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<pkill9>dw i'll check the existing python packages

<rekado_>pkill9: you don’t. You can override the Python version in the “arguments” field.

<rekado_>but only if it’s a python-2 only package.

<rekado_>otherwise we have a procedure that generates a python-2 variant.

<wigust_>pkill9: Just curios, Doesn't "guix refresh" work for update the local package definitions?

<rekado_>davidpgil[m], pkill9: please only add this line to .bash_profile to avoid problems when using sub-shells (like those spawned by guix environment).

<rekado_>wigust_, pkill9: “guix refresh -u” does indeed update the sources, but you need to have a writeable copy of them.

<rekado_>i.e. you’d use it with a git checkout and “pre-inst-env”

<davidpgil[m]>rekado_: I found this answer after I asked in this forum. works excellent. May be trisquel exclusive, not sure. https://trisquel.info/en/forum/guix-usage#comment-119341

<pkill9>hmm looks like it did install correct version afterall

<pkill9>i'll open an environmental shell and see if i cna import the pythong package

<pkill9>hmm, it decided to see python-attrs after running `guix environment <some packages>` a few times

<jaidmin>hi, im having troubles with the icon themes and the shell themes for gnome

<jaidmin>the dont show up in the tweak tool, anything that im missing?

<jaidmin>do i have to manually put a symlink somewhere? sorry if its obvious but im pretty new to guixsd

<jaidmin>so they get picked up by the tool when i manually put them in ~/.themes

<jaidmin>but not when i install the packages

<pkill9>is there a way to roll back a 'guix refresh -u'?

<pkill9>if not then i think i borked my install lol, i'd rather not recompile everything :P

<wigust_>pkill9: "refresh -u" changes files not in guix store, so a version-control program or a backup before "refresh"

<wigust_>pkill9: similar situation with user configuration files which guix doesn't control by default

<pkill9>anyone running proprietary nvidia drivers here?

<efraim>Good morning!

<efraim>hmm, not sure I really want to independantly package each of lumina's desktop utilities

<civodul>Hello Guix!

<rekado_>civodul: hi!

<civodul>how's everything?

<civodul>mb[m]1: should we merge the openssl upgrade in core-updates and build the whole set of packages?

<rekado_>I’m still having trouble with a module cycle, unfortunately.

<rekado_>adding “r-igraph” from (gnu packages graph) to (gnu packages cran) breaks everything.

<rekado_>civodul: when we rebuild almost everything anyway could we also merge the HTTP/2 patch for curl?

<CharlieBrown>Guix was ported to the Hurd. How do I run a GuixSD system based on Hurd? I have a 32-bit machine.

<civodul>rekado_: for cURL i think it's still time, though it's good to check with mb[m]1

<civodul>rekado_: re cycle, does r-igraph inherit from something?

<efraim>looking good on the lumina-1.4.0-p1 patch, I might actually have it ready for a patch submission this version

<rekado_>civodul: no, it doesn’t. I’m checking its inputs now.

<efraim>right now i'm test building mesa with vulkan on aarch64 on core-updates

<civodul>CharlieBrown: GuixSD on GNU/Hurd doesn't exist yet, though rennes published something that's a first step in this direction

<civodul>see the guix-devel archive from last week or two weeks ago

<efraim>vulkan passes -msse2, so definately intel only

<wingo>good morning guixfolk

<civodul>heya wingo!

<danialbehzadi>Hey. I just installed guixsd 14 on Qemu, but I just got a guile prompt after booting. What should I do next?

<civodul>danialbehzadi: could you report the error that appears above the Guile prompt?

<civodul>it may be that it failed to boot your root partition, for instance

<danialbehzadi>Error: In procedure scm-error

<danialbehzadi>Error: LUKS partition not found #vu8

<civodul>so it looks like it could not find a LUKS partition by the UUID you gave

<civodul>is it the root partition that's encrypted?

<danialbehzadi>No. There is no LUKS partition

<civodul>which config file did you use as a starting point?

<civodul>among those at https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Using-the-Configuration-System.html

<civodul>the GNOME/Xfce example expects a LUKS-encrypted root partition

<danialbehzadi>civodul: This is my config: https://vomitb.in/crJQfKSyIA

<danialbehzadi>Oh, I see. Thats `type luks-device-mapping`

<danialbehzadi>Can I do something to fix it witout fomat and encrypt whole disk?

<civodul>yes, so you need to either remove that (mapped-devices ...) form, or properly format your root partition as LUKS

<civodul>either way you have to reinstall

<wigust_>danialbehzadi: Also (dependencies mapped-devices) probably needs to be removed.

<danialbehzadi>Thnaks. I'll try it ;)

<g_bor>I've been thinking for a while how to make an installation which is compatible the the guix philosophy...

<g_bor>It seems to me, that an installation file, similar to the current operating-system-configuration should be made.

<g_bor>Anyone working in that direction currently?

<g_bor>I'm not very familiar with the current installer effort.

<mb[m]1>civodul: openssl upgrade?

<mb[m]1>With the recent nurses rebuild, we might as well take Aruns patches and the tar update.

<efraim>I'm pretty sure qt5.10 depends on a newer sqlite than we have in master

<civodul>heya mb[m]1!

<civodul>mb[m]1: yeah, mark_weaver pushed a new openssl replacement in master

<pkill9>hi, how can i get software installed with Guix to use my system's Nvidia proprietary graphics driver?

<mb[m]1>Oh, okay. Yeah let's merge and ungraft it. I can do so tonight if no one beats me.

<pkill9>otherwise they fail with the same error: `libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast`

<mb[m]1>civodul: Are core-updates evaluations working on Hydra now?

<wigust_>pkill9: People on #guix don't help with proprietary stuff usually.

<civodul>mb[m]1: good question, maybe not

<civodul>it's kinda weird

<pkill9>wigust_: i thought so yea, i thought I'd ask incase soemone had the answer

<civodul>ACTION tries

<civodul>rekado_: FOSDEM main track talk rejected

<civodul>another year maybe!

<pkill9>civodul: they rejected a talk onguix?

<pkill9>on Guix*

<rekado_>civodul: oh, too bad!

<civodul>oh well

<pkill9>i keep seeing people accidentally call guix 'git'

<civodul>heh

<efraim>i'm going to test mesa with llvm for aarch64 on core-updates, see if we can reenable that for swrast graphics

<efraim>i keep on forgetting perl when I test debootstrap

<civodul>efraim: when you test debootstrap?

<civodul>what are you doing with debootstrap? :-)

<efraim>It seemed like it might be a helpful package to have

<efraim>I'm going to have to keep,on looking at apt-cacher-ng to see what the minimum needed to make it run is

<mb[m]1>Ooh, core-updates evaluation pending. At least it didn't fail immediately :)

<civodul>mb[m]1: i don't think it failed immediately previously

<shiranaihito>efraim btw, do i need to worry about "sector size" (or other similar stuff) when partitioning a disk for GuixSD?

<efraim>Shouldn't need to

<efraim>I normally go with a swapfile over a swap partition unless I'm on btrfs

<shiranaihito>efraim does this look good? https://paste.debian.net/1001309/ - now there's a 1MB partition meant for GRUB

<shiranaihito>why? :) a swap partition seems easier to me at least

<efraim>Its easier to grow and shrink swapfiles

<shiranaihito>efraim ah, well that does make sense

<shiranaihito>"Information: You may need to update /etc/fstab." <-- how do i do that?

<shiranaihito>(i ran "parted /dev/sda set 1 bios_grub on" to get that message)

<mb[m]1>civodul: It's alive!

<civodul>i can't believe it!

<civodul>\\o/

<shiranaihito>yay, i got GuixSD running (in a VM) for the first time :)

<g_bor>Hello guix!

<g_bor>I think I need some clarification.

<g_bor>I've seen when we have svn-fetch as a method, then sometimes a filename is specified.

<g_bor>What is that good for?

<rekado_>do you mean the “file-name” field?

<rekado_>that’s to give the store item a nicer name.

<g_bor>rekado_:yes, exactly, thanks

<jaidmin>anyone got network-manager-openvpn to work? I installed it but I still cant use openvpn in networkmanager gnome

<pkill9>is guixSD technically a stateless operating system?

<nextos>Hi, im trying to install guixsd on a EFI machine (an old intel nuc), but it fails with grub-install: error: failed to get canonical path of `/boot/efi'.

<nextos>I'm probably doing something silly

<nextos>My bootloader declaration is copied from Guix docs

<nextos> (bootloader (bootloader-configuration

<nextos> (bootloader grub-efi-bootloader)

<nextos> (target "/boot/efi")))

<nextos>I also have an appropriate filesystem declaration for the EFI partition

<nextos>like

<nextos> (file-system

<nextos> (device (uuid "1234-ABCD" 'fat))

<nextos> (title 'uuid)

<nextos> (mount-point "/boot/efi")

<nextos> (type "vfat"))

<nextos>with my uuid instead

<nextos>I also tried mounting the EFI partition under /mnt/boot/efi before running guix system init config.scm /mnt

<wigust_>nextos: Try (device (uuid "1234-ABCD" 'fat)) -> (device (uuid "1234-ABCD"))

<nextos>wigust_: thanks. With that change, guix system init refuses to even start: config.scm: error: invalid UUID

<nextos>however my UUID matches the UUID listed in blkid for

<nextos>that disk

<nextos>shall i use a PARTUUID instead?

<wigust_>nextos: I use "/dev/sda1" for efi partition

<wigust_>don't remember partuuid vs uuid

<nextos>wigust_: ok

<nextos>wigust_: it still fails. Do you mind posting the relevant lines from your config.scm AND clarifying where you mount the EFI partition before running guix system init

<nextos>Or just anyone else, if anyone has a EFI configuration running (on x86_64), do you mind posting your config.scm and the specific steps you carried out during install (eg format or mount the partition)

<efraim>nextos: http://git.flashner.co.il/cgit/cgit.cgi/guix-config.git/tree/macbook41_config.scm

<nextos>efraim: thanks

<nextos>efraim: the url you sent times out from different locations, seems unreachable

<efraim>Its hosted on the RPI sitting behind me

<efraim> https://gitlab.com/Efraim/guix-config/blob/master/macbook41_config.scm

<nextos>efraim: no worries, thanks again, it works now

<efraim>missed a couple of CVEs against rsync

<efraim>i'm patching them now

<bebarker>just learned about guix and am curious which repo and directory is the entrypoint for the guile package definitions for all guix packages?

<roptat>all package definitions are in the guix repo under gnu/packages

<roptat> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages

<ArneBab>did you see this? https://www.slant.co/topics/344/viewpoints/6/~best-linux-package-managers~gnu-guix

<bebarker>roptat - thanks!

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