Re: Missing LaTeX font (R related)

2022-03-29 Thread Todor Kondić
> On Wednesday, March 23rd, 2022 at 9:58 AM, Ricardo Wurmus rek...@elephly.net > wrote: > > > TK tkp...@protonmail.com writes: > > > > > `!pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file t1-zi4r-0): Font t1-zi4r-0 at 540 not > > > found` > > > > > > A web search reveals that t1-zi4r-0 is an inconsolata font, but

Re: GNU Guix maintainer rotation

2022-01-09 Thread Todor Kondić
> Thank you Ludovic and Marius :) > > And good luck to Efraim ! > > Maxim Cournoyer maxim.courno...@gmail.com writes: > > > Hello Guix! > > > > I'd like to bring your attention to a change to the current Guix > > > > maintainers collective; in a nutshell, Ludovic and Marius are stepping > > > >

Re: guix pack and exposing ports

2021-08-19 Thread Todor Kondić
following this route, but > > depending on what you want to do this may be the way to go. > > The alternative is to use the guix pack image as the base image in a > > standard dockerfile. > > As for the size of the image, see this thread > > https://lists.gnu.org/a

guix pack and exposing ports

2021-08-18 Thread Todor Kondić
Hello, Please bear with me since I am not that very docker savvy. As far as I understand, normally, one can expose certain ports in a docker description file. But, how to do that when using `guix pack -f docker` command where the docker recipe is hidden from the user? Also, I note I'm getting

Re: Why is gfortran at 7.5.0?

2021-05-19 Thread Todor Kondić
On Tuesday, May 18, 2021 5:58 PM, Efraim Flashner wrote: > On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 03:01:49PM +0000, Todor Kondić wrote: > > > Is there any particular reason gfortran toolchain is on v7.5.0 ? I see that > > gcc advanced to v11. > > We used to provide a number of

Why is gfortran at 7.5.0?

2021-05-18 Thread Todor Kondić
Is there any particular reason gfortran toolchain is on v7.5.0 ? I see that gcc advanced to v11.

Re: Updating substitute error: TLS error in the push function

2021-02-18 Thread Todor Kondić
resides. This dirty technique does work for services tho ;) ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Wednesday, 17 February 2021 20:36, wrote: > H, Have you tried updating guix recently? > > February 16, 2021 2:47 AM, "Todor Kondić" tk.c...@protonmail.com wrote: &

Updating substitute error: TLS error in the push function

2021-02-15 Thread Todor Kondić
I keep getting this error, --- substitute: updating substitutes from 'https://ci.guix.gnu.org'... 0.0%guix substitute: error: TLS error in procedure 'write_to_session_record_port': Error in the push function. --- while `sudo guix system reconfigure ...`. Then I get into the whole

inferiors and services

2021-02-15 Thread Todor Kondić
Dear guixians, During the operating system instantiation -- either through `reconfigure`, or various `image` procedures) -- is the only possible way of controlling which version of services and the packages installable by those services to specify a particular commit in the channel config?

rust: where is cargo?

2020-12-26 Thread Todor Kondić
Hello, I have been playing with rust and the first thing I noticed with the guix installation is that there is no cargo. More accurately, there is indeed an output of the rust package called "cargo" and there are entries for cargo with bin paths in the store, but nothing that ends up in the

Re: R, knitr and texlive on Guix (as a package manager)

2020-10-15 Thread Todor Kondić
wrote: > Hello Guix, > > I am trying to generate a pdf report using R and knitr and PDF LaTeX. More > specifically, I was trying out a sample document that comes with knitr > package. This is the code to generate the output: > > require(knitr) > s = system.file("misc", "stitch-test.R",

R, knitr and texlive on Guix (as a package manager)

2020-10-15 Thread Todor Kondić
Hello Guix, I am trying to generate a pdf report using R and knitr and PDF LaTeX. More specifically, I was trying out a sample document that comes with knitr package. This is the code to generate the output: ```r require(knitr) s = system.file("misc", "stitch-test.R", package = "knitr")

Re: Fonts do not work with multiple profiles (fontconfig) and a proposed workaround

2020-09-30 Thread Todor Kondić
> Hi Todor, > > Indeed, this workaround does the trick. > Here is my ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf: > > --8<---cut here---start->8--- > > > > > ~/.guix-extra-profiles/emacs/emacs/share/fonts > > --8<---cut

Re: Problem with guix pull (error when generating cashe for a package)

2020-09-29 Thread Todor Kondić
On Tuesday, 29 September 2020 19:04, zimoun wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 21 Sep 2020 at 07:18, Todor Kondić tk.c...@protonmail.com wrote: > > > Hi, > > Doing a pull this morning (guix pull -c4) results in this error: > > (repl-version 0 1 1) > > Generatin

Fonts do not work with multiple profiles (fontconfig) and a proposed workaround

2020-09-29 Thread Todor Kondić
Here's my experience with guix-as-a-package-manager, fontconfig and multiple profiles. If fonts are installed in a profile different than the default one, applications do not pick them up out of the box. I.e. icecat shows characters as squares and you cannot select a cool non standard font in

Setting GI_TYPELIB_PATH breaks Gnome @ Pop-OS

2020-09-29 Thread Todor Kondić
Hi all, A $GUIX_PROFILE/etc/profile script sets GI_TYPELIB_PATH to something. On a hybrid (Guix+PopOS) system this prevents logging in (the "Uh Oh! ..." Gnome crash message). cat /etc/os-release --- NAME="Pop!_OS" VERSION="20.04 LTS" ID=pop ID_LIKE="ubuntu debian"

Re: Problem with guix pull (error when generating cashe for a package)

2020-09-21 Thread Todor Kondić
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Monday, 21 September 2020 09:18, Todor Kondić wrote: > Hi, > > Doing a pull this morning (guix pull -c4) results in this error: > (repl-version 0 1 1) > Generating package cache for > '/gnu/store/9h588g8m8rz57yy465gi32m0822s1nsd-profil

Problem with guix pull (error when generating cashe for a package)

2020-09-21 Thread Todor Kondić
Hi, Doing a pull this morning (guix pull -c4) results in this error: (repl-version 0 1 1) Generating package cache for '/gnu/store/9h588g8m8rz57yy465gi32m0822s1nsd-profile'... (exception unbound-variable (value #f) (value "Unbound variable: ~S") (value (r-preprocesscore)) (value #f)) I thought

Re: Guix in nature.com

2020-08-25 Thread Todor Kondić
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Monday, 24 August 2020 15:37, Jérémy Korwin-Zmijowski wrote: > Haha, nice shot ! > > https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02462-7 > > Jérémy >From the article: Python 2.7 puts “at our disposal an advanced programming language that is guaranteed not

Re: Certificate problem with curl, though icecat works

2020-08-13 Thread Todor Kondić
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Thursday, 13 August 2020 08:55, Giovanni Biscuolo wrote: > Giovanni Biscuolo g...@xelera.eu writes: > > [...] > > > > $ curl > > > https://actorws.epa.gov/actorws/chemIdentifier/v01/resolve.json?identifier=MKXZASYAUGDDCJ-NJAFHUGGSA-N > > > curl: (60) server

Re: Conflict with duplicate dependencies after removing and attempting to reinstall gnucash package

2020-07-06 Thread Todor Kondić
wrote: > Dear, > > On Sun, 05 Jul 2020 at 09:57, Todor Kondić tk.c...@protonmail.com wrote: > > > So, I installed gnucash package, then removed it. Now I tried to install it > > again (after a pull and upgrade) and I have this: > > The following package will be insta

Conflict with duplicate dependencies after removing and attempting to reinstall gnucash package

2020-07-05 Thread Todor Kondić
Hi, So, I installed gnucash package, then removed it. Now I tried to install it again (after a pull and upgrade) and I have this: The following package will be installed: gnucash 3.8 guix package: error: profile contains conflicting entries for dconf guix package: error: first entry:

Re: Emacs, distro with guix as package manager and guix.d

2020-02-05 Thread Todor Kondić
wrote: > > > Hi Todor, > > > The documentation claims that emacs installed by guix "knows" where > > the site packages, including the guix.d installed packages are > > found. But, this seems not to be the case, at least for one of my > > setups. > > […] > > > The EMACSLOADPATH variable contains

Emacs, distro with guix as package manager and guix.d

2020-02-05 Thread Todor Kondić
Hi, The documentation claims that emacs installed by guix "knows" where the site packages, including the guix.d installed packages are found. But, this seems not to be the case, at least for one of my setups. I have multiple profiles, one of them reserved for emacs. Among the packages in that

Re: Guix and openmpi in a container environment

2020-01-27 Thread Todor Kondić
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Sunday, 19 January 2020 11:25, Todor Kondić wrote: > I am getting mpirun errors when trying to execute a simple > > mpirun -np 1 program > > (where program is e.g. 'ls') command in a container environment. > > The error is usually

Re: How to present Guix to a wider audience

2020-01-19 Thread Todor Kondić
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Wednesday, 15 January 2020 18:44, sirgazil wrote: > Hi, Pierre > > On Wed, 15 Jan 2020 03:59:00 -0500 Pierre Neidhardt m...@ambrevar.xyz > wrote > > > Thank you all for the reviews and the kind feedback! > > > > > > It seems that the draft was met

Guix and openmpi in a container environment

2020-01-19 Thread Todor Kondić
I am getting mpirun errors when trying to execute a simple mpirun -np 1 program (where program is e.g. 'ls') command in a container environment. The error is usually: All nodes which are allocated for this job are already filled. which makes no sense, as I am trying this on my workstation

Re: Icecat displays mahjong characters instead of alphabet

2020-01-15 Thread Todor Kondić
On Wednesday, 15 January 2020 11:53, Todor Kondić wrote: > I know similar questions have been asked here and the problem came and went > time and again for me personally, but here I am, a new Guix/PopOs > installation and icecat throwing fits. > > The icecat GUI (including

Lazy users and updates

2019-12-27 Thread Todor Kondić
Given the user-centric approach of Guix, it feels like it should be up to individual users of a shared system to deal with installations and the system updates. But, what to do when they are lazy, or too novice for fiddling with the command line? Do I use the admin's prerogative and set their

Pull errors with git error 502

2019-12-06 Thread Todor Kondić
A simple `guix pull' outputs the following, Updating channel 'eci-pkg-menu' from Git repository at 'https://git-r3lab.uni.lu/eci/eci-pkg-menu.git'... Updating channel 'guix' from Git repository at 'https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git'... guix pull: error: Git error: unexpected HTTP

Re: Joint statement on the GNU Project

2019-10-11 Thread Todor Kondić
On Friday, 11 October 2019 01:27, Quiliro Ordóñez wrote: > * Ricardo Wurmus rek...@elephly.net [2019-10-10 07:09]: > > > I have previously asked you privately to stop spamming our mailing > > lists. I am asking you a second time publicly. If you keep disrupting > > our mailing lists your posts

Re: [Blog/Cookbook?] On multiple Guix profiles and manifests

2019-10-07 Thread Todor Kondić
On Monday, 7 October 2019 17:37, Konrad Hinsen wrote: > Pierre Neidhardt m...@ambrevar.xyz writes: > > > Konrad Hinsen konrad.hin...@fastmail.net writes: > > > > > Sounds good in principle. I just wonder how many authors (and thus > > > different preferences and use cases) it takes to make this

Re: [Blog/Cookbook?] On multiple Guix profiles and manifests

2019-10-07 Thread Todor Kondić
On Saturday, 5 October 2019 12:55, Pierre Neidhardt wrote: > Hi! > > While the documentation refers to profiles and manifests, it does not tell > much > of the use cases and the practical benefits. > > For users coming from non-functional package managers, it's not really obvious > why we would

Non-standard builds, autoconf and gcc

2019-10-02 Thread Todor Kondić
I am trying to define a package that builds a source which has a non-standard build procedure. It's a mix of autotools packages and something else. My first attempt was to use the trivial builder, pull in the gcc-toolchain along with autotools and use this mixture for the parts where they can

guix repl in emacs and shell

2019-09-09 Thread Todor Kondić via
Continuing with my experiments with guix/guile REPL, I tried loading a module into guix REPL instance in Emacs: ,use (gnu packages xorg) This failed with "no code for module (git)" error. The same code works from the command line REPL. Comparing the %load-path variables between the instances,

Re: guix repl and ice-9 modules

2019-09-09 Thread Todor Kondić
... which leads to a question, why is there no readline anymore? I notice it is a separate package in guix. Is this a guix decision, or a new development in guile? ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Monday, 9 September 2019 09:55, Todor Kondić wrote: > Oops, my bad. After a clo

Re: guix repl and ice-9 modules

2019-09-09 Thread Todor Kondić
Oops, my bad. After a closer inspection of %load-path, I noticed that guile modules are indeed there, however the one module that I tried to load (ice-9 readline) seems not to be in the distro anymore. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Monday, 9 September 2019 09:47, Todor Kondić via

guix repl and ice-9 modules

2019-09-09 Thread Todor Kondić via
Is it normal that I can't load ice-9 modules from within guix repl ? Because, this is the default behaviour on my hybrid system (guix on top of pop-os (ubuntu) ).

Re: VNC

2019-08-14 Thread Todor Kondić
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Wednesday, 14 August 2019 11:44, Julien Lepiller wrote: > Le 14 août 2019 10:04:19 GMT+02:00, "Todor Kondić via help-guix@gnu.org" > a écrit : > > > Is there a VNC service in guix? Doing a brief package search, I found a >

VNC

2019-08-14 Thread Todor Kondić via
Is there a VNC service in guix? Doing a brief package search, I found a few clients, but no server.

Re: Icecat doesn't display any text

2019-07-10 Thread Todor Kondić
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Wednesday, 10 July 2019 09:18, Todor Kondić wrote: > ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ > On Wednesday, 10 July 2019 03:20, Mike Gerwitz m...@gnu.org wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 16:32:45 +0000, Todor Kondić wrote: > > > &

Re: Icecat doesn't display any text

2019-07-10 Thread Todor Kondić
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Wednesday, 10 July 2019 03:20, Mike Gerwitz wrote: > On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 16:32:45 +0000, Todor Kondić wrote: > > > I solved it by either, > > > > - installing bunch of new fonts > > - running fc-cache -f > > - r

Re: Icecat doesn't display any text

2019-07-09 Thread Todor Kondić
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Tuesday, 9 July 2019 18:19, Raghav Gururajan wrote: > > > > It substitutes anything textual on a page with boxes. > > Custom fonts have been disabled my default I persume. Usually in > IceCat, if you create new tab, it would show list of options. Try >

Integrating many packages in Guix at once

2019-07-07 Thread Todor Kondić
Hi, Our work at LCSB-ECI https://wwwen.uni.lu/lcsb/research/environmental_cheminformatics depends on few top-level R packages such as RMassBank, ReSOLUTION and RChemMass. These pull in many massspec related dependencies that I noticed (last time i checked) are not yet in the official Guix.

Barlow awards

2019-05-31 Thread Todor Kondić
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has recently established Barlow awards for people, or groups who "contributed substantially to the health, growth, accessibility, or freedom of computer-based communications. The contribution may be technical, social, economic, or cultural." I think, at the