Re: gpodder youtube-dl dependency warning

2024-08-13 Thread kiasoc5
On 8/13/24 17:24, Mauritz Stenek wrote: Hello, With gPodder, I get an "old youtube-dl" version warning, is this expected? Why not use the yt-dlp package as depency instead? this package was recently updated. youtube-dl is still actively maintained, but the last stable release was in 2021 an

Disable nix-daemon before upgrading

2024-05-30 Thread kiasoc5
I don't know if this is the place to post answers to unasked questions, but if anyone has the nix service installed and is stuck an error like `guix system: error: chown: Read-only file system` when running `guix system reconfigure`, restart the nix-daemon service before reconfiguring. It took

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

2024-02-25 Thread kiasoc5
Hi Oleander, On 2/25/24 03:06, Oleander wrote: Hi kiasoc5, thank you. Are substitutes in Guix System disabled by running `# guix-daemon --no-substitutes`? How can I see whether they are enabled or not? I don't know how to directly check the daemon, but you can see if `guix build`

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

2024-02-21 Thread kiasoc5
Hi Oleander, On 2/21/24 9:00 AM, Oleander via wrote: > Hello everyone, > I'm considering disabling substitutes on my current Guix system running on an old Thinkpad with an i5-2520M, 10GB of ram and an SSD. Build times will probably take a while if all substitutes are disabled because you (mi

Re: nscd on Foreign Distro

2023-10-09 Thread kiasoc5
Hi Andres, On 2023-10-09 02:37, Andres Moreno wrote: I installed Guix on Fedora 38 using a package in the COPR Fedora repository. Everything seems to be working great except that I found out that nscd is deprecated for Fedora. The manual states that this service needs to be enabled or else th

Re: PSA for LUKS users

2023-04-20 Thread kiasoc5
On 4/20/23 05:39, Attila Lendvai wrote: While recent grub2 finally has limited support for luks2, it only supports the weaker KDF (key derivation function) (PBKDF2?), as I understand it, though would be happy to be proven wrong! i have just spent half an hour reading the linked PR's and patch

Re: What are you doing for a screen locker?

2023-01-21 Thread kiasoc5
On 1/21/23 13:44, Christine Lemmer-Webber wrote: I used to use xscreensaver. I kinda miss it. It's still broken, see bug #57919. But really, the lack of xscreensaver has made me move back to Gnome and recently Gnome started having weird bugs on my hardware, so then I wanted to move back to stu

Re: How to make audio devices available with guix shell --container

2022-12-05 Thread kiasoc5
On 12/5/22 12:41, Elias Kueny wrote: Hello, I'm trying to run an online videoconferencing tool in chromium in a guix shell with a container, so I expose my system as little as possible. All is well without the --container option, but I'm not sure what to expose to make it work in the containe

Re: translation programm

2022-11-19 Thread kiasoc5
On 11/19/22 08:52, Philip McGrath wrote: Hi, On Sat, Nov 19, 2022, at 7:55 AM, Wojtek Kosior via wrote: Is there a translation programm in Guix, you can use for offline translation? If you want to edit translation files in .po file format (as used by Guix), I prefer https://www.emacswiki.o

Re: unbound variable

2022-11-02 Thread kiasoc5
On 11/2/22 09:48, Felix Lechner via wrote: Hi Gottfried, On Wed, Nov 2, 2022 at 5:50 AM Gottfried wrote: If e.g. I have a different printer (e.g. from an other company), and I want to install it, That is a CUPS question. As you can imagine, there are lots of printers. I usually look at whic

How to avoid downloading qtbase:debug

2022-10-21 Thread kiasoc5
Dear Guix, =guix shell qtbase= downloads the entire debug output of qtbase even though I didn't write down qtbase:debug. That's hundreds of megabytes of bandwith I didn't want to use. How do I avoid downloading the debug output? Is this a bug? --

Re: How to open: Usb, hdd and other storage sata

2022-10-14 Thread kiasoc5
On Fri, Oct 14 2022, 01:46:20 PM +0200 101ab--- via wrote: > Hello, excuse my English. Can you give me a hint? > I am new to guix. I have installed the OS but I have no idea how to > open my usb drives and my hdd? Lsusb shows my usb storage but file > manager is silent. I am using xfce. Since yo

Greetd autologin?

2022-10-12 Thread kiasoc5
Hi Guix, Is there a way to configure autologin for greetd yet?

Re: Dual booting

2022-10-11 Thread kiasoc5
July 28, 2022 10:04 AM, "Paul Jewell via" wrote: > Looking at the > bootloader information in the documentation, it seems that > chainloader is not available as an option. Grub supports chainloading as of commit 1fc20e4c86697e9d112b9fed8079334c818dd78e You can probably add a menu entry to chain

Re: easy firewalling ?

2022-10-08 Thread kiasoc5
On Fri, Oct 07 2022, 06:44:02 PM + jbra...@dismail.de wrote: > October 4, 2022 3:58 AM, "jordi" wrote: > > > Hi, happy guix newbie here, > > > > usually i use ufw for easily managing firewalling, adding iptables > > rules etc... I see there is no ufw package available in guix. Aside > > fro

Exporting patches without prerequisite patch id

2022-08-02 Thread kiasoc5
Hi Guix, I have some commits on my local guix repo like this: (master) HEAD -> A -> B -> C When I do `git format-patch -3 --base=auto` I get prerequisite patch ids in some of the patches. But I want to each patch to depend only on HEAD. In other words I want to export patches like so: HEAD -> A

Re: How to install guix system from existing linux with guix package manager?

2022-05-28 Thread kiasoc5
ooling [1] > AND know how to "convert" a "physical" machine to an LXC container [2], > giving the guests acces to the host GPU [3] for graphical applications > or using remote dektop applications like SPICE or VNC... it's a little > bit complex but pure fun! Would an LXC approach require two graphics cards? I only have an integrated GPU. Thanks, kiasoc5

How to install guix system from existing linux with guix package manager?

2022-05-26 Thread kiasoc5
How would I install Guix system from an existing Linux that has the guix package manager on it (aka from a foreign distro)? Specifically I have Guix installed on Arch Linux on an encrypted btrfs ssd. I have a @home subvolume mounted on /home. Currently /gnu/store is not a subvolume, but I'd lik

Comparing Guix containers and firejail

2022-05-03 Thread kiasoc5 via
Hi Guix, Someone on firejail Github discussions [1] wants to know the difference between guix containers and firejail. 1. How does guix shell --container compare to firejail in terms of sandboxing/security? Are guix containers intended to be secure? 2. Containers are still experimental, are th

How to define custom hardened gcc?

2022-01-22 Thread kiasoc5--- via
flags))) Thanks, kiasoc5