Re: Am I allowed to make package requests?

2021-10-05 Thread Luis Felipe
Hi, Tim. On Tuesday, October 5th, 2021 at 4:31 AM, Tim Lee wrote: > What is GNU Guix's policy on package requests? > > I am able to package simple software (e.g. software with minimal > > dependencies that use the gnu-build-system), but some complicated > > soft

Am I allowed to make package requests?

2021-10-05 Thread Tim Lee
What is GNU Guix's policy on package requests? I am able to package simple software (e.g. software with minimal dependencies that use the gnu-build-system), but some complicated software are too difficult for me. I know that something is too complicated when I look at how the package is bui

Re: Package requests

2019-10-02 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
P.S: Sorry for title, forgot to mention the package names... :( -- Pierre Neidhardt https://ambrevar.xyz/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Package requests

2019-10-02 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Hi! Has anyone worked on dgen or gens (Sega Megadrive / Genesis emulators) and PCSX (Playstation 1 emulator)? If not, I'll give it a shot soon :) -- Pierre Neidhardt https://ambrevar.xyz/ signature.asc Description: PGP signature

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

2018-04-21 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Chris Marusich writes: > Some people have already mentioned simple HTTP servers, which are an > easy ad-hoc option. Other potentially interesting ways of sharing > files that seem to be available in Guix today include: > > * onionshare > * gnunet I did not know those two! While they don't rea

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

2018-04-21 Thread Chris Marusich
Pierre Neidhardt writes: > Clément Lassieur writes: > >> Pierre Neidhardt 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 any

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 Clément Lassieur
Marius Bakke writes: > Pierre Neidhardt writes: > >> Clément Lassieur writes: >> >>> Pierre Neidhardt 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... Ca

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

2018-04-12 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Marius Bakke writes: > I often start a HTTP server with `guix environment` for quick and dirty > network sharing of the current directory: > > $ guix environment -C -N --ad-hoc python -- python3 -m http.server > > I suppose "wget" would be able to mass-download. This is absolutely fantastic! T

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

2018-04-12 Thread Marius Bakke
Pierre Neidhardt writes: > Clément Lassieur writes: > >> Pierre Neidhardt 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 any

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

2018-04-12 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Clément Lassieur writes: > Pierre Neidhardt 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 vsftp for file s

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

2018-04-12 Thread Clément Lassieur
Pierre Neidhardt 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 vsftp for file sharing? Not necessarily > FTP.)

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

2018-04-12 Thread Leo Famulari
On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 03:04:59PM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > > Hi Pierre, > > > Description:The RAR uncompression program > > Upstream URL: http://www.rarlab.com/rar_add.htm > > (Not sure about the licensing of this one: does not look free. Is there > > any free way to extract

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

2018-04-12 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Pierre, > Description: The RAR uncompression program > Upstream URL: http://www.rarlab.com/rar_add.htm > (Not sure about the licensing of this one: does not look free. Is there > any free way to extract RAR?) This is not free software. There was an unrar package, but it is no longe

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

2018-04-01 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Pierre Neidhardt 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
Chris Marusich writes: > My only experience here is in using udev rules to mount disks in systems > as a specific unprivileged user. I would install the rule as a > privileged user, and then enjoy the automatic mounting as an > unprivileged user. Can you share those udev rules? Thanks! -- P

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

2018-04-01 Thread Chris Marusich
Pierre Neidhardt writes: > 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? My only experience here is in using udev rules to mount disks in systems a

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

2018-04-01 Thread Chris Marusich
Pierre Neidhardt writes: > 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): > >

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

2018-04-01 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Pierre Neidhardt 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 vsftp for file sharing? Not necessarily >> FT

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 & -- Pierre Neid

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

2018-04-01 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Pierre Neidhardt 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][0-9]\", ACTION==\"add\", > SUBSYSTEM==\"usb\", " > "ENV{

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

2018-04-01 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Chris Marusich writes: >> Some udev rules might be enough though. > > That could very well be true! I don't know a lot about how the various > desktop environments like GNOME auto-mount removable storage devices, > but I'd be surprised if you couldn't whip something up with udev rules. Thinkin

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

2018-04-01 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Ricardo Wurmus writes: > FWIW I don’t use GNOME (but I might start soon) and to enable > automounting I had to add the gvfs package to the global environment. With Nautilus, right? If you don't use Nautilus or any other gvfs-based file browser, how do you get automounting? -- Pierre Neidhard

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

2018-03-31 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > Chris Marusich writes: > >> Pierre Neidhardt writes: >> >>> I don't use Nautilus >> >> What do you use? If you are using another desktop environment besides >> GNOME, and automatic mounting of removable storage devices does not >> occur, perhaps it's a bug we

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

2018-03-30 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Pierre Neidhardt 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 vsftp for file sharing? Not necessarily > FTP.)

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

2018-03-30 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Chris Marusich writes: > Pierre Neidhardt writes: > >> I don't use Nautilus > > What do you use? If you are using another desktop environment besides > GNOME, and automatic mounting of removable storage devices does not > occur, perhaps it's a bug we need to fix. (And maybe that bug is as > s

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

2018-03-29 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
Chris Marusich writes: >> I don't use Nautilus > > What do you use? If you are using another desktop environment besides > GNOME, and automatic mounting of removable storage devices does not > occur, perhaps it's a bug we need to fix. (And maybe that bug is as > simple as adding the packages y

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

2018-03-29 Thread Chris Marusich
Pierre Neidhardt writes: > I don't use Nautilus What do you use? If you are using another desktop environment besides GNOME, and automatic mounting of removable storage devices does not occur, perhaps it's a bug we need to fix. (And maybe that bug is as simple as adding the packages you mentio

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

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

2018-03-29 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Pierre, > udevil: Mount and unmount without password > Upstream URL: http://ignorantguru.github.com/udevil/ This is a setuid binary, which doesn’t seem like a good idea in general. For what it’s worth, automounting works just fine for me. When using Nautilus USB drives are aut

Package requests: Udisks helpers (udiskie, udevil)

2018-03-29 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
At the moment, Guix does not seem to feature any helper to auto-mount disks managed by udisks (such as external hard drives). Common options include udiskie:Removable disk automounter using udisks Upstream URL: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/udiskie udevil: Mount and unmount wit

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

2018-03-28 Thread Pierre Neidhardt
I'm missing the following packages in Guix. If no one has planned to package them yet, I'll give it a go. fortune:The Fortune Cookie Program from BSD games Upstream URL: http://www.shlomifish.org/open-source/projects/fortune-mod/ gifsicle: A powerful command-line program for cre