sty is included by default. Is it not the case? Hm, the following fails: guix shell texlive-base texlive-cm-super texlive-latex-geometry texlive-fontspec -- xelatex wasser.tex ... ! LaTeX Error: File `xunicode.sty' not f

Modular texlive and xelatex

2022-06-17 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, I am considering moving from the monolithic texlive distribution (which is not easy to update with an essentially full hard drive...) to the modular one, but do not find share/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/xunicode/xunicode.sty Does anyone know if this exists in some package? Do we have a way

Re: guix package --upgrade --dry-run

2022-05-20 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, Am Fri, May 20, 2022 at 05:48:14PM + schrieb Gottfried: > Folgende Ableitung würde erstellt: > /gnu/store/3jkwr7b3c5h3ivgqjrjdswizfkacp52z-hplip-3.21.10.drv this one would be built locally, and all others downloaded. Andreas

Re: guix package -u . --do-not-upgrade

2022-05-10 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Tue, May 10, 2022 at 06:10:42PM + schrieb Gottfried: > guix package --upgrade . --do-not-upgrade emacs vlc knotes (Can I put 3 > after each other) Yes, that works. (In any case, you can just give it a try. If you do not like the result, you can always do a "guix package --roll-back"!) Andr

Standard fonts not shown by xpdf

2022-04-14 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, after updating my system a few weeks ago, the standard fonts are left blank when showing pdf files with xpdf (while they appear with evince and okular). I currently have the following fonts installed: font-ghostscript font-dejavu font-gnu-freefont font-linuxlibertine font-gnu-unifont I hav

Valgrind not working

2022-01-18 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, when trying to debug a program of mine with valgrind, I see the error message below. Following the suggestion to install libc6-dbg, I installed glibc:debug, but without success. The executable itself has these properties according to "file": ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SY

Re: Nginx with PHP and sqlite

2021-12-21 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Sun, Dec 19, 2021 at 11:18:38PM +0100 schrieb Andreas Enge: > That was a good start, thank you! Strangely enough reconfiguring and > "herd restart nginx" was not enough, I had to reboot the (virtual) > machine. This seems to be a known problem, see this bug, to which I adde

Re: Nginx with PHP and sqlite

2021-12-19 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Sun, Dec 19, 2021 at 03:58:37PM -0500 schrieb Julien Lepiller: > The manual has an example of how to use php fpm with nginx, using > nginx-php-location for instance. That was a good start, thank you! Strangely enough reconfiguring and "herd restart nginx" was not enough, I had to reboot the (vi

Nginx with PHP and sqlite

2021-12-19 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, I would like to create a website using PHP and sqlite; so far my server uses Nginx (and static pages), whereas the "web services" part of the Guix documentation only explains how to add PHP to Apache. Would anyone have a sample configuration for PHP with Nginx, preferably with sqlite as a

Re: guix pull: error: corrupt input while restoring archive

2021-03-31 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello Simon, Am Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 09:53:20AM +0200 schrieb Simon Josefsson via: > Minutes after posting the above, 'guix pull' works again after having > been broken in the above way for at least a week. I never realized that > asking for help on this list would solve things this quickly! See

Re: cannot "guix pull"

2021-03-20 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello Adam, Am Sat, Mar 20, 2021 at 06:14:06PM +0100 schrieb Adam Kandur via: > hi everyone! i got this error trying to "guix pull" > http://paste.debian.net/1190170/ I think this is a transient error of the network connection; I also see it from time to time recently. Then issuing the same comm

Re: How do I retrieve the path to a Guix installed program from command line in a foreign distro?

2021-03-17 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, Am Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 09:32:29AM -0300 schrieb Tomás Chapunov: > Is there a canonical way to retrieve the full path in my profile to a > specific package with a command, in Guix on a foreign distro? > I used locate or find, but I can't figure out from the output how to detect > and select

Re: two questions on guix upgrade

2021-03-16 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, Am Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 12:47:33PM -0700 schrieb Andy Tai: > guix pull && guix package -u this may not be what you are looking for, but my pedestrian way of doing things is to do a "--dry-run" first: guix package -n -u (the "-u" must come last, or be replaced by "-u ."). That queries th

Re: /dev/kvm missing

2021-03-16 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, thanks to all of you for your kind and helpful replies! Am Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 03:32:03PM -0400 schrieb Leo Famulari: > You may need to enable it in the BIOS. There should be an option about > "virtualization extensions", or maybe some "Intel VT-something" feature. Indeed, it was disable

/dev/kvm missing

2021-03-16 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, trying to run the Android emulator on Guix, I notice that /dev/kvm is missing on my system; "lsmod | grep kvm" shows these: kvm 819200 0 irqbypass 16384 1 kvm Do I need to add anything to my system configuration to enable it? I am using the 5.11.4-gnu kerne

Re: Android development in Guix

2021-03-05 Thread Andreas Enge
Am Fri, Mar 05, 2021 at 01:55:38PM -0500 schrieb Julien Lepiller: > Maybe try this: https://lepiller.eu/en/running-android-studio-on-guix.html This is amazing, if I had known it last week it would have saved me the time to debootstrap Debian on Guix... I will give it a try. Personally I am develo

Re: How to check Guix servers have Ungoogled-Chrome substitutions for me?

2021-02-27 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, Am Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 05:14:19PM + schrieb znavko--- via: > Is there some 'guix' command run that will download updates and will check > which packages are to be > substitued, and which are to be compiled? guix package -n -u (where -n is a shortcut for --dry-run) does this. It is

Re: Unison with non-Guix machines

2020-11-24 Thread Andreas Enge
On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 11:42:47AM +0100, zimoun wrote: > It looks like you are doing by hand what “guix pack” does for you. ;-) > Especially, open the unison doc, look for the compiling options, burn > CPU to recompile it. Anyway. :-) Exactly, that kind of thing! But I had some time to spend in

Re: Unison with non-Guix machines

2020-11-24 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello Simon and Arun, thanks a lot for your help! I am not root on the machine, so I could try "guix pack". Next time - since I also found out a unison specific solution, which I can share here for future reference: guix environment unison tar xvf `guix build unison -S` cd unison-2.51.2-checkout/

Unison with non-Guix machines

2020-11-23 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, after the recent move to a newer ocaml version, I cannot unison any more with my work machine, which has unison version 2.51.2 (ocaml 4.07.1) instead of our new unison version 2.51.2 (ocaml 4.09.0) This raises error messages of this kind: Fatal error: Server: Fatal error during unmars

Re: Searxes in Icecat

2020-09-21 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello Mark, On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 03:02:02AM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote: > I'm not subscribed to help-guix, so I saw this only by chance. > If you had filed a bug report, I would have seen it sooner. well, I went to help-guix first since I expected it to maybe be a problem on my side rather tha

Re: Guix not seeing my Ethernet card

2020-09-19 Thread Andreas Enge
On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 12:07:24PM +0200, Barnabás Béres wrote: > Thanks Andreas, but how can I add this on the LiveUSB? I suppose you could follow the advice here: https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Building-the-Installation-Image.html and build a custom installation image with th

Re: Guix not seeing my Ethernet card

2020-09-19 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 08:10:24AM +0200, Barnabás Béres wrote: > [1.019472] r8169 :07:00.0: realtek.ko not loaded, maybe it > needs to be added to initramfs? that rings a bell! I do have the line ;; Add kernel module for Symbios Logic SAS1068E (initrd-modules (append (list "mp

Re: guix system disk-image failure aarch64 -> armhf

2020-09-17 Thread Andreas Enge
On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 02:13:06PM +0200, Mathieu Othacehe wrote: > Did you use a specific operating system file? Or the raw bare-bones.tmpl > as hardcoded in the snippet I sent? Actually I used my own system file. Now I tried again running guile image.scm where image.scm is your snippet with b

Re: guix system disk-image failure aarch64 -> armhf

2020-09-14 Thread Andreas Enge
On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 04:24:19PM +0300, Efraim Flashner wrote: > I'm not sure about the trivial-format-string? warning (we should More worrysome is the end of the story: ;;; compiled /home/andreas/.cache/guile/ccache/3.0-LE-8-4.2/gnu/store/xad80h6vbsc1fb844kx1c5l0am97nfm1-guix-1.1.0-25.44c6e6f

Re: guix system disk-image failure aarch64 -> armhf

2020-09-14 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello Mathieu, thanks for your helpful reply! On Wed, Sep 09, 2020 at 11:11:18AM +0200, Mathieu Othacehe wrote: > That does not really explain the error though, but that's another > issue. The pending patch here[1], will hopefully help users specify > their target image. It means that you should

Re: Guix on the MNT Reform

2020-09-13 Thread Andreas Enge
On Thu, Sep 03, 2020 at 12:22:27AM +0200, Andreas Enge wrote: > On Fri, May 08, 2020 at 11:06:04AM -0400, Christopher Lemmer Webber wrote: > > I'm very excited to see the MNT Reform launch: > thanks for bringing it to my attention! It looks quite exciting indeed. And I just or

Re: find and install a LaTeX package

2020-09-09 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello Marco, On Wed, Sep 09, 2020 at 03:43:18PM +0200, Marco van Hulten wrote: > * Is 'texlive' really complete including all packages published on CTAN? I think so. The big "texlive" package is compiled from one big tarball published by the TeXlive project. I am not sure what they put into it, b

Searxes in Icecat

2020-09-09 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, since a recent update to icecat-68.12.0-guix0-preview1 (I do not know from which version), the "Searxes Third Party Request Blocker" add-on is mentioned as enabled, but does not seem to work any more: There is no icon in the status bar to enable or disable third-party requests, and the pag

guix system disk-image failure aarch64 -> armhf

2020-09-09 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, when issuing the following command on an aarch64 machine: guix system disk-image --system=armhf-linux config.scm it fails like this: building /gnu/store/p9iz58wrxc4jiqd21n1q0rwcrjgbrk3q-partition.img.drv... Backtrace: 3 (primitive-load "/gnu/store/vs1lk99mbv4hx6jy9dy40c4iyc0…"

Re: Guix on Novena

2020-09-08 Thread Andreas Enge
On Sun, Sep 06, 2020 at 10:45:22AM +0200, Andreas Enge wrote: >guix system disk-image -e "(@ (gnu system install) novena-installation-os)" > executed on an aarch64 machine should have created a bootable SD card > image with only Guix. I could not resist and gave it a try

Re: Guix on Novena

2020-09-07 Thread Andreas Enge
On Sun, Sep 06, 2020 at 07:23:33AM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > I'm not sure if the bootloader can be installed on the full-sized SD > slot, but certainly works with the annoying microSD slot. Sometimes the > enumeration of the device number may vary from one kernel version or > even boot to t

Re: Guix on Novena

2020-09-07 Thread Andreas Enge
Replying to self: On Sun, Sep 06, 2020 at 10:45:22AM +0200, Andreas Enge wrote: > Will mounting /dev/sda1 to /mnt and issuing "guix system init config.scm /mnt" > work? (The handbook suggests to do "herd start cow-store /mnt", but I forgot > what this is needed for

Re: Guix on Novena

2020-09-06 Thread Andreas Enge
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Re: Guix on the MNT Reform

2020-09-02 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello Chris, On Fri, May 08, 2020 at 11:06:04AM -0400, Christopher Lemmer Webber wrote: > I'm very excited to see the MNT Reform launch: thanks for bringing it to my attention! It looks quite exciting indeed. > However my impression is that running Guix on ARM is not necessarily > straightforwar

Re: Guix on Novena

2020-09-02 Thread Andreas Enge
On Wed, Sep 02, 2020 at 10:30:22AM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > I haven't finished upgrading to a more recent guix, but attached is a > slightly trimmed down config that I used as recently as March. Great, thanks! So far, I have been upgrading the machine to Debian buster. There are scripts

Re: Eog not starting

2020-09-02 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, On Wed, Sep 02, 2020 at 06:24:53PM +0200, raingloom wrote: > You need to install gsettings-desktop-schemas. > This should probably be documented somewhere... great, thanks a lot, this solved the problem. So strictly speaking, gsettings-desktop-schemas should be a propagated input of eog,

Re: Guix on Novena

2020-09-01 Thread Andreas Enge
On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 09:41:04AM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > I have one and had a Guix System install on it, but it's been some > months since I've booted it. There's another bug I need to test with it, > so I'll dig it out of the closet sometime soon so I can poke at the > configuration an

Guix on Novena

2020-09-01 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, I would like to put our armhf Novena board back into service for the Guix build farm. In the past, I have been using Guix on Debian on the machine. Has anyone had success in installing Guix "The GNU System" on a Novena? If yes, could you point me to a write-up on what to do or otherwise hel

Eog not starting

2020-09-01 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, when trying to run eog, I get the following message: (eog:4813): GLib-GIO-ERROR **: 11:49:04.247: Settings schema 'org.gnome.desktop.thumbnailers' is not installed Trace/breakpoint trap Before filing a bug, I would like to ask whether I simply need to remove some gnome state files? I thin

Re: cleaning interrupted build "leftovers" ?

2020-08-28 Thread Andreas Enge
On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 12:34:11PM +0200, Fulbert wrote: > Yesterday, I interrupted (CTRL+C) the installation of > linux-libre@5.8.5 when it was in build phase (substitute not > available yet). Today, a new `guix system reconfigure` has > found a substitute. I am wondering if, in this situation,

Re: prevent gc of texlive-...-texmf.tar.xz

2020-02-23 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 05:21:48PM +0100, Thomas Danckaert wrote: > As far as I remember, > updates to texlive often seem to require the original texmf tarball and > apply patches to it (not sure how this works precisely -- somehow there are > no substitutes for the patched/updated version

Re: gpg-agent error: No pinentry

2019-12-18 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 10:41:27PM +0100, Marco van Hulten wrote: > Do I need to do any more actions accept for 'guix package -i gnupg > pinentry'? I also have a file .gnupg/gpg-agent.conf in my home directory containing the following lines: default-cache-ttl 300 max-cache-ttl 3600 pinent

Re: using texlive class from a private texmf tree

2019-12-08 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, On Fri, Dec 06, 2019 at 11:31:07AM +, Myles English wrote: > These are the packages installed: > > $ guix package -I | grep tex > texlive 20180414 out > /gnu/store/wlba9v03ypi0z5qz7p89sa0w12lh37zb-texlive-20180414 > texlive-bin 20180414 out > /gnu/store/znf7mmx3vslsscn9v3ilxmgkirqwsw

Re: using texlive class from a private texmf tree

2019-12-04 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, I am using a private class without problems from On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 01:36:57PM +, Myles English wrote: > In what follows I try to put my private latex tree under ~/.texmf but ~/.texlive2018/texmf-var/tex/latex/myclass.cls with the big non-modular "texlive" package. Could you may

Re: REQUEST to Guix Maintainers

2019-11-10 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, On Wed, Nov 06, 2019 at 11:35:04AM +0100, zimoun wrote: > Or maybe Pandoc https://pandoc.org/epub.html using directly the texinfo file. pandoc is a good idea, but the texinfo file causes error messages. I did the following, which worked well: makeinfo --html --no-split guix-cookbook.texi

Re: Consider the package expr evaluates to.

2019-06-24 Thread Andreas Enge
On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 06:27:26PM +, zna...@disroot.org wrote: > I cannot understand this string from manual: > "Consider the package expr evaluates to." This is an English shortcut for the following: "Consider the package to which expr evaluates." So when expr is evaluated, it becomes a pac

Re: editing /etc/sudoers

2019-06-17 Thread Andreas Enge
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Re: Update email address

2019-05-02 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 01:10:01AM -0600, ison wrote: > Sorry to bother the mailing list with this, but I was wondering if my email > address listed in the lxde.scm file could be updated. I converted your patch to utf8 and applied it in commit 3e85909044d8d9b492bcd2ecedde26d71794f145. Sinc

Re: National keyboard layout for Polish

2019-04-18 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 12:24:41PM -0700, Quiliro Ordonez wrote: > /home/quiliro/desktop-full-dvorak.scm:72:12: error: > set-xorg-configuration: unbound variable > hint: Did you forget `(use-modules (gnu services xorg))'? > > (use-service-modules desktop) You probably need to replace this

Re: Getting rid of "source file [...] newer than compiled" messages

2019-04-10 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello, On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 09:31:03AM -0500, Katherine Cox-Buday wrote: > Ricardo Wurmus writes: > > > You said that there are no .go files, yet Guile keeps saying that the > > source file > > /gnu/store/cd6rjv3qhhghr59wpq4fksfr84d5dsdf-guix-module-union/share/guile/site/2.2/gcrypt/hash.scm

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