Re: Blog team

2018-04-24 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
eference in response to the question “What are > the advantages of guix vs nix?”: > > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16491797 Great write up! And great post too :) -- Pierre Neidhardt wow, I think I just used libtool to solve a problem -- somebody help me! :> xt

Re: Blog team

2018-04-24 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
-bit on 64-bit systems) - Static linking vs. dynamic linking. Not completely sure that would fit a Guix blog entry though :p -- Pierre Neidhardt As a goatherd learns his trade by goat, so a writer learns his trade by wrote. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Multiple pulseaudio process after re-loging

2018-04-24 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
I'm not doing anything to start Pulseaudio since it starts on demand. I can't think of anything wrong with how I start my user session. I run EXWM via ~/.xsession. See my dotfiles: https://github.com/ambrevar/dotfiles Find my config.scm attached. -- Pierre Neidhardt config.scm

Multiple pulseaudio process after re-loging

2018-04-23 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
to the server. - Power consumption skyrockets. If I kill all pulseaudio processes, it goes back to normal. That is to say, until I log out and in again. Can anyone reproduce? -- Pierre Neidhardt Newton's Little-Known Seventh Law: A bird in the hand is safer than one overhead

Re: Emacs load-path random order

2018-04-22 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
files there: https://github.com/Ambrevar/dotfiles [1] https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm -- Pierre Neidhardt signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: pcspkr only loaded after waking up from sleep

2018-04-22 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Chris Marusich <cmmarus...@gmail.com> writes: > Pierre Neidhardt <ambre...@gmail.com> writes: >> Otherwise a `xset -b` or `amixer set beep 0% mute` should be enough. > > Apparently there are various ways to control the beep. Check out: > > https://wiki.a

Re: File sharing with GNU Guix (was: Re: Package requests: fortune, gifsicle, inxi, uncrustify, unrar, vsftp, xss-lock)

2018-04-21 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
o, guix search capabilities combined with recutils are enormously helpful! -- Pierre Neidhardt signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Emacs load-path random order

2018-04-20 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
j7wn4sw6hx10hbvcs1v2adyf-emacs-prerelease-26.1-rc1/share/emacs/26.1/lisp/obsolete") --8<---cut here---end--->8--- Notice that there are two batches of guix.d/* folders: /home/ambrevar/.guix-profile/share/emacs/site-lisp/guix.d/* and /var/guix/profiles/per-user/ambrevar/guix-profile/share/emacs/site-lisp/guix.d/popup-0.5.3 The former is to be expected, the latter only happens randomly. I wonder why that is. I'd rather keep the Guix folders appended so that they have lower priority than my user-local site-lisp files. I'm now on Emacs 26.1 RC1 but I had the same issue with Guix' stock package. De-logging + re-logging usually fixes it. Any clue? -- Pierre Neidhardt interlard - vt., to intersperse; diversify -- Webster's New World Dictionary Of The American Language signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: pcspkr only loaded after waking up from sleep

2018-04-20 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Just rebooted with my new pcspkr-less system configuration, and now I have no sound at all!! Weird... I'll keep investigating. Otherwise a `xset -b` or `amixer set beep 0% mute` should be enough. -- Pierre Neidhardt signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Multilib support: running 32-bit binaries on 64-bit systems

2018-04-19 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
ATH. -- Pierre Neidhardt Depart in pieces, i.e., split. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Multilib support: running 32-bit binaries on 64-bit systems

2018-04-19 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
"multilibs", that is, a separate 32-bit library tree with the 32-bit linker configured to load those instead of their 64-bit counterparts. Does Guix have any provision for multilibs? -- Pierre Neidhardt signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: LIBRARY_PATH and foreign binaries: error while loading shared libraries

2018-04-18 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
ned in (8)ld.so. -- Pierre Neidhardt Perilous to all of us are the devices of an art deeper than we ourselves possess. -- Gandalf the Grey [J.R.R. Tolkien, "Lord of the Rings"] signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: LIBRARY_PATH and foreign binaries: error while loading shared libraries

2018-04-18 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Thank you Ricardo for those clarifications. -- Pierre Neidhardt signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Missing glibc man pages?

2018-04-18 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Alex Kost <alez...@gmail.com> writes: >> 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. Indeed, thanks for pointing that out! --

Re: pcspkr only loaded after waking up from sleep

2018-04-18 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
"); > although it was several years ago, maybe it is not necessary anymore. Thanks! Any idea why the module does not load properly at boot time? -- Pierre Neidhardt The world will end in 5 minutes. Please log out. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: LIBRARY_PATH and foreign binaries: error while loading shared libraries

2018-04-18 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Pierre Neidhardt <ambre...@gmail.com> writes: > I can fix it with > >> patchelf --set-interpreter "$(realpath "$(which sh)")" >> /path/to/foreign/binary Copy/paste mistake, the correct command is > patchelf --set-interpreter "$(pat

pcspkr only loaded after waking up from sleep

2018-04-18 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
[...] --8<---cut here---end--->8--- 19213 is after waking up from sleep, the modules get re-linked I suppose. It works from then on. Anyways, I'd like to turn it off for good. Is the following the right way to go? (kernel-arguments '("modprobe.blacklist=

Missing glibc man pages?

2018-04-18 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
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? -- Pierre Neidhardt signature.asc Description: PGP signature

LIBRARY_PATH and foreign binaries: error while loading shared libraries

2018-04-18 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
ks: > export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LIBRARY_PATH > /path/to/foreign/binary Is there a better way? -- Pierre Neidhardt Price does not include taxes. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

guile-sdl2 and guile-sly: Missing info pages

2018-04-17 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
I've noticed that the info manuals of guile-sdl2 and guile-sly are installed but they are not available from the directory node. Bug? Also Sly's homepage needs to be updated to http://dthompson.us/projects/sly.html -- Pierre Neidhardt signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Installing GuixSD on an external USB hard drive

2018-04-17 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
> I did say that in my email: > >> It then pastes the snippet of code. OK, I hadn't understood what you meant with "snippet of code". -- Pierre Neidhardt signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Installing GuixSD on an external USB hard drive

2018-04-16 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
age "(guix) operating-system Reference". -- Pierre Neidhardt Reporter: "What would you do if you found a million dollars?" Yogi Berra: "If the guy was poor, I would give it back." signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: gnu: Add inxi (old Shell script version).

2018-04-16 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Oleg Pykhalov <go.wig...@gmail.com> writes: > I think we could use old version until a Perl version will be ready. > WDYT? From the last conversation with the developer, it does not look like the Perl version of inxi will change much with regard to the PATH issue. -- Pierre Nei

Re: inxi and inxi-full

2018-04-16 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
will have to go ahead and patch inxi. > > That is always an option. We do it all the time, so it's nothing new. I'll go ahead then. -- Pierre Neidhardt Nonsense. Space is blue and birds fly through it. -- Heisenberg signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: inxi and inxi-full

2018-04-14 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Upstream turns out to be much more complicated than expected: https://github.com/smxi/inxi/issues/143 If anyone wants to chime in and try to convince the maintainer... Otherwise we will have to go ahead and patch inxi. -- Pierre Neidhardt signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Does Linux 4.16.1 blast out battery time? (9h+ -> 3h+)

2018-04-13 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
;Timer;intel_uncore_fw_release_timer --8<---cut here---end--->8--- That Realtek audio codec looks awfully suspicious. Sounds a like a think to report on the kernel mailing list? -- Pierre Neidhardt signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: inxi and inxi-full

2018-04-13 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
s I think. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/inxi/ Cf. the documentation and the `inxi --recommends` output. -- Pierre Neidhardt Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images. -- Jean Cocteau signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: `guix package -u` upgrades packages to themselves

2018-04-13 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Chris Marusich <cmmarus...@gmail.com> writes: > I think this is a bug. I've reported it here: > > https://bugs.gnu.org/31142 Thank you! :) -- Pierre Neidhardt A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say. -- Michael Winner, British film director

Does Linux 4.16.1 blast out battery time? (9h+ -> 3h+)

2018-04-13 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
+. This might be due to the discrete Nvidia card which was completely shut off by default, while it's now running with nouveau on GuixSD but I don't know how to turn it off. Insights? -- Pierre Neidhardt signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: inxi and inxi-full

2018-04-12 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
't need the full mesa stack to get information around their graphics capabilities. -- Pierre Neidhardt I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing... -- Thomas Jefferson signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: inxi and inxi-full

2018-04-12 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
nxi where its dependencies live (e.g., some kind > of configure script), and then use that mechanism. This seems like > the hardest way to me, but it is also the most ideal. Or ask the maintainer not to manually set the PATH variable. I'll report the issue on GitHub. -- Pierre Neidhardt Five bicycles make a volkswagen, seven make a truck. -- Adolfo Guzman signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Package requests: fortune, gifsicle, inxi, uncrustify, unrar, vsftp, xss-lock

2018-04-12 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Woof seems even better! Thanks for the suggestion! Can't believe I never ran into this before... -- Pierre Neidhardt We are not a clone. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Package requests: fortune, gifsicle, inxi, uncrustify, unrar, vsftp, xss-lock

2018-04-12 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
ot; would be able to mass-download. This is absolutely fantastic! Thank you so much for this! Bye-bye FTP then :p -- Pierre Neidhardt Finster's Law: A closed mouth gathers no feet. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: inxi and inxi-full

2018-04-12 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Oleg Pykhalov <go.wig...@gmail.com> writes: > Pierre Neidhardt <ambre...@gmail.com> writes: > > What do you think about ‘inxi’ package with inputs, which are only > required to run it, > and another ‘inxi-full’ package, which will inherit ‘inxi’, but with > additi

Re: Package requests: fortune, gifsicle, inxi, uncrustify, unrar, vsftp, xss-lock

2018-04-12 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Clément Lassieur <clem...@lassieur.org> writes: > Pierre Neidhardt <ambre...@gmail.com> writes: > >> vsftp: Very Secure FTP daemon >> Upstream URL:https://security.appspot.com/vsftpd.html >> (It seems that there is not a single FTP server

find-files: /gnu/store/...-xf86-video-*-*/share/X11/xorg.conf.d: No such file or directory

2018-04-12 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
<---cut here---end--->8--- Nonetheless the update completes successfully. -- Pierre Neidhardt signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: How to install prerelease package versions (particularly Emacs)

2018-04-12 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
e "configure" file. The whole point of working over a directory instead of an archive or a git reference is that all files are re-used as-is. -- Pierre Neidhardt When in doubt, tell the truth. -- Mark Twain signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: How to install prerelease package versions (particularly Emacs)

2018-04-12 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
home/ambrevar/projects/emacs-build" #:recursive? #t -- Pierre Neidhardt Must I hold a candle to my shames? -- William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice" signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Package request inxi

2018-04-12 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
in user-specific folders (e.g. ~/.local/bin). -- Pierre Neidhardt To save a single life is better than to build a seven story pagoda. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Package request inxi

2018-04-12 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
puts` allow us to do that. -- Pierre Neidhardt Flying is the second greatest feeling you can have. The greatest feeling? Landing... Landing is the greatest feeling you can have. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: How to install prerelease package versions (particularly Emacs)

2018-04-12 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Chris Marusich <cmmarus...@gmail.com> writes: > Pierre Neidhardt <ambre...@gmail.com> writes: > >> Is there a good reason not to allow local paths in git URLs? > > You might find the "local-file" procedure to be helpful here. You can > pass a local-fi

Re: Package request inxi

2018-04-12 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
and ~/.guix-profile/{sbin,bin}. What do you think? Is this generic enough? Is ~/.guix-profile a guaranteed location for the user profile? Last but not least, what's the better approach between - a patch, - a substitute, - a snippet? I only know very little about Perl so the above code might

Re: Package request inxi

2018-04-12 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Oleg Pykhalov <go.wig...@gmail.com> writes: > Please, could you try to wrap a ‘substitute*’ procedure with: > > (with-fluids ((%default-port-encoding #f)) (substitute* #;…)) It worked. -- Pierre Neidhardt Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and think what

Re: How to install prerelease package versions (particularly Emacs)

2018-04-12 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
For now I'll stick to Emacs 26 RC1. I've adapted the package declaration from "emacs" with the following changes: - Disable the scheme patch. - Disable tests. Find the declaration attached. -- Pierre Neidhardt When you get your PH.D. will you get able to work at BURGER KING?

Re: Package request inxi

2018-04-11 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
puts induces extra load for nothing for the builder. -- Pierre Neidhardt My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world. -- Muhammad Ali signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Package request inxi

2018-04-11 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
(("/usr/bin/env perl") (string-append (assoc-ref %build-inputs "perl") "/bin/perl"))) -- Pierre Neidhardt There's no real need to do housework -- after four years it doesn't get any worse. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Package request inxi

2018-04-11 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
the builder. -- Pierre Neidhardt He is a man capable of turning any colour into grey. -- John LeCarre signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Package request inxi

2018-04-11 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
I'm trying to package inxi. Does guix support optional dependencies? Or is it that I should just include them in the description? -- Pierre Neidhardt I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read. -- Larry Wall in <199710120226.taa06...@wall.

Re: How to install prerelease package versions (particularly Emacs)

2018-04-11 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Oleg Pykhalov <go.wig...@gmail.com> writes: > Pierre Neidhardt <ambre...@gmail.com> writes: > >> I tried reusing your package snippet from >> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2017-09/msg00074.html by >> setting >> >>

Re: How to install prerelease package versions (particularly Emacs)

2018-04-11 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
make info-real info-dir You do not seem to have the test/ directory. Maybe you are using a release tarfile, rather than a repository checkout. make: *** [Makefile:937: have-tests] Error 1 make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs Why should it fail if it's a

Re: How to install prerelease package versions (particularly Emacs)

2018-04-11 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
st-install ./configure: line 3350: config.log: Permission denied ./configure: line 3360: config.log: Permission denied phase `configure' failed after 0.1 seconds I inspected the content of "/tmp/guix-build-emacs-dev-26.0.91.drv-0/source": many files are missing,

Re: Disable discrete graphics card (Nvidia)

2018-04-07 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
eal. -- Pierre Neidhardt signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Helm System Packages: New support for Guix

2018-04-07 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> writes: > ‘guix refresh --list-dependents’ gives an overview of that. I suppose > you could write code along the same lines to do what you want. Thanks! Note that it is `guix refresh --list-dependent` (no 's'). -- Pierre Neidhardt signature.asc

Re: Helm System Packages: New support for Guix

2018-04-07 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
One of the biggest missing features is _reverse dependency_ browsing: does anyone know if it's possible to display them with guix? -- Pierre Neidhardt signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Helm System Packages: New support for Guix

2018-04-07 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
as it can on your local system, the interface will remain (mostly) snappy even over slow connections. Don't hesitate to report any issues you might run into and drop a comment if you'd like to see some extra functionalities implemented. -- Pierre Neidhardt signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Disable discrete graphics card (Nvidia)

2018-04-06 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
By the way, I wonder how uninstalling the xf86-video-nouveau driver could be different from blacklisting it... Anyone? -- Pierre Neidhardt signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Disable discrete graphics card (Nvidia)

2018-04-06 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
ore/6k6dfgsxs396rxd36vsbp8k6h5ddhclr-which-2.21 psmisc 22.21 out /gnu/store/h6y98mp3fjsq5wmfi05cw5czv8wfwj6p-psmisc-22.21 procps 3.3.12 out /gnu/store/gb9hkz8asfj76rqqx3217xz5rdcbl55g-procps-3.3.12 nss-scerts 3.36out /gnu/store/lyaj4w53dskvmbgps2nzvangp7nfjfgd-nss-certs-3.36 -- Pie

Re: Вопрос по опциям монтирования SSD и logrotate

2018-04-05 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
t elogind dbus ntp > login console-fonts agetty mingetty mingetty mingetty mingetty mingetty > mingetty static-networking syslog urandom-seed guix nscd udev special-files) > --8<---cut here-------end--->8--- This is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks! -- Pierre Neidhardt signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Вопрос по опциям монтирования SSD и logrotate

2018-04-04 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
cm’ [2] или вызвав Guile: >> >> guile -e '(@@ (gnu services desktop) %desktop-services)' >> >>> Или я должен явно прописывать это? >> >> Да, примеры есть в документации Guix [3]. > > The question was about how to check what services contains > ‘%deskt

Re: Trying to define a package

2018-04-03 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
directly, the failure is to be expected. Two solutions here: - Install all the required tools in your user profile. - Use ~guix environment freefilesync...~. Cf. the manual. -- Pierre Neidhardt signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: chromaprint: fpcalc missing

2018-04-03 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Catonano <caton...@gmail.com> writes: > which package are you talking about ? > > Anyway, you can submit a patch ☺ The chromaprint package. I'll submit a patch but I wanted to ask, maybe the original author of the recipe has an opinion about it. -- Pierre Neidhardt signature.

Evil bindings for guix.el

2018-04-03 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
. Enjoy! -- Pierre Neidhardt signature.asc Description: PGP signature

chromaprint: fpcalc missing

2018-04-03 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
The chromaprint commandline tool "fpcalc" to compute fingerprints is missing. I believe passing the CMAKE argument -DBUILD_TOOLS=ON would be enough. I guess it would be a nice fit for a separate output. -- Pierre Neidhardt signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Trying to define a package

2018-04-02 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
uld be lowercase I think. Love the description, haha! :) -- Pierre Neidhardt signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Package requests: Udisks helpers (udiskie, udevil)

2018-04-01 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Pierre Neidhardt <ambre...@gmail.com> writes: > Can you share those udev rules? Thanks! Forget it, just saw your other e-mail in this thread! :p -- Pierre Neidhardt signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Package requests: Udisks helpers (udiskie, udevil)

2018-04-01 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
u share those udev rules? Thanks! -- Pierre Neidhardt signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Fail to configure home-directory

2018-04-01 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
m: loading new services: file-system-/foo user-homes term-auto... shepherd: Evaluating user expression (register-services (primitive-load "/gnu/st?") ?). -- Pierre Neidhardt signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: units_cur

2018-04-01 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
ory. More specifically, it seems that mcron fails to take a list as second argument to the ~next-*~ functions. Can anyone confirm? -- Pierre Neidhardt signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Package requests: fortune, gifsicle, inxi, uncrustify, unrar, vsftp, xss-lock

2018-04-01 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Pierre Neidhardt <ambre...@gmail.com> writes: >> vsftp: Very Secure FTP daemon >> Upstream URL:https://security.appspot.com/vsftpd.html >> (It seems that there is not a single FTP server on Guix. Strange... Can >> anyone >> recommend anythin

Re: Package requests: Udisks helpers (udiskie, udevil)

2018-04-01 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Alternatively, it's also possible to roll out our own 10-line user script: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Udisks#udevadm_monitor Save it in your PATH as, say, udisks-automount, then add the following to your startup files (e.g. .profile): udisks-automount & -- Pi

Re: Package requests: Udisks helpers (udiskie, udevil)

2018-04-01 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Pierre Neidhardt <ambre...@gmail.com> writes: > It's possible to mount the drives for every one though: > > (define %automount-udev-rule > (udev-rule > "90-automount.rules" > (string-append "KERNEL=\"sd[a-z][

Re: Package requests: Udisks helpers (udiskie, udevil)

2018-04-01 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
LESYSTEM_SHARED}=\"1\"," "RUN+=\"/run/current-system/profile/bin/udisksctl mount -b /dev/%k\""))) Conclusion: a udev rule might solve part of the problem (auto-mounting) but it does not allow for per-user mount points. In the end, udiskie might be the better option. What do you think? -- Pierre Neidhardt signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Package requests: Udisks helpers (udiskie, udevil)

2018-04-01 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
automounting? -- Pierre Neidhardt signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: units_cur

2018-04-01 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
; See ‘runstatedir’ in > <https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Directory-Variables.html>. So how do you get units to use runstatedir instead? Is there some autoconf way to do it are do we have to patch the code directly? I think it would be worth mentioning the issue upstream then. -- Pierre Neidhardt signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: units_cur

2018-03-31 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
/var/run by > default. > > WDYT? That sounds reasonable to me. What's the purpose of /var/run on GuixSD? How is it used? > I’m not offering to work on the patch, though. :-) I'll give it a shot when I'll more time on my hands. -- Pierre Neidhardt signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: units_cur

2018-03-31 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Pierre Neidhardt <ambre...@gmail.com> writes: > I'm also wondering whether an mcron-service would work at the system level. Well, I guess not, that would defeat the integrity of the store. -- Pierre Neidhardt signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Package requests: fortune, gifsicle, inxi, uncrustify, unrar, vsftp, xss-lock

2018-03-30 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Pierre Neidhardt <ambre...@gmail.com> writes: > vsftp:Very Secure FTP daemon > Upstream URL: https://security.appspot.com/vsftpd.html > (It seems that there is not a single FTP server on Guix. Strange... Can > anyone > recommend anything better than v

Re: units_cur

2018-03-30 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
I'm also wondering whether an mcron-service would work at the system level. -- Pierre Neidhardt signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Locale error: Falling back to C locale

2018-03-30 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> writes: > Pierre Neidhardt <ambre...@gmail.com> writes: > >> The problem is gone for Emacs (hurray!) but not for stow. >> >> What does it mean? That glibc _must_ be installed on all user profiles? > > Certainly

Re: Given a file, find the package that builds it

2018-03-30 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
> Handy way for Emacs users: ‘M-x eww’, then ‘!debfiles bin/hello’. Didn't know about this, it's brilliant! See also http://www.portagefilelist.de/site/query/file/?do#result for the Gentoo equivalent. I don't know if there is a duckduckgo shortcut however. -- Pierre Neidhardt signature.

Re: Package requests: Udisks helpers (udiskie, udevil)

2018-03-29 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
that bug is as > simple as adding the packages you mentioned.) I don't use a desktop environment. More specifically, I use EXWM (Emacs W Window Manager): https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm. -- Pierre Neidhardt signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Locale error: Falling back to C locale

2018-03-29 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> writes: > Pierre Neidhardt <ambre...@gmail.com> writes: > >> Glibc was not installed, but installing it pulls 3 packages: >> >> > guix build glibc >> >> /gnu/store/2kjscn5i1zjq2h3j0dcwfnzmc69lajz1-

Re: Locale error: Falling back to C locale

2018-03-29 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Marius Bakke <mba...@fastmail.com> writes: > Pierre Neidhardt <ambre...@gmail.com> writes: > >> Marius Bakke <mba...@fastmail.com> writes: >> >>> Can you post the output of these commands in a terminal: >>> >>> $ locale >>

Re: Locale error: Falling back to C locale

2018-03-29 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
6 root root 4096 1970-01-01 1970 2.26 -- Pierre Neidhardt signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Package requests: Udisks helpers (udiskie, udevil)

2018-03-29 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
I don't use Nautilus and I just want to automate the ~udisksctl mount~ command whenever a disk is plugged-in. Some udev rules might be enough though. -- Pierre Neidhardt signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Package requests: Udisks helpers (udiskie, udevil)

2018-03-29 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
without password Upstream URL: http://ignorantguru.github.com/udevil/ I'm willing to package one of them. Does anyone have an opinion on the matter? -- Pierre Neidhardt signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Missing pinentry-emacs for gpg-agent?

2018-03-29 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
I can't seem to find where it states that it is a requirement. I always thought this requirement on path-linked namespaces (that we find in many languages) to be redundant. > Local checkout allows you prepare patches and use ‘guix’ without ‘guix > pull’. If you plan to contribute more it's definitely worth to have it. Will do just now. Thanks a lot for your help. -- Pierre Neidhardt signature.asc Description: PGP signature

updatedb.conf is missing, should it be configurable via ~guix system reconfigure~?

2018-03-29 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
-- var `-- mlocate A global search on the filesystem reveals no updatedb.conf. I think we need some rules to configure it from a system configuration with ~guix system reconfigure~. -- Pierre Neidhardt signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Locale error: Falling back to C locale

2018-03-28 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Marius Bakke <mba...@fastmail.com> writes: > Pierre Neidhardt <ambre...@gmail.com> writes: > >>> guix package -I local >> glibc-utf8-locales 2.26.105-g0890d5379cout >> /gnu/store/3k6hl20c3b7big8ngrsl6mj9k8xav99d-glibc-utf8-locales-2.26.105-g

Re: Fail to configure home-directory

2018-03-28 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
guration of LABEL=home works. I rebooted after that. From then, I re-added the entry for LABEL=home with the new mount point /home. It worked after a reboot. Something is fishiy... -- Pierre Neidhardt signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Package request inxi

2018-03-28 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
nxi.scm Nice, thanks! -- Pierre Neidhardt signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Package requests: fortune, gifsicle, inxi, uncrustify, unrar, vsftp, xss-lock

2018-03-28 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
/vsftpd.html (It seems that there is not a single FTP server on Guix. Strange... Can anyone recommend anything better than vsftp for file sharing? Not necessarily FTP.) xss-lock: Use external locker as X screen saver Upstream URL: https://bitbucket.org/raymonad/xss-lock -- Pierre Neidhardt

Re: Missing pinentry-emacs for gpg-agent?

2018-03-28 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Thinking more about it, wouldn't it make more sense to use several outputs instead of several packages? Is it possible to specify additional inputs for specific outputs? -- Pierre Neidhardt signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Missing pinentry-emacs for gpg-agent?

2018-03-27 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Vladimir Sedach <v...@oneofus.la> writes: > Apparently everyone thinks that Emacs is a "significant security > risk," so no distributions seem to ship it. Well, at least Arch Linux, Gentoo and Void Linux ship it! Not tht uncommon! I agree with all your other points

Re: How to install prerelease package versions (particularly Emacs)

2018-03-26 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Considering the importance of Emacs in this community, I think it would make sense to provide a cutting-edge version. Is anyone willing to accept this? -- Pierre Neidhardt signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Fail to configure home-directory

2018-03-26 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
ilesystem as /home: ``` (file-system (device "home") (title 'label) (mount-point "/home") (type "ext4")) ``` Running `guix system reconfigure' hangs after the `usermod...' changes. Not sure about how to print more debug details. Did I hit a bug? -- Pierre Neidhardt signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Вопрос по опциям монтирования SSD и logrotate

2018-03-26 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
im’ выполняется для >> нахождения пустого пространства, которое появляется после сборки мусора. > > The question was about preferable frequency of invoking ‘trim’ command. And what's the answer? :p -- Pierre Neidhardt signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Installation: Load non-free wifi firmware (iwlwifi)

2018-03-25 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
t piece of hardware in my opinion. Way ahead of the offers on minifree. I wish there would be something similar and a 100% free. Anyone aware of such a machine? -- Pierre Neidhardt signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Вопрос по опциям монтирования SSD и logrotate

2018-03-24 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
> Regarding multilingual e-mails, I'm wondering if it would be possible to > have a summary of the matter at hand together with its various solutions > once the problem is solved. I mean, a summary in English. -- Pierre Neidhardt Retirement means that when someone says "Have a

Re: Installation: Load non-free wifi firmware (iwlwifi)

2018-03-23 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
GUIX_PACKAGE_PATH. > See > https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Package-Modules.html#Package-Modules > for more information. Thanks for the tip, it seems to be working perfectly so far! -- Pierre Neidhardt No matter what other nations may say about the United States, immi

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