Hi Felix!
On Wed, Jul 03 2024, Felix Lechner via wrote:
> '#$something
This expands to a quoted form, so whatever "something" splices in ends
up quoted in the output.
> (list #$@something)
This expands to a (list ...) form, where the elements of "something" end
up spliced as the list elements.
Hi Samuel,
On Wed, Jun 05 2024, Samuel Willey wrote:
> ice-9/boot-9.scm:1685:16: In procedure raise-exception:
> In procedure struct-vtable: Wrong type argument in position 1 (expecting
> struct): "pihole/pihole:latest"
I believe this is a bug[1] that was fixed in a recent commit
Hi Thomas,
On Sun, Mar 17 2024, Thomas Bennett wrote:
> I have an issue where my root user seems to be unable to have its
> environment set.
That sounds annoying! Hopefully we can figure out what's going wrong for
you.
> # tail /root/.bashrc
> [...]
>
>
Hi William,
I don't know anything about Grub chainloading, but I had a quick look
and I think I have a vague idea what's going on.
The menu entry is put together by this code in gnu/bootloader/grub.scm:
--8<---cut here---start->8---
#~(format port "
Hi Daniel,
On Tue, Feb 27 2024, Daniel Littlewood wrote:
> Hi everyone, I'm trying to figure out how to convert a Ruby project
> from using bundler to using guix directly, so I can sidestep
> rvm/rbenv/bundle.
I'm not aware of a solution to this in Guix, but there is a Nix-based
solution:
On Wed, Feb 21 2024, Felix Lechner via wrote:
> Does anyone have an 'mbsync' home service, please? Thanks!
I just run mbsync as an mcron service. I have a custom script, because I
do some weird stuff to update my mu index afterwards, but it shouldn't
be hard to figure out how to call mbsync
Hi Mauritz,
I don't know that I can help solving your problem, but I do have one
relevant thing to add.
On Mon, Feb 19 2024, Mauritz Stenek wrote:
> Now, however, running a program with sudo ... throws this error
>
> sudo: /run/current-system/profile/bin/sudo must be owned by
> uid 0 and
Hi Skyler,
On Sun, Feb 18 2024, Skyler Ferris wrote:
> Am I using the `--rounds` flag wrong, do I misunderstand this tool, or
> is this actually a bug?
I'm not sure if this is considered a bug or not, but the solution to
your problem is to use --check. Using your test file running:
guix
On Sat, Feb 17 2024, Alexis Simon wrote:
> On 17/02/2024 03:50, Carlo Zancanaro wrote:
>> Also, as an aside, I'm not sure where the 'prepare-python-module
>> phase is coming from. Does it actually exist?
>
> This is a very good question I had myself and to which I couldn't
Hi Alexis,
On Fri, Feb 16 2024, Alexis Simon wrote:
> ```
> error: in phase 'check-python-module': uncaught exception:
> wrong-type-arg "apply" "Apply to non-list: ~S" (#f) (#f)
> phase `check-python-module' failed after 0.0 seconds
> ...
> ice-9/boot-9.scm:1685:16: In procedure raise-exception:
On Tue, Feb 13 2024, Alexis Simon wrote:
> Ok, this seems really counter intuitive though to go and use the cargo
> build system for a python package only have a tiny part in rust.
I'm not sure why this is counter-intuitive. The existence of any rust at
all means you need to build rust code. The
Hi Alexis,
I don't really know much about building rust. Given this one repository
has both, I wonder if it would make sense to build them separately (as
two packages), and have one as an input of the other.
Presumably this would mean the python package taking the rust package as
an input, but
Hi Jesse,
I know very little about what you're trying to do, but there's one thing
that looked wrong to me:
On Wed, Feb 07 2024, Jesse wrote:
> ...
> (build-system crosstool-ng)
> ...
This isn't a build system, right? It's just the package? I think you may
want crosstool-ng-build-system
Hi Marek,
On Tue, Feb 06 2024, Marek Paśnikowski wrote:
> 06.02.2024 13:20:52 CET Carlo Zancanaro:
>> I'm glad you got something working. Using wrap-program like this will
>> likely work, but with the downside that LD_LIBRARY_PATH will also be
>> inherited by any child
Hi Abbé,
On Mon, Feb 05 2024, Abbé wrote:
> I'm wondering how would one go about integrating shepherd with 'guix
> home' configuration (i.e. home environment services), akin to what
> Guix does (I believe, without needing to do 'guix home ...').
How are you defining your Guix Home configuration?
Hi Marek,
On Mon, Feb 05 2024, Marek Paśnikowski wrote:
> After many hours of searching and thinking I found the following code
> works:
I'm glad you got something working. Using wrap-program like this will
likely work, but with the downside that LD_LIBRARY_PATH will also be
inherited by any
HI Andrew,
On Thu, Feb 01 2024, Andrew Stubbs wrote:
> The manual suggests that "home-shell-profile-configuration" is the way
> to go, but there's no example given.
The home-shell-profile-service-type is the way to go, but due to the way
the service is included (as an essential service), you
Hi Christopher,
On Tue, Jan 30 2024, Christopher Chmielewski wrote:
> So my question is more general. How do you provide config files for
> software that expects it to be located in /etc? Is there a best
> practice?
On a Guix system, you can do this by extending etc-service-type, which
writes
On Sun, Jan 14 2024, Fredrik Salomonsson wrote:
> 3) Copy an older definition that works to my custom channel, add a
> prefix and use that until it is fixed.
This is what I do. Or, more accurately, I copy it into my home.scm file
and use the package object directly. That way it's clear why it
Hi Daniel,
On Tue, Sep 26 2023, Daniel Littlewood wrote:
> I want to try out making a simple change to the program `diff`, which is part
> of GNU diffutils: https://packages.guix.gnu.org/packages/diffutils/3.8/ I'd
> like to set up a dev environment, patch diff.c, rebuild it and try out the
>
Hi Josua!
On Tue, Aug 10 2021, Josua Stingelin wrote:>
As far as I understand, if tools-extra is defined these get
installed when installing the 'out'-output of the package.
This is where you're running into problems. The clangd binary is
actually installed into the "extra" output of the
Hi Petr,
I had a look at the date2name repository in Github, and it doesn't
look like it has any instructions for packaging it at all. I'm not
sure how they build things to distribute over pypi.
At any rate, it looks like it's mostly a matter of marking
__init__.py as executable, and
Hi Sergiu!
On Mon, Jan 25 2021, Sergiu Ivanov wrote:
I understand that I should somehow construct a (?)
from my , but I don't see a way to do it.
Unfortunately Guix overloads the word "service", where we have (a)
services that consist of structured modifications to an operating
system, and
Hi Simon!
On Tue, Dec 22 2020, zimoun wrote:
It is. If you do:
(live) guix pull
(live) guix system init
then it appears expected to install what the system describes
*and* the current guix used to install them. Therefore, after
reboot, the first “guix pull” will not fetch all the
Hi Simon,
On Sat, Dec 19 2020, zimoun wrote:
I am not sure to agree. The unexpected (by you :-)) behaviour
at hand is about Emacs and "M-x shell"; and I will not speak "in
general".
Let's avoid using the word "expected", because that word in this
context can mean different things. I don't
Hi Jorge,
On Sat, Dec 19 2020, Jorge P. de Morais Neto wrote:
It is a pity though that this workaround needs writing manual
wrappers for every affected program.
In this particular case, we can actually fix Emacs. When Emacs
spawns a child process it passes the environment as specified in
Hi Simon,
On Fri, Dec 18 2020, zimoun wrote:
Is your point that:
...
My point is: Guix manipulates environment variables in a way that
can, and does, break "foreign" programs when Guix's programs
launch "foreign" programs. We should consider this a bug. This bug
might be hard, or even
Hi Simon,
On Fri, Dec 18 2020, zimoun wrote:
Maybe I miss something and I have not dove into all the details
so I could be totally wrong. However, from my understanding, A
is built against the shared library C1, and B is built against
the shared library C2, and nothing says that C1 and C2
Hi Simon,
On Fri, Dec 18 2020, zimoun wrote:
When I launch Debian's Evince from Guix's emacs-maint, Evince
cannot find my local printer. Look at the messages when I open
Evince in an Emacs shell and open Evince's print dialog:
Well, it seems expected, isn’t it? ...
I don't think
Hi Gary,
On Tue, Nov 10 2020, Gary Johnson wrote:
It's been a week since my original post requesting assistance
with getting Postgresql and PostGIS to work together correctly,
but unfortunately I still haven't received any help with this
issue.
...
Does anyone know how this code works or how
Hi Jesse!
On Thu, Aug 27 2020, Jesse Gibbons wrote:
Am I using the --with-source option incorrectly, or is this some
sort of bug?
You could argue either way. This is because --with-source is a
shallow package rewrite, unlike the other --with-X package
transformation options. There is an
On Wed, Jul 08 2020, Pierre Neidhardt wrote:
> Couldn't Guix be smarter about this? Or at least provide a less puzzling
> message.
This was brought up when we originally implemented upgrading of services on a
live system. The discussion about this starts in an email from Ludovic[1], and
Hey Edison,
One easy way to do this is to just put your package definition in
config.scm, above your operating system definition. I haven't
tried it with a shell, but the basic idea would be to have
something like this:
(define-public xonsh
... your package definition ...)
Hey Pierre,
On Mon, Nov 04 2019, Pierre Neidhardt wrote:
As I understand it, the current discussion is about "pinning"
profiles.
Should any dependency get garbage collected, an environment will
need
Internet access to refetch the missing parts; I think this is
what we
are trying to avoid,
Hey Mark,
On Mon, Aug 12 2019, Mark H Weaver wrote:
What leads you to believe this?
I think you're mistaken, based both on past experience and also
from examining the current code.
After taking another look at the code, I agree with you.
The relevant procedure is
On Sat, Aug 10 2019, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
hint: Try upgrading both `python-pycairo' and `gtk+', or remove
one of them from the profile.
Have you tried that?
In particular, I think `guix package -i python-pycairo gtk+` might
do the trick.
Does “guix package -u” not fix this problem for
Hey Brett!
On Fri, Jan 18 2019, bre...@posteo.net wrote:
The issue with this meta package is that I am inheriting the
hello base package because I am not sure how to bypass needing a
source to pull from. There is likely a better way to do this
meta-package sort of deal. Does anybody have any
Hey Jone!
...
(mcron-service-type (mcron-configuration (jobs (list
fstrim-job
...
This is close, but very slightly wrong. `mcron-service-type` isn't
a procedure, so you can't call it like that. You have to use
`service`:
(service mcron-service-type
I've had a problem like this before, when I was trying to build
the Shepherd from git.
On Wed, Apr 11 2018, Pierre Neidhardt wrote:
./configure: line 3350: config.log: Permission denied
I'm pretty sure this is what I had, and it was a problem of trying
to build in a directory that
Hey Pierre,
On Fri, Mar 02 2018, Pierre Neidhardt wrote:
An idea crossed my mind: from a foreign distribution with Guix
installed, run
guix system init /mnt/etc/config.scm /mnt
[...]
Is there a simple way to do this without `herd'?
There is! I followed the vague instructions in this
On Fri, Feb 23 2018, Rutger Helling wrote:
Is there a way to prevent auto-starting a service in Shepherd? I
find that if I use "herd disable service" it still automatically
starts the service on a reboot/reconfigure.
I've just had a look at gnu/services/shepherd.scm, and it looks
like system
On Tue, Feb 13 2018, Leo Famulari wrote:
That’s a misunderstanding. All of the things in the “services”
field of
your operating-system configuration are “system services”, so
all of
them get updated.
But, it doesn't try to stop and restart those services in case
of any
relevant changes,
On Tue, Feb 13 2018, Ricardo Wurmus wrote:
That’s a misunderstanding. All of the things in the “services”
field of
your operating-system configuration are “system services”, so
all of
them get updated.
Should we think about changing the name for "system services"? The
confusion with
On Fri, Nov 10 2017, Chris Marusich wrote:
> Anecdotally, I swear I've seen guix build some things from source even
> when I did not specify --fallback. Has anybody else seen that occur?
Yeah, I've definitely seen that. My assumption was that this is what's
meant to happen when substitutes
On Wed, Feb 08 2017, Niall Dooley wrote
> (2) In terms of Emacs, do fellow Guix users install all packages via Guix
> instead of the traditional ELPA, MELPA route. I suspect they do as I guess
> that is the point. But I ask for advice as my 'pre-guix' emacs config makes
> heavy use of the
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